Hakema's latest product, Bookability, enhances traditional online yellow pages by adding real-time service availability, price and the ability to book services right from the directory listing.

Frost & Sullivan's Manufacturing Leadership Council (MLC), announced today that the 2015 Manufacturing Leadership (ML) Awards nominations will open on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014.

New "Document Knowledge Miner" Enables Those With Print Disabilities To More Easily Acquire Knowledge From Digital Files, Increasing The Usability Of Mobile Wireless Technologies.

Dubai has a bold vision to become the world's most visited city by 2020. The Director of Dubai's Tourism department, HE Helal Saeed Almarri, discusses how his team will make it happen

HE Helal Saeed Almarri is a man with a mission: to attract 20 million visitors to the emirate by 2020, and trebling the economic contribution tourism makes to the city's balance sheet.

Airline expands its insights with an integrated business intelligence solution.

Saudi Airlines, among the largest airlines in the Middle East, has implemented a business intelligence (BI) solution with Microsoft Corp. that includes Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Power BI for Office 365, Windows Server 2012 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 to analyze, visualize and share data in a unified way, which allows the company to have better business visibility, more engaged employees, and projected savings of millions of dollars per year in the process.

Epson is firmly committed to supporting the communities in which it operates around the world. Epson Philippines has been especially active, with its most recent effort a collaboration with a group of volunteers that aims to bring smiles to the faces of children afflicted with cancer. Organized by renowned local photographer Pilar Tuason in cooperation with the Kythe Foundation, the "Portraits of Love" charity event held in June gave the children a magical day of laughter.

Meech International was one of 18 companies that volunteered a team of five competitors for 'The Olympic Challenge', a specially organised sports day held 17 July to raise charitable funds for the Oxfordshire High Sheriff's Challenge.

A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) portal created exclusively for Arab audiences will deliver vocational & employability skills to women, youth, persons with disabilities and citizens in rural communities

EdX and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Labor today announced the launch of an open-platform Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) portal designed to bridge the gap between education and employment in Saudi Arabia and throughout the Arab world. Courses are expected to begin in September 2014 with a first-of-its-kind pilot program for Saudi women, youth, the disabled and citizens in rural communities.

82% say it puts them in a better mood

A recent Staples Advantage Canada survey shows that while 96% of employees drink coffee or tea regularly at work, only slightly more than half of organizations offer it for free to their employees. As a result, close to half of the workers surveyed will leave their office for up to 20 minutes a day to purchase their caffeine fix.

New service provides instant 'Iftar' and 'Imsak' times anywhere in the world

Al Arabiya News, the English language platform of the Middle East's leading news channel, has partnered with micro-blogging site, Twitter, to keep people around the world informed with the 'Iftar' (breaking of fast) and 'Imsak' (beginning of fast) during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Application process begins for training year 2015

• Occupational training commitment as high as previous year

- Workers who interact more frequently with their boss give higher grades

- One in four workers say their boss communicates via text message or instant message

- More than 1 in 5 workers say their boss asks them to do things unrelated to their job