TechNode

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Dingdong Maicai, a New York-listed Chinese e-commerce company specializing in fresh groceries, has officially launched its international expansion with Saudi Arabia as its first overseas market. Some roles are based in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Sina.com, in Chinese ]

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The plan for the company is to provide merchants with access to accounts, cards, local payment networks and lending. This suite of services is essential in the primary markets in which Nomod is aiming to build a significant merchant base, like Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bangladesh.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

That has accelerated card acceptance –– with 90% card acceptance rates in the UAE and Saudi Arabia by some estimates — in the region. It is gearing up to formally launch in the UAE and Saudi Arabia in the coming weeks. Egypt’s Paymob closes $18.5M Series A to expand payments services across MENA.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

But there’s a little twist to Sympl’s offerings which the founders made in a bid to localize its product for the Egyptian market. Saudi Arabia. . “It “ It’s a consumer purchase driven market where we have a lot of accessibility to consumer products and services, online or offline.”. The most likely destination?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The exceptional capacity of Langoo in its local business with Riiid Tutor was the main reason for this acquisition,” said co-founder and CEO of Riiid YJ Jang. The company expects to address local remote learning and education in the market. The Japanese remote learning industry was estimated at $2.6 billion in 2020, increasing 22.4%

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

After scaling its B2B grocery delivery across Egypt for over three years, it intends to utilize its network and relationships with local and multinational suppliers and advance full distribution into Morocco, which now accounts for 10% of MaxAB’s business, and entry into Saudi Arabia by the end of 2023.

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TechNode

JULY 22, 2024

Meituan is reportedly set to officially launch in Riyadh in September or October, according to Chinese media outlet NBD, as the food delivery giant looks to replicate its growth in Hong Kong and mainland China in Saudi Arabia.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

You buy in our local currency, and we buy everything, handle the shipping, customs, clearance and bring it to your doorstep,” the CEO added. This is the main target for us now and also to start operations in Saudi Arabia.” “You can use Bosta to get anything to your doorstep.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

Other countries where Private Relay won’t be available include: Belarus, Colombia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Uganda, and the Philippines. The feature was announced during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference as part of a new subscription bundle called iCloud Plus.

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TechNode

APRIL 28, 2024

Chinas food delivery giant Meituan is hiring Arabic- and English-proficient talent for its likely entry into Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, as the company puts expansion beyond China on its agenda as domestic consumption falls.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

The startup hopes that the Series A funding will drive its presence in 12 countries, including South Africa, Kenya, Ghana and Saudi Arabia. Bouhlel says the company has local teachers in every country — over 500 in number — and they teach students in over 12 languages.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Volopay’s platform provides startups and enterprises flexibility by issuing virtual and/or physical prepaid multicurrency corporate cards in their local currency (SGD, AUD, INR, IDR, PHP, etc) with up to 5% cashback on all card transactions. In addition, Volopay will hire aggressively in each of its new markets. .

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TechNode

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The news comes months after rival BYDs compact crossover Atto 3 arrived in UAE via an alliance with local dealership Al-Futtaim in June. Geely-affiliated Zeekr signed sales agreements with partners in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain last month. TechNode reporting , Caixin, in Chinese ]

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The Verge

JULY 12, 2021

Notably, though, Private Relay still only lets you navigate the web through your existing (rough) geographic location, so you can’t use it for more popular VPN activities — like streaming Netflix content from a different country or skirting local sports blackout rules. It’s missing a few major VPN features.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

SWVL is present in 13 markets globally: the UAE, Egypt, Kenya, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Japan, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Pakistan. – All Final Settlements to be taxed as per local requirement. — announced during its SPAC merger — is uncertain.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

The company says it provides the underwriting, credit in local currency and the payment rails “for any business spend across countries and currencies.” Jeeves was founded in 2020 under the premise that startups have traditionally had to rely on financial infrastructure that is local and country-specific.

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Chinese electric vehicle maker Human Horizons will suspend production for at least six months and furlough its employees in an attempt to keep the company going as it looks for new funding, local media has reported. A company representative denied the report, without elaborating, according to Caixin. billion deal.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The reasons were unclear, as both parties didn’t publicly comment on the situation; however, from various local news outlets, they ranged from mismanagement of funds to failure to report to the board and work out a potential merger, as well as internal disagreements over management methods.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 28, 2022

But buying a bunch of prepaid debit cards from the local corner store and then surveying the recipients every week to see if it’s helping isn’t a scalable solution, and the lack of data is a major reason why city governments are reluctant to fund it. Anita Ramaswamy digs in here. Read more from Annie Njanja here.

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TechNode

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Customers are impressed, as the gas-powered T2 was temporarily out of stock at some dealers in Middle East countries including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar earlier this year, according to Ke. The plug-in hybrid version has two electric motors to handle tough terrain with a maximum torque of 610 Nm and travels 15.8

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Care2

AUGUST 29, 2008

For someone who grew up in an era when sources of political information were few and narrow (the newspaper, TV news) and when venues for ordinary people to speak up about politics were also few (local town halls, letters to the editor), the Dean campaign was a truly exciting revolution.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

For someone who grew up in an era when sources of political information were few and narrow (the newspaper, TV news) and when venues for ordinary people to speak up about politics were also few (local town halls, letters to the editor), the Dean campaign was a truly exciting revolution.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

A few other news entities appeared to have followed suit, including the prominent Boston NPR affiliate WBUR , Hawaii Public Radio and LA-based local news source LAist. cat a were labeled “government-funded media” weeks later. Payouts have yet to reach creators’ wallets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

The program is managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE), and implemented with a coalition of leading new media experts and local and international partners from the public and private sectors. Afterwards, I had a dinner with Rami at local restaurant famous for their Arabic sweets.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

Regional expansion (with an imminent entry into Saudi Arabia this year) is one of Paymob’s objectives following this raise. The company also recorded a total payment volume of more than $5 billion from over 35,000 local and international merchants like Swvl, LG, Breadfast, and Tradeline. . million initially.

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The Verge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Houthi rebels have previously used small drones in a number of attacks on Arab nations in recent years, including in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. The UAE withdrew its forces from Yemen in 2019, but continues to supply and train local militia opposed to the Houthi. But last week’s strike represents a escalation in tension.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Local media outlet The Paper reported that the man, surnamed Yuan in police reports, slept around three or four hours nightly, with the rest of his time spent at work. KeeTa recently launched in Saudi Arabia, and Wang said previously that Gulf countries, Europe, and Southeast Asian markets are all under consideration for future expansion.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Local Motors no longer exists with the exception of one last asset: its domain name. The government of Saudi Arabia , which is connected to the kingdom’s Public Investment Fund that owns 61% of Lucid Group , agreed to buy 100,000 of the automaker’s electric vehicles over the next decade.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

They came from Sudan, from Saudi Arabia, from all over, some of the most unheard places of the world. The most powerful impact we found was actually in the women's leadership and influence locally. Just here in the Bay Area we have local things like, Oakland Local , Oakland Seen , and Spot.us. How can they do that?

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TechNode

MARCH 5, 2025

Meituan, Chinas local services platform, is accelerating its global expansion with a renewed focus on grocery retail, international markets, and artificial intelligence, CEO Wang Xing announced in a recent internal meeting. Meituans overseas food delivery platform, Keeta , is rapidly expanding in Saudi Arabia.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Though he had worked on multiple Arabic-language shows previously, they were local projects with nowhere near the scope of Netflixs viewership. We were always producing for local platforms and channels. Before Netflix] we didn’t have the chance to show the world what content we can produce, Laham says.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

Pink Guards popped up at Sydney Harbor and Bondi Beach, the canals of Venice , Bangkoks Chao Phraya river, Saudi Arabias AlUla , and Beco do Batman in So Paulo. But just like the creative strategy, Lee says local markets were in charge of what brand collabs would work best for their audiences. As of February 14, Season 2 had 14.25

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The European Unions Joint Research Center, for example, recently issued a report examining how boosting circularity, along with other approaches, could help reduce Europes dependency on China, Japan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, and Ukraine for materials used to make titanium metal products. of materials in 2018.

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