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Image: Supplied Six years ago, few imagined travellers could land in a new country and get connected instantly, without hunting for a SIM card or paying roaming fees. Airalo changed that. Founded in 2019, the Singapore-based startup was one of the first to bet on eSIM technology, building what has become the world’s largest eSIM marketplace. Today, with over 20 million users in 200 countries, Airalo is redefining global connectivity — and the Middle East is fast emerging as one of its most strategic growth markets. In this interview, CEO Ahmet Bahadir talks about what gave Airalo its early advantage,…
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Image: Supplied At a moment when the UAE is doubling down on entrepreneurship, innovation, and diversification, Sheraa is refusing to leave women founders on the sidelines. In this conversation with its CEO Sara Abdelaziz Al Nuaimi, Gulf Business explores how Sheraa’s new Sharjah Women Impact Fellowship (SWIF) is positioning female-led scale-ups not as an optional add-on, but as central to the nation’s growth story. With more than half of Sheraa’s supported startups led by women — an unprecedented regional figure — Al Nuaimi lays out how mentorship, purpose and scaling frameworks are being designed with the next decade in mind.…
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.What have the Romans ever done for us? In Monty Python’s Life of Brian, the answers included aqueducts, baths and peace. But what if the right answer is: “their empire fell”? In short, western Europe’s transformative role in world history is due to the absence of a Europe-wide empire. That created what the ancient historian Walter Scheidel calls the “competitive fragmentation” of western Europe. Competition drove the commercial, intellectual, technological, legal and political changes that led in the end to the industrial…
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Image: Supplied Ecomondo 2025, Europe and the Mediterranean basin’s leading international event for the green, blue and circular economies, concluded successfully at the Rimini Expo Centre, reaffirming its role as a global hub for ecological transition. Organised by Italian Exhibition Group (IEG), this 28th edition marked a significant expansion, reflecting growing international engagement and the event’s leadership in advancing sustainability. Total attendance increased by 7 per cent, with international visitors rising by 10 per cent. The exhibition featured over 1,700 brands—18 per cent from abroad—spanning 166,000 square metres. More than 600 journalists, including 15 per cent from outside Italy, helped…
Renen Hallak, founder and CEO of VAST Data/Image: Supplied VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, has announced the signing of a commercial agreement worth $1.17bn billion with CoreWeave, the essential cloud for AI. The expanded partnership strengthens CoreWeave’s long-standing commitment to the VAST AI Operating System (AI OS) as its primary data foundation, positioning VAST as a core component of CoreWeave’s AI cloud infrastructure. Powered by the VAST AI OS, CoreWeave’s infrastructure provides instant access to massive datasets, breakthrough performance, and cloud-scale economics for both training and inference workloads. With its infinitely scalable system architecture, CoreWeave can deploy VAST…
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Image credit: Getty Images Gold prices extended gains on Tuesday to their highest in nearly three weeks, supported by expectations a potential US government reopening could restart the flow of US economic data ahead of an expected Federal Reserve rate cut next month. Spot gold was up 0.5 per cent at $4,137.06 per ounce as of 0816 GMT, having earlier hit its highest since October 23 at $4,148.75, still below its record peak of $4,381.21 hit on October 20. US gold futures for December delivery rose 0.5 per cent to $4,143.80 per ounce. Read more-Gold tops $4,300, set for biggest…