September 21, 2022
Darwinbox tops Gartner’s customer survey, disrupting HR tech
Darwinbox, a cloud HR technology disruptor, has been named the Gartner Peer Insights "Voice of the Customer" (VoC) report's top Customers' Choice Cloud HCM Suite for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises in 2022. Darwinbox received the highest rating of 4.7 out of 5 on Gartner Peer Insights, beating out established vendors such as Oracle, SAP, and Workday.
September 20, 2022
BitOasis manages increased customer service volume with Freshworks
Freshworks Inc., a software company that empowers the people who power businesses, announced that BitOasis, a cryptocurrency exchange giant, has implemented Freshworks solutions Freshdesk and Freshchat to help manage a large increase in customer queries due to the demand for information about digital currencies.
September 8, 2022
US$15,000 to top three gaming apps in Apps UP 2022 contest
Huawei, the global tech giant, is awarding US$15,000 to each of the top three gaming apps in the recently launched Huawei Global App Innovation Contest (Apps UP) 2022 - Middle East and Africa (MEA) edition to celebrate the mobile gaming industry boom. Through this competition and other initiatives, Huawei encourages mobile game developers.
August 29, 2022
Developers at Huawei are encouraged to build socially impactful apps
Blind Assistant, a mobile app developed by a Tunisian engineering team, assists the visually impaired and blind community in recognizing objects, texts, and colors around them through the app's integrated voice-over features. As part of the Huawei Global App Innovation Contest (Apps UP), the tech giant added a 'Best Social Impact' category to encourage the creation of experiences like Blind Assistant that have a positive impact on communities.
August 17, 2022
YouTube to join the streaming services fray
According to some sources, the company expects the new platform, which it identifies internally as a "channel store", which has been in the works for at least 18 months, will be accessible as early as this fall.
August 11, 2022
Cybereason’s MDR Mobile App puts SOC power at the fingertips of Defenders
Cybereason, the XDR company, has released the Cybereason Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Mobile App, which gives Defenders the power of a security operations center (SOC) at their fingertips. Defenders can further reduce the mean-time-to-remediation with the Cybereason MDR Mobile App by suspending an attack's lateral movement directly from their mobile device.
August 8, 2022
Zumvie enables SaaS companies to create clickable product demos
Zumvie announced the launch of an innovative new platform that enables Software-as-a-Service companies to create fully clickable product demos that can be embedded in blogs, landing pages, emails, sharable URLs, and more after graduating from the Flat6Labs Ignite seed program in Abu Dhabi.
August 3, 2022
Tabby secures $150m credit facility
Tabby, the payments and shopping app for the Middle East and North Africa, has secured $150 million in debt financing from Atalaya Capital Management and existing investor Partners for Growth (PFG).