Business and technology news from Abu Dhabi: its sovereign investors, AI companies, energy groups and the capital's financial centre.
The ADX-listed secure printing and identity group earned AED 91.7 million, though third-quarter margins narrowed as lower-margin education printing work picked up.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
Al Ittihad Drug Store will take the Abu Dhabi biotech's locally made molecular test kits to healthcare providers in the UAE and the wider region.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
Foreign money drove the jump in Abu Dhabi's investment zones, while Dubai recorded about AED625 billion in transactions in ten months and Sharjah grew 5.6%.
By Nakoda News Markets Desk··2 min read
MBZUAI and the University of Chicago are running the five-day course, part of a Gates-backed effort to get AI forecasts to 100 million smallholder farmers by 2030.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
Equipment orders for its Anthropic contracts have pushed up commitments the AI data centre operator says it cannot defer, while nine-month losses widened to almost $1.7 billion.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··3 min read
An Inpex executive said the Hormuz-bypass line would double capacity to about 3.6 million barrels a day around January, and a third line would follow around 2029.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
Operators including Khazna say coordination on power, standards and skills is the main gap as the emirate hosts its first Data Center World Middle East next week.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
Third-quarter net profit jumped 321% to $887 million, but the shipping group's finance chief warned that this year's war-driven earnings cannot be repeated in 2027.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
ADQ holds nearly 99% of the ports group and expects to settle the compulsory purchase of the remaining shares on December 22, after which the stock will be delisted.
By Nakoda News Markets Desk··2 min read
The UAE's largest lender will offer about 1.1 billion new shares at Dh13.52 each, and Mubadala, which owns 37.9%, has committed to take up its full entitlement.
By Nakoda News Markets Desk··2 min read
Jared Kushner called the two days of trilateral talks difficult but positive, though neither side made concessions on a truce covering energy infrastructure and Black Sea shipping.
By Nakoda News Policy Desk··2 min read
The Abu Dhabi plant, a venture with Spain's Tubacex, says it employs 150 people, has 20,000 tonnes of annual capacity and has supplied over 820,000 feet of pipe.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
More export cargoes cleared the Strait of Hormuz in the third quarter, and the company now expects full-year net income of at least $4 billion.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··3 min read
The four-year roadmap puts artificial intelligence at the centre of traffic enforcement, crime prevention and internal operations, and commits the force to answering emergency calls within five minutes.
By Nakoda News Policy Desk··2 min read
The Abu Dhabi health-tech cluster says its companies earned AED506.8 million in revenue and signed 14 strategic partners, including Johnson & Johnson and Mediclinic Middle East.
By Nakoda News Startups Desk··2 min read
The system streams a casualty's vital signs from the point of injury to remote doctors and national command centres, with AI decision support that clinicians must approve.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
The emergency management centre also uses agentic AI to audit hospitals against a new health-sector business continuity standard it built with the Department of Health.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
Executives said the size and scope are undecided but Asian demand is rising. The company's Ruwais LNG plant, due to export from 2028, still needs ships to pass through the strait.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
The ADNOC shipping arm said the attack happened in the UAE's territorial waters in the Arabian Gulf. It did not name the ship, describe the damage or say whether anyone was hurt.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
The G42 and ADNOC venture will test pairing the US firm's ship-mounted SmartMast sensors with its own computer vision to watch platforms, pipelines and subsea infrastructure.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··1 min read
Built on M42's Ossi platform and hosted on Microsoft Azure inside the UAE, the tool summarises patient histories drawn from more than four billion records.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
The energy department's chairman credited mobile batteries and power and water stations that can be moved to where demand spikes, along with AI for running and planning the grid.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··1 min read
A US official says both sides have privately shown some flexibility on swapping territory, while European ministers in Paris warn against a deal struck without them.
By Nakoda News Policy Desk··3 min read
The Abu Dhabi fuel retailer raised its 2026 station-opening target to 80 to 90 sites and expects full-year dividends of more than $700 million.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
The run on a closed stretch of motorway in Al Dhafra made the electric hypercar the first production car to pass 500km/h, beating its own record from Germany.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
The Abu Dhabi gas producer beat its own forecast of $600 million to $800 million and now expects full-year net income of at least $4 billion.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··3 min read
The first Machine-Readable Government pilot checks import applications against rules converted for AI, and building permits, business licences and inspections are next.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
Japan's largest oil and gas producer says its onshore Abu Dhabi output has run normally while offshore work struggled, and it wants more gas deals with ADNOC.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··3 min read
Sales more than doubled in value and foreign investment in the emirate's investment zones rose 131%, according to the Abu Dhabi Real Estate Centre.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
The ADNOC and Presight joint venture hopes to sign US deals in 2027 and also plans to expand in Kazakhstan and Southeast Asia.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read