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Amazon Prime Day 2024: Get Ready For 6 Days Of Amazing Deals

The hotly-anticipated annual event has been extended to nearly a full week, with hot offers arriving from July 16 to July 21 exclusively for Prime members.

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2 years ago

June 28, 2024

Nour Nasir

Amazon

Amazon’s highly anticipated Prime Day event is returning this summer on Amazon.ae, exclusively for Prime members. This year, for the first time in the UAE, Prime Day will span six full days, kicking off at 00:01am (local UAE time) on July 16 and running until July 21. During this period, Prime members in the UAE can look forward to substantial discounts across over 30 product categories, including electronics, gaming, fashion, beauty, Amazon Fresh grocery, kitchen, home, health, sports, and Amazon Devices.

Prime members shopping on Amazon.ae will have access to an extensive selection of deals from leading local and international brands such as Nivea, Samsung, Skechers, Guess, Joseph & Joseph, Cetaphil, Nespresso, Black+Decker, Microsoft, Lenovo, Lego, OnePlus, Anker, Roborock, and many more, including local small and medium-sized businesses.

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Additionally, Prime members will benefit from Prime Day deals available on Amazon US, UK, and Germany through the Amazon.ae Global Store, featuring free international shipping with no minimum purchase required.

Stefano Martinelli, Vice President of Amazon UAE and Saudi Arabia, said: “This is the first year in the UAE that we extend Prime Day for six full days, catering to customer demand, and we look forward to celebrating this with members across the country as we show up for them with incredible deals. Prime Day will always be the most compelling time to join Prime to enjoy savings, convenience, and entertainment all rolled into one single membership, it’s about getting the most value out of Amazon”.

Preparing For Prime Day

Not a Prime member yet? There’s still plenty of time to join Prime and start saving while enjoying fast free delivery! Members can join Prime at Amazon.ae/prime for AED 16 per month or an annual fee of AED 140.

As well as benefiting from the epic deals on offer, a Prime membership also gives members access to year-round features including Prime Video, Amazon Fresh grocery and everyday essentials, and Prime Gaming.

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Nano Banana 2 Arrives In MENA For Google Gemini Users

Google brings its latest image model to Gemini and Search, adding 4K output and tighter text control for regional users.

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2 months ago

February 27, 2026

Nour Nasir

Google

Google has opened access to Nano Banana 2 across the Middle East and North Africa, pushing its newest image model into everyday tools rather than keeping it inside the exclusive (and expensive) Pro tier.

The rollout spans the Google Gemini desktop and mobile apps, and extends to Google Search through Lens and AI Mode. Developers can also test it in preview via AI Studio and the Gemini API.

Nano Banana 2 runs on Gemini Flash, Google’s fast inference layer. The focus is speed, but also control. Users can export visuals from 512px up to 4K, adjusting aspect ratios for everything from vertical social posts to widescreen displays.

The model maintains character likeness across up to five figures and preserves fidelity for as many as 14 objects within a single workflow. This enables visual continuity across scenes, iterations, or edits — supporting projects like short films, storyboards, and multi-scene narratives. Text rendering has also been improved, delivering legible typography in mockups and greeting cards, with built-in translation and localization directly within images.

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Under the hood, the system taps Gemini’s broader knowledge base and pulls in real-time information and imagery from web search to render specific subjects more accurately. Lighting and fine detail have been upgraded, without slowing output.

By embedding the model inside Gemini and Search, Google is normalizing advanced image generation for a mass audience. In MENA, where startups and marketing teams are leaning heavily on AI to scale content across languages and borders, that shift lands at a practical moment.

The move also folds creative tooling deeper into search itself, so that image generation is no longer a separate workflow. It now sits right next to the query box.