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18-Sep-19 Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Communications & IT and HR Development Fund will nationalise 14,000 jobs in the ICT sector, to help address youth unemployment. The program targets technical support, data analysis, project managers and call center functions. [image: REUTERS/Fahad Shadeed]
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01-Nov-18 The next 20 years of Internet development will centre on '2B', or services to businesses, shifting from a focus on consumers in the past two decades, according to Tencent Holdings executives at the company’s partners’ day in Nanjing, China. [image: Reuters]
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08-Oct-18 Healthcare is highly vulnerable to cyberattacks in Asia, with 27 percent of organizations reporting a cyberattack in the past year, which is more than financial institutions (20 percent). Despite this, the industry still underestimates the likelihood of a cyberattack. [images: Guang Niu / Getty Images]
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17-Aug-18 A major hi-tech business park in Chengdu, China, jointly developed by Singapore, is set to welcome its first batch of SMEs by early 2019. 34 ICT and life science companies have acquired for regional headquarters and R&D facilities. [image: Sino-Singapore (Chengdu) Innovation Park Development Company]
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06-Aug-18 Google is in talks with Tencent, Inspur Group and other Chinese companies to offer cloud services in the world’s second-largest economy. Discussions began in early 2018 and Google narrowed partnership candidates to three firms in late March. [image: Qilai Shen / Bloomberg]
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