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Alkesh Sharma

Alkesh Sharma

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Based out of Toronto, Alkesh Sharma is a Technology Correspondent reporting for The National from North America. With an experience of over 15 years in journalism to his credit, he has worked across Asia and the Middle East and globe trotted to cover important technology events from the East to the West end of the world. He has been covering the Big Tech companies, consumer tech and telecoms for The National since 2018. Prior to joining The National, he has worked with leading media outlets across India and the UAE.

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Saudi fighter Abdullah Al Qahtani, left, and American David Zelner compete during the Professional Fighters League 2023 playoffs featherweight fight in New York. AFP
PIF's SRJ Sports buys into mixed martial arts company PFL

A new regional league, PFL Mena, will be launched in the second quarter of next year

EconomyAugust 30, 2023
The DIFC Gate building. Financial services firm Alantra is the latest to join DIFC's ecosystem. Photo: DIFC
Spain's Alantra expands investment banking business with new DIFC office

The company offers consultancy on mergers and acquisitions, debt advisory, financial restructuring and capital market transactions

EconomyAugust 30, 2023
Mohammed Alqasir, left, and Abdullah Aljadhai, founders of Saudi start-up Rewaa. Photo: Wa'ed Ventures
Aramco’s venture capital arm leads $27m round for tech start-up

Founded in 2018, Rewaa is an inventory management platform for the retail industry

Start-UpsAugust 28, 2023
Riyadh-headquartered AviLease is part of the PIF’s efforts to further boost the kingdom’s aviation sector. EPA
PIF's AviLease to buy Standard Chartered's aviation finance business for $3.6bn

The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year

AviationAugust 28, 2023
Brent Layton (left), senior advisor of Centene Corporation, and Farhan Malik, managing director and group chief executive of Pure Health. Photo: Pure Health
UAE's Pure Health buys UK’s largest private healthcare group for $1.2bn

The move marks the arrival of the Emirates' largest healthcare group into the UK

EconomyAugust 28, 2023
Earlier this week, Meta launched an AI-powered translation engine that can translate languages across text and speech. AFP
Meta releases new AI model to ease coding

Code Llama aims to make workflows faster and more efficient for developers, Meta said

TechnologyAugust 24, 2023
A bank of cryptocurrency miners operates at the Scrubgrass Plant in Kennerdale, Pennsylvania. The mining process results in high energy usage. Reuters
UAE’s Phoenix Group and Green Data City to start $300m crypto farm

The farm is expected to be fully operational by the second quarter of next year

CryptocurrenciesAugust 24, 2023
Nvidia's revenue for the May-July period more than doubled to $13.5 billion. Getty Images
Nvidia shares soar on higher profit and upbeat outlook

The chip designer expects its October quarter sales to jump 170%

TechnologyAugust 23, 2023
A worker pushes trolleys outside a Reliance Market superstore in Ahmedabad, India. Reuters
Qatar’s QIA to invest $1bn in India's Reliance Retail

The Gulf state’s sovereign wealth fund's investment takes Reliance Retail's valuation to $100 billion

EconomyAugust 23, 2023
Dubai’s economy grew an annual 2.8 per cent in the first quarter of the year to $30.3 billion. Reem Mohammed / The National
Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority's first-half revenue jumps 5%

The hub's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation during the six-month period rose 34%

EconomyAugust 23, 2023
In October, Meta released its first speech-to-speech translation system for spoken languages. AFP
Meta releases AI platform that can translate almost 100 languages

SeamlessM4T is the first 'all-in-one' model that can understand and translate both speech and text

TechnologyAugust 22, 2023
Last February, e& rebranded as it sought to transform into a global technology investment conglomerate. Photo: E-Vision
UAE's e& capital leads $5m funding round for Maxbyte to boost its expansion

Maxbyte, which offers Industry 4.0 solutions, has a presence in the automotive, defence, utilities and food and beverage sectors

TechnologyAugust 22, 2023
Zoom's revenue for the May-July period rose 3.6 per cent on an annual basis to nearly $1.14 billion. AP
Zoom's shares rally on higher profit and outlook boost

Company's enterprise customers surged 6.9% on an annual basis to 218,100 in the last quarter

TechnologyAugust 21, 2023
Anghami became the first technology company from the Arab world to list on New York's Nasdaq exchange. Photo: Anghami
Riyadh's SRMG Ventures invests $5m in Anghami to bolster growth

As part of the agreement, SRMG will also have the opportunity to increase its investment in Anghami in the future

TechnologyAugust 21, 2023
WhatsApp has introduced a range of small tweaks recently to make it easier to use. Reuters
WhatsApp to let users share high-definition photos

New feature will become available globally over the next few weeks, says Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg

TechnologyAugust 18, 2023
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