Dubai / Emirates Business The Middle East’s digital industry is currently enjoying continuous growth fuelled by increased enthusiasm from consumers who are ready to quickly embrace new digital offerings, thus transforming the region into a potential digital hub. By 2025, the Middle East is estimated to have 160 million potential digital users that will largely contribute to rapid economic ...

  Bloomberg European Union policy makers intensified their criticism of Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans to leave the bloc, saying that the UK appeared clueless about the implications of Brexit. The pound sank to an intraday low after Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said it’s not clear that the UK knows what it wants and European lawmaker Manfred Weber demanded ...

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