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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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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.
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.
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