TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2022

After four years operating primarily as a logistics marketplace, Egypt’s Voo has rebranded to SideUp and transformed its strategy to offer a complete spectrum of e-commerce support services, including payment gateways, API integration for shipping, warehousing, fulfillment, and advisory. million seed funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

The United Arabs Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia became the first member states to adopt the treaty in 2018, and its implementation meant that for the first time businesses in these territories were required to file VAT returns periodically. The startup is in the process of seeking approval from the Egyptian Tax Authority too.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Japan’s Terra Drone lands $70M Series B funding to accelerate global expansion The move comes in line with Saudi Arabia’s “Vision 2030” plan , which lays out goals to reduce the nation’s dependence on hydrocarbons and promote the use of drones in services.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2021

According to him, ShipBlu is one of the few e-commerce fulfilment companies that offers that service to customers in the country. “We Over 100 million people live in the North African country compared to Saudi Arabia’s 30 million+ people, yet the e-commerce market in Egypt is a third of Saudi Arabia’s.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Convertedin , an Egyptian startup that operates a marketing operating system for e-commerce brands, has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Saudi Arabia-headquartered Merak Capital. The three-year-old Egypt-headquartered company also has offices in Saudi Arabia and Brazil; it just recently opened one in the latter.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2022

Its two main markets are Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Arab said Saudi Arabia commands the lion’s share of the company’s transaction volume, driven by solid consumer adoption and increasing online transactions. What’s your BNPL startup really worth? BNPL payment startup Alma raises another $130 million round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Following this growth, it is planning on expanding to Egypt and the UAE, while doubling down on Saudi Arabia, against the backdrop of $5 million pre-Series A funding it has raised, in a round led by Europe-based VC Speedinvest, which marked its debut into Saudi Arabia, and RAED Ventures, with participation from MENA focused VC firm Wamda Capital. “We

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Twitter will add pinned tweets and short descriptions to some of the trending topics on its service to help people understand why they’ve become popular. The service’s trending section has also come under frequent criticism for helping to spread misinformation. Twitter isn’t the only service to have had trouble with a trending section.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Dubai-based Zywa, a neobank for Gen Z, plans to fuel its growth in the United Arabs Emirates (U.A.E), and to kick-start its expansion to Saudi Arabia and Egypt after raising $3 million seed funding at over $30 million (110 million AED) valuation. The new funding follows the $1 million pre-seed backing it secured in February this year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Though it launched with eyes on the Middle East and Africa, the company has only made efforts in some parts of the former (the UAE and Saudi Arabia) while making significant headway into Central and Eastern Europe, particularly Turkey and Poland. TechCrunch gathered that Opontia has somewhat switched focus on its target market.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

The trio started the company as a bus-hailing service in Egypt and other ride-sharing services in emerging markets with fragmented public transportation. Its services, mainly bus-hailing, enables users to make intra-state journeys by booking seats on buses running a fixed route.

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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

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’s taken all this time since historically, banks have been extremely reluctant to partner with fintech companies, to help co-create financial products and services,” Aziz said.

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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

MAY 30, 2024

On Wednesday, Chinese PC maker Lenovo announced a strategic partnership with Alat, a subsidiary under Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) focused on transformative technology investments and sustainable manufacturing, with Alat proposing a $2 billion zero coupon convertible bonds investment in Lenovo.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In Japan, Riiid will offer its services, ranging from the TOEIC to English speaking and tutoring services, to broaden its customer base. . Beyond the TOEIC mobile app, the company launched an ACT prep mobile app with ConnectMe Education in early 2021 in Egypt, Turkey, UAE, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Huawei Technologies has inaugurated a cloud data center in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, according to a September 4 report by Reuters. In the global cloud services market for the first quarter, Huawei held the fifth position with a 2.4% This marks Huaweis 30th cloud data center globally, the report said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

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. In Saudi Arabia, for instance, only 3% of more than 1 million registered businesses have access to bank credit.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Recent research suggests that the e-commerce market in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt account for a combined $21.4 Aside from the financing solutions we offer our partners, we also give them other value-added services to help them go further. billion and is projected to grow by more than 50% to $33.3

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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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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. China is one of ten countries not getting the feature.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

Traditional consulting firms provide high-quality services but the cost a lot and have rigid terms. And while there are plenty of portals offering low-quality freelance consulting services, these are generally unsupervised that would never work for corporates and the public sector.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

We are exploring Saudi Arabia and expanding south into our continent. I think Africa has a lot of markets that feel the same pain points that Egypt does,” said OneOrder co-founder and CEO, Tamer Ame r, who co-founded OneOrder with Karim Maurice (CTO), also founder Cube, an online restaurant-reservation service.

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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

MARCH 3, 2021

This is where e-commerce fulfillment services come in handy. Today, Flextock , one such company providing this service to businesses and consumers in Egypt, is announcing that it is part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2021 batch. According to the CEO, Flextock is the first end-to-end fulfillment service in Egypt.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Prosperity7, the venture capital arm of Saudi Arabia’s state oil company Aramco, led the new capital infusion. Sustainable chemistry, as defined by OECD , is “a scientific concept that seeks to improve the efficiency with which natural resources are used to meet human needs for chemical products and services.”

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2021

The Honor 50 series will be able to ship with Google’s apps and services, Honor officially announced today as it launched the Honor 50 and Honor 50 Pro in China. Consumers will be able to experience HONOR smartphones and tablets equipped with GMS”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

The seven-year-old startup, which has raised over $110 million to date, works with over 75 electronics device manufacturers including OnePlus and Xiaomi and offers them whitelabeled after-sales services such as damage protection and extended warranty. Servify , which is operational in over 40 countries, including India, the U.S.,

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TechNode

MAY 11, 2024

Chinas second-largest short video platform Kuaishou is planning to open an office in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, soon, according to a report by the South China Morning Post quoting Kuaishous chief financial officer Jin Bing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Many of our competitors around the world will opt to integrate with third-party infrastructure suppliers to provide financial services,” Rajith told TechCrunch. “That restricts the type of products you can offer clients.

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The Verge

JULY 12, 2021

One of the more interesting new features available with iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey is iCloud Plus, Apple’s upgraded iCloud subscription service that adds a few key privacy features. Here’s how to use it: To start, you’ll have to be using iOS 15, iPadOS 15, or macOS Monterey and be a subscriber to one of Apple’s iCloud plans.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Netflix is doubling down on TikTok star Addison Rae with a new multi-picture film deal that could see the social media celebrity bringing even more eyes to the streaming service, As part of the deal, Netflix will develop projects specifically for Rae to star in and executive produce ( via Variety ).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

As of 2020, it was operating in 50 cities across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Lebanon and claimed its userbase had grown 3x year-over-year to 4 million patients, with 30,000 healthcare providers using its software-as-a-service solution.

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TechNode

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Chinas Hozon Auto said on Monday that it is partnering with EIH Automotive&Trading, an Abu Dhabi-based car distributor, to help launch its Neta range of electric vehicles and services in the United Arab Emirates in 2024. Geely-affiliated Zeekr signed sales agreements with partners in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain last month.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Wang did not provide numbers of each type of Meituan delivery service provider in the email. For the companys international-target operation KeeTa, the CEO revealed its service was No.1 1 by order volume in Hong Kong.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Abu Dhabi-based mobility startup Fenix has added ride-hail and courier services to its portfolio of mobility products. Fenix launches ride-hailing service in Bahrain. All of Fenix’s products and services are available in the same app, the goal being to create one “mobility super app” to serve the greater Middle East.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

According to a statement shared by the Dubai-based company, the funding will be used to expand Tabby’s product line into a plethora of consumer financial services and support the company’s growing operations that now include Egypt. There are clear gaps in the market when we look at offering consumers better financial services and products.

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