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Shopping & Promotions

BurJuman Mall announces multi-year transformation progress, launches new brand campaign ‘right in the heart’

Dubai, UAE – 19 November 2025: BurJuman Mall, a Dubai original since 1991, has unveiled its new consumer-facing brand campaign, ‘Right in the Heart’, following a comprehensive, multi-year transformation programme that has redefined the mall’s experience, design, and positioning. The redevelopment, initiated in 2023, was guided by extensive consumer research and insights into changing retail and lifestyle behaviours, ensuring BurJuman remains a relevant, super-regional destination positioned at the intersection of lifestyle, leisure, and retail excellence.

Backed by an investment, the phased transition has refreshed over 75,000 sqm of retail and public space, delivering significant improvements in comfort, connectivity, and brand variety. The framework was built around four pillars – product, retail mix, digital enhancement, and positioning, with each element designed to translate strategic intent into measurable enhancement.

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Technologies

UAE’s New AI Centre of Excellence Unites Academia and Industry to Shape the Future of Sovereign AI

Dubai, United Arab Emirates – November 2025: A new chapter in the UAE’s technological future begins today with the official opening of the AI Centre of Excellence, a first-of-its-kind national initiative founded by Lakeba Group, DoxAI, AqlanX, and the University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD).

Located at UOWD’s campus in Dubai Knowledge Park – the region’s leading hub for lifelong learning and part of TECOM Group PJSC, the Centre is designed to become the engine room of the UAE’s sovereign AI strategy, combining advanced research, innovation, and commercialization under one roof. Its mission: to build, deploy, and export sovereign AI technologies created in the Emirates — for the Emirates — and for the world.

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Featured

BRIDGE Summit 2025 Creator Economy Track to discuss who really gets paid when the world goes viral

With 80+ global speakers and 50+ sessions in Abu Dhabi from December 8–10, the Creator Economy Track will explore how influence, ownership and innovation are redrawing the world’s creative and economic map

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  • 50+ sessions under the Creator Economy Track will decode the evolving dynamics of digital influence, audience ownership, and creator-led IP models
  • Discussions will examine creator monetization, platform power, attention economics, algorithmic gatekeeping, and the rise of cultural capital as currency
  • 80+ global speakers will unite top creators, founder-entrepreneurs, investor-operators, and platform innovators shaping the next era of creative enterprise
  • Held in Abu Dhabi from December 8–10, 2025, BRIDGE Summit 2025 will reinforce the UAE’s position as a global launchpad for the creator economy and digital innovation
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Business & Investments

Commercial Bank of Dubai opens Customer Contact Centre in Ras Al Khaimah, advancing Emiratisation priorities and elevating customer experience

  • Contact Centre will enhance CBD’s capacity to deliver seamless, omni-channel customer experiences across the UAE
  • Landmark initiative supports the UAE’s financial-sector Emiratisation objectives and aligns with RAK Vision 2030

Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, 18 November 2025: Commercial Bank of Dubai (CBD), one of the UAE’s leading financial institutions, has officially inaugurated its new Customer Contact Centre in Ras Al Khaimah.

The inauguration was attended by H.E. Ahmad Abdulkarim Julfar, Chairman of CBD, Dr. Bernd van Linder, CEO of CBD, members of the Board along with other esteemed guests.

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Business & Investments, Travel & Tourism

International investment momentum for Al Maktoum International

International investment momentum for Al Maktoum International – Dubai World Central expansion builds as UK Export Finance issues US$3.5 billion Expression of Interest letter

UK Minister for Trade hands over the document to senior leaders of Dubai’s aviation sector at a ceremony held at Dubai Airshow

Sir Chris Bryant: This expression of interest marks another significant milestone and reinforces the UK’s long-standing partnership with Dubai

Al Maktoum International Airport to serve 150 million passengers annually by the early 2030s, rising to 260 million over the longer term

Dubai, United Arab Emirates – 18 November 2025: A major international boost to Dubai’s aviation future was announced today at Dubai Airshow 2025 as the UK Export Finance (UKEF) issued a US$3.5 billion Expression of Interest letter to support participation of UK’s businesses in the US$35 billion expansion of Al Maktoum International – Dubai World Central (DWC).

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