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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.
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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Visa’s Return To Syria Starts With A Test And A Bank In Lebanon
Foreign visitors will be the first users to benefit, but whether Syria’s own banks and cardholders follow is still an open question.
Visa is returning to Syria. Its first live international card transaction in the country was a test rather than a launch, and the milestone event ran through a Lebanese bank.
The acquirer (the bank on the merchant’s side of a card payment) was Fransabank Lebanon, with Paymera as the other named partner. Nadim Moujaes, who heads a Fransabank Group subsidiary, describes the test as both the culmination of “longstanding efforts to link Syria back to international payment networks” and “the first step in a larger path”.
Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa makes the first electronic payment in Syria using a @Visa card at a store in Damascus, following the lifting of US sanctions on Syria. pic.twitter.com/lpAN7nQ6Fc
— Tech Magazine (@TechMGZN) August 27, 2026
“We are excited to have successfully tested live transactions today as we plan to enable international visitors to use their Visa cards while in Syria,” says Leila Serhan, Visa’s senior vice president and group country manager for the North Africa, Levant and Pakistan region. Although a significant first step, that plan doesn’t come with a hard date for when a visitor’s card will work normally.
Mohammed Safwat Raslan, governor of the Central Bank of Syria, says the test paves the way for international card acceptance in Syria and that maintaining strong compliance, risk management and operational controls will remain essential. Serhan likewise stresses that Visa has worked within applicable legal, regulatory and compliance requirements. For a test transaction, it seems there was a great deal of attention paid to the rules, with the entire operation being carefully managed.
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The test is the latest step in a sequence that began in December 2025, when Visa announced a strategic roadmap to support Syria’s integration into the global digital economy. In February 2026 it hosted its first industry gathering of banks, ecosystem partners and policymakers in Damascus and, the same month, signed an agreement with Syria’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in San Francisco.
Michel Kattouah, Paymera’s CEO, called the test “the return of international card acceptance,” but while that’s positive news, there’s no word yet on when a Syrian bank will issue a Visa card to a Syrian customer.
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