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What’s Next? Tech Trends 2023+ in the Telecommunications Industry

From one crisis to the next: The pandemic, war in Ukraine, exploding energy prices, inflation, interrupted supply chains, and the constant threat of climate change. The telecommunications industry still looks robust, although the continued outlook for the economic situation in 2023 is uncertain. What will happen next? How, as a telecommunications provider, can I improve […]

Arab Health 2023: Transformative Healthcare Discussions

Previously on The Arab Health 2023 Saga, we discussed the conferences that opened essential discussions that will change and redefine medicine in the MENA region. Our interest in this article lies within the various meaningful, transformative healthcare discussions on which their fantastic line-up of speakers touched. Attendees heard from global visionaries making valuable evolutions in […]

Science Fiction Technology to Science Fact

Aliens? Flying cars? Time travel? Transferring consciousness? All these science fiction concepts are closer to reality than you might think. Many thoughts cross my mind as I watch a science fiction movie. With all this technological development, the question has changed from “Will it happen? to “When is it going to happen? Many things that […]

The Arab Health 2023 Saga: The CME-accredited Conferences

In recent years, the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region has been seeking to take their rightful seat at the global table of technological advancements. A previous article, for example, showcased how two of Africa’s significant telcos championed the continent’s representation on the global stage. In this series of MedTech-oriented articles, “The Arab Health 2023 […]

Exclusive-European Telecoms’ Advertising Venture Set for EU Approval -Sources

Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica and Vodafone’s plan to take on Big Tech with their own advertising joint venture is set to win unconditional EU antitrust approval, people familiar with the matter said. The joint venture marks the telecoms sector’s first attempt to take on Meta and Alphabet’S Google in the lucrative online advertising sector and […]

Saudi Arabia Says Tech Giants to Invest More Than $9 Billion in Kingdom

Saudi Arabia has attracted more than $9 billion in investments in future technologies, including by U.S. giants Microsoft and Oracle Corp, which are building cloud regions in the kingdom, a government minister said on Monday. Saudi Minister of Communication and Information Technology Abdullah Alswaha said Microsoft will invest $2.1 billion in a global super-scaler cloud, […]

Baidu to Finish Testing Chatgpt-Style Project ‘Ernie Bot’ in March

China’s Baidu Inc said on Tuesday it would complete internal testing of a ChatGPT-style project called “Ernie Bot” in March, joining a global race as interest in generative artificial intelligence (AI) gathers steam. Ernie,meaning “Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration,” is a large AI-powered language model introduced in 2019, Baidu said. It has gradually grown to […]

Tech Stocks Are Not Out of the Race

Over 2022, the tech sector saw highly high volatility. Taking the brunt of changes in Fed tightening predictions and the outlook for the USD. The Nasdaq and the XLK (SPDR Tech fund), two major tech indexes, are down on the year by 27% and 23%, respectively. As we transition into the first quarter of 2023, […]

Fintech Telcos: Finance in the Digital Age

Banking dates back to the Mesopotamian era (i.e., 8000–2000 B.C.) when Babylonians depositing gold had to pay as much as one-sixtieth of the total deposited. In fact, the code commissioned by Hammurabi, king of Babylon c. 1792–1750 BCE, stipulated in several laws how citizens were to conduct their banking activities (i.e., loans, repayment, deposits, etc.). Today, […]