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Yango Group Set To Showcase Cutting-Edge Tech At GITEX 2024

The tech company will exhibit AI, robotics, and ride-hailing innovations at GITEX 2024, underscoring its commitment to smart urban solutions.

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2 years ago

October 2, 2024

Nour Nasir

yango group set to showcase cutting-edge tech at gitex 2024

Yango Group, the well-known global tech company based in Dubai, is preparing to exhibit at GITEX Global 2024, one of the world’s most important tech expos. With operations in over 25 countries across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and beyond, the company will celebrate its sixth year of innovation and growth at the event.

Visitors to Yango Group’s stand will have the opportunity to experience Yasmina, a bilingual, human-like AI assistant integrated into Bluetooth speakers and smart home devices. Yasmina interacts seamlessly with smart home systems, such as climate control and lighting, showcasing the future of automated home environments.

Additionally, Yango Autonomy will display its last-mile delivery robots, designed to operate in all weather conditions, providing a highly efficient, cutting-edge solution for urban logistics.

Attendees will also be introduced to Yango Ride’s latest service, Yango Rides for Business, a corporate ride-hailing solution launched in the UAE. This service offers businesses an efficient way to manage their transportation needs through a single, centralized platform.

Yango Group’s stand will also feature other innovative services and solutions:

Yango Maps: Highly accurate GPS navigation for driving, walking, and public transport.
Yango Ads: Advertising solutions designed to accelerate business growth.
Yango Tech: Retail and e-commerce technologies.
Yango Robotics: AI-powered automation solutions for warehouses.
Yango For Education: Hands-on AI and machine learning training programs.
Yango Commo: Over 300 mobile electronic products.

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Islam Abdul Karim, Regional Head of Yango Middle East, remarked: “At Yango Group, we are dedicated to supporting the region’s economic development. Our products and services are thoughtfully curated to resonate with local communities and reflect the government’s vision for enhancing quality of life through sustainable, technology-driven initiatives. At GITEX 2024, we are excited to present our latest innovations, share insights, and strengthen partnerships that will contribute to socio-economic growth across the region”.

Yango Group’s leadership team will also actively engage in discussion panels during the event. GITEX attendees can find Yango in Hall 3, Stand H3-B20.

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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.