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Uber Streamlines Global Operations as $15bn Delivery Hero Deal Advances

Business & Economix MEO Research Team -
Uber is cutting 3,300 jobs and consolidating its delivery operations as its $14.8bn takeover of Delivery Hero advances, positioning...

MTN Eyes Africa’s $331bn SME Funding Gap as It Weighs Banking Licences

Africa Middle East Observer Staff -
Africa’s largest telecoms operator is exploring banking licences in selected markets as it seeks to deepen lending through MoMo...

Egypt Is Building a Second Digital Corridor Through Sinai

Egypt Middle East Observer Staff -
Telecom Egypt’s 5-Pbps Sharm El-Sheikh–Taba cable is turning Sinai into an eastern gateway linking Gulf and Levant networks to...

From Compute to Capital: LEAP 2026 Builds the Architecture of Saudi Arabia’s AI Economy

Gulf Middle East Observer Staff -
Saudi Arabia’s flagship technology gathering has produced billions of dollars of new investment announcements, but the more consequential development...

Egypt Expands AI, Cyber Training Across State Legal System

Egypt Ahmed Moawad -
Egypt is widening the use of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity expertise within its state legal system under a new...

Anthropic’s $7bn Chip Hunt Tests the Economics of Gulf AI Investment

Gulf Middle East Observer Staff -
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are spending heavily to become global suppliers of AI computing power. Anthropic’s push into...

The Missing Middle: Why Egypt’s Capital Markets Still Struggle to Fund Its Unicorns

Economy Reham Walid -
Egypt has built one of Africa’s most active fintech ecosystems. What it has not yet built is a reliable...

Egypt Builds Smartphone Scale — Now It Must Build the Supply Chain

Egypt Habiba Mohammed -
Egypt expects to manufacture more than 15 million mobile phones in 2026, roughly five times its 2024 output. Yet much...

When Cities Become Software: The Rise of Egypt’s Invisible Digital Infrastructure

Egypt Reham Walid -
In May, New Alamein put an unusual traffic officer on its streets. The Mediterranean city deployed a digital “Robo-Traffic Officer”,...
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