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MENAâs Open Finance opportunity in the age of AI (opens the original)
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An article by Faisal Toukan, co-founder and CEO of Ziina Every major technology platform tends to follow a similar evolution. It begins with the digitisation of individual products. Over time, those products become connected. Eventually, the competitive advantage shifts from what each product can do to how intelligently the system works as a whole. Smartphones evolved this way. Hardware, software and services became one seamless experience. Cloud computing evolved this way. Independent applicati
The AI metric founders should track: Cost of correction (opens the original)
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An article by Sadek El Assaad, an operator and adviser to founder-led and family businesses. A startup I worked with introduced AI into part of its customer operations workflow. At first, it looked like a clear success. Response times fell. The backlog shrank. More cases were handled with less manual effort. By the usual measures, the automation was doing exactly what it was supposed to do. The difficult cases were reaching the wrong people faster than before. The underlying problem was not tech
What stood out at LEAP 2026 (opens the original)
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An article by Abdullah Al Jaafari, CEO and Founder of Resquad AI Somewhere on the second day in Riyadh, I stopped photographing the robots and started noticing the lanyards. LEAP 2026 has a badge tier that sits above VIP. It is called VVIP. Two Vs. I kept seeing it in the corridors of the Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Center, and that small piece of plastic explained the week better than any keynote. When even VIP status gets segmented, the top of the market has outgrown its own categories. T
Dubaiâs growing role in the global digital economy (opens the original)
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An article by Artem Shargin, a UAE-based entrepreneur and co-founder and chief operating officer of 0to8. In the digital economy, geography works differently. But it has not stopped mattering. Twenty years ago, an internet company seeking credibility, capital and global reach often looked first to Silicon Valley. Today, companies can be built from almost anywhere. What still varies significantly is how easy a place makes it to operate once a business begins crossing borders. Dubai has become one
What crisis reveals about a startup (opens the original)
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An article by Ayman Gomaa, Founder of Acacia Innovations Technology When you are building a business, crisis planning is rarely a priority. Founders are focused on growth: winning customers, hiring talent, launching products and raising investment. Even in established organisations, preparing for disruption is often neglected until something goes wrong. For founders across the Middle East and North Africa, however, disruption is hardly theoretical. Companies are building across markets exposed t
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