Bill Hoggarth, Regional CEO, Africa Middle East, SAS

DUBAI, UAE - SAS, the leading provider of business intelligence and analytic software and services, has announced the launch of ‘SAS Curriculum Pathways’ and ‘SAS Enterprise Intelligence Suite for Education’ - two unique solutions, which have been designed to help boost the development of the UAE education sector. The unveiling of the technology-driven learning technologies is aimed at strengthening the UAE Government’s efforts to advance the country’s academic system, which was recently granted AED 9.7 billion for the development of general and higher education

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DOHA, Qatar - Doha Bank announced conducting corporate quiz across the GCC states. This new initiative has made Doha Bank, the first Middle East financial institution to increase the interest of the region’s professionals towards knowledge sharing sessions. The first event in the series took place at Sheraton Doha, Al Majlis Hall.

The quiz event in Doha was followed by quiz events planned in Dubai, Kuwait, Bahrain, Muscat and Riyadh in the coming months. The diverse topics that would be covered in these quiz events include business, finance, entertainment, current affairs, sports...

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ABU DHABI, UAE - Etisalat, BT and Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research (KUSTAR) announced the signing of a landmark contract to create the Middle East's first international centre for telecommunications research and innovation, based in the United Arab Emirates.Work on the Etisalat BT Innovation Centre (EBTIC) will now begin with the aim to open the facility in the first quarter of 2009.

In a statement issued by H.H. Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chief of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince's Court and Vice Chairman of KUSTAR's Board of Trustees, his highness underscored the role...

DUBAI, UAE - The American University in Dubai (AUD) announced at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting that it has made a commitment to offer $26m in scholarship funds to outstanding students in financial need all over the Middle East.These scholarships will help students attend The Mohammed Bin Rashid School for Communication (MBRSC).

The Mohammed Bin Rashid School for Communication at the American University in Dubai was recently established in collaboration with the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California (USC).

The School's mission is...