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Technology Special Report
The construction sector has always relied on technology. Construction is essentially the moving and assembly of material. Planning and controlling this requires measurement and coordination. Better technology means this can be done faster and more accurately
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Technology Special Report
The mobile-payment and electronic-commerce sectors are unlikely to flourish until regulations are loosened and a freer market emerges between banks and retailers
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Technology: The Middle East boom in mobile devices
Investment in high-speed mobile broadband infrastructure in the Middle East is driving demand for more sophisticated technology platforms and data packages
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Telecoms Special Report: Sector poised for fresh investment
GCC telecoms operators lead drive towards broadband technology expansion, but timing is a key issue
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Oil and gas firms: Staying on top of new technology
Economic pressures on oil and gas companies has seen a push for information, communication and technology systems to be treated as an utility
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Smart devices prey for cyber crime
As more business is undertaken using smartphones and tablet PCs, the risk of exposure to malicious cyber activity has increased. A unified, multi-tiered approach is needed to combat the threat
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Targeted cyber attacks top agenda for businesses
The release of classified documents by whistleblowing website Wikileaks highlights the security challenge of the digital age for companies looking to protect critical business intelligence
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Special Report: Telecoms & IT - Mobile usage outpaces landline sector
The telecommunications industry in the Middle East has evolved in a unique manner
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Special Report: IT & Telecoms - Funds back technology sector
The Gulf states have in the past six years embraced the idea of using technology to make government departments run more efficiently. After decades of cumbersome state bureaucracy, the region’s governments have mounted a sustained effort to move as many services online as possible
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Special Report: Egypt - Government lowers economic forecasts
Egypt already has a good track record of putting in place the right policies to attract international investors. It now needs to continue to innovate to regain the foreign direct investment lost as a result of the downturn.
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Special Report: MEED 100 - The Middle East's top 100 listed companies in 2009
Saudi Arabian companies dominate this year’s MEED 100, with companies listed on the Tadawul accounting for 29 out of the region’s 100 biggest publicly quoted companies ranked by market capitalisation. Just three of the 20 companies that have dropped out of the top 100 over the past year are listed on the Saudi stock exchange.
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Special Report: Telecoms - The region's top 10 operators
Sometimes it seems that the only telecoms companies operating in the Middle East are Saudi Telecom, the UAE’s Etisalat and Kuwait-based Zain, such is the ability of the three companies to become involved in every takeover, strategic investment, partnership and licence round in the region. However, there is life outside the top three telecoms businesses.
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Special report: Telecoms - Regional competition grows
The era of state-monopoly operators will come to an end this year when the region’s last mobile phone monopoly market, Qatar, opens up to private sector competition.
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Special report: Sector outlook 2008
The urgent need to install the infrastructure required to support the region’s economic development means government-backed power, water, transport and energy projects will become the principal drivers of the region’s project sector in 2008.
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