UAE
Finance
MENA Digest: Egyptian startups lead funding activity
Egyptian fintech startups Swypex and MNZL led funding activities in the Middle East and North Africa region,, even as overall ......
Healthcare
Kelix Bio to acquire five UAE-based pharma entities post Mubadala deal
Kelix Bio, an emerging markets-focused specialty generic biopharmaceutical company is looking to acquire five UAE-based pharma entities to further expand ......
Finance
Abu Dhabi's IHC to hold buyback of up to $1.36 bn
International Holding Company (IHC), Abu Dhabi's largest listed company, said on Monday it would buy back up to 5 billion ......
Infrastructure
Proptech Square Yards tops $100-mn annual revenue mark
Delhi-based proptech startup Square Yards, which is expected to file its listing documents with capital markets regulator soon, has topped ......
TMT
Abu Dhabi AI company Presight takes majority stake in tech venture AIQ
Artificial intelligence company Presight AI Holding has acquired a majority stake in AIQ, a technology joint venture between Abu Dhabi ......
TMT
UAE's e& seeks to buy $8.6 bn European carrier United Group
Abu Dhabi-based Emirates Telecommunications is considering an acquisition of European cable and pay-TV operator United Group at a valuation of ......
TMT
Abu Dhabi-backed RedBird IMI scraps Telegraph deal, to sell UK newspaper
Abu Dhabi-backed RedBird IMI on Tuesday said it would sell the Telegraph after it scrapped its acquisition of the right-leaning ......
General
Global asset manager Barings opens office in Dubai
Barings, a global investment management firm that manages assets worth $406 billion, has opened an office in Dubai to help ......
Finance
In Charts: How Dubai Future District Fund deployed corpus across startups, VC funds
The Dubai Future District Fund (DFDF), the region’s first evergreen venture capital fund-of-funds, has committed about a fifth of its ......
Manufacturing
UAE's ADNOC recently eyed BP as takeover target
The United Arab Emirates' state-owned oil company recently considered buying Britain's BP but the deliberations did not progress beyond preliminary ......