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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
The war with Azerbaijan in 2020, culminating in defeat and the loss of the ethnically Armenian territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, has psychologically debilitated the world’s oldest Christian state.
Some years ago, Kanye West, touring Armenia with his then wife Kim Kardashian, decided to do a concert by Swan Lake, a shallow pond in the centre of Yerevan. Midway through his impromptu performance, electrified by the energy of the crowd, he dived into the pool. A handful of entrepreneurial Armenians immediately bottled the water, sacralized by contact with Kanye, and put it for sale on the internet. “I called it holy water,” a young computer engineer in Yerevan told me. “Americans paid 200 dollars for it.”
Armenia is awash with nostalgia for the days when their tiny republic, having …
The NASDAQ-listed brokerage is joining a growing list of fintech firms setting up shop here. What could be in store?
A new partnership between the two investment giants; Dubai Investments Park opens for subscription; and fears of war, once again.
The UAE is looking at its first public listing of the year while Egypt just delivered a big one; OpenAI’s bugging accused has ties to Saudi Arabia; and other updates from the week.
