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Image credit: Supplied Cityscape Global 2025 opened in Riyadh in the presence of senior Saudi government representatives, international decision-makers, and industry leaders from across the global real estate sector. Sponsored by the Ministry of Municipalities and Housing, in partnership with REGA, Vision 2030 and the Housing Program, and organised by Tahaluf, Cityscape Global remains Saudi Arabia’s flagship platform for real estate investment and urban transformation. The opening marked a significant moment for the kingdom as it brought together national leadership, global delegates, and major developers under a unified theme dedicated to The Future of Urban Living. The ceremony began with…
Image credit: Cityscape Global/Website Cityscape Global 2025 continued its high-profile run in Riyadh this week, drawing international real estate leaders to explore the theme, The Future of Urban Living. Sponsored by the Ministry of Municipalities and Housing in partnership with REGA, Vision 2030, and the Housing Program, and organized by Tahaluf, the event has solidified its status as a premier platform for global real estate investment, innovation, and planning discussions. Foundation partners for the event include NHC, Diriyah Company, ROSHN Group, New Murabba, Qiddiya City, and Rua AlHaram AlMakki Co., reflecting the kingdom’s commitment to fostering collaboration between public and…
Airbus won a provisional order for 150 A321neo jets from flydubai on Tuesday worth $24bn, ousting Boeing as exclusive supplier to the fast-growing budget carrier and bouncing back from a muted start to the Dubai Airshow. The deal on the second day of the show came after Reuters reported on Sunday that Europe’s Airbus was set to win a three-digit order from the government-owned Dubai carrier. “It’s an exciting step for expanding and diversifying our fleet,” flydubai chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum told a news conference. The deal is worth $24bn and includes an option for another 100 aircraft, he said in a post on X, adding it will allow the carrier “to meet the increasing demand…
Image credit: Getty Images Cloudflare has fully restored its services after an outage on Tuesday at the web-infrastructure company prevented thousands from accessing major internet platforms, including X and ChatGPT. The company said the outage that began around 6.30am ET was caused by an automatically generated configuration file, designed to manage potential security threats. The file grew too large and crashed the software system handling traffic for several Cloudflare services, the company, whose network handles around a fifth of web traffic, said. Read more-From Dubai to Riyadh: Could AI be your next workplace colleague? The company said it has started…
Jenny Button first thought of Emm during the COVID lockdown. She was using an Oura ring and the Whoop monitoring band and getting insights about her body, but there wasn’t a device that could provide data about one of the most important aspects — reproductive and menstrual health. “It seemed crazy to me, because these are things that every woman wants to be able to track and better understand,” she told TechCrunch. She thought to herself: Why not make a wearable device that can tell someone more about their reproductive health? She penned a letter to one of the engineers at Dyson, made a connection, and started testing the idea. “Five years later,…
Gulf Air signed an agreement on Tuesday with Boeing to buy at least 12 Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes, the carrier said. The definitive purchase agreement to buy between 12 and 15 Dreamliner planes, signed at the Dubai Airshow, finalises an announcement in July that the carrier would buy 12 aircraft with an option for six more, Gulf Air said. A White House official said at the time that the Gulf Air deal was valued at about $7bn, part of a broader pledge by Bahrain to invest $17bn in the USl “The additional 787s will enable Gulf Air to enhance its premium long-haul offering and strengthen its position in an increasingly competitive regional market,” Gulf Air said in its statement. Source link
In a sea of AI travel-planning apps, a new startup called Boop aims to redefine the space with a new approach: turning social recommendations into bookable itineraries. Instead of getting a random AI-generated travel plan, the app offers users access to itineraries from real people who went on real trips. When someone takes a trip, Boop uses AI to quickly turn their trip into an itinerary that others can copy and personalize, mainly by looking at location data and metadata from photos they share with the app. The idea is to build a network of shared itineraries that people can monetize, giving travel creators another way to…
Views on sponsored videos on YouTube have risen 28% year-on-year, and the number of sponsored videos has grown by 54% year-on-year in the first half of 2025, according to a report from Tubefilter. What’s more, ad spend through creator channels has been steadily rising and is even set to outperform traditional media in some cases. Buoyed by these signals, Agentio, a startup that connects brands with YouTube creators for sponsored videos, has raised its third funding round of $40 million in as many years. The Series B round is led by consumer-focused VC Forerunner with participation from existing investors Benchmark,…
TechCrunch’s editor-in-chief, Connie Loizos, sits down with Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots at Alphabet’s X, to explore what it takes to build a factory for truly game-changing innovation. Astro reveals the three components that define a true moonshot — a huge problem, a science fiction-sounding solution, and a glimmer of breakthrough technology — and why X deliberately kills 98% of its ideas early. Teller also explains why X keeps teams incredibly small, how it decides between spinning companies out independently versus keeping them as Alphabet “other bets” like Waymo and Wing, and his take on AI hype — including we…
As Nicholas Rudder built his last startup, an educational marketplace called ScholarSite, he kept running into the same problem: tax. “Marketplaces are liable for tax on their entire GMV (gross merchandise value) not just their take rate, so every new country meant a maze of registrations, filings, deadlines, and risk,” Rudder told TechCrunch. “It became a constant distraction. Instead of building the business, I was spending time deciphering international compliance rules I never wanted to become an expert in.” As he and co-founder Adrian Sarstedt were looking to shut down ScholarSite (later calling it Sphere), they decided to keep the name but turn the product into something new. …