Articles in the Business Category
Kuwait Oil Sector Contractors Conference aims at being the premier event providing contractors, specialty contractors, service/suppliers, engineering consultants and other stakeholders engaged in the oil sector contracting market the opportunity to meet together in a unique forum to review issues and trends occurring in the state of Kuwait for productive exchanges and sharing of information [...]
Ok this is an IT related entry, but the topic I am discussing here its quite significant to lot of corportations around the World because of its repercussions. Oracle the global leader in Enterprise Database solutions has bought Sun Microsystems. Sun in case you are not aware is behind the JAVA language, another enterprise level [...]
iTable like other ‘i’ prefixed gizmos is not from Apple, its from PQ Labs. Yet iTable is very impressive. Now iTable is a strong competitor to Microsoft Surface which surfaced [no pun intented] in 2007, but has since been available for ‘commercial’ use only. Where as iTable is targeted towards both premium home and commercial [...]
Credit Crisis…I believe every tom dick and harry now is aware of these terms around the globe. But what exactly is the real meaning of these two words is more complicated to most of us. Check out this amazing video which explains clearly and precisely what is real meaning of Credit Crisis.
Dubai is facing the onslaught of the Global Economic crisis and the worst fared are the expats who have been living a high-n-dry dream with home loans, car loans, and credit card balances. In the last 4 months or so around 3000 cars have been left outside the aiport with keys in the ignition and [...]
Yep its that time of the year again when we will have InfoConnect at the Kuwait International Fairgrounds in Mishref. This time the InfoConnect / InfoBiz is slated for Feb 1st till Feb 7th. Am I excited?! Nopes…2 reasons…
Numero uno it will be crap as usual with some lame offers from ISP’s, and vendors trying [...]
Local ISP KEMS has launched ‘Half By Half’ campaign with the above advertisement on it website. Basically if you pay upfront for yearly DSL connection, they only charge you half, and they pay the other half. Now the question is not of a deal here but the currency note shown as torn in half. We [...]
Kuwait and other countries in the GCC has always patronized high fashion, designer boutiques, and premium fashion brands. Some of these well-known brands are owned by designers of Jewish origin. If we could raise our concerns when a Danish cartoonist published caricatures of Prophet [PBUH] by boycotting all their products, its time we raise our [...]
The hotly contested deal of Kuwait oil conglomerates and US based DOW chemicals which was slated at US$ 17.5 billions has been scrapped by Kuwait. This deal was subjected to major scrutiny for last couple of weeks in Kuwaits political, business and public arena. The timing for scrapping this deal was ofutmost importance because of [...]
After Zain…its Wataniya…Yessss They have made all incoming local/international calls free. Its confirmed and will be applicable from tomorrow December 4th.
What a rush VIVA has kicked in…
Whats next cheaper calls local/international and lower internet charges?!
Qantas the national carrier of Australia and British Airways the national carrier of UK are in talks of a merger.
In a statement, BA said that the merger would be through the creation of a dual-listed company, so it would be listed in London and Australia.
Chief executive Geoff Dixon, only days before stepping down from his [...]
Here is a sneak peek into the new VIVA website. Seems they are still updating the site, as there is lots of ‘Lorem ipsum’ across the homepage. The original website for registration is already displaying ‘Thank You’ page. New registrations/connections on their website are closed.
Also the locations for VIVA branches will be:
* Almanar Mall in [...]
The much hyped Hotel Atlantis opened recently at The Palm, Dubai. Here is a sneek video of the the opening ceremony. All that glitters is pure gold in Dubai I guess….Crazy show and US$ 30 million worth of fireworks.
Link to the Video [CLICK HERE]
