DATE 2025 to spotlight the region’s most powerful tech voices and ventures
Dubai, UAE – On 26–27 November 2025, Madinat Jumeirah will host DATE — a Digitization, AI & Emerging Technology Summit,…
Amazon Debuts AI-Powered Tools for Business Clients
Amazon is introducing a series of AI-powered solutions to help business clients. These new offerings, announced Wednesday (Nov. 11), include…
Alipay Adds Biometric Payment Authentication to Smartglasses
Ant International’s Alipay+ has added iris authentication features to its smartglasses-embedded payment solution. The addition to GlassPay is the result…
AI Needs Spatial Intelligence for Next Leap, Experts Say
Fei-Fei Li, known as the “godmother of AI,” argues that the current era of artificial intelligence (AI), dominated by large…
Maverick Bets on Humans and Machines to Share the Rails
Merchants, independent software vendors (ISVs), independent sales organizations (ISOs) and financial institutions (FIs) all play vital roles in the payment…
Visa Bets on Stablecoins and AI to Transform Global Commerce for Creators
Traditional cross-border payment systems weren’t built for today’s global workforce. Millions of creators, freelancers and on-demand workers now expect to…
Beyond Models and Compute: Big Tech’s AI Moves
Models, compute and infrastructure dominate AI headlines, but the deeper transformation is unfolding quietly behind them. This week’s tech roundup…