Tech

Third Arab Capital Markets conference discusses tech advancements, challenges

Posted by April 26, 2024

Minister of Commerce and Industry H E Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Qassim Al Thani; QCB Governor H E Sheikh Bandar bin Mohammed bin Saoud Al Thani; QFMA CEO D

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Microsoft, Google post double-digit profits rises, boosting case for AI

Posted by April 26, 2024

Tech giants’ shares surge after stronger-than-expected earnings.Google and Microsoft have reported double-digit profit increases, buttressing the case for the

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ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US over sale: Report

Posted by April 25, 2024

TikTok owner ByteDance would prefer shutting down its loss-making app rather than sell it if the Chinese company exhausts all legal options to fight legislation

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What is Project Nimbus, and why are Google workers protesting…

Posted by April 23, 2024

Google employees based in the United States staged protests at the tech giant’s offices in New York City, California and Seattle last week to oppose a $1.2bn

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TikTok says bill to force its sale would ‘trample’ free…

Posted by April 22, 2024

Bill targeting Chinese-owned app goes to the US Senate after passing the House in bipartisan vote.TikTok has slammed a bill that would ban the video-sharing app

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Google fires 28 staff after protests against cloud contract with…

Posted by April 19, 2024

Tech giant says employees engaged in ‘completely unacceptable behaviour’ during sit-in at company offices.Google has fired 28 employees following a sit-down

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GWC Brings Vision Picking Technology to Warehouses in Qatar

Posted by April 18, 2024

Gulf Warehousing Company — one of the fastest-growing companies in the MENA region — has unveiled its latest initiative: integrating vision-picking technolo

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ChatGPT rival ‘Ernie Bot’ now has 200 million users, China’s…

Posted by April 16, 2024

Baidu CEO Robin Li says number of users has doubled since December.China’s Baidu has announced that “Ernie Bot”, its rival to ChatGPT, has racked up more

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Genocide in Gaza: Enabled by AI, powered by Big Tech

Posted by April 13, 2024

Artificial intelligence has unleashed terror in the killing fields of Gaza.The algorithms that Big Tech designed – and the genocide they assisted. The Listeni

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Will the Palestinian tech sector decouple from Israel?

Posted by April 13, 2024

Ramallah, occupied West Bank – In early March, a Uruguayan e-commerce company sent Marwan Khanfar and others a message on Slack. “Good morning [company] tea

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Biden and Xi hold first discussions since November, talk Taiwan…

Posted by April 2, 2024

United States President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have had their first direct conversation since November, with officials describing thei

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Why is the US suing Apple? A ‘monopoly’ vs ‘innovation’…

Posted by March 22, 2024

The US government has filed a landmark antitrust lawsuit against Apple, in which it accuses the tech giant of maintaining a “broad, sustained and illegal” m

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