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Talabat And Truecaller Enter Strategic Partnership

Truecaller’s Verified Business Caller ID solution will provide a safe and efficient experience for Talabat food delivery teams, restaurant partners, and end users.

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1 year ago

April 2, 2024

Nour Nasir

Talabat

Talabat, a leading MENA food delivery platform, has announced a new strategic collaboration with Truecaller, a platform for verifying contacts and blocking unwanted communication. The partnership aims to revolutionize the food delivery sector by boosting customer safety and streamlining communications using Truecaller’s Verified Business Caller ID suite.

At a time when smartphone users are inundated with nuisance calls, Talabat aims to provide a trusted, secure experience for delivery personnel, restaurant affiliates, and end-customers. Using Truecaller’s Verified Business Caller ID solution, the delivery firm can now provide an authentic brand identity while allowing users to easily spot genuine business calls.

talabat and truecaller partnership

By integrating elements including brand name, logo, category name, verification mark, and a unique green badge, Talabat will now enjoy a unique and more trustworthy presence in the Middle East and North African markets.

Priyam Bose, Global Head GTM & Developer Products, Truecaller, stated: “Truecaller is synonymous with trust and safety in communication […] We are thrilled to partner with Talabat, empowering their restaurant partners and delivery personnel to offer a superior, efficient, and safer communication experience to their customers, from the moment of ordering to the delivery lifecycle”.

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Meanwhile, Hadeer Shalaby, Talabat Egypt MD, emphasized the company’s dedication to seamless operations and end-user satisfaction: “We strongly believe in the power of effective partnerships, and we are pleased to collaborate with Truecaller. This partnership aims to facilitate communication between our customers and delivery teams, ensuring the fastest and safest service possible”.

So far, over 2500+ businesses worldwide have benefitted from Truecaller’s Verified Business Caller ID and other advanced communication features. Besides enhancing business communication efficiency, the company has significantly reduced phone-related fraud and scams, helping to promote heightened customer safety during business communications.

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Google Releases Veo 2 AI Video Tool To MENA Users

The state-of-the-art video generation model is now available in Gemini, offering realistic AI-generated videos with better physics, motion, and detail.

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8 hours ago

April 16, 2025

Nour Nasir

Google

Starting today, users of Gemini Advanced in the MENA region — and globally — can tap into Veo 2, Google’s next-generation video model.

Originally unveiled in 2024, Veo 2 has now been fully integrated into Gemini, supporting multiple languages including Arabic and English. The rollout now brings Google’s most advanced video AI directly into the hands of everyday users.

Veo 2 builds on the foundations of its predecessor with a more sophisticated understanding of the physical world. It’s designed to produce high-fidelity video content with cinematic detail, realistic motion, and greater visual consistency across a wide range of subjects and styles. Whether recreating natural landscapes, human interactions, or stylized environments, the model is capable of interpreting and translating written prompts into eight-second 720p videos that feel almost handcrafted.

Users can generate content directly through the Gemini platform — either via the web or mobile apps. The experience is pretty straightforward: users enter a text-based prompt, and Veo 2 returns a video in 16:9 landscape format, delivered as an MP4 file. These aren’t just generic clips — they can reflect creative, abstract, or highly specific scenarios, making the tool especially useful for content creators, marketers, or anyone experimenting with visual storytelling.

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To ensure transparency, each video is embedded with SynthID — a digital watermark developed by Google’s DeepMind. The watermark is invisible to the human eye but persists across editing, compression, and sharing. It identifies the video as AI-generated, addressing concerns around misinformation and media authenticity.

While Veo 2 is still in its early phases of public rollout, the technology is part of a broader push by Google to democratize advanced AI tools. With text-to-image, code generation, and now video creation integrated into Gemini, Google is positioning the platform as a full-spectrum creative assistant.

Access to Veo 2 starts today and will continue expanding in the coming weeks. Interested users can try it out at gemini.google.com or through the Gemini app on Android and iOS.