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Image: Supplied Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) made a strong return to GITEX GLOBAL this year, underscoring its commitment to Abu Dhabi’s digital transformation goals. The exchange unveiled three major AI-driven solutions designed to simplify investor interactions, streamline internal operations, and enhance accessibility through the TAMM platform. In this conversation, Marios Kampouridis, chief technology and digital officer (CTDO), discusses how ADX is positioning itself as a digital-first exchange, balancing innovation with regulatory rigour, and embracing AI’s transformative potential. ADX was at GITEX after many years. What was the key focus of your presence, and how does it align with Abu…
Image: Supplied Why even the best-intentioned inclusion strategies fail, and how leaders in the Middle East can turn awareness into lasting cultural impact Inclusion has evolved from a nice-to-have aspiration into a strategic imperative, and yet many organisations struggle to translate intention into impact. What makes some inclusion efforts stall or even flop? In my work with different teams in the Middle East, I’ve seen pervasive derailers undermining progress that often occur below the radar of leadership. Below are five of the most common points of pitfalls, along with how leaders in the region must address them to ensure inclusion…
Storied investors Accel and Prosus have launched a new investment partnership to back Indian startups from day zero, targeting founders building large-scale solutions with the potential to serve the masses in the South Asian nation. Announced on Monday, the collaboration marks the first time Prosus is investing at the formation stage. Both firms will co-invest from a startup’s earliest days, with a focus on companies addressing systemic challenges across sectors such as automation, energy transition, internet services, and manufacturing. India, the world’s most populous country with over 1.4 billion people, is seeing rapid growth in its digital economy. The country…
The countdown is almost over — tomorrow’s the day! In less than 24 hours, TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes over Moscone West. From October 27–29, 10,000 founders, investors, and innovators will flood San Francisco for three days of building, connecting, and deal-making. We’re just days away from live demos of never-before-seen tech and high-stakes pitches as startups compete for the $100,000 prize. The stages are being set. Booths are lighting up. Founders are fine-tuning their pitches. Investors are clearing calendars. When the excitement kicks off, the nonstop conversations, demos, and deals will begin. These are your final hours to save up…
The countdown is almost over — tomorrow’s the day! In less than 24 hours, TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes over Moscone West. From October 27–29, 10,000 founders, investors, and innovators will flood San Francisco for three days of building, connecting, and deal-making. We’re just days away from live demos of never-before-seen tech and high-stakes pitches as startups compete for the $100,000 prize. The stages are being set. Booths are lighting up. Founders are fine-tuning their pitches. Investors are clearing calendars. When the excitement kicks off, the nonstop conversations, demos, and deals will begin. These are your final hours to save up…
Image: Supplied Across the GCC, leadership has emerged as the most valuable determinant of performance — more than capital, regulation, or technology. In a region investing heavily in transformation under national visions such as UAE Vision 2031 and Saudi Vision 2030, the ability to attract, align, and sustain top talent through purposeful leadership is becoming a defining competitive advantage. Explain purposeful leadership affects employee retention. Retention is not a perk problem — it’s a purpose problem. Across sovereign enterprises and high-growth family firms, people stay where they feel part of something bigger than a paycheck. Purpose gives work meaning, and…
Five million users. Eight-figure annual recurring revenue. Twenty thousand new users joining daily. These are some solid numbers for a startup called Turbo AI launched in early 2024 by Rudy Arora and Sarthak Dhawan, two 20-year-old college dropouts. Most of this growth has come in the past six months, the founders tell TechCrunch, during which their AI-powered note-taking and study tool grew from one million to five million users, while remaining profitable. They say the idea for Turbo stemmed from a classroom problem many college students face, which is trying to take notes while paying attention to a lecture at…
Every few weekends, 21-year-old student Lavanya Jain opens the BlaBlaCar app to find a lift from Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi to his home in Kandhla, a small town in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state. The 120-kilometer journey costs him about ₹500, the equivalent of about $6. That’s a fraction of the ₹1,500–₹2,000, or $17–$23, he would pay for a private cab. “If you’re looking for a fast, efficient, affordable, and comfortable way to travel — and you like to chat — you should basically check out BlaBlaCar,” Jain told TechCrunch, adding that he has used the app…
The tech layoff wave is still kicking in 2025. Last year saw more than 150,000 job cuts across 549 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. So far this year, more than 22,000 workers have been the victim of reductions across the tech industry, with a staggering 16,084 cuts taking place in February alone. We’re tracking layoffs in the tech industry in 2025 so you can see the trajectory of the cutbacks and understand the impact on innovation across all types of companies. As businesses continue to embrace AI and automation, this tracker serves as a reminder of the human…
The browser wars are heating up again, this time with AI in the driver’s seat. OpenAI just launched Atlas, a ChatGPT-powered browser that lets users surf the web using natural language and even includes an “agent mode” that can complete tasks autonomously. It’s one of the biggest browser launches in recent memory, but it’s debuting with an unsolved security flaw that could expose passwords, emails, and sensitive data. Watch as Max Zeff, Anthony Ha and Sean O’Kane break down Atlas’s debut, the broader wave of alternative browsers, the AWS crash that broke much of the internet, and more of the…