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XAAN Introduces Web App For Dubai Holiday Home Guests
The startup’s extensive hospitality knowledge will ensure an exceptional guest experience by verifying service providers and maintaining high standards of quality.
XAAN, a digital-first startup in the vacation rental space, has officially launched a new web app designed to enhance stays for guests of rental apartments in Dubai. The service aims to maintain “hotel standards” within the industry and will also help connect apartment owners and guests with local suppliers and boost revenue from the sale of supplemental services.
“Digitalization is essential for 90% of holiday homes to compete with hotels and increase profits. XAAN offers a solution by providing advanced technology, hotel-grade services, and hospitality standards to make vacation rental businesses successful and profitable,” says Gleb Mykhailov, XAAN CEO.
To provide their unique solution, the XAAN development team has integrated with the task management system Teamatix, and the startup is now taking its offering a step further by introducing a guest-facing web app.
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By verifying service providers, maintaining high standards of quality, and giving guests access to XAAN’s extensive hospitality knowledge, the team hopes to ensure an exceptional experience for travelers heading to Dubai on vacation or business trips.
As well as booking apartments, guests can reserve spa experiences, book laundry services, request breakfast or cleaning services, call taxis, and even book sightseeing tours. Overall, the new app shows great promise and offers the opportunity for holiday home business owners to increase their revenue.
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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.
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.
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