A signing event in Riyadh recently commemorated the collaboration between Cengage and Tatweer Company for Educational Services (T4edu). Read More »

Commercial Bank Q.S.C., Qatar’s first private bank, has become the country's first bank to utilize biometric authentication offered by NCR. NCR has also signed an agreement with the bank to provide innovative software and technology over the next few years. The new technology allows Commercial Bank to add another level of authentication to ATM usage beyond standard PIN verification. Read More »

A long-standing, successful joint venture business is expanding its product line, location of product availability and contractual agreement. Read More »

Customers using Qatar National Bank's Al Sudd branch are being offered a new Interactive Teller service that allows customers to make 95 percent of traditional transactions at an ATM with the help of a remotely located teller. Read More »

Macy's Inc will open a Bloomingdale's store at the 360 Mall in Al Zahra in 2017, the company announced last week. Read More »

Nakilat, the shipping arm of Qatar’s national liquefied natural gas (LNG) sector, has recently given its IT systems a major overhaul that consolidates the company’s networks into an efficient SAP cloud system. Nakilat worked with Japanese IT giant Fujitsu to integrate the German-designed SAP HANA cloud system to provide one cloud network capable of scaling with Nakilat’s needs. Read More »

Phase One of Saudi Arabia's Riyadh Metro project is one step closer to becoming a reality with the selection of Dayton Superior to provide the necessary steel-forming systems. The systems will come from Dayton's Symons line. Read More »

The international law firm Squire Patton Boggs has appointed Charbel M. Maakaron as the managing partner of the firm's office in Doha, Qatar; Maakaron succeeds Susan B. Bastress, who served as managing partner in Doha since she established the office there in 2003 -- she has decided to leave Doha so that she can return to her real estate practice in the firm's Washington, D.C., office. Read More »

Restaurant industry leader DineEquity, a franchisor of Applebee's and IHOP restaurants, said last week that the company plans to focus on creative positioning, new ads, remodeling projects for restaurants, menu innovations and efforts to improve service. Read More »

Majid Al Futtaim, the top shopping mall, leisure, and retail pioneer in North Africa and the Middle East region, recently announced that it will further expand the Abercrombie & Fitch Co. line by opening a new store in Kuwait. Read More »