LMD launches Christian A. Rockefeller Business Tower, bringing ‘hotelification’ to Sheikh Zayed Road
Christian A. Rockefeller Business Tower is the name behind LMD’s newest Dubai project, a Grade-A development that will become the city’s tallest commercial tower once it opens. The building rises 400 metres across 87 storeys on Sheikh Zayed Road. LMD, a global developer with projects across Europe, Egypt and the UAE, is building it in […]
How Abu Dhabi’s TAMM became the best government initiative EMEA for 2026
Consider it done. That is what TAMM means in Arabic, and in October 2026, a panel of global judges agreed. TAMM has been named the best government initiative in EMEA at the Gartner Eye on Innovation Awards 2026, placing Abu Dhabi’s public services platform ahead of every other government entry across Europe, the Middle East […]
SuperReturn Middle East 2026
Dubai | October 2026 -17 October – At a time when the international economic landscape is undergoing profound structural transformation, SuperReturn Middle East 2026 represents an important platform for examining the changing dynamics of global capital allocation, institutional investment, financial resilience and the expanding strategic influence of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) economies. ICN.live was invited […]
Young Arab Leaders Hosts Leadership Dialogues Series to Empower the Region’s Next Generation of Leaders
The format was a conversation, not a lecture. Ataya, who built one of the region’s best-known e-commerce brands, pushed Sheikha on what actually holds up when markets move and plans break. That matters to this audience. Many of them run companies, lead teams, or are about to. They want the parts that transfer, not the […]
Why Mubadala backed the new One&Only Private Residences in Abu Dhabi
The new One&Only Private Residences will bring an ultra-luxury residential offering to Al Maryah Island, and the project pulls together three names that each carry weight in the UAE market. Mubadala Investment Company, the Abu Dhabi sovereign investor, is the master developer and steward of the island. TARAF, the real estate arm of Yas Holding, […]
Why Most Business Opportunities Aren’t Opportunities at All
Every aspiring entrepreneur is searching for the next breakthrough market opportunity. Yet remarkably few look in the right places. In modern commerce, identifying a viable opportunity requires a 360-degree macro view of the market landscape. Without this structural perspective, most “ideas” are merely illusions. Launching a startup without a deep understanding of current market realities […]
Why Lucid EV Q3 deliveries slipped while nine-month sales edged higher
Lucid EV Q3 deliveries landed at 3,806 vehicles, a 6.7% drop from the same quarter last year, as the Saudi-backed carmaker pulled back production to match softer demand. The figures came out Monday. They show a company making fewer cars on purpose, not by accident. A build that shrank on purpose Lucid produced 2,954 vehicles […]
Etisalat returns to its founding name, closing four years as the e& identity
A name can carry a country’s memory, and Etisalat returns to its founding name to reclaim its own. The UAE’s oldest telecoms company has retired the e& corporate identity and gone back to the brand it carried on its first day. In a disclosure to the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, the operator confirmed it will […]
The UNDER500 Story: How Mahmoud Bartawi Scaled Across Six Markets to a Successful Exit
Mahmoud Bartawi built the healthy-food brand UNDER500 from a side hustle into a business operating in six countries, then sold it. What followed was not relief but an identity crisis, and eventually a podcast of his own. In this episode of ICN.talks Business, he sits down with host Dani Topala for a long and unusually […]
Why the Dubai CommerCity Phase Two expansion matters to e-commerce firms
The Dubai CommerCity Phase Two expansion puts Dh1.8 billion behind a simple bet that online trade in the region keeps climbing. Picture a building adding floors because every existing floor is already full. Occupancy at the free zone near Dubai International Airport sits close to 96 per cent across office, logistics and retail space. When […]
UAE’s Entrepreneurial Valley: The Rise of a Startup Nation to Scale-Up Economy
The global geography of entrepreneurship is changing. For decades, the startup economy was associated predominantly with a handful of innovation centers—Silicon Valley, London, New York, Singapore and, increasingly, several Asian technology clusters. Today, the United Arab Emirates is constructing a different model: an entrepreneurial economy in which government policy, private capital, sovereign investment, regulation, infrastructure […]
What the Pakistan tax on overseas content creators means for UAE earners
The Pakistan tax on overseas content creators begins with one fixed number: 195 rupees for every 1,000 views on a YouTube video. That figure, worth about $0.70, decides how much a creator is presumed to earn from Pakistani viewers, whether or not the money reaches their account. Behind it sits a formal notification. The Federal […]
