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The KAUST Challenge is aimed at improving the Hajj and Umrah experience of pilgrims across the world, as well as paving the path to making Makkah a smart city.

Al-Husseini's sense of accomplishment came after she witnessed firsthand how people were reacting to the initiatives that the Federation was spearheading.

Fadan says he and his team at Telfaz11 are grateful for the silver linings that have come out for the enterprise in 2020, all of which have only served to reinforce their goals for the company in the long term.

CEO Majed Al Sorour on how he and his entity are going about facilitating the uptake of golf in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

"We are all living our business days driven by a tremendous positive energy directing the Kingdom towards its new future."

Launched in 2013, the Saudi Arabia-headquartered digital learning platform has adopted a gamification approach to its educational services to ensure the users find it interactive and engaging, and here's why.

According to Alwaalan, many companies from the Endeavor Saudi Arabia network, with them attracting capital and closing funding rounds even at the peak of the disruptions caused by COVID-19, prove that a crisis does not necessarily lead to capital scarcity and failures in business.

Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) is bolstering the country's digital economy.

Touted as the first of its kind in the region, the Set Up In Saudi platform provides a simple and easy process for registering a company in Saudi Arabia.

With the intention to give an unbiased, holistic view of how innovative yet socially responsible practices across different industries work, Altwejri's book tells the stories of people from across the social entrepreneurship spectrum.

Investment in Middle Eastern fintech companies is expected to grow to around US$2 billion in venture capital by 2022, which will fund 465 fintech companies, an increase from $80 million that was raised by 30 fintech companies in 2017.

The Maharat app has been designed to detect early-childhood needs and problems of more than 10 million children across the Arab world.

Improving financial inclusion for SMEs could boost annual economic growth by 1% per year, and also lead to a potential 16 million jobs by 2025 in the Middle East and Central Asia regions.

Saudi Arabia, in particular, was impressively quick to take action as soon as the first case was identified: installing thermal cameras at airports, shutting down certain flights, instituting work from home policies, and a strict curfew.

By giving people access to their earned income (both salary and commissions), and potentially giving them access to pensions or end of service funds whenever needed, we could create a knock-on effect that could transform the local and global economy.

Boosting Saudi Arabia's cultural landscape in order to showcase the Kingdom's rich national artistic and creative heritage has been highlighted as a key cornerstone of the country's Vision 2030.

The retail giant, operated by Majid Al Futtaim in the UAE, unveiled Mobimart, the region's first grocery bus, bringing convenient and accessible shopping to the doorsteps of underserved neighborhoods and communities across Dubai, six days a week.

This is the fourth cellag investment made by KBW Ventures

Regional and international startups to pitch to leading Saudi investors.

TurtleTree is the world's first company using technology to create real milk from animal cells, with no animal required

It's been a year, and we're just getting started.