IMAN Holdings has announced plans to raise $100mn to accelerate the development and expansion of its AI-powered Islamic banking platform, with a focus on entering GCC markets. Founded in 2020, the Central Asia–based fintech company has developed a mobile-first financial ecosystem built around Shariah-compliant principles. Its platform integrates savings, investments, payments, and financial guidance within

PointZero, a new social media app built around user control, smarter discovery, and culture-led connection, has officially launched, introducing a fresh way for people to shape what they see, discover diverse content, and participate in online conversations. Built around the idea that social media should be more transparent, personal, and user-led, PointZero gives people greater

Something nobody tells you when you start taking GEO seriously: you can be doing a lot of things right and still be invisible in AI answers. Not because the strategy is wrong, but because a few specific, completely fixable mistakes are cancelling out everything else you are doing. I have watched this happen to smart

Creative Dialogues, the MENA region’s leading multidisciplinary creative platform powered by YVT Consultancy, has announced TheMENAEdit: a cross-border design collective co-produced with Cairo-based studio Design Point and Creative Districts, the company behind Cairo Design Week. The programme culminates in a group exhibition at Cairo Design Week’s fourth edition this November. The MENA Edit is the

For years, the way we measured success in search was simple and unchanging. You looked at rankings. You looked at impressions. You looked at clicks. You looked at click-through rate. Every dashboard, every report, every conversation about whether a piece of content was “working” came back to those four numbers. Then AI search happened, and

Data released by the GCC Statistical Centre (GCC-Stat) on the occasion of GCC Youth Day, observed annually on June 6, indicate that the total number of young people aged 15–34 in the GCC countries reached approximately 23.5 million in 2024, accounting for 38.2% of the GCC states’ total population. Of this total, 15.1 million were

His Excellency Omar Matar Al Mannaei, CEO and CMO of Emirates Auction, has been named among the “Middle East’s Most Influential Chief Marketing Officers 2026” by Forbes Middle East. The prestigious recognition comes in honor of his leadership in driving the company’s digital transformation and accelerating the adoption of advanced technologies and artificial intelligence (AI)