Africa offers promise and peril to telcos
By Leila Abboud and Kate Holton / Reuters BARCELONA: Poor infrastructure, fragmented markets…
Qtel to go for growth in Middle East and Asia
By Leila Abboud and Kate Holton / Reuters BARCELONA: Qatar Telecom is…
Yield edges down at Egypt T-bill auction
By Reuters CAIRO: The average yield on 182-day and 364-day Egyptian treasury…
Egypt mobile phone subscriptions up 18 pct in 2011
By Mohamed Samir / Reuters CAIRO: The number of mobile phone subscriptions in…
EMPH acquires ACET Processing
CAIRO: Emerging Markets Payments Holdings (EMPH), a leading third-party payments processor…
Economic gloom begins to lift in Egypt
By Tom Pfeiffer / Reuters CAIRO: When Egypt's stock market index climbed this…
Google: Technology is making science fiction real
By Alan Clendenning / AP BARCELONA: Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt predicted…
HSBC scaling down private bank in MidEast: sources
By Dinesh Nair / Reuters DUBAI: HSBC, Europe's biggest lender, is significantly scaling…
Gold firms with euro, stocks ahead of ECB financing
By Jan Harvey / Reuters LONDON: Gold prices rose towards $1,780 an ounce…
Fall in oil, ECB cash hopes support euro, European shares
By Richard Hubbard / Reuters LONDON: A fall in oil prices and the…