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Mario M. Veljovic. Mario M. Veljovic explains how specialised expertise, recurring services and trusted data can help partners deliver measurable customer outcomes.  A rtificial intelligence is creating new opportunities across the channel, but sustainable growth will depend on more than selling the latest technologies. Partners must strengthen their expertise, develop recurring services and help customers establish the secure infrastructure, trusted data and cyber resilience required for successful AI adoption.  In an interview, Mario M. Veljovic, General Manager at VAD Technologies, discusses how channel partners can remain competitive, improve profitability and evolve into trusted advisors. He also examines the importance of…

Gold price rally continues in Dubai on Friday as the precious metal heads towards Dh550 per gram.According to Dubai Jewellery Group data, 24K gold price jumped Dh3 per gram to Dh547 at the market open on Friday. It has gained Dh6 per gram in the past 24 hours and approximately Dh60 per gram this month so far.Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels.Among the other variants of the precious metal, 22K, 21K and 18K were trading higher at Dh506.5, Dh485.75 and Dh416.25 per gram, respectively.Spot gold was trading above Dh4,500 an ounce, at $4,536…

Carlos Alcaraz will return to competitive tennis at the US Open, ending a more than four-month absence caused by a wrist injury, in a bid to defend his title in New York.The seven-times Grand Slam champion confirmed on Thursday that he will play the Aug. 30-Sept. 13 tournament after withdrawing from the Barcelona Open in April and missing the French Open, Wimbledon and the North American hard-court events in Toronto and Cincinnati.Alcaraz had initially targeted Cincinnati, where he won last year, for his comeback but opted to give his wrist more time to recover. He has gradually increased his workload…

ABU DHABI, 20th August, 2026 (WAM) — The UAE Mixed Martial Arts National Team added another medal as Youth B competition for athletes aged 14–15 concluded on the fourth day of the IMMAF Youth World Championships at Mubadala Arena in Abu Dhabi. More than 1,100 athletes from 55 countries are competing in the championship. Maryam Almutwa claimed bronze in the Youth B Women’s 52kg division, taking the UAE’s overall medal tally to 18, including six gold, five silver and seven bronze. Youth A competition for athletes aged 16–17 gets underway tomorrow, Friday, and will run for three days until the…

Nearly 20,000 units were delivered in the first half of 2026, with another 22,000 expected by year-end as analysts foresee continued demand driven by population and economic growthDubai: Dubai’s residential property market is approaching a major milestone, with the emirate’s housing stock expected to surpass one million units by early 2027 amid strong development activity and sustained demand for homes.According to estimates by property consultancy ValuStrat, Dubai’s residential inventory currently stands at approximately 977,000 units, after nearly 20,000 homes were added during the first half of 2026.The consultancy expects around 22,000 additional units to be delivered during the second half…

Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Ajman will reach 39°C today, while the NCM says temperatures will gradually become more moderate from September. Dubai: Temperatures have dipped into the high-30s today, as the National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) forecasts a chance of rain in certain parts of the UAE. The NCM expects fair to partly cloudy weather today, with convective cloud formation in eastern and southern regions of the country by the afternoon. These clouds are associated with rainfall. You can also expect increased humidity overnight, and during the early morning hours this weekend over some western areas, with a probability…

Dubai has risen to seventh place among the world’s leading financial centres, its highest-ever ranking, as the UAE continues to attract record levels of foreign direct investment (FDI) and expand its financial, technology and artificial intelligence sectors.The emirate climbed four places in the Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI) 39, published in March 2026 by Z/Yen Group in partnership with the China Development Institute. The improvement comes as the UAE attracted AED177.3 billion ($48.3 billion) in FDI inflows during 2025, underlining the country’s growing appeal to international investors.According to the UN Trade and Development World Investment Report 2026, FDI inflows into…

DUBAI, 20th August, 2026 (WAM) — Emirates Petroleum Company P.J.S.C. (Emarat) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Dell Technologies to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced digital technologies. The collaboration supports Emarat’s wider transformation agenda by identifying practical AI use cases, strengthening data-driven decision-making, and building scalable technology capabilities that enhance operational efficiency, resilience and sustainable growth. The MoU was signed by Burhan Al Hashemi, Chief Executive Officer of Emarat, and Walid Yehia, Managing Director, South Gulf, Dell Technologies. Under the agreement, both organisations will jointly identify opportunities to apply AI-enabled technologies across key areas…

The US Open will hand out $108 million in prize money at this year’s final Grand Slam, it said on Thursday, marking the largest purse in tennis history and one that could spare the tournament from protests over player compensation.The men’s and women’s singles champions at the August 23 to September 13 major in New York will earn $5.5 million each, which marks a 10% increase from last year and is the largest Grand Slam payment in history for a main draw singles champion.The compensation package also includes what the US Tennis Association said is a Grand Slam record for…

(L-R) Hritik Jain, CTO and Co-Founder of SimuPhish & Shubh Arya, CEO and Co-Founder of SimuPhish. As organisations across the Middle East face increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, the human element continues to remain one of the most difficult risks to measure and manage. Traditional security awareness programmes and periodic training often struggle to reflect how employees actually behave when confronted with real world cyber threats. Addressing this gap, SimuPhish, a UAE- incubated cybersecurity firm, has developed Human Risk Management + (HRM+), an experiential platform designed to help organisations assess, understand and condition human behaviour against evolving cyber threats. The platform…