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From affordable apartments priced close to half a million to whopping mansions exceeding AED 30M, buyer priorities are becoming increasingly diverse when it comes to Dubai’s off-plan market.

Since its formation a few weeks ago, the Council has brought several initiatives to life, including a Youth Day activation at Amazon's Dubai office that connected Emirati entrepreneurs and homegrown brands directly with employees.

The UAE has introduced a new commercial music licensing framework, while extending Small Business Relief for eligible SMEs.

For companies experiencing financial pressure since February 28, 2026, eligibility hinges on a crucial requirement: they must be able to demonstrate that their financial distress was directly caused by the declared emergency.

The event is expected to welcome more than 38,000 attendees, alongside 350 exhibiting brands, 350+ speakers, 600+ investors and 150 startups.

Real estate recorded the highest hiring growth rate of any sector compared with 2019 levels, while education, construction, health care, administrative and support services, and transport and logistics also recorded hiring growth above the national average.

Designed around the theme “Where Doers and Investors Build What’s Next”, the 2026 edition will feature high-growth technology companies and investment leaders from Europe, the GCC, Asia, Africa and emerging innovation hubs globally.

The announcement comes as ruya and Magure confirm that their first three agentic AI use cases have already gone live in production.

The collaboration will also enable the bank to explore partnerships with DFDF portfolio companies through structured pilots and potential commercial deployments.

A strong nomination is not simply about having an ambitious idea. The award looks at how effectively that idea was executed, how quickly it translated into results, and whether its impact can be demonstrated through credible evidence.

The initiative gives participants practical experience across different stages of entrepreneurship, including product development, brand building, product presentation and customer engagement.

Daniel Hadi leads the company’s strategic growth, operational excellence, and expansion across the region.

An innate love for filmmaking and creating impact-oriented art led Rouhana El Hage to the US$252+ billion creator economy and, later, into MENA-based creator collaboration tech platform, Halo AI. Having been promoted as the firm’s Associate Partner, El Hage shares why content creators (especially micro creators) hold the power to create meaningful change across audiences.

Homevy, a Dubai-based short-term rental management company, did not initially set out to build a software product. It initially focused on improving its own operations, which later shaped the company’s broader approach.

The new founder finance solution provides eligible businesses with more than AED10,000 in first-year value.

Rather than providing clinical services, the new facility will serve as a research and development hub focused on artificial intelligence, biomedical research, and clinical practice.

The BVI-incorporated vehicle is building a $150 million fund structured to generate up to $720 million in film-IP monetisation, converting Indian film IP into a tokenized, rights-based asset class from its UAE regional base, with plans to expand into Arabic content, aviation and real estate.

Dubai Future Foundation and Oxa have launched the Autonomous Logistics Future Lab to develop, test and deploy autonomous logistics technologies in Dubai.

The broader education landscape further highlights why scalable implementation deserves greater attention.

The Board approved an interim dividend of 47.5 fils per share, up 10.5% from the same period last year.

Born in Georgia and raised in the United States after immigrating with his family, Khemchan began working as a teenager. Delivering newspapers was not symbolic of ambition at the time; it was practical. Income contributed to stability. Responsibility was immediate. Effort translated directly into outcome. That early exposure to earned capital shaped a lasting orientation […]

The UAE-built platform uses multilingual conversational AI to interview candidates, helping employers hire faster while ensuring every qualified applicant has the opportunity to be heard.

Through starting a new ChatGPT conversation with @RadissonHotels at the start of the prompt, travelers can ask for advice to plan a family-friendly weekend stay in Amsterdam, or a hotel in Paris with a gym and spa near the Eiffel Tower.

Organizers expect more than 35,000 participants and over 800 speakers across more than 70 events over four days.

Mundhada discusses NeoPay's adoption of Visa Click to Pay, the growing importance of consumer trust in online transactions, and how advanced technologies are helping strengthen payment security while reducing checkout friction.

"Arab Beauty has been missing from the global beauty conversation for too long. We believe it deserves to stand alongside Korean Beauty, Japanese Beauty and Ayurveda as one of the world's defining beauty movements, and we're building AÏZA to help take it there," said Shubham Poddar, founder and CEO of AÏZA.

According to GCC-Stat, the results reflect the economic and institutional performance of GCC countries across multiple areas of development.

The industries cover high-pressure seamless pipes for the oil and gas sector, sterile single-use surgical instruments, high-purity copper cathodes, silicon wafers used in semiconductors, and multi-parameter patient monitoring devices.

Both terminals will be able to accommodate ultra-large container vessels and will be linked to Jebel Ali Port through DP World's inland logistics network.

Chillblast is the UK's most awarded PC manufacturer, having received independent industry recognition across performance, reliability, and service.