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Ring Introduces Spotlight Cam Plus In Saudi Arabia

The company is elevating its outdoor security lineup with features including color night vision and built-in spotlights.

Published

4 years ago

March 21, 2023

Nour Nasir

Ring

Ring has been at the forefront of smart home security for a decade, offering an affordable range of whole-home tech to make neighborhoods safer.

Today the company has introduced a brand new product for the Saudi Arabian market called the Spotlight Cam Plus — a next-generation device featuring a wide-angle lens, 1080p HD video, built-in LED spotlights, and a powerful alert siren.

The Spotlight Cam Plus builds on the previous model’s feature set with Color Night Vision, wired and battery-powered modes, plus an all-new design.

Smart, Customizable Outdoor Security

The Spotlight Cam Plus is available in black or white and retains all of the regular features Ring users have come to rely on, including real-time notifications, Two-Way Talk, and Live View.

The new Color Night Vision mode is improved by two motion-activated LED spotlights, allowing homeowners to keep a watchful eye on their property, day or night. In addition, Customizable Motion Zones can be set to trigger events, with Privacy Zones excluding certain areas from the camera’s field of view.

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Solar Panel USB-C

As well as announcing the new Spotlight Cam Plus, Ring also introduced its new Solar Panel USB-C solution. The unit connects seamlessly to the Spotlight Cam Plus and other Ring devices and can keep the cameras topped up with power after only a few hours of direct sunlight, using an adjustable arm to achieve the correct angle for the solar panel.

Pricing & Availability

Spotlight Cam Plus and Solar Panel USB-C are available now on Amazon.sa in Saudi Arabia, starting from SAR 779 for a kit including both devices.

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Microsoft Plans $10 Billion-Plus Gulf Expansion Despite Iran Conflict

Security is shaping Microsoft’s approach, from resilience work with governments to what it will say about how the money splits by country.

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4 days ago

September 24, 2026

Nour Nasir

Microsoft

Microsoft is planning more than $10 billion of investment across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait through 2030, Vice Chair and President Brad Smith told Reuters, calling the spending schedule aggressive. The Iranian conflict that began on February 28 has not persuaded the company to scale back.

“We’re sustaining all the investments we planned to make before this conflict started, and we are in fact adding to them,” Smith said. The $10 billion-plus total does not, however, show how large those additions are.

The investment, which Smith described as part of Microsoft’s continued infrastructure expansion, is aimed at cloud and AI infrastructure and at the company’s growing regional operations. Microsoft also intends to put more than $400 million into subsea and terrestrial connectivity across the Middle East by 2030.

The spending fits the region’s own ambitions too. Gulf governments have been investing heavily in AI infrastructure as part of a push to diversify their economies beyond oil and gas and turn themselves into global technology hubs. Major cloud and AI providers have been drawn in part by the land and relatively low-cost energy on offer.

Microsoft is widening its partnerships with regional AI companies, though not on identical terms. In 2024, it invested $1.5 billion in Abu Dhabi-based G42 for a minority stake, and Smith currently sits on G42’s board. Saudi Arabia’s Humain and Qatar’s Qai are working with Microsoft on selected priority areas, but Smith said the company does not plan to make capital investments in either.

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The conflict has added another strand to Microsoft’s work in the region. Since it began, Smith said, the company has supported regional partners with digital resilience assessments, and it is now working with Gulf countries through a digital resilience initiative focused on preparedness and the protection of critical data.

So far, the company has given no country-by-country breakdown of the investment, citing security among other factors. So while the headline figure is public, how Microsoft divides the spending among the four countries is not.