MENA
Acquisitions
Exporting Innovation: Dubai-Based Startup Wrappup Gets Acquired By California-Based Voicera
As a mobile app that made use of AI to auto-summarize meetings, Wrappup fits it neatly with Voicera's own offering, which leverages a combination of voice recognition, natural language processing, and machine learning to provide attendees of a meeting with a full recording and transcription, as well as high accuracy meeting highlights.
Relocation
Relocating Your Business? Here's How To Ensure You Succeed In Global Mobility
2018 will see 92% of businesses operating global mobility programs either maintain or increase the scale of their projects. Many smaller businesses are now taking their first steps towards global mobility, too.
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