UAE to offer citizenship to expats as cash payments for e-commerce plummets in KSA
Here’s a look at today's biggest tech stories in the MENA+:
- UAE to begin granting citizenship to select people
- E-commerce represents 50% of transaction value by Mashreq Bank
- Virtuzone to accept bitcoin payments for business setup
- Dubai forms Vaccine Logistics Alliance for global distribution of vaccines
- UK bans travel from UAE due to increase in COVID cases
- Cash payments on Noon fall to zero in KSA
- NEOM seeking international partners for cloud computing infrastructure
- 24 global companies to setup regional HQs in Riyadh, including PepsiCo, Bechtel
- Aramco to partner with STC, Huawei to study use of 5G in energy sector
- Arabian Centers to provide support loans to SME mall tenants
- Egypt to partner with UAE on digital transformation projects
- CIB mobile banking transactions hit $3.3bn in 2020
- SAP graduates 2 cohorts of Egyptian youth from digital skills program
- Govt. studying deployment of 5G in new capital city
- Public investments in Cairo to reach $3bn in FY2021
- IT Ministry drafts National Broadband Policy
- PTA pushes for locally manufactured smartphones
- Digital content platform Rinstra raises $2mn in series A round
- High Output Ventures concludes 1st accelerator cohort
- PUBG to launch dedicated servers in Pakistan
