Food fight: Karachi restaurants boycott Foodpanda over commission hike
Here’s a look at today's biggest tech stories in the MENA+:
- ADGM opens public consultation on electronic transactions regulations
- Abu Dhabi Municipality selects Huawei as digital transformation partner
- Standard Chartered, Amazon launches instalment payment plans
- Ajman Chamber of Commerce and Industry signs agreement with 'elGrocer'
- Careem co-founders invest in Endeavor Catalyst’s third fund
- Netflix signs 5-year partnership with Saudi animation studio Myrkott
- Education minister opens two digital colleges for women in Riyadh, Jeddah
- Inflation forecast to remain elevated until mid-2021, says Capital Economics
- Hakbah joints Visa's FinTech Fast Track program
- Over 5,000 workers to be offered digital training under Future Skills program
- Central Bank decides not to extend six-month credit payment suspension
- TiE Dubai names Egypt’s Praxilabs as winner of TiE Women initiative
- EgyptERA approves regulations on EV charging station investment
- National Bank of Kuwait signs deal with EBC to launch Meeza card
- Tourism minister proposes unifying international precautionary measures for travel
- Facebook officially launches Avatars in Pakistan
- 52% of Pakistanis increasing shopping online, says Visa
- ePay Punjab processes over a million transactions worth $30 million
- All Pakistan Restaurant Association continues boycott of Foodpanda service
- Careem CEO publishes open letter to restaurant owners in Pakistan
Other MENA+ Developments
- MENA: Covid-19 to cost regional economies "trillions of dollars", warns Bill Gates
- MENA: Gen Z, millennials driving the rise of the conscious consumer
- Kuwait: Boubyan Bank adds Samsung Pay to NFC payment solutions
- Lebanon: areeba, Wallet Factory launch mobile payment platform Zaky
- Iran: US prosecutors indict 2 Iranian nationals over hacking accusations
