Rejection can be harsh, but understanding why nobody wants to jump on your ICO is the first step in transforming your luck Initial Coin Offerings, aka the not so humble ICO, are big business. In 2016, more than US$200 million…
Across the region, innovators and visionaries have been creating tools with the power to transform how people are managed. Now, they have a unique chance to help shape the strategy that will define how those tools are used. The digital…
Chinese Capital Controls? The year 2017 saw Beijing simultaneously tightening and ‘relaxing’ its outbound foreign direct investment (OFDI) protocols. In a somewhat confusing move, following a strew of disastrous Chinese investment decisions, and set against a background of politicking among…
A high-level delegation from business facilitation company Naseba invited for the Annual Investor Meeting of E-fung Capital, supporting deals in pharmaceuticals and portfolio companies DUBAI – With ambitions to boost private equity and venture capital investment in China, a high-level…
Jan Wendenburg, CEO of Certgate explains why smart isn’t the same as AI and consumer device security is no match for professional protection. What made you leap into the mobile security industry? Tell us more about your background. After various sales and…
A quick reference guide to Saudi Arabia’s National Transformation Program (NTP) investment plans across health, IT, education, finance and the economy and the tech needed to power them More than simply an opportunity for national transformation, each investment in Saudi…
Saudi Arabia’s National Digitization Unit (NDU) may be driving some of the most advanced technology in the world, but the mandate remains “citizen first” Saudi Arabia’s digital ambitions are bold. Encompassing physical infrastructure and national culture in equal measure, they…
At the PEVC Summit Saudi Arabia 2017, iNet was one of the dozens of investors who contributed to deals. Ahead of the 2018 edition of the Summit, iNet Managing Director of Investments, Abdullah AlTamami, shares his essential market insights and reveals…
Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for ICT speaks at a stakeholders meeting in Nairobi. Kenyan Cabinet Secretary of ICT Mr. Joseph Mucheru met with senior government officials from the Kenyan Government to discuss the government’s cyber security efforts and the preparatory plans…
Once the stuff of sci-fi, today Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere from our mobile phones to our household appliances and cars. In a nutshell, AI is the simulation of human intelligence in machines, achieved through machine learning, Natural Language Processing…
As connectivity continues to enable and improve people’s lives around the world, we are seeing some incredibly transformative impacts across all aspects of human life. Just take a minute to think about the way you currently communicate, access information, consume…
It’s the most important tech breakthrough since the Internet and, in need of a place to push the limits of what it can achieve, blockchain’s leading pioneers from around the world are arriving to play in the GCC’s sandboxes. Perhaps…
Secure, transparent and efficient, blockchain is the breakthrough that is transforming equity, capital and investment management. In 2008, a financial crisis unprecedented since the Great Depression caused banks around the world to collapse and threatened to wipe out the global…
Saudi Arabia is no stranger to cyber-attacks. In 2012, the Shamoon virus devastated Saudi Aramco in what Former U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta described as “the most destructive cyberattack on a private business”. Within hours, 35,000 computers were either partially…
Saudi Arabia’s IT sector has always had high aspirations, whether in attracting the best talent and software provision or securing its place on the global stage through such programs as Vision 2030. The desire to compete has been heavily backed…