Author: Arabian Media staff

Image: Supplied In an insightful interview, Tanuja Randery, VP and MD EMEA at Amazon Web Services (AWS), shares the company’s dynamic vision for one of the world’s most vibrant and diverse regions. Randery, who met with Gulf Business editor, Neesha Salian on the sidelines of the AWS Summit held last month in Dubai, discusses AWS’s strategic commitment to the Middle East, detailing significant investments in cloud infrastructure, AI development, and talent upskilling that are driving economic transformation across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and beyond. Randery also delves into AWS’s global footprint, including the pioneering European Sovereign Cloud, and highlights key…

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Airbnb has blamed “overtourism” in Europe on the hotel industry, as the US short-term home rentals group hits back against criticism from regulators and residents that its service is leading to overcrowding in holiday hotspots.Theo Yedinsky, vice-president for public policy at Airbnb, told the Financial Times that the company is the victim of “scapegoating” by local authorities, such as in Barcelona, where there have been protests against the post-pandemic boom in overseas travel.“We end up getting a lot of the blame, especially…

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Toyota Motor chair Akio Toyoda has gained 96.72 per cent approval for his re-election in a sign of significant shareholder support as the world’s largest carmaker starts to put a data falsification scandal behind it.The stronger backing, revealed in a company filing on Friday, marks a major recovery from last year’s shareholders’ meeting, when the scion of Toyota’s founding family received just 72 per cent backing, the lowest ever for a director at the Japanese group.Toyoda has come under fire from shareholders…

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