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Truecaller Reveals New Brand Identity & Feature Update

The refreshed “True Blue” logo follows an increased commitment to consumer privacy and safety, including new AI anti-fraud features.

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3 years ago

September 20, 2023

Nour Nasir

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Truecaller has been a market leader in call identification solutions for over 14 years, and boasts a staggering 356 million users worldwide.

Today, the company has announced details of a corporate rebranding, including a new app icon for the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. The update not only coincides with a range of updated Truecaller software but is also said to reflect the brand’s “renewed sense of purpose, energy, and enthusiasm”.

Commenting on the announcement, Alan Mamedi, Truecaller co-founder and CEO, said, “We are excited to unveil our new brand identity and logo. It signifies our continued commitment to our users and our focus to constantly evolve and improve every day”.

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As part of the brand refresh, Truecaller users also gain access to a powerful new feature of the company’s AI Identity Engine called Search Context. The software will instantly notify users if the name for the number has been recently changed or is being changed frequently. The app also displays these contextual messages in three color categories: blue for neutral changes, yellow for potentially suspicious activity, and red for highly suspicious or known fraudulent activity. Messages will be shown to Truecaller users on all search results in Android, iOS, and via Truecaller web.

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The new brand identity was created by leading consultants Interbrand and will roll out worldwide over the coming weeks. To see the changes, users need to update to version 13.34 or later on Android and version 12.58 or newer on iOS.

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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

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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.