Saudi Telecom Co (STC), the biggest telecommunications company in the Middle East, will invest 1.5 billion riyals ($400 million) "to build the largest cloud-enabled data center in the region as the oil rich-kingdom seeks to become a center for digitalization," Bloomberg reports, citing a spokesman f
Rents for premium office spaces in Riyadh rose over the last year, evidence that Saudi Arabia's push to get international companies to make their regional headquarters in the Kingdom is starting to show results.
A team of French and Saudi archaeologists has begun work on excavating near Al-Ula in Saudi Arabia in hopes of discovering the remnants of the ancient and long-forgotten kingdoms of Dadan and Lihyan, according to a Reuters report.
Saudi Arabia’s stock exchange will likely end the year with more than 30 new listings as the Kingdom's IPO bonanza in 2021 continues, according to comments from the Kingdom's head of its Capital Markets Authority Mohammed El-Kuwaiz.
Saudi Arabia is set to undertake a top-to-bottom overhaul of the Kingdom's education system to better prepare citizens to find jobs and tackle intolerance, according to an announcement on the Vision 2030 website and other reports.
Since the start of the global pandemic last year, Saudi Arabia's authorities and leadership have implemented progressive policies to help the Kingdom mitigate the spread of the Coronavirus within its borders.
With both oil and non-oil economic activity in Saudi Arabia growing as the Kingdom's economy bounces back from the pandemic, Riyadh-based Jadwa Investment said in a research note that it will upgrade Saudi Arabia's 2021 forecasted GDP.
