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The UAE’s television industry has undergone an important shift in the way it conducts business, not to mention a sea change for the regional advertising market, following years growing viewership. “Electronic audience measurement is the default system in more than 60 countries around the world,” Christopher O’Hearn, general manager of the...

As a business centre for the region, the UAE continues to be highly relevant and attractive for investors for a number of reasons, including infrastructure, logistics and access to skilled labour. According to the PwC and World Bank “Paying Taxes 2016” study, the UAE is ranked joint first in the world in terms of the ease of paying taxes. In a...

Over the past decade and a half Dubai has become one of the Middle East’s leading telecoms markets. The emirate has two highly competitive mobile network operators (MNOs), advanced ICT infrastructure, high smartphone penetration rates and strong support from the government, which has put ICT at the centre of many of its development plans.

With a long-standing status as one of Dubai’s key economic contributors, activity in the industrial sector has been a major contributor to non-oil GDP for the emirate. Even as Dubai’s government has invested heavily in areas such as ICT in recent years, industrial activity has remained a central component of the emirate’s long-term economic...

In July 2014 the UAE’s leaders announced the launch of a full-fledged space exploration programme. The establishment of the UAE Space Agency (UAESA) followed more than a decade of development activities in aerospace engineering and satellite communications, and is at the centre of a long-term plan to build Emirati capabilities “in the fields...