Author: Ammar Akhtar

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‘’Wow, it is beautiful! Well done. Great job. But can you be a little more creative? We will review it again next week’’ And with that, the meeting was over. How would Da Vinci feel if someone had said, ‘’The Mona Lisa is a beautiful piece of work, but can you be a little more creative?’’ Yes. we can all be more creative and yes, there is always room for improvement. If this were not the case, then we would never see Apple bringing in new models of the iPhone every year. The shiny cars that we drove would always…

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Today’s world is truly madly deeply Digital. We have Internet access available on every palm and every palm has a smartphone that is as awesome as a full-fledged computer. Companies are investing lot of money in business process re engineering to use the new digital world around us and be more profitable but how many times do we hear that a non-profit organization is leaving no stone un turned to use latest technology to help the community? Pink Caravan is a Pan UAE breast cancer initiative that falls under Friends of Cancer Patients’ umbrella initiative “Kashf” for early detection of…

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We are possibly living in the most connected era that the world or should I say human race have ever seen. To text each other we have whatsapp and 100s of other messengers. To connect with work related people we have linkedin. To connect with pals and pals of pals we have facebook and to video chat with a friend 1000 miles away we have skype or google hangouts or what not … we have everything. But let me tell you that we are also living in the most disconnected era. Yes we have all the tools but are we…

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You can buy Gucci, Armani, Versace and YSL online and browse through different known brands listed on various online stores. But what about the designer next door who just opened the boutique and is creating awesome products but they are not available online and not listed anywhere? The answer is Caftan. Caftan.ae is a revolutionary mobile app that aims to bridge the gap between the buyer who is happy to buy online and the designer who has a boutique or a brand but is not readily available online. If you are a designer you can signup (pre-register) now to list…

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Car Rental industry in the UAE is growing by leaps and bounds and having lot of branches all over UAE is probably not enough. Internet is the name of the game and having a breathtaking web presence is very important for every business and car rental industry is no different. Thrifty Car Rental is the largest car rental company in the UAE with amazing network of branches across the emirates. You step into any mall and more often than not you will find a Thrifty counter there. Thrifty truly believes in the potential of the internet and the company has…

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Entrepreneurs are prone to face so many challenges and the significant thing about these challenges is that they are stepping-stones to greater heights; they are tests to prove commitment and knowledge and unfathomable will power of the entrepreneur. Lack of technical knowledge This alone is one the biggest challenge that most entrepreneurs face every day. They go about doing things anyhow without proper understanding of how it should be done, when it should be done and for whom it should be done for. But it is not a problem .. more of a learning curve. As an entrepreneur you have…

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We are living in an era where we refer to Internet for opinion and that opinion can be for anything really. From clothes to booking air tickets to food we are reading it all online. Reading the experiences of people and the reviews and how they rate the overall experience and so on. There are websites that actually make this possible. Tripadvisor does that for hotels. Rentalcars does that for car rentals. Yelp does that for lot of things and now Allin101 does that for restaurants. Allin101 offers information about top 101 restaurants in many different categories and the website…

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Ecommerce is in full bloom and everything you can imagine on this planet that can be purchased using money is now available and being sold online. Dubai based photography equipment supplier, Alton LLC is now open for business in the ecommerce world with a very clean and awesome looking online shop. Having their in the heart of Deira at Maktoum street the company offers every from small equipment to high end film making gizmos and all that at very competitive almost close to wholesale prices. Adding more bounties to their collection. They have recently added QuadCopter as well as MagiCam…

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Comparing the latest products of the smartphone giants, iPhone and Samsung is a lot like comparing two heavyweight prize-fighters in their prime. iPhone’s latest flagship is the iPhone 6 and it is not too surprising considering the competition these manufacturers have been at for a time that the latest from Samsung is similarly called Samsung Galaxy S6. Comparing both phones, from their design, storage capacities, processors and general hardware, it is not surprising to note that while they differ in many regards, they remain similar in others. Performance The Samsung Galaxy S6 comes with what can only be described as…

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