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Meta signs agreement with AWS to power agentic AI on AWS Graviton chips 

News Desk 27/04/2026

Meta has signed an agreement to deploy AWS Graviton processors at scale. The deal marks a significant expansion of a long-standing partnership between the two companies as Meta builds its next generation of AI.   The deployment starts with tens of millions of Graviton cores, with the

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Meta, Microsoft and Tesla earnings highlight diverging AI investment paths across Big Tech

News Desk 29/01/2026

Recent earnings from Meta, Microsoft and Tesla underscore how the world’s largest technology companies are leaning into artificial intelligence, while facing varying degrees of pressure on fundamentals, margins and investor expectations, according to eToro. Meta delivered a strong earnings beat, with Q4 revenue rising 24% year on year and first-quarter guidance comfortably

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Machines Can Think 2026 agenda features speakers from Meta, Snap Inc., MBZUAI, Mubadala, G42, and more

News Desk 20/01/2026

Abu Dhabi’s flagship AI Adopters event, Machines Can Think 2026, is being held under the patronage and in the presence of H.E. Sheikh Nahyan bin Mabarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence. Taking place on 26–27 January 2026 at Park Hyatt Saadiyat, the summit is co-organized and co-hosted by Polynome and the Mohamed bin […]

Business Tech

WhatsApp launches paid subscriptions and ads in app update

Arnold Pinto 01/07/2025

In phased rollout WhatsApp is introducing paid subscriptions, promoted channels, and advertising within its Updates tab, marking a significant expansion of the platform’s business model while keeping private messaging untouched. The new features will appear only in the Updates tab, which houses both Status posts and Channels. The company stated that the changes are

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Meta and Startupbootcamp to Accelerate Agentic AI Startups in MENA with Llama Design Drive

PR News Desk 30/04/2025

Meta, the global technology leader, has partnered again with Startupbootcamp, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators, to launch a new edition of the Llama Design Drive program. This three-month initiative equips MENA-based startups with tools, mentorship, and offers compute сredits to build agentic AI applications — intelligent assistants and chatbots that

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AppyThings strengthens presence in META, driving digital transformation through secure, API-powered solutions

PR News Desk 09/04/2025

AppyThings, a Google Cloud-specialized IT integration partner and hyperspecialist in API and event-driven architecture, headquartered in the Netherlands, is expanding its footprint across the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) region. With a decade-long track record of success and more than 100 global customer references, the company is scaling up operations to meet

Business Markets

Global VR headset shipments fell in Q3 2024

Arnold Pinto 04/01/2025

AR and AI technologies show promise Global shipments of Virtual Reality (VR) headsets fell by 4% year-on-year (YoY) and 16% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) in the third quarter of 2024, marking the market’s third consecutive quarter of declines. This trend reflects a growing challenge within the VR market, as demand for tethered VR headsets dropped by 50% […]

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Riverbed Event Highlights Growing Adoption of Unified Observability Among META ‘Digital-First’ Enterprises

PR News Desk 04/10/2024

With over three-quarters of organisations in the META region having adopted ‘digital-first’ strategies, establishing proactive and autonomous IT operations has become central to advancing digitalisation and innovation. This was highlighted at an exclusive event hosted by Riverbed recently for C-suite executives from some of its largest enterprise customers in the META

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tpay Unveils a Bold New Brand Identity, Leading the Future of Mobile Payments Across META

PR News Desk 18/09/2024

tpay, the leading payment gateway across the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META), is thrilled to announce a significant rebranding initiative; a change that reflects the incredible growth we’ve experienced since our journey began in 2014. With a decade of experience and a presence in over 30 countries across three continents, tpay is redefining its […]

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Snowflake Teams Up with Meta to Host and Optimize New Flagship Model Family in Snowflake Cortex AI

News Desk 26/07/2024

Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), the AI Data Cloud company, today announced that it will host the Llama 3.1 collection of multilingual open source large language models (LLMs) in Snowflake Cortex AI for enterprises to easily harness and build powerful AI applications at scale. This offering includes Meta’s largest and most powerful open source LLM, Llama 3.1 […]