Featured Egypt, Amazon discuss expansion plans, digital investment Yomna Yasser Jul 29, 2026 0 Egypt's Investment Minister Mohamed Farid and Amazon Egypt discussed the company's expansion plans on Tuesday, as…
Featured Small Shifts, Big Impact: How Everyday Innovation is Empowering Egypt’s Businesses Amwal Al Ghad EN Nov 30, 2025 0 Amazon Egypt has been quietly transforming Egypt’s e-commerce landscape since its launch in 2021.
Stocks Asian stocks surge on Monday Aya Anwar Oct 27, 2025 0 Asian stocks surged on Monday as easing trade tensions between China and the United States lifted investor…
Featured Egypt’s Food Holding Company partners with Amazon Egypt to expand e-commerce reach Yomna Yasser Apr 29, 2025 0 Egypt’s Food Industries Holding Company, under the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade, has launched its product…
Featured Amazon, Google back pledge to triple nuclear energy by 2050 Aya El Sayed Mar 12, 2025 0 Amazon, Google, and other major companies signed a pledge on Wednesday to support the goal of tripling the world’s…
Featured US online sales surge on Black Friday Aya Anwar Dec 1, 2024 0 US Black Friday retail spending showed mixed results, with brick-and-mortar stores seeing only a 0.7 per cent…
Tech/AI Amazon leads companies in $180m deal to conserve rainforest Nada Ali Sep 24, 2024 0 Amazon and other companies are buying carbon offset credits to support the conservation of the Amazon rainforest in…
Industry & Trade Amazon targets $5b in exports from India in ’24 Nada Ali Sep 5, 2024 0 Amazon Inc. plans to export approximately $5 billion worth of small-ticket items from India this year.
Stocks Asian markets rally on tech surge Nada Ali Aug 1, 2024 0 Asian stocks surged on Thursday, mirroring a powerful rebound in global technology shares led by Meta and Nvidia.
forex news Yen surges amid escalating Middle East tensions Nada Ali Jul 29, 2024 0 The Japanese yen surged on Monday, reversing earlier losses, as geopolitical tensions in the Middle East prompted…
Stocks Asian shares up on hopes for Fed rate cut Nada Ali Jul 29, 2024 0 Asian stocks kicked off the week on a positive note, buoyed by expectations of potential interest rate cuts from…
Tech news Amazon invests $230m in AI start-ups Nada Ali Jun 13, 2024 0 Amazon is upping its ante in the artificial intelligence (AI) race, announcing a $230 million investment in the…
Featured Amazon to invest €1.2b in France Aya El Sayed May 13, 2024 0 Amazon announced on Monday an investment exceeding €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) in its French operations, promising…
Featured Choose France Summit to draw €15b in foreign investment Aya El Sayed May 13, 2024 0 The annual ‘Choose France’ summit, aimed at attracting foreign investment, is set to bring in 15 billion euros…
Africa News Amazon taps South African e-commerce market Nada Ali May 7, 2024 0 E-commerce giant Amazon officially launched its online marketplace in South Africa on Tuesday, setting its sights…
Featured Italy hits Amazon with a €10m fine over anti-competitive practices Aya El Sayed Apr 24, 2024 0 Italy's antitrust authority has imposed a fine of 10 million euros ($10.70 million) on two Amazon subsidiaries over…
Stocks Asian stocks surge on tech rally Nada Ali Apr 24, 2024 0 Asian stocks surged on Wednesday, led by a rally in technology shares, as investors shifted their focus to upcoming…
News Asian stocks climb, eyes turn to Fed data Nada Ali Apr 23, 2024 0 Asian stocks continued their upward trajectory on Tuesday, gaining 0.8 per cent, fueled by gains on Wall Street and…
Op/Ed Acts of goodness: Transforming companies, people, communities Omar Elsahy Apr 8, 2024 0 A company’s culture is a driving catalyst for its employees, retains high performing team members, delights…
Money S. Arabia aims to attract $100b FDI by 2030 as investors still cautious Nada Ali Apr 4, 2024 0 Saudi Arabia aims to increase foreign direct investment (FDI) to $100 billion annually by 2030, as foreign…
Featured Bezos’ Amazon stock sale closed at $8.5bln Aya Anwar Feb 21, 2024 0 Jeff Bezos completed the plan to sell up to 50 million shares in just nine trading days by offloading 14 million…
Featured Euro stocks, U.S. futures drop amid caution Aya El Sayed Feb 20, 2024 0 European stocks and U.S. equity futures drop as global markets remain cautious despite China’s measures to support…
Featured Jeff Bezos sells 12 million Amazon shares Aya Anwar Feb 11, 2024 0 Jeff Bezos disclosed to federal regulators that he had sold almost 12 million shares of Amazon stock, which was…
Money Spain freezes tech giants’ fines Aya El Sayed Feb 8, 2024 0 Spain’s high court suspended the €194 million ($209 million) fines that the local antitrust watchdog, CNMC, levied…
Featured French watchdog fines Amazon €32 mln over employee surveillance system Sama Mousa Jan 23, 2024 0 French data protection Watchdog fined Amazon.com Inc. €32 million ($34.9 million) over their employee surveillance…
Featured Brazil cuts Amazon deforestation by half in 2023 Aya El Sayed Jan 8, 2024 0 Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon decreased by half last year, according to figures released on Friday by the…
News Workers at Amazon Spain plan 3-day strike over wages Sama Mousa Dec 18, 2023 0 Workers at Amazon (AMZN.O) in northern Spain are planning a three-day strike over their wages, Reuters reported on…
Tech/AI Egypt’s IT sector sees influx of global tech firms, garners global recognition Amwal Al Ghad English Dec 5, 2023 0 November has witnessed an abundance of exciting developments in Egypt’s IT and tech startups ecosystems, as the…
Stocks Wall Street ends mixed in shortened Black Friday trading Aya Anwar Nov 26, 2023 0 U.S. stocks closed with a little change in holiday-shortened trading on Friday, with low volume and conviction.
News Amazon to invest up to $4bn in AI start-up Anthropic Nada Ali Sep 25, 2023 0 E-commerce giant Amazon announced on Monday that it will invest up to $4 billion in artificial intelligence (AI)…
Tech news Spain’s CNMC fines Amazon, Apple with $218 mln Yassmine Elbehnaihy Jul 19, 2023 0 The Spanish National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) has fined Amazon and Apple with a total of $218…
Industry & Trade Amazon introduces first Rivian EV in Germany Yassmine Elbehnaihy Jul 5, 2023 0 Amazon is rolling out its first European vans from electric vehicle (EV) maker, Rivian, in Germany during the…
Tech news Twitter refuses to pay Google Cloud services bills Nada Ali Jun 11, 2023 0 Twitter has refused to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract comes up for renewal this month, which could…
Tech news Facebook fined $1.3 billion, given 5 months to stop EU-US data flows Sama Mousa May 22, 2023 0 Meta was fined a record $1.3 billion by its lead privacy regulator in the European Union for its handling of user…
Tech news Meta to face record EU fine for Facebook data transfer to US Sama Mousa May 18, 2023 0 Meta Platforms Inc. is about to face a record European Union privacy fine due to data transfer to the US, two…
News Deforestation in Brazil’s rainforest falls by 68% Norhan Adel May 15, 2023 0 Brazilian preliminary government data showed on Friday reveled a deforestation of Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell…
International News Amazon to cut 9K more jobs in second round of layoffs Nada Ali Mar 21, 2023 0 U.S. online retail company Amazon, plans to lay off about 9,000 in the next few weeks, mostly in AWS, PXT,…
Tech/AI On IWD, Nadine Abou El-Gheit shares Amazon’s women empowerment policies Amwal Al Ghad English Mar 8, 2023 0 Nadine Abou El-Gheit has been with Amazon as a MENA community engagement manager since June 2020.
Tech news Nokia reveals new logo, marking a shift in strategy Yassmine Elbehnaihy Feb 27, 2023 0 Telecom equipment maker Nokia has announced on Sunday the changing of its iconic logo for the first time in 60…
Tech news YouTube CEO steps down after 9 years Norhan Adel Feb 21, 2023 0 YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has decided to step down from the role after nine years, adding that Neal Mohan,…