Podcasts about souq

Mary Ghobrial helped redefine the Middle East's tech landscape—from bringing the first Arabic tech company to NASDAQ, to guiding Souq's $580 million acquisition by Amazon.In this insightful episode, she reveals how big visions, data-driven strategies, and authentic leadership can break barriers and transform entire industries.Discover her powerful tips on thinking globally, embracing risk, and thriving as a woman leader—don't miss it!

Zum neuen bilateralen Vertragspaket zwischen der Schweiz und der EU gehört auch ein Stromabkommen. Dieses will den Strommarkt weitgehend liberalisieren. Schweizer Energieunternehmen sollen künftig im EU-Strommarkt mitwirken können und umgekehrt. Das dürfte weiter für Diskussionen sorgen. Ausserdem: Die Glacé von Bekdasch ist in ganz Syrien bekannt. Der Glacé-Laden im Souq al-Hamidiiiyeh, der historischen Markt-Passage in der Altstadt, ist oft gut besucht, ganz besonders in diesen Tagen. Weil die jahrzehntelange Diktatur des Assad-Regimes zu Ende ist, sind Syrerinnen und Syrer in Festlaune. Ein Besuch in der Gelateria "Booza Bekdasch" in Damaskus.

Omar Elsahy is General Manager for Amazon in Egypt, overseeing 2,500 employees in the country as well as after-market services across the region. He told me about his early years in the US and Egypt, starting a number of businesses with his brother before pivoting to e-commerce with Souq.com. I enjoyed getting to know Omar through this conversation, and also got some great insights into the way he thinks as a leader, and how Amazon approaches innovation. This episode is brought to you by: EFG Holding, a trailblazing financial institution with a Universal Bank in Egypt and the leading investment bank in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Melissa de Leon Mason had a pretty unique introduction to sewing and quilting. While living in Cairo, Egypt early in her marriage, she stumbled upon the textile Souq - a marketplace full of wonderful fabrics in bright colors and bold patterns. That was all it took for her to dive into learning how to sew. A few years of trying to figure it all out, Melissa is now designing foundation paper piecing patterns, teaching classes and workshops and having her quilts hung in national quilt shows such as QuiltCon and the National Quilt Museum. She is no longer looking for towels or discarded materials to stuff into her quilts to make them fluffy. She is in the big leagues! And like many of us, Melissa has a day job. She recently graduated and is a licensed practicing counselor. This plays a factor in her love of teaching. She loves to work with people and support them in their growth. She shares that teaching is fulfilling because she gets to see people walk away with a new skill that they can use to grow their quilting knowledge library. She also offers equity pricing on her classes and workshops. Melissa also recently launched her FPP Design course! The class is online and on-demand. However, sign ups are limited per enrollment period so Melissa can be present and available for her students. So keep an eye out for the next session to open! If you haven't seen Melissa's work, then pop over to her website or Instagram and check it out while you listen! Find Melissa here! Website: https://www.quiltallthethings.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/quiltallthethings_/ Want to see more? You can find it here:  Show Merch: nygqs.printify.me  Patreon: patreon.com/notyourgrannysquiltshow   Insta: https://www.instagram.com/notyourgrannysquiltshow https://www.instagram.com/sweetpeadesigncompany  YouTube: https://youtube.com/@notyourgrannysquiltshow  Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/SweetPeaDesignCoShop  Want to be on the show? Send us a message!

Ever wondered what separates exceptional salespeople from the rest? In this episode, Susanna Gray-Jones chats with sales expert Romy Sembi about mastering the sales process and staying motivated. Romy reveals how understanding the "DNA of selling" and employing a scientific approach can drive success. They delve into how visual goals can fuel motivation and the role of managers in recognizing what drives their teams. Romy also shares his expertise in spotting superstar salespeople, focusing on assessing behaviors, adaptability, and openness to feedback. Highlighting the importance of investing in people, Romy reminds us that today's "little person" could become tomorrow's CEO.  This episode is a treasure trove of actionable advice for sales professionals and managers alike, offering a fresh perspective on achieving sales success. Must-Hear Insights and Key Moments Understanding the "DNA of Selling": Romy Sembi emphasizes the importance of grasping the fundamental elements of successful selling, which can be mapped and systematically applied to drive results. Motivation Through Visual Goals: Keeping a visual reminder of goals, such as a picture of something you desire, can significantly enhance motivation and drive to achieve targets. Tailoring Management Approaches: Effective sales managers must understand and adapt to the individual motivators of their team members to foster a productive environment. Assessing Salespeople's Potential: During interviews, evaluating a candidate's behavior, adaptability, and responsiveness to feedback is crucial for identifying top-performing salespeople. Role of Feedback in Improvement: Embracing and applying feedback is vital for growth. Romy highlights the importance of being open to direction and continuously improving based on constructive criticism. Investing in People for Long-Term Success: Romy underscores the value of investing in individuals, noting that today's “little person” could become a future leader or CEO, making long-term support and development essential. About Romy Sembi Romy Sembi brings over 24 years of expertise in sales training and recruitment, working across 56 countries with a deep understanding of cultural nuances and global business dynamics. As the founder of Aura Sales, Romy has a distinguished track record of elevating sales performance through customized training and strategic recruitment solutions.  His career spans a diverse range of industries and includes collaborations with high-profile companies such as Indeed, Souq.com, and eBay. Romy's approach is rooted in his ability to seamlessly integrate into sales teams and adapt training programs to fit unique business propositions. He emphasizes the importance of translating classroom learning into real-world application, ensuring that sales strategies are not only developed but effectively implemented.  With a focus on both global and startup environments, Romy is adept at providing insights and practices that drive tangible results. His commitment to empowering salespeople and fostering a culture of excellence makes him a valuable partner in achieving sustained success and growth. Connect with Romy Sembi: ⁠⁠Website⁠⁠ ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠ Follow The Counter Offer: ⁠⁠LinkedIn Host⁠⁠ ⁠⁠LinkedIn Podcast⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠Tiktok⁠ Check out our sponsor: Soul Space Studio Step into a world where breath becomes your greatest ally, an ever-present guide that reminds you of your inherent ability to find calm amidst the day-to-day. Tap into your inner strength and create profound shifts in your physical, mental, and emotional well-being at work. Soul Space Studio workplace wellbeing workshops and programmes can help your teams: reduce stress levels, create thriving cultures, deepen connection, and expand creative flow. Check out - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.soulspace-studio.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more information USE CODE: COUNTEROFFER for 10% discount

"The city of Bethlehem is situated atop a hill at the edge of the Judaean desert, creating a unique blend of cultures. Bedouin from the desert interact with pilgrims in its town market and navigate its narrow, ancient streets.  "This recording captures the ambiance of the "souq", the traditional marketplace located in the city's Old Core. The Souq is a confluence of vernacular units where farmers and merchants sell fruits, vegetables, and various merchandise, particularly during the early morning hours. Farmers from nearby villages such as Battir and Artas gather to sell their fresh produce, adding to the vibrant atmosphere of this historic marketplace in Palestine.  Recorded by Rafael Diogo. Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world's first collection of the sounds of human migration.  For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration

"At first what captured my attention was the richness of the all the voices from children, woman and man. So the focus is on the voices, everything is based on that. Aside from the drone and occasional percussions, most of the sounds are heavily treated vocals. Next, I liked the organic side of the market's ambiance, therefore some live percussions was added. I deliberately left out the song captured in fhe field recording provided to avoid any copyright issues.  "I basically extracted and isolated into separate tracks all voices, noises, wind, artifacts and ambience. Multiple different combinaison of effects was permanently applied on each tracks. Everything was imported into the DAW (Ableton), then I selected some sections of every category and applied more effects depending of the result needed. The drone and percussions we're added to complete the picture. Selected tracks were imported into the Zoom F3 and sent simultaneously in stereo to 2 different mono effects (Chase Bliss Mood on the left channel, Dr Scientist The atmosphere on the right channel) and recombined into a stereo signal sent in Chase Bliss Reverse Mode C and redivised into a left and right signal. More effects were added via auxiliary return busses and automation on most of the tracks, these parameter change includes: EQ, filters, Bit Reduction, Downsample, Bit Depth, Overdrive, gain, Pitch and Tape Saturation. Equipment ----------------- Daw & Tools : Ableton 10, Audacity, Paul Stretch, Zoom F3 Hardware Effects : Chase Bliss Mood, Chase Bliss Reverse Mode C, Dr Scientist The Atmosphere Vsts : Klanghelm DC1A3, Puremagnetik Driftmaker, Linda Audio Stargazer, Chaos Audio Starlight, Waves Silk Vocal, Noise Engineering Ruina, Chowdsp Chow Tape Model, Waves H-Comp, Tokyo Dawn Records TDR Molotok, Granulator II, Valhalla Supermassive, Waves MaxxVolume  Synths : Full Bucket Music Mono/Fury, Ableton 10 native synths  Percussions : Triangle, toy bells, egg shaker, tambourine  Microphone : ElectroVoice N/D767a" Bethlehem souq recording reimagined by Ghislain Caya. Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world's first collection of the sounds of human migration.  For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration

I had the incredible opportunity to sit down with Ronaldo Mouchawar, the trailblazing Co-founder and CEO of Souq.com, which was acquired by Amazon in 2017 for $580 million in cash + $200m in Amazon shares. Ronaldo, a true pioneer of e-commerce in the MENA region, founded Souq in 2005 as a spin-off from Maktoob, another regional success story that was sold to Yahoo for ~$170 million in 2009. In our conversation, Ronaldo shares captivating industry insights, recounts his personal journey, and reveals his passion for music. Now heading Amazon's operations in MENA and Turkey, Ronaldo remains fervently optimistic about the future of e-commerce in the region. Don't miss this fascinating and inspiring episode! Support for the show comes from capital.com a global investment platform. Visit their website to start investing today.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I had the incredible opportunity to sit down with Ronaldo Mouchawar, the trailblazing Co-founder and CEO of Souq.com, which was acquired by Amazon in 2017 for $580 million in cash + $200m in Amazon shares. Ronaldo, a true pioneer of e-commerce in the MENA region, founded Souq in 2005 as a spin-off from Maktoob, another regional success story that was sold to Yahoo for ~$170 million in 2009.In our conversation, Ronaldo shares captivating industry insights, recounts his personal journey, and reveals his passion for music. Now heading Amazon's operations in MENA and Turkey, Ronaldo remains fervently optimistic about the future of e-commerce in the region. Don't miss this fascinating and inspiring episode!Support for the show comes from capital.com a global investment platform. Visit their website to start investing today. 

UAE seafood special: we're in Dubai to meet Fahim Al Qasimi, co-founder of Seafood Souq, a digital marketplace that serves as a platform connecting seafood buyers and sellers around the world. Plus: Ramie Murray, the founder and CEO of Dibba Bay Oysters, the first and only gourmet oyster farm in the Middle East, talks about the role of aquaculture in enhancing food security.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Souq co-founder said on stage at the Web Summit Qatar that global startups will look to the region in a market shift, while Abdullah Abu Sheikh who acquired Botim wants to help unbanked consumers do everything with the help AI, and Bitcoin is on track for its biggest two-day rally this year while its smaller rival ether topped $3,200.

Phil Dickinson, leading international markets development and MICE for Visit Qatar, talks with James Shillinglaw of Insider Travel Report on a tour of this thoroughly modern and fascinating destination. Dickinson reviews many of Doha's attractions, including the massive new Meryal Waterpark, major luxury shopping malls, the famed Souq, multiple museums, top dining and stadiums from the World Cup in 2022. For more information, visit www.visitqatar.com. If interested, the original video of this podcast can be found on the Insider Travel Report Youtube channel or by searching for the podcast's title on Youtube.  

Nadia vindt dat vlees eten eigenlijk niet meer kan (en hoeft). Toch doet ze het soms. Ze is niet bang zich te laten horen over slavernij en onrecht, en leerde van haar Marokkaanse moeder hoe eten verbindt. Ook: worstelen met veel autorijden, tips over specerijen en het voorkomen van voedselverspilling. In deze derde aflevering bespreken duurzame lifestyle-expert Marieke Eyskoot en chef, schrijver, ondernemer en presentator Nadia Zerouali o.a.: Hoe logisch en lekker vegan eten is (en waarom ze het soms niet doet) De connectie tussen ons eten, kolonialisme en slavernij Een oudere auto (of koelkast) vervangen of niet Voedselverspilling stoppen Met je familie onder één dak wonen (maar daar meer voor in de auto zitten) Wat we kunnen leren van andere culturen Kiezen tussen commercialiteit en impact (met haar eigen smaakmakersmerk) Het doorgeven van duurzame lessen aan de nieuwe generatie CEO's de waarheid vertellen De waarde van eten als verbinding (geleerd van haar mama) Uitgesproken zijn als verantwoordelijkheid Mild zijn voor het individu, hard tegen het systeem De duurzame dilemma's, duiveltjes, doelen en dromen van Nadia Zerouali, vanuit de Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam. SHOWNOTES Oliebollen Het BinnensteBuiten-item van Nadia en Marieke over het weggooien van oud brood, en daar oliebollen van maken: https://binnenstebuiten.kro-ncrv.nl/duurzame-lifestyle/video/oliebollen-gemaakt-van-oud-brood ‘Worst'elingen Worstenmaker Samuel Levie's boek over vlees eten: Worstelingen https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/nijgh-van-ditmar/boek/worstelingen/ Specerijenmerken die Nadia aanraadt The Good Spice - https://thegoodspice.org/ Pacific SpiZes - https://www.instagram.com/pacific_spizes Diaspora Co. - https://www.diasporaco.com/ (US) (Nadia & Merijn's SOUQ vind je hier: https://nadiaenmerijnsouq.nl/) Too Good to Go https://www.toogoodtogo.com/nl Carolyn Steel Architect, over de relatie tussen eten en je omgeving: https://www.carolynsteel.com/ Imke de Boer Voedselsysteemdenker, over de relatie tussen gezonde aarde, gezond voedsel, goed leven: https://deboerenvoedsel.nl/ Koelkast vervangen Het is inderdaad zo dat je je koelkast meestal beter kunt vervangen als-ie zo'n 7 tot 10 jaar oud is. Milieu Centraal zegt dit: Heb je nog een oude koelkast of vriezer van tien jaar of ouder? Dan is vervangen voor het milieu bijna altijd een goed idee, ook als de koelkast het nog doet. Koelkasten worden namelijk steeds zuiniger. De energie die je bespaart als je je koelkast vervangt, weegt ruimschoots op tegen de milieu-impact van het maken van de nieuwe koelkast. https://www.milieucentraal.nl/energie-besparen/apparaten-in-huis/koelkasten-en-vriezers/ Hier.nu zegt 8 jaar: https://www.hier.nu/themas/huishoudelijke-apparaten/8-apparaten-die-misschien-moeite-waard-zijn-om-te-vervangen Nationale Klimaatweek zegt 7 jaar: https://nkw2023.nl/artikel/d667b326-92dc-4112-a177-70edc652e688/let-op-het-energieverbruik-van-je-koelkast Instagram Nadia Zerouali https://www.instagram.com/nadia.zerouali____/ Couscousbar (Nadia's restaurant) https://couscousbar.nl/ Op je Gezondheid (Nadia's podcast) https://www.human.nl/op-je-gezondheid.html Marieke is te volgen op https://www.instagram.com/mariekeeyskoot/ / https://www.mariekeeyskoot.nl/ CREDITS Geluid, beeld, techniek: Max van Nievelt Audio-ondersteuning: Ruud Hermans - https://ruudhermans-composer.com/ Muziekbewerking: Edmé Koorstra (original track: Cinematic Adventure Trailer by MAPA) Vormgeving: Michel Walpot - https://michelwalpot.nl/ (origineel ontwerp: The Green House) Online boost: Patrick Klerks | Online Slimmerik - https://www.onlineslimmerik.nl/ Mede mogelijk gemaakt door: Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam | Barbara van Amelsfort en Willeke te Flierhaar

In this episode of the Chef JKP Podcast, host James Knight-Paccheco takes listeners on a culinary journey filled with food memories, laughter, and lessons for life. On this weeks show . The episode features an enlightening conversation with Fahim Al Qasimi, Co-founder of Seafood Souq, a digital platform that sheds light on the seafood industry.He reminisces about picking fresh black cherries from a tree in his childhood home in Germany, highlighting the special connection between food and memories.Paccheco promises that this episode is a game changer, urging listeners to tune in and discover the wealth of information it offers. On this episode, James and his guest discuss:·      Seafood traceability and mislabeling·      Overfishing and political activism·      Investing in our oceans·      Fusion in Emirati cuisine·      Michelin-starred UAE-based restaurant·      Memorable culinary experiencesTo follow Fahim on Instagram, click HERETo see everything to do with Seafood Souq click HERESupport the showFollow The Chef JKP Podcast on Instagram HERE

Maz Hakim talks to Dubai-based Billionaire Saygin Yalcin and entrepreneur about his journey in the industry from working at an unpaid internship to growing a successful business acquired by Souq.com, better known as Amazon today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr Raf Fatani, Amazon General Regional Manager, Alexa, MENA. He grew up and studied in the UK and later moved to the UAE, when Amazon acquired souq.com in 2017. Amazon utilized 18,000 beta testers in Saudi to teach Alexa to understand and speak Arabic from different regions and with different accents. Tech-savvy Saudis are the most engaged Alexa users in the word, with the average customer having 11 connected devices. This technology is truly life-changing, especially for elderly and disabled populations. Raf keeps his mother in mind while improving Alexa, ensuring ease of use and safety. In this episode, he addresses Mo's fears about Amazon, Alexa, and voice recognition and shares his personal outlook on happiness, marriage, boundaries, and the future of Saudi Arabia.

On Race Matters we head to Damascus, Syria as we are joined by researcher and creative Mia Shouha, co-founder and director of Souq. In an intimate chat, she shares how artists create in a complex, post-war context and craft through autonomy and imperialism resistance to find magic and connection. Alongside her collaborator Romy Cole-Groth they've begun working on a project that elevates the value and dignity of Syrian craft, collecting beauty in a time of crisis.  To learn more about Souq and how you can support the launch of their first collection Yasmin, head to their socials @souqq__ This piece was produced and edited by Shareeka Helaluddin. Image courtesy of Souq. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

في هذه الحلقة من بودكاست السوق: ▪️ في أبرز أخبار قطاع السيارات «أوتوبيا» تجمع 2.5 مليون دولار ❤️‍

Welcome to another episode of The Action and Ambition Podcast! Joining us today is JonPaul Vega, the Co-Founder, and CEO of Souq G-Commerce, your portfolio manager for Web3 game assets. Souq is building the first DeFi native investment management firm. Their platform enables anyone to compose strategies or participate in high-quality investment vehicles regardless of social class or technical proficiency. Their first product enables users to get structured market exposure to the Ethereum gaming industry, through their ETF 2.0 product Liquid Staking Vaults. Tune in to learn more!

On this episode of Red Carpet, we take a look inside Qatar's Souq Waqif market, a new exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and up and coming Ghanaian dancehall artist Iona Reine talks music and more.

Ahmed Al Zarooni, is the Director of Dubai's Department of Public Parks and Recreational facilities.He joined TSB to discuss the return of the Farmer's Souq initiative of Dubai Municipality has returned. Where 50 farmers and small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs) showcasing local home grown produce. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wir sind in Jordanien zwischen Sushi, Souq und Schmeißfliegen. Katha ist eine rülpsende Luxusbiene und Pia wird vom Perversen beschissen. Scheiiiiße! Das nächste Mal wird besser, da besuchen wir dann die Petra.

In deze aflevering gaan we in gesprek met culinair ondernemer Nadia Zerouali Nadia is als klein meisje gek op koken en wordt later bekend als TV kok in de programma's 24Kitchen, Binnenste Buiten en Ramadan gerechten. Hiernaast schrijft Nadia meer dan 10 kookboeken die de Arabische en westerse wereld combineren. Nadia verschijnt veel in de media en ligt met haar culinaire producten in alle filialen van de Albert Heijn. Sinds een aantal jaar is Nadia ook mede-eigenaar van twee CousCousbar vestigingen in Amsterdam. Hoe dit succes allemaal is ontstaan en wat Nadia allemaal nog van plan is, hoor je in deze aflevering. Beluister de aflevering en raak geïnspireerd!

The definition of brand building is to generate awareness about your business using strategies and campaigns with the goal of creating a unique and lasting image in the marketplace. Positive image + standing out = brand success. With social media gaining a larger part of our lives, businesses have resorted to them for marketing their brands. A business branch, which was earlier seldom seen to be a cost, is now an investment, trying to gain maximum eyeballs and attraction to a brand for its success. About Kishore Dharmarajan Kishore Dharmarajan is the CEO of Seo Souq FZ LLC. He's a metaverse expert, and he's earlier worked with companies like WSI Internet Consulting, and Eureka Advertising Dubai. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tbcy/support

Neste episódio especial, Bruno e Sérgio contam com a presença do virtuoso Jorge Loura, guitarrista de bandas como Souq, Troll's Toy, 47 de Fevereiro, Zen, Rolling Stones, etc. Falam sobretudo sobre música, boa e má, e sonhos por realizar (eg. "pertencer aos Azeitonas"). O som começa manhoso. Dá para perceber, mas está manhoso. Ali a partir dos 6 minutos e tal melhora porque, num acto de heroísmo inusitado, lá arranjámos maneira de ligar os microfones que estavam desligados. Sigam o Jorge: https://www.instagram.com/jorge.loura/ E o alegria de viver: https://www.instagram.com/alegriadeviverpodcast/

Most of us are familiar with the top shopping websites, like Amazon, eBay, or even Souq.com. Aliexpress.com has been around for a while but has recently become very popular. If you are wondering about the best AliExpress coupon code, then Almowafir is the right place. We are here to assist you to save valuable money and get great deals.

Sheikh Fahim Al Qasimi (aka 'Turtle Sheikh') is a member of the UAE's Royal Family, Executive Chairman at the Department of Government Relations in Sharjah, Co-Founder of Seafood Souq and a good old friend from our days back at Kearney. When he's not swimming in oceans saving turtles (literally), he's probably dining with Gary Vee or with the President of Guatemala to discuss Economic relations with Sharjah.  Last time Fahim and I caught up was more than 12 years ago, but it didn't take long for me to remember how funny, humble and smart he is - for an Emirati (joke context towards the end of our chat). On a serious note, catching up with Fahim in-person reminded me of the ingenuity that's behind the incredible story of the UAE and the unwavering passion that drives authentic entrepreneurship. Learn more about Fahim's company Seafood Souq here: https://uae.seafoodsouq.com/ Follow Fahim on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fahim-al-qasimi-6a57b754/ Follow 'Pod Kas with Yaz' on all streaming platforms here: https://linktr.ee/podkaswithyaz

Figuring out your assets for different NFT and Blockchain gaming projects is an absolute pain; hustling to different websites, finding current crypto value, floor prices, and on and on. Am really happy to do an interview with the cofounder of Souq which has an awesome platform coming out for keeping up to date with all your blockchain gaming holdings. Super intuitive and slick interface also! Check out our Crypto Giveaway inside also! I am not a financial Advisor Current episode InfoWebsite: https://souq.gg/ (https://souq.gg/) Discord: https://discord.gg/G8PXHEJ6 (https://discord.gg/G8PXHEJ6) Twitter: https://twitter.com/Souqdotgg (https://twitter.com/Souqdotgg) Crypto Gaming Podcast InfoTwitter: https://twitter.com/TCGPodcast2 (@TCGPodcast2) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_crypto_gaming_podcast/ (the_crypto_gaming_podcast) PATREON - Support the Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/CryptoGamingPodcast (https://www.patreon.com/CryptoGamingPodcast) Music: Voxel Revolution by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7017-voxel-revolution License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/soundroll/feeling-home License code: FAWUIZSNHXQRLXDZ Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!) https://uppbeat.iotsoundrollmemories  License code: IMGEAAXEIS9O33HJ  Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/hartzmann/take-me-there  License code: T6ZTIOPNTR83QOCI 

Welcome to Surviving Tomorrow, a podcast, newsletter, and publication that helps you navigate life in an age of democratic destruction, ecological collapse, and economic irrelevance, available for FREE on Substack, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Facebook, and Youtube.Jeff Bezos controls Amazon. And Whole Foods. And The Washington Post. And IMDB, Zappos, Souq, Blue Origin, Kiva Systems, Alexa, DPReview, Fabric.com, Woot, Goodreads, Twitch, Audible, Elemental, Quidsi, Annapurna Labels, Accept, Living Social, Twilio, HomeGrocer, Bill Me Later, eZiba, BankBazaar, Kozmo, Ionic, Songza, and Wine.com. Plus he has VC stakes in Lookout, Juno, Grail, Workday, Vessel, Domo, Fundbox, Stack Overflow, Everfi, Remitly, Rethink Robotics, General Fusion, MakerBot, Unity Biotech, General Assembly, Business Insider, Google, Uber, Airbnb, and Twitter. And he's working on acquiring MGM. Plus he owns at least eight mansions and 100,000+ acres, a bunch of penis-shaped rockets, and a $500,000,000 hyper-yacht.Bernard Arnault controls LVMH, which has swallowed more than seventy of its competitors, including Dior, Fendi, Givenchy, Dom Pérignon, Loius Vuitton, Moët & Chandon, Marc Jacobs, Stella McCartney, Loro Piana, Princess Yachts, Bulgari, Sephora, and Tiffany & Co.Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway owns massive chunks of nearly fifty companies including Apple, Amazon, Amex, Bank of America, Chevron, Kraft, Mastercard, Sirius, Visa, Wells Fargo, P&G, Johnson & Johnson, Dairy Queen, Fruit of the Loom, GM, Merck, T-Mobile, GEICO, and Coca-Cola, which itself has eaten more than 400 competing drink companies.Blackrock, which owns a piece of 5,480 companies including Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Nvidia, Tesla, JP Morgan, Paypal, Home Depot, Disney, Exxon, Pfizer, Pepsi, AT&T, Nike, Walmart, McDonald's, Costco, and Netflix, just bought Reese Witherspoon's media company for $900 million, adding to its $9 trillion Smaug-like horde.It makes you wonder when monopolists will stop growing larger and larger.And then one day it occurs to you…They will not stop until they are stopped.The factsThere are now 2,755 billionaires on the planet, not including “royalty” and dictators.In the year 2000, they controlled less than $1 trillion.Today, they control more than $13.1 trillion.13.5X in a generation.And they've grown their wealth by $5.5 trillion during the pandemic so far.The world's richest eight men now own more than the bottom 4 billion.On the flip side, there's never been so many people experiencing suffering and deprivation in human history:Systemic inequality pushed 200+ million people into poverty and cost women around the world at least $800 billion in lost income in 2020.690 million people go to bed hungry every night (and the number is rising by 16 million per year.)5.5 million people are moving into slums per month.2.3 million children die from malnutritionment every year.Clearly, there is no limit to the depth of poverty and deprivation to which our global society will allow humans to fall — never forget that millions of children are still trafficked for rape annually and that nine million people die from starvation each year — yet somehow elite individuals are allowed to amass unlimited plenty in a world of deprivation?It begs the question: Is it moral and right for us to allow individuals to hoard extreme wealth in the face of overwhelming widespread poverty, documented democratic subversion, and environmental catastrophe?If humanity saw itself as the global family that it truly is, it would be morally impossible to not limit the amount that one family member could control while another suffered and died.“Earned” wealthIt is impossible for an individual to legitimately earn a billion dollars.If someone earned $100 per hour — more than enough for anyone to live in luxurious comfort — in order to truly earn a billion dollars, they'd have to work 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year, for five thousand years.So how is a billion dollars actually amassed?By skimming a profit off the backs of untold others:off the workers they employoff the suppliers they squeezeoff the carcasses of the competitors they destroy with monopolyoff the planet they unsustainably extract fromoff the governments from which they gain subsidies and advantagesoff the stable societies they sell to while evading taxationoff the democracies whose rules they change at willoff the shareholders they dupeHow is the ability to skim achieved? Through unfair advantage and privilege.It is impossible to “work hard, save, and invest” your way to a billion dollars.Let's be crystal clear: billionaires don't “create jobs.” They extract value — time, talent, creativity, effort — from others at an industrial scale.Decentralize everythingHere's a short thought experiment.Which is better: 2,755 billionaires and their $13.1 trillion, each monopolizing roughly one industry apiece and subverting democracy, or 131,000 centa-millionaires in competition?How about 1,310,000 deca-millionaires?Or 13,100,000 millionaires?13.1 million millionaires would do far more for the economy in terms of spending, hiring, diffusing power, avoiding democratic destruction, increasing competition, and sparking innovation.Are there truly enough benefits to the global population to merit supporting the costs of maintaining billionaires? Surely not. No rational person can make the argument that 2,755 billionaires are globally preferable to having 13.1 million more millionaires, or 131 million more workers each controlling a $100K stake in the businesses wherein they constitute all of the wealth-creation.“But those poor billionaires are just rich on paper!”Sychophants for the ultra-elite are quick to cry out that most billionaires don't actually have $1,000,000,000+ sitting in a Scrooge McDuck-style vault. Their wealth is usually tied up in shares of the companies they almost always undemocratically control.But these people don't understand how billionaires work.Billionaires borrow colossal amounts of cheap debt against those paper shares, and let inflation devalue that debt over time.So you and I — the real taxpayers in society — end up footing the bill as the money-printing machine devalues our actual-earned money.We need a more equitable pre-distribution of ownership, wealth, and opportunity.Mathematical doomI believe — as do most of the working masses and the desperate poor — that it is morally wrong and utterly inhumane to be a billionaire whilst millions starve and billions suffer.Full stop.To paraphrase the Bible: “The poor will always be among us because the rich will always be above us.”The world and planet can't afford to support billionaires anymore.Corporatism is a gross inefficiency and major source of economic inequality; it is anti-democracy; it is ecological unsustainability.We should replace it with an economy of sole proprietors, partnerships, cooperatives, not-for-profits, and for-benefits — all the wealth to all the workers — massively diverse, all competing and cooperating and innovating within a body of economic law that enforces ecological sustainability (as defined by biology) and economic fairness (as defined by real democracy.)If we don't, we're mathematically doomed.Charting our trajectory to zeroWhen will billionaires stop amassing more wealth?The answer is clear:They won't.Our total global wealth is currently $431 trillion.In the past twenty years, billionaires have grown their wealth by 13.5X, to $13.1 trillion, far outpacing the poor and total growth in global wealth.At their current pace, billionaires will control $176 trillion in twenty years and $2.3 quadrillion in forty.You read that right: If we do not stop them, billionaires will control the entire globe's resources within our lifetime.From there, it's simply a game of thrones to determine which few families will survive.In the winner-take-all economy, elites will not stop until they are stopped.Why can't voter-shoppers fathom this fact?The solution is frightfully simpleIt's a radical idea that will be common sense to future generations:Individual private wealth must be limited.That's right: No more billionaires.Every dollar over $1 billion in net worth will be taxed at 100% or placed in a commons trust.As one Redditor put it:Once you reach $999,999,999 we give you a plaque that says, “congratulations, you won capitalism,” and we name a dog park after you.A global Billionaire Ban will have wonderful implications for protecting democracy and making the economy more robust and fair. Obviously, democracy can argue over the exact number for our new global limit — 10 million, 100 million, even 1 billion — so long as we agree on the underlying fundamental that private wealth must have an upper limit.Older right-leaning white men will now scream “Communism! Socialism!” while failing to realize this piece is not advocating central ownership or central control of the economy. That's what billionaires are working on.We need to reform our economic system. We need a more equitable pre-distribution of ownership, wealth, and opportunity, and we desperately need democratic limits to protect against monopoly and wealth hoarding.This isn't optional for the survival of our species: it's now required for the survival of all species.We need to move quickly.In the time it took you to read this article, the world's billionaires gained $62 million while sixty people moved into slums and thirty children died of hunger.How many more people must suffer and die before we re-structure the global economy for widest-spread well-being? Get full access to Surviving Tomorrow at www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe

Jeff Bezos controls Amazon. And Whole Foods. And The Washington Post. And IMDB, Zappos, Souq, Blue Origin, Kiva Systems, Alexa, DPReview, Fabric.com, Woot, Goodreads, Twitch, Audible, Elemental, Quidsi, Annapurna Labels, Accept, Living Social, Twilio, HomeGrocer, Bill Me Later, eZiba, BankBazaar, Kozmo, Ionic, Songza, and Wine.com. Plus he has VC stakes in Lookout, Juno, Grail, Workday, Vessel, Domo, Fundbox, Stack Overflow, Everfi, Remitly, Rethink Robotics, General Fusion, MakerBot, Unity Biotech, General Assembly, Business Insider, Google, Uber, Airbnb, and Twitter. And he's working on acquiring MGM. Plus he owns at least eight mansions and 100,000+ acres, a bunch of penis-shaped rockets, and a $500,000,000 hyper-yacht.Bernard Arnault controls LVMH, which has swallowed more than seventy of its competitors, including Dior, Fendi, Givenchy, Dom Pérignon, Loius Vuitton, Moët & Chandon, Marc Jacobs, Stella McCartney, Loro Piana, Princess Yachts, Bulgari, Sephora, and Tiffany & Co.Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway owns massive chunks of nearly fifty companies including Apple, Amazon, Amex, Bank of America, Chevron, Kraft, Mastercard, Sirius, Visa, Wells Fargo, P&G, Johnson & Johnson, Dairy Queen, Fruit of the Loom, GM, Merck, T-Mobile, GEICO, and Coca-Cola, which itself has eaten more than 400 competing drink companies.Blackrock, which owns a piece of 5,480 companies including Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Nvidia, Tesla, JP Morgan, Paypal, Home Depot, Disney, Exxon, Pfizer, Pepsi, AT&T, Nike, Walmart, McDonald's, Costco, and Netflix, just bought Reese Witherspoon's media company for $900 million, adding to its $9 trillion Smaug-like horde.It makes you wonder when monopolists will stop growing larger and larger.And then one day it occurs to you…They will not stop until they are stopped.The factsThere are now 2,755 billionaires on the planet, not including “royalty” and dictators.In the year 2000, they controlled less than $1 trillion.Today, they control more than $13.1 trillion.13.5X in a generation.And they've grown their wealth by $5.5 trillion during the pandemic so far.The world's richest eight men now own more than the bottom 4 billion.On the flip side, there's never been so many people experiencing suffering and deprivation in human history:* Systemic inequality pushed 200+ million people into poverty and cost women around the world at least $800 billion in lost income in 2020.* 690 million people go to bed hungry every night (and the number is rising by 16 million per year.)* 5.5 million people are moving into slums per month.* 2.3 million children die from malnutrition every year.Clearly, there is no limit to the depth of poverty and deprivation to which our global society will allow humans to fall — never forget that millions of children are still trafficked for rape annually and that nine million people die from starvation each year — yet somehow elite individuals are allowed to amass unlimited plenty in a world of deprivation?It begs the question: Is it moral and right for us to allow individuals to hoard extreme wealth in the face of overwhelming widespread poverty, documented democratic subversion, and environmental catastrophe?If humanity saw itself as the global family that it truly is, it would be morally impossible to not limit the amount that one family member could control while another suffered and died.“Earned” wealthIt is impossible for an individual to legitimately earn a billion dollars.If someone earned $100 per hour — more than enough for anyone to live in luxurious comfort — in order to truly earn a billion dollars, they'd have to work 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year, for five thousand years.So how is a billion dollars actually amassed?By skimming a profit off the backs of untold others:* off the workers they employ* off the suppliers they squeeze* off the carcasses of the competitors they destroy with monopoly* off the planet they unsustainably extract from* off the governments from which they gain subsidies and advantages* off the stable societies they sell to while evading taxation* off the democracies whose rules they change at will* off the shareholders they dupeHow is the ability to skim achieved? Through unfair advantage and privilege.It is impossible to “work hard, save, and invest” your way to a billion dollars.Let's be crystal clear: billionaires don't “create jobs.” They extract value — time, talent, creativity, effort — from others at an industrial scale.Decentralize everythingHere's a short thought experiment.Which is better: 2,755 billionaires and their $13.1 trillion, each monopolizing roughly one industry apiece and subverting democracy, or 131,000 centa-millionaires in competition?How about 1,310,000 deca-millionaires?Or 13,100,000 millionaires?13.1 million millionaires would do far more for the economy in terms of spending, hiring, diffusing power, avoiding democratic destruction, increasing competition, and sparking innovation.Are there truly enough benefits to the global population to merit supporting the costs of maintaining billionaires? Surely not. No rational person can make the argument that 2,755 billionaires are globally preferable to having 13.1 million more millionaires, or 131 million more workers each controlling a $100K stake in the businesses wherein they constitute all of the wealth-creation.“But those poor billionaires are just rich on paper!”Sychophants for the ultra-elite are quick to cry out that most billionaires don't actually have $1,000,000,000+ sitting in a Scrooge McDuck-style vault. Their wealth is usually tied up in shares of the companies they almost always undemocratically control.But these people don't understand how billionaires work.Billionaires borrow colossal amounts of cheap debt against those paper shares, and let inflation devalue that debt over time.So you and I — the real taxpayers in society — end up footing the bill as the money-printing machine devalues our actual-earned money.We need a more equitable pre-distribution of ownership, wealth, and opportunity.Mathematical doomI believe — as do most of the working masses and the desperate poor — that it is morally wrong and utterly inhumane to be a billionaire whilst millions starve and billions suffer.Full stop.To paraphrase the Bible: “The poor will always be among us because the rich will always be above us.”The world and planet can't afford to support billionaires anymore.Corporatism is a gross inefficiency and major source of economic inequality; it is anti-democracy; it is ecological unsustainability.We should replace it with an economy of sole proprietors, partnerships, cooperatives, not-for-profits, and for-benefits — all the wealth to all the workers — massively diverse, all competing and cooperating and innovating within a body of economic law that enforces ecological sustainability (as defined by biology) and economic fairness (as defined by real democracy.)If we don't, we're mathematically doomed.Charting our trajectory to zeroWhen will billionaires stop amassing more wealth?The answer is clear:They won't.Our total global wealth is currently $431 trillion.In the past twenty years, billionaires have grown their wealth by 13.5X, to $13.1 trillion, far outpacing the poor and total growth in global wealth.At their current pace, billionaires will control $176 trillion in twenty years and $2.3 quadrillion in forty.You read that right: If we do not stop them, billionaires will control the entire globe's resources within our lifetime.From there, it's simply a game of thrones to determine which few families will survive.In the winner-take-all economy, elites will not stop until they are stopped.Why can't voter-shoppers fathom this fact?The solution is frightfully simpleIt's a radical idea that will be common sense to future generations:Individual private wealth must be limited.That's right: No more billionaires.Every dollar over $1 billion in net worth will be taxed at 100% or placed in a commons trust.As one Redditor put it:Once you reach $999,999,999 we give you a plaque that says, “congratulations, you won capitalism,” and we name a dog park after you.A global Billionaire Ban will have wonderful implications for protecting democracy and making the economy more robust and fair. Obviously, democracy can argue over the exact number for our new global limit — 10 million, 100 million, even 1 billion — so long as we agree on the underlying fundamental that private wealth must have an upper limit.Older right-leaning white men will now scream “Communism! Socialism!” while failing to realize this piece is not advocating central ownership or central control of the economy. That's what billionaires are working on.We need to reform our economic system. We need a more equitable pre-distribution of ownership, wealth, and opportunity, and we desperately need democratic limits to protect against monopoly and wealth hoarding.This isn't optional for the survival of our species: it's now required for the survival of all species.The Christian response to wealth inequalityWhat's incredibly disturbing about the wealth inequality discussion is how callous many Christians have become to the plight of the poor.As if the riches of the wealthy matter more to our God than the survival of the poor!Luke 3:11 is perhaps the most economically-convicting verse in Scripture:“Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”Clearly, God is not in favor of infinite wealth accumulation. Regardless of what reasonable limitations secularist governments place on private wealth, surely God always calls His family to a higher standard of generosity and stewardship.Mark 14:7 says that “the poor will always be among us”… but that's only because the rich will always be above us.Do you where there weren't any poor people? In the Acts 2 church, when those of means rejected the temptation to accumulate infinite wealth and instead sold assets to help others. And according to Acts 4:34, “There were no needy people among them.”That's the power of Christians who actually obey Scripture… what a testament such a church would be to their community!Christians live by a principle that transcends all secular economic schemes. When it comes to finances, we express our faith with one principle: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.When we align our financial thinking with the Bible's, we end up using all of our abilities for His glory, and He meets all of our needs, not just as individuals, but as a community. After all, unlike the individualist anti-culture in which we find ourselves, we profoundly understand that we're all in this thing together.We need to move quickly.In the time it took you to listen to this episode, the world's billionaires gained $62 million in wealth, while sixty people moved into slums and thirty children died of hunger.How many more people must suffer and die before we re-structure the global economy — or at least our local church community — for widest-spread wellbeing?Thanks for listening to Future Faith. We are 100% follower-supported, so please head over to jaredbrock.com to become a gospel patron.If you think this episode is important, informative, or provocative, all I ask is that you email the link to your friends or share it on social media. Get full access to Future Faith at jaredbrock.substack.com/subscribe

Today's guest is Laura Choueri. Laura is a real-estate expert & brings with her over 35 years' experience in the real estate industry in Montreal, Canada and Dubai. She has been a leading figure in the Dubai property market for over 27 years and has been selected as a ‘Contributor' for valuable feedback to The World Bank on ‘Ease of Doing Business' including ‘Registering Property' in Dubai, UAE. She is also the founder of Choueri real-estate and continues to play an active role, their diversification extends to Luxury-Investments- Residential-Commercial & Off Plan Projects and in 2017 Laura launched Realopedia a real estate e-Marketplace building an alliance with Souq.com an amazon company and Dubai Properties, the first of its kind strategic agreement for the region's in real estate. During this episode we discussed how the real estate market has evolved in the UAE, we talked about how Covid has impacted real-estate & what the future looks like, and she shares with us some amazing advice regarding whether you should buy or rent, invest in a villa or an apartment and much more. And the last message he wanted to share “ If you have a burning desire to do something, just go for it. Because if you dont try then you'll never know”

Today once again I am doing a live interview here in Bali. My guest today is Andrey Rozhnov. Andrey is the founder of Easy Export. With Easy Export Andrey and his team help entrepreneurs to build DTC brands in the USA and Europe with a focus on e-commerce, Amazon, and other marketplaces.  Andrey spent the last 10 years building businesses, including selling on Amazon, managing remote teams, and solving world-class problems. Today we are going to talk about it all. Links from the episode: Wild Berries - https://www.wildberries.ru Ozon - https://www.ozon.ru Souq - https://uae.souq.com Wallmart - https://www.walmart.com eBay - https://www.ebay.com Etsy - https://www.etsy.com New Egg - https://www.newegg.com Street Epistemology - https://streetepistemology.com Books Andrey Recommend: “Aggression (The So-Called Evil)” by Lorents K. - https://www.amazon.com/Aggression?tag=10mj-20 “How To Read A Book: The Classic Guide To Intelligent Reading” by Charles Van Doren and Mortimer Jerome Adler - https://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book?tag=10mj-20 "The Father: Historical, Psychological and Cultural Perspectives" by Luigi Zoja - https://www.amazon.com/Father?tag=10mj-20 Book Mentioned: "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey - https://www.amazon.com/Habits-Highly-Effective-People?tag=10mj-20 Connect with Andrey: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrey-rozhnoff Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/andreas.rozhnov Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/andrey.rozhnoff Email Address: andrey@rozhnoff.com Website and Company Social Medias: Waves Protect - https://wavesprotect.com LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/waves-protect Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/wavesprotect Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wavesprotect Twitter - https://twitter.com/wavesprotect Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/waves_protect Email Address - support@wavesprotect.com Want to sit down with Anatoly 1 on 1 ? Even though I keep saying I AM NOT A GURU, many of you ask to sit down and pick my brain. I have decided to do a 1h HELP calls. There are 2 purposes: 1st to support you in your journey and second also to be able to break even on the production of this podcast (each episode editing, marketing, guest research etc takes about $60 - $150 to produce). Now you can schedule 1h with me, and we can talk about launching products, hiring, product research, keywords, mindset, how I did an Ironman or anything at all. Link is here - https://calendly.com/anatolyspektor/anatoly-connsulting-1h  ANATOLY's TOOLS: Product Development: Helim10 - I use it for  Product Research, Keyword tracking and Listing Optimization .  SPECIAL DEAL: Get 50% your first month or 10% every month: http://bit.ly/CORNERSIIH10  Pickfu - I use it for split testing all of my products and for validation ideas .  SPECIAL DEAL: First split test 50% 0ff  https://www.pickfu.com/10mj Trademarking: Trademark Angels - For all my trademarking needs.  SPECIAL: Mention Anatoly and 10MJ podcast and get 10% Off your trademark. HR: Fiverr -  I hire my 3dMockup person and images label designer here on Fiverr - http://bit.ly/10mjFIVERR Upwork - I hire people long term on Upwork - upwork.com  Loom.com - for creating SOP's, I record everything on Loom and give to my VA's Keepa.com - to track historical data such as prices ANATOLY's  3 Favorite  Business Books: DotCom Secrets by Russel Brunson - I think this is a must read for every online entrepreneurs - http://bit.ly/10MJDotCom 4 hours work week by Tim Ferriss  - This book changed my life and made my become an entrepreneur - http://bit.ly/10MJ4WW The Greatest Salesman In The World  by Og Mandino - Old book but it goes to the core of selling -  http://bit.l/10MJGREATSM  DISCLAIMER: Some Links are affiliate, it costs you nothing, but helps to keep this podcast on the float Have questions? Go to https://www.10millionjourney.com Follow us on Instagram: @10millionjourney

Kon Faber ist ein elektronisches Live-Duo aus Berlin, bestehend aus den langjährigen Freunden Nils König und Benedict Faber. Ihre Produktionen bedienen sich vieler verschiedener Einflüsse, was ihre Livesets besonders abwechslungsreich und kurzlebig gestaltet. Von tiefgründigen Tracks mit Live-Vocals und frechen Elementen die zum Schmunzeln anregen beinhaltet ein typisches Kon Faber Set alles - ohne dabei den roten Faden ihrer organischen Sounds und groovy Beats zu verlieren. Als Sahnehäubchen gibt es dann noch ansteckende Tanz- und medizinisch fragwürdige Kopfnickeinlagen. Released hat das Duo bereits auf Labels wie Serafin Audio Imprint, Souq, Rebellion der Träumer, WAYU, Trndmsk Records, Metanoia, Hug Records und Kollektiv Liebe. ✨Kon Faber SC: https://soundcloud.com/kon-faber ✨Yion SC: https://soundcloud.com/yionmusik ✨KataHaifisch SC: @katahaifisch

Новости на радио «Русские Эмираты» в Дубае: - В Дубае рассматривается дело о жестоком обращении с пожилой женщиной, повлекшем ее смерть. В многомесячных истязаниях обвиняются сын и невестка 70-летней жительницы эмирата. - Новый огромный оптовый рынок Souq Al Marfa открылся в Дубае, на островах Deira Islands, недалеко от исторического центра эмирата. Уже сейчас функционирует 400 магазинов, где можно приобрести ковры, светильники, специи, одежду и обувь, электронику и многое другое.

Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. We humans have found nifty ways to define and help us understand it. Yet everyone's perception of this strange thing is unique. Time dissolves into oblivion, if someone pushes "play" on the right track at the right place and time. Well, not too long ago the universe pushed a monumental pause button causing time and with it life on earth to freeze - but: our hearts never did. We kept them in a safe place. And now a new summer is here, one that invites the dancing feet back to the places we hold so dearly. "A Mirror For The Sun" is a compilation of pieces, which strive for no less than be the soundtrack that awakens our spirits, now that the big play button has finally been pushed. The 2nd Volume of ‘A Mirror For the Sun' is here, compiled by Niki Sadeki, featuring 27 artists and 15 songs. ✨Genii SC: https://soundcloud.com/genii-music ✨Souq Records SC: https://soundcloud.com/souqrecordss ✨KataHaifisch SC: @katahaifisch ✨Niki Sadeki SC: https://soundcloud.com/nikisadeki

Did you know that40% of fish caught in East Africa is wasted? I had both Omar and Osama on the couch in this episode they talk about Seafood Souq which tries to solve the value chain problem through a great marketplace for every stakeholder in the seafood industry with revenue growing exponentially year-on-year

Mit Protesten gegen Präsident Assad und Demonstrationen für mehr Demokratie begann vor zehn Jahren der Bürgerkrieg in Syrien. Daran erinnert das Festival "Revolutionary Souq" auf Kampnagel in Hamburg mit einem virtuellen Basar. Anas Aboura im Gespräch mit Vladimir Balzer www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Fazit Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14 Direkter Link zur Audiodatei

Traudi Guida largou a faculdade de direito para trabalhar como vendedora em uma loja de roupas em São Paulo em 1967. Inquieta e criativa, encontrou sua vocação e dois anos depois abriu seu primeiro negócio, a multimarcas Snoopy,com o dinheiro do fundo de garantia de sua mãe. Em 1982 ela conheceu Rahyja Afrange, uma estudante de economia que propôs uma sociedade para vender as roupas que sobravam das grifes. Juntas, elas criaram a Restoque e começaram o que é hoje uma das maiores marcas de moda femina do país. A primeira loja da Le Lis Blanc seis anos depois em um espaço de 46 metros quadrados no luxuoso shopping paulistano Iguatemi. Hoje, Traudi é sócia do grupo WBG, dono das marcas Souq e Ida, que fatura mais de R$ 100 milhões. Confira a história completa no podcast.

Mona Ataya, CEO and founder of Mumzworld.com, has proven to be one of the Middle East's most prominent of women entrepreneurs. Beyond leading a successful and growing SME, and inspiring her employees and communities, Mona is on a mission to change the region, one mum at a time.A transformational leader and a change agent in every sense of the word, Mona has managed to grow Mumzworld from a business plan on paper to an enviable brand reaching more than 2 million mothers across the region in 7 years.Founded in 2011, Mumzworld has pioneered a revolutionary and gold standard e-commerce shopping experience for all things mother, baby and child in the ME region. Today, Mumzworld prides itself with being the leading, trusted and definitive source with over 200,000 products, an engaged community, exclusive product offerings and delivery to over 20 different countries in the fastest, most convenient and cost-effective way, at everyday low prices.Key Takeaways:0:00 Intro0:41 Mona shares her journey of entrepreneurship and what really made her become an entrepreneur3:23 Mona talks about three things that are necessary when starting a new business, that is, the people you are starting the business with, capital and your risk appetite5:02 Mona talks about how entrepreneurship has changed or developed from back then when entrepreneurship was not fashionable till today 8:18 Mona also talks about capital, talent, laws and regulations and corruption and how she would rank them in today's environment8:44 Mona shares the reasons why she ranked laws and regulations as number one specifically in her sector9:49 Mona talks about why she would rank capital as number two also in her sector and why the scale capital in the e-commerce sector is lacking 12:43 Mona also talks about what impacts the scalability of her business more in terms of challenges and the two most important drivers for growth13:53 Mona speaks of what she has done at Mumzworld proactively to increase the participation of women in the economy 17:32 Mona gives advice to the private sector on what they need to do to increase the participation of women in the economy19:15 Mona talks about how COVID has accelerated flexibility to work from anywhere and anytime and how it has also impacted the e-commerce sector22:29 Mona shares the vision of e-commerce sector now that it has been impacted by the pandemic 25:24 Mona talks about how and why vertical players are working and also not being crushed by the horizontal players such as Amazon28:38 Mona shares what to focus on technologically in e-commerce as a vertical player due to the innovations happening in e-commerce 30:22 Mona shares two things that has been the trepidation of the foreign investors investing in e-commerce especially in the Middle East region 33:23 Mona talks about the gap or what's missing for people to be able to create real innovation 35:55 Mona also talks about the ripple effect of Bayt and of Mumzworld especially to the Middle East region38:55 Mona explains the biased and non biased way where she would invest in, in the Middle East if she had $10 million and why Shows Mentioned:FMCG: Fast-moving consumer goods, also known as consumer packaged goods, are products that are sold quickly and at a relatively low cost.P&G: The Procter & Gamble Company is an American multinational consumer goods corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, founded in 1837 by William Procter and James Gamble.Johnson & Johnson: is an American multinational corporation founded in 1886 that develops medical devices, pharmaceutical, and consumer packaged goods.Bayt: is the Middle East's #1 job site in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA region) today. Amazon: is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington, which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Souq: is an English-Arabic language e-commerce platform, owned by Amazon, Inc. It is the largest e-commerce platform in the Arab world. Quotes Mentioned:“Businesses don't grow without capital.”“Entrepreneurship today has become almost the flavor of the decade.”“Success breeds success or success breeds ecosystem courage.”“Businesses are built to create intrinsic value that gives a company the ability to scale and be sustainable and stand the test of time.”“Mumzworld is not only in a transactional website, we really are a community.”“Demand is always the easiest part of building e-commerce.”“Avoid dependency on any one single supplier ever.”“M-Commerce is the future.”“The brands that are succeeding are the brands that have unfair advantages across the entire supply chain.”“You need the capital, and you need the talent to create vicious success stories.”Guests Social Media Links:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mumzworld-com Website: https://www.mumzworld.com/ 

Ecosystem Arabia - Episode 1 of 6 - In the first episode of our 6 week community activation, we tell the inside stories of Yahoo's acquisition of Maktoob.com, Amazon's acquisition of Souq, and dive into how technology inspired the Arab Spring uprising. This community activation is an interactive digital gathering of the Middle East and North African startup ecosystems; it consists of a 6 episode podcast mini-series and a 6 week live-streamed startup pitch competition, which will both culminate in an interactive virtual summit on February 16th.

Ecosystem Arabia - Episode 1 of 6 - In the first episode of our 6 week community activation, we tell the inside stories of Yahoo's acquisition of Maktoob.com, Amazon's acquisition of Souq, and dive into how technology inspired the Arab Spring uprising. This community activation is an interactive digital gathering of the Middle East and North African startup ecosystems; it consists of a 6 episode podcast mini-series and a 6 week live-streamed startup pitch competition, which will both culminate in an interactive virtual summit on February 16th.

Ecosystem Arabia - Episode 1 of 6 - In the first episode of our 6 week community activation, we tell the inside stories of Yahoo's acquisition of Maktoob.com, Amazon's acquisition of Souq, and dive into how technology inspired the Arab Spring uprising. This community activation is an interactive digital gathering of the Middle East and North African startup ecosystems it consists of a 6 episode podcast mini-series and a 6 week live-streamed startup pitch competition, which will both culminate in an interactive virtual summit on February 16th. Register for the virtual summit at https://hopin.com/events/ecosystem-arabia-virtual-summit (https://hopin.com/events/ecosystem-arabia-virtual-summit) Interact with the podcast and pitch competition by registering your email https://www.ecosystemarabia.tv (https://www.ecosystemarabia.tv) A special thanks to our presenting partner https://www.exim.gov/mena (The Export-Import Bank of the United States). As the global middle class grows and technology makes the world smaller, opportunities have never been greater for American businesses to reach customers beyond U.S. border. EXIM provides federal resources to access capital and mitigate foreign risk. And no business is too small. Let EXIM help you export fearlessly to the MENA region and beyond. Visit exim.gov/mena to learn more.

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Depuis quelques jours, l’appel au boycott des produits français se répand sur les réseaux sociaux du monde musulman, en réaction aux propos du président Macron. Lors de l’hommage au professeur Samuel Paty, il avait indiqué que la France ne renoncerait pas aux caricatures du prophète Mohamet. Les exportations françaises vont-elles pâtir de cet appel ? Cela dépendra du succès de cet appel, encore à confirmer, et aussi du poids des échanges commerciaux avec les pays les plus mobilisés. Même si le Koweït s'est montré très réactif, les fromages emblématiques Kiri et Babybel ont déjà été retirés des grandes surfaces de l'Émirat et une soixantaine de coopératives koweitiennes annoncent que les produits tricolores ne seront plus distribués, l'effet négatif sera limité dans ce pays, car les exportations françaises y sont faibles, elles se montent à quelques centaines de millions d’euros seulement. Si l’appel s'amplifie, c’est un risque pour les produits les plus exposés au grand public. Ceux de l’agro-alimentaire, de la cosmétique et des parfums. Trois industries qui contribuent positivement à la balance commerciale française et qui souffrent déjà en ce moment des conséquences du Covid-19. Outre le Bahrein, au Qatar, deux chaînes de supermarchés – Al Meera et Souq el Baladi – ont vidé leurs rayons des produits tricolores. En Arabie saoudite circule un message de boycott des magasins Carrefour. Ponctuellement un boycott peut-il nuire à une entreprise ? Danone en a fait les frais au Maroc il y a deux ans. Suite à un appel relayé par Facebook, son lait jugé trop cher ne trouve plus aucun acheteur. Son chiffre de ventes annuel a reculé de 178 millions d’euros dans ce pays, un incident qui a pesé sur son bénéfice global. Les marques prennent très au sérieux les boycotts relayés par les médias sociaux. Elles craignent plus pour leur image que pour leurs ventes et s’engagent souvent à prendre en compte les attentes des consommateurs qui les boudent. Au Maroc, Danone a ainsi abaissé le prix de son lait. Dans la menace lancée la semaine dernière contre les produits français, les entreprises ont en revanche peu de prise, puisqu’elles ne sont pas directement mises en cause. L'Élysée pourrait revoir sa position pour protéger les entreprises françaises ? L’histoire démontre que si les entreprises peuvent s’amender pour échapper au boycott, en revanche les États ne capitulent jamais. Le gouvernement français demande d'ailleurs aux dirigeants des pays concernés de faire cesser ces appels au boycott, sans revenir sur les propos du président. L’exemple le plus frappant de l'inflexibilité des États est celui d’Israël, soumis depuis 15 ans au mouvement BDS pour « Boycott, Desinvest, Sanction ». Un appel lancé par des groupes palestiniens. Israël combat cette campagne sur tous les fronts, avec les outils du droit et de la diplomatie. Bien que ses exportations en souffrent peu puisqu’elles sont concentrées sur les produits technologiques à haute valeur ajoutée difficiles à remplacer et souvent importés non pas par des particuliers mais des entreprises ou des États. Les exportations françaises vers les pays arabes sont-elles dans la même situation ? En grande partie. Dans les pays du Golfe, la France exporte des armes et surtout des avions. C’est 60% des exportations vers le Qatar et Bahrein. En Arabie, les achats de radars constituent le premier poste pour l’année 2019. Ces contrats font l’objet d’appels d’offre de longue haleine où les considérations politiques sont aussi prises en compte. Idem pour le blé, le premier produit exporté par la France au Maroc et en Algérie. Sur ces produits de haute technologie, ou de première nécessité, les appels au boycott lancé par la société civile sont impuissants.      EN BREF Dans la Chine communiste, la ligne économique des cinq prochaines années se décide cette semaine lors du plénum du comité central du parti Cette instance très politique qui se réunit à partir de ce lundi à Pékin détermine en grand secret le plan quinquennal des années 2021-2025. Face aux « vents contraires » mentionnés par Xi Jinping, Pékin devrait réaffirmer la priorité au développement de la demande intérieure.

Welcome to the Bali Interiors Stories podcast. In this podcast we speak with entrepreneurs and creatives, living and succeeding in Bali. I hope you enjoy my conversation with Sophie from Souq. Show notes: 4.00 Corona in Bali 7.10 Bali Rebranding and communities working together in Bali 13.30 Creativity and entrepreneur 21.56 Living in Shanghai and creating her cashmere brand 24.20 the sustainably in design 36.34 artisan skills 42.14 Technical hurdles of production in Bali For more information on Souq go to: www.souqdesign.co www.souqstore.co To view our Bali Interiors website head to www.bali-interiors.com And don't forget to follow us on IG by going to www.instagram.com/baliinteriors

Tammer Qaddumi is an investor, and one of the founding partners at Venture Souq, a Dubai-based early-stage investment platform. Which means, if you, or someone you know is at the early stage of their start up, make sure you tune in to this episode. The group has made well over 100 investments. And yours, or your friend's could potentially be next. Tammer Qaddumi got his B.A. from Yale. While at Yale, he did a semester at the American University of Beirut. On his return, he interned at the White House, under the George W. Bush administration. He also went on to serve as a Fulbright Scholar, in Damascus Syria. Tammer Qaddumi moved to the United Arab Emirates in 2009 Most of his time after was spent with Waha Capital, a publicly listed private equity firm based in Abu Dhabi, part of the Mubadala family of companies. In 2013, Tammer Qaddumi along with his informal circle of investors and friends decided to co-found Venture Souq. Today they are Headquartered in the United Arab Emirates with a team in the Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia. And are the largest investor network in the MENA region. #UAEstartups #SaudiStartups #DubaiAngelInvestor ▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂

Our story in the eternal city of Llyhn concludes as our protagonists meet with a certain Djinn.Big thanks to Black Void Games for sponsoring this session https://www.blackvoidgames.com/Music by: Black Void Soundtrack (Filip Melvan) and Ager Sonus.Our Champions of the Red Moon: Martin Heuschober, Nastasia Raulerson, Simon Cooper, David, Julia and David Hagberg.Web: https://www.redmoonroleplaying.comiTunes: http://apple.co/2wTNqHxAndroid: http://bit.ly/2vSvwZiYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/RedMoonRoleplayingSpotify: https://spoti.fi/30iFmznRSS: http://www.redmoonroleplaying.com/podcast?format=rssPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/RedMoonRoleplaying

Our protagonists find themselves wanted for crimes they did not commit. Will they be able to find the real culprits, or will their blood be spilled on the streets of the eternal city?Big thanks to Black Void Games for sponsoring this session https://www.blackvoidgames.com/Music by: Black Void Soundtrack (Filip Melvan) and Ager Sonus.Our Champions of the Red Moon: Martin Heuschober, Nastasia Raulerson, Simon Cooper, David, Julia and David Hagberg.Web: https://www.redmoonroleplaying.comiTunes: http://apple.co/2wTNqHxAndroid: http://bit.ly/2vSvwZiYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/RedMoonRoleplayingSpotify: https://spoti.fi/30iFmznRSS: http://www.redmoonroleplaying.com/podcast?format=rssPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/RedMoonRoleplaying

In the days when Babylon was the greatest city on Earth, mankind lived in placid ignorance of the grandeur, vastness and horror of the Cosmos… yet such tranquility was not meant to persist...Welcome to Black Void, a dark fantasy game where Hjalmar, Craig and Mattiaz are led through the dangerous streets of the eternal city of Llyhn by our GM Mitchell.Big thanks to Black Void Games for sponsoring this session https://www.blackvoidgames.com/Music by: Black Void Soundtrack (Filip Melvan) and Ager Sonus.Our Champions of the Red Moon: Martin Heuschober, Nastasia Raulerson, Simon Cooper, David, Julia and David Hagberg.Web: https://www.redmoonroleplaying.comiTunes: http://apple.co/2wTNqHxAndroid: http://bit.ly/2vSvwZiYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/RedMoonRoleplayingSpotify: https://spoti.fi/30iFmznRSS: http://www.redmoonroleplaying.com/podcast?format=rssPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/RedMoonRoleplaying

Comment importer un concept à Dubai ? Comment créer une filiale d'un business qui existe déjà en France et partout dans le monde ? Quelles sont les barrières à l'entrée ? C'est toutes ces questions auxquelles nous avons répondu avec Charlotte Margus, dirigeante de la société Le Wagon Dubai, classé numéro 1 des formations en développement web dans le monde.« Dubai sera la Silicon Valley du Moyen Orient » et connait un véritable boom de son écosystème tech soutenu par le secteur privé et public. Nous le voyons par exemple par le rachat par Uber de Careem, son concurrent au Moyen Orient par Uber ou encore celui de Souq, site e-commerce par Amazon. Le gouvernement souhaite que Dubai soit la 1ère ville digitalisée du monde.C'est en partant de ce postulat que le Wagon Dubai s'est installé il y a quelques mois aux Emirats pour vous proposer des formations intensives pour apprendre à coder et changer de vie.Avec Charlotte, nous avons parlé :- De ce qu'elle faisait en France.- De l'école Le Wagon – une école pour apprendre à coder, qui existe déjà dans environ dans une trentaine de villes à travers le monde et qui a été fondée par Boris et Romain Paillard.- De sa découverte du code grâce au Wagon à Paris- Des formations proposées par l'école qui s'adressent à tous, même aux débutants.- Du mantra de l'école : « apprenez à coder et changez de vie »- De l'implantation de cette école à Dubaï, des plus gros challenges que Charlotte a eu à surmonter- De la manière de dupliquer un concept qui existe déjà en France à Dubai et de l'adaptation au marché.- De ses ambitions pour le Wagon Dubai- De ce qu'elle aime à Dubai et des clichés propres à la cité-état- De La Marina, son quartier qui mixe la ville et la mer- De ses meilleures adresses : Fish Restaurant sur la plage, Breeze sur La Palm et le bar à vin rooftop La Folie avec une vue sur le Burj-Al-Arab.Vous souhaitez soutenir le podcast : vous pouvez mettre 5 étoiles et 1 commentaire sur l'application apple podcasts/iTunesVous souhaitez créer votre propre podcast ? Vous pouvez vous offrir ma formation en cliquant ici.Soutenez ce podcast http://supporter.acast.com/histoires-de-dubai. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

 Mohamed El Sherief episode.Zero To One Book by Peter ThielSubject Airbnb Essay By Paul Graham.The Story of Souq.com: How to Build the Largest E-commerce Platform.The early signs of Careem Mafia.Building a High-Growth Startup in an Emerging Market with Shola Akinlade of Paystack. Picks:Luay: Triumph Of the Nerds.Alfy: https://increment.com/Mostafa: Invest Like The Best.   دروس في بناء فريق العمل وبداية لينك دوت نت – حوار مع خالد بشارة

Oh man! It's been a long time, but we're back for the moment. This interview with RPG creator Chris Sevaldsen was recorded over a month ago, but Rem had to focus on a bunch of life stuff before he could get to editing, and Brandon stayed home so we didn't die of COVID. Chris Sevaldsen is the creator of Black Void - the esoteric TTRPG. He joins us today to talk about life, gaming, and his new supplement "Dark Dealings in the Shaded Souq." Special guest host: Mumphry999 (aka Nega-Larry, aka Larry) Hope you enjoy! WASH YOUR HANDS DON'T TOUCH YOUR FACE STAY 6 FEET AWAY DON'T GO OUT IF YOU DON'T HAVE TO! LINKS TO THE BLACK VOID! https://www.modiphius.net/products/black-void-dark-dealings-in-the-shaded-souq-pdf WRITE YOUR STUFF FOR US, PLEASE! Interested in writing geek-centric articles? Got a fever to let your inner writer out? Email us with an article to be published for thousands of readers to see! CHECK OUT OUR AWESOME merch! We have four astonishing graphics available to show your love for Dueling Ogres! Wear it loud and proud or silent and deadly. Heh, fart jokes. Or if you want to support us another way, consider becoming a ! For just pennies a day, you can feed and clothe these poor, destitute, abused ogres. (Quick, someone queue "In the Arms of an Angel") https://www.duelingogres.com/bazaar-dueling-ogres-store/ SMASH ALL THOSE social media LIKES AND SHARES AND retweets and pins and SUBSCRIBES FOREVER! They help us stay alive one more day! Literally, there are larger ogres over us. They're ruthless and terrifying. We cry tears of blood! CALL or TEXT us so we can play/read your question on air @ !! (Intro uses the "" track by Kevin Macleod (). Licensed under . Outtro: , licensed under .)

Amir Hegazi is a lifelong entrepreneur, with over 20 years of startup, tech, e-commerce, and digital media experience. He is the Managing Partner of intoMENA Group, a consulting firm that helps international companies do business into the MENA region. Amir was previously the Director of Marketplace at Souq.com, the region's largest e-commerce platform (recently acquired by Amazon.com). He helped build Souq. com's marketplace from the ground up to account for a sizable portion of overall sales volume. He is also one of the early pioneers of digital media in the region, having launched the largest online TV network in the Arab world at such companies as JumpTV and Talfazat. He is the Author of Amazon.com bestseller Startup Arabia, which was recognized as one of the top global startup books of 2019. Amir is Egyptian-American. He grew up in California and has been living and working in MENA since 2005.  

This week we talk to Emirati entrepreneur and investor, Fahim Al Qasimi, about the following  Adding Transparency To The Seafood Industry  Adapting To COVID-19 Corporate Governance Transparency & Business Ethics --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dubai-works/message

This week we talk to Emirati entrepreneur and investor, Fahim Al Qasimi, about the following Adding Transparency To The Seafood Industry Adapting To COVID-19 Corporate Governance Transparency & Business Ethics --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dubai-works/message

On today’s show, host Christopher Gorog has a conversation with Aladdin Dandis, information Security Manager at Souq in Jordan, now a part of Amazon. They discuss security governance and development operations in the framework of online shopping, as well as the development and acceptance of online shopping in Jordan. Listen and join in on the conversation!   Visit our sponsors: Cyber Resilience Institute Internet Broadcasting Network BlockFrame Inc. SecureSet Academy Murray Security Services

Ben jij – net als acteur en presentator Eric Corton – zo iemand die couscous maakt door het effies met kokend water te overgieten en dan liefdeloos te laten wellen? Na het beluisteren van deze aflevering van Cheft doe je dat dus nóóit meer zo.Chef Nadia Zerouali van De Couscousbar leert Eric hoe hij de échte koningin van de Marokkaanse keuken bereidt: Couscous met zeven groenten, driemaal liefdevol gestoomd boven een subtiel gekruide bouillon, met boter en gekarameliseerde uien. Gekmakend lekker.Ondertussen vraagt Hiske hen het hemd van het lijf over snijtechnieken, liefdevol koken, koken met restjes, fietsen en matiging – Eric stopte een paar jaar geleden resoluut met alcohol en junkfood en werd Een Ander Mens.Het recept is hier te vinden of via Instagram Cheftdepodcast en Twitter @cheftamsterdam.ShownotesDe ingrediëntenlijn van Nadia Zerouali en Merijn Tol (ze hebben verschillende soorten couscous, maar ook prachtige kruidenmengsels, heerlijk oranjebloesemwater, de beste granaatappelstroop etc.) heet Souq. Je koopt ‘m bijvoorbeeld bij de Albert Heijn. Nadia’s laatste boek Henna Hanina staat vol heerlijke recepten en prachtige foto’s. Over Eric Corton’s vrijwilligerskookproject Buurtbuik lees je hier. Toch geen zin om zelf te koken? Bij de Couscousbar op de Javastraat kun je de zevengroentencouscous ook afhalen (of laten bezorgen!). Dit (iets aangepaste) recept komt uit het boek ‘Couscous- de lekkerste gerechten uit de Couscousbar’.____Deze aflevering van Cheft wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door Helpling. Ben je op zoek naar een vaste, betrouwbare schoonmaak hulp? Check dan Helpling.nl. En als je de kortingscode Cheft15 invult, krijg je €15 korting op je de eerste schoonmaak van een herhaalboeking.

Addenda is the first insurance blockchain solution we have recently covered on Insureblocks from the Middle East.. For this podcast we were joined by Walid Daniel Dib CEO and co-founder of Addenda, the blockchain for insurance subrogation ecosystem in the UAE. In September 2018 Walid and his co-founders registered the company in the UAE and in the Dubai International Financial Centre (IFC). They set out to build a few prototype which didn’t quite work including a life insurance solution that was more of a solution looking for a problem. However as Walid puts it, they “struck gold” with the motor insurance subrogation solution that they’re currently working on.   What is blockchain? Blockchain is essentially a decentralised network. Where information that's shared between two participants is also shared across the board and everybody else in the room. Depending on whether it's a private blockchain or a public blockchain, that data could be encrypted, and or shared with others without them knowing the content of that data. Within an “old school” blockchain the public blockchain rely on certain consensus mechanisms, such as proof of work, and proof of stake to operate but more enterprise friendly blockchains rely on different types of consensus such as Byzantine fault tolerance.   The road to motor insurance subrogation The focus on subrogation came be seeing the issues that exist in the UAE and in the MENA region in general with regards to how manual certain insurance processes are. Walid and his team wanted to start with something that’s both high volume and low value in claims. Property insurance has very high value but low volume. Medical insurance has a lot of personally identifiable information which can be tricky in the UAE. Motor insurance ticked all the boxes. July 2018, Walid and his co-founders quit their jobs to focus building on their blockchain motor insurance which was ready by December 2018. They signed their first client in July 2019 and within the following month signed up seven more insurance companies.   Lack of Insurtechs in the Middle East? There are four or five Insurtechs in the Middle East, but most are aggregators in the space. In Walid’s opinion, the Middle East is still a few years away from having some deep tech startups. There is more demand for technical talent than there is supply. However with the recent exit of large startups such as Careem sold to Uber in March 2019 for $3.1 billion and Souq sold to Amazon for $580m in July 2017. There's now a bigger appetite for both investors, governmental entities and even clients to take Insurtechs, whether blockchain or otherwise more seriously.   Insurance market in the UAE In spite of being a relatively small country the UAE has more than 60 insurance companies. The top 5 insurers control more than 50% of the overall gross written premium whilst the vast majority control single digit percentages if not less of the market. There is now increasing activity in terms of mergers and acquisitions with a lot of gossip regarding a larger merger between Takaful.   The motor subrogation opportunity in the UAE If Car A hits Car B, and Car A is at fault and assuming both have comprehensive insurance policies. Both respective insurance companies will fix the cars, but as Car A was at fault, Car B’s insurance will chase Car A’s insurance for payment. A large number of documents will then need to be exchanged: Three competitive quotations to show the cost of repairing the car A policy report copy Copy of the insurance policy Copy of the discharged receipts to show the repair has happened On average over 20 documents need to be exchanged per claim. With over 2000 claims happening per day that’s 40,000 documents flying back and force via courier between the insurance companies. The more “technologically advanced” insurers are using fax. In the UAE the governmental side of things are pretty advanced,

Julia Chatterley is live from the New York Stock Exchange. Here are the top business news stories today! Saudi Aram-go! The oil giant confirming it's going public this year. McDonald's C.E.O ousted -- following a workplace relationship. And, Souq's success! We speak to the head of Amazon in the Middle East! It's Monday...let's make a move.

Coin M - A Gold-Based Cryptocurrency to launch in the UAE; Souq.com becomes the first to offer same-day delivery in Saudi Arabia; Localized, a new talent tech company, closes $1.2 M in funding to unlock educated talent for global companies; Careem expands payments offering with Mobile Recharge feature within the Careem PAY wallet across Egypt and Pakistan and the UAE with Jordan to follow soon; Flying taxi startup Volocopter raises $55 million in round led by Volvo parent Geely; YouTube launches Its Music Streaming Services in the Middle East and North Africa market; _ Watch the full episodes and join the conversation at startupminute.co.

We had a chance to talk to Ambareen Musa, CEO and founder of Souqalmal.com, which is one of the top 10 most promising UAE startups by Forbes Middle East. Souqalmal.com is a personal finance and insurance aggregator business started in 2012. It was great to hear her journey in building Souqalmal.com as a sole founder, in a highly regulated industry and across borders, and recently she managed to raise us$ 10 million in Series B funding! She talks to us about what it’s like to be a sole woman founder, how to fundraise and discusses challenges with opening up different markets within the region. Ambareen is one of the top 50 most influential women in the Arab world for a reason, she is very clear about the direction for the company and is unwavering in her efforts. Follow us on Social or use #StartupHustleME to connect: https://www.facebook.com/startuphustleme https://www.instagram.com/startuphust... https://www.twitter.com/startuphustleme www.linkedin.com/company/startup-hustle-middle-east/ Email us on: startup.hustle.me@gmail.com Visit our Car rental startup: https://ejarcar.com Get in touch with Yellow here: https://welcometoyellow.com/ If you are looking to start a new business in the Middle East, or are looking for information on how to grow your startup, this podcast is for you! Join us on our journey as we build our own startup, Ejarcar.com, and hear success stories from established entrepreneurs and VCs in the Middle East. Startup Hustle Middle East is a weekly podcast, hosted by Siddharth and Mamta Varerkar. This podcast will cover topics like how to build a lean startup, how to pitch, growth-hacking tips to market your product and we also interview leading thought-leaders in the Middle East. You can find our audio podcast on all podcast platforms - apple podcasts, google podcasts, castbox, spotify, itunes etc. If you have the Anchor app, you can also leave us a voice note to be featured in an upcoming episode. #KeepOnHustling

Ein Tagesausflug nach Downtown Doha, den Souq und auf die künstliche Insel The Pearl. Weitere Informationen und eine Transkription finden Sie auf https://www.reisepassnummer.de/2019/doha.html

In total, this week, 12 startups raised $35.7 Mn funding and one startup acquisitions took place. This week, this week one of the biggest funding rounds in the Indian startup ecosystem was raised by Bengaluru-based digital application provider for micro-merchants OkCredit. The startup raised $15.5 Mn in a Series A funding round led by New York-based investment fund Tiger Global. Morningside Venture Capital, Lightspeed India Partners, Venture Highway and Y Combinator also participated in this round of funding. The startup will use the funding to further scale its merchant user base, grow its team and execute on its product roadmap. Bengaluru-based social commerce startup Meesho raised an undisclosed amount of funding from social media company Facebook. The deal size is said to be “very significant”, however, there is no official communication on the same. The funding will help it further its efforts to enable independent entrepreneurs to build businesses and grow their customer base via social channels. Gurugram-based GroMo raised $576.7K (INR 4 Cr) seed funding led by Ramakant Sharma, cofounder, Livspace and Utsav Somani of AngelList India as well as other prominent angel investors. The company is planning to utilise the funds to fuel its growth, strengthen its core technology platform and operations team. Retail technology startup Arzoo raised $1 Mn Pre-Series A funding led by Jabbar Internet Group, that founded Middle East’s largest ecommerce platform Souq.com and a consortium of Investors from India and the United Kingdom. The startup plans to expand its retail category by integrating 500,000 retailers by 2022. Authentic Ayurvedic organic handmade skin care products provider Cosmeto Food raised $143K (INR 1 Cr) from Risers Accelerator. The products by the company are made from ECOCERT Certified organic ingredients with tested and authenticated proven formulations. An interactive platform to connect with avid readers in real time Vowelor raised $143K (INR 1 Cr) in a pre-series A round led by angel investor Dr Sanjeev Juneja. The startup will use this funding to develop, implement and market this app to target 150k+ downloads on its app and 200k monthly website hit. Vowelor further plans to partner with Publishers and Bookstores to create an inclusive and organized ecosystem to bridge the gap between readers, authors, and other stakeholders. Moving on to acquisitions: Go-Jek acquired Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence startup AirCTO. The financial terms of the deal are yet to be disclosed. According to the company, the AirCTO team will now join Go-Jek with immediate effect as a part of this deal. The acquisition aligns with Go-Jek’s focus on hiring premium talent to support the development of its ‘Super App’ which can be used for availing various services such as ordering food, commuting, digital payments, shopping, and hyper-local delivery through one app. What else caught our eyes? About ten months into acquiring a majority stake in Flipkart, Walmart has decided to use $1.2 Bn of its cash reserves to fund the operations of the Indian ecommerce marketplace. According to the statement, of the $2.7 Bn ending April 30, 2019, approximately $1.2 Bn can only be accessed through dividends or inter-company financing arrangements subject to approval by Flipkart minority shareholders. The Karnataka Cabinet has decided to amend the Karnataka Startup Policy 2015-2020 in line with the national policy. The state government is amending its policy accordingly by including turnover limit and year limit that is there in the central policy, he told reporters after the Cabinet meeting. Also approved was the 'Chief Minister Grameena Sumarga' programme to maintain priority village roads in the state in a good motorable condition. For this programme using a scientific method, 24,246 kms are selected as priority village roads based on the criteria of connectivity, Gowda said.

Nearly Two years on from the acquisition of Souq.com, the US e-commerce company Amazon is front and centre in the UAE again with the launch of its paid subscription service, Prime.     Host Mustafa Alrawi, Assistant Editor in Chief, and Kelsey Warner, Assistant Business Editor, talk to Nada El Sawy, The National's Business Correspondent, about what this development means for consumers and retailers in the region. Also there was the meeting in Japan of  G20 countries' central bank governors this week where IMF head Christine Lagarde sounded down a warning about properly harnessing FinTech. US-China trade tensions dominated the mood however with the full G20 leaders meeting still to come and a face-off between Washington and Beijing. Opec and its allies have extended their co-operation on oil production curbs, shoring up prices. But for how much longer? Read more on our website: Amazon Prime now available in the UAE (https://www.thenational.ae/business/technology/amazon-prime-now-available-in-the-uae-1.872847) Oil gains as OPEC and allies vow output cut extension (https://www.thenational.ae/business/energy/oil-gains-as-opec-and-allies-vow-output-cut-extension-1.872773) Donald Trump say's he'll raise China tariffs again if Xi Jinping won't meet at G20 (https://www.thenational.ae/world/the-americas/donald-trump-says-he-ll-raise-china-tariffs-again-if-xi-jinping-won-t-meet-at-g20-1.872998) Dubai Land Department and Mashreq bank sign e-mortgage deal (https://www.thenational.ae/business/property/dubai-land-department-and-mashreq-bank-sign-e-mortgage-deal-1.867161) London home sellers offer ever-growing discounts (https://www.thenational.ae/business/property/london-home-sellers-offer-ever-growing-discounts-1.867466)

We had a very insightful conversation with Muhammad Chbib - the man who has been a CEO to startups that have exited (Sukar.com acquired by Souq), been a founder & CEO on a startup that has generated sales of USD 1 billion in 3 years (tajawal and Almosafer), worked as a consultant for McKinsey and company, and founded two startups of his own, with a new one soon to be launched. So, what has Muhammad learned from working with and for these different startups? It all starts with building a great team, he is inspired by people and believes in nurturing talent, and that people make the company. We are also very excited about his new startup venture, listen to the episode to get a sneak peak of what he is up to. You can also watch this episode on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/HyHbslub7qk Check out Muhammad here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/muhammadchbib/ Follow us on Social or use #StartupHustleME to connect: https://www.facebook.com/startuphustleme https://www.instagram.com/startuphust... https://www.twitter.com/startuphustleme www.linkedin.com/company/startup-hustle-middle-east/ Email us on: startup.hustle.me@gmail.com Visit our Car rental startup: https://ejarcar.com Get in touch with Yellow here: https://welcometoyellow.com/ If you have the Anchor app, you can also leave us a voice note to be featured in an upcoming episode. Connect with us #StartupHustleME

Episode Acknowledgements Special thanks to the Qatar Foundation International, which provided the seed funding and support to develop and launch this podcast and to produce this episode. Thanks to Nawal Nasrallah for generously sharing her expertise in this episode. Featured Music “Kim Arar,” by Wind of Anatolia, from the album Live at the 2014 Golden Festival, used with permission from Wind of Anatolia. The track has been excerpted and mixed with narrative. “Arizona Moon,” by Blue Dot Sessions, from the album Cholate, used under Creative Commons License Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). The track has been overlaid with narrative. “Borough,” by Blue Dot Sessions, from the album Molerider, used under Creative Commons License Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). The track has been overlaid with narrative. “Trailrunner,” by Blue Dot Sessions, from the album Zander, used under Creative Commons License Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). The track has been remixed and overlaid with narrative. “Vernouillet,” by Blue Dot Sessions, from the album The Sweet Hots, used under Creative Commons License Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). The track has been remixed and overlaid with narrative. “When in the West,” by Blue Dot Sessions, from the album Landsman Duets, used under Creative Commons License Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). The track has been overlaid with narrative. “Great, Great Lengths,” by Blue Dot Sessions, from the album The Balloonist, used under Creative Commons License Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). The track has been overlaid with narrative. “Delamine,” by Blue Dot Sessions, from the album Bitters, used under Creative Commons License Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). The track has been overlaid with narrative. Image Credits Photo of spice display provided by Daniel Osborn. Photo of Nawal Nasrallah provided by Nawal Nasrallah. More about Primary Source at primarysource.org

Zain Bahrain, a leading telecommunication services provider in the kingdom, has joined forces with Alkeri Partners to launch the ‘Zainnovate’ initiative aimed at supporting the Bahraini startup ecosystem ; DHL, the global brand in the logistics industry has launched Saloodo! in the Middle East, to provide a digital platform that connects shippers and transport providers for road freight needs within the UAE ; Oman's eMushrif, which turns ordinary school buses into smart buses to make sure that children are safe, raises $1 million pre-Series A funding ; Kitab Sawti, the world’s largest Arabic audiobook platform, has raised USD 6 million in Series A funding from prominent new and existing investors ; Car rentals in UAE stronger than ever as UDrive, the app-based pay-per-minute car rental service, announces $5M Series B funding round to accelerate growth and increase the number of premium cars in its fleet - including Mercedes, Audi and Mustang models ; Souq.com becomes Amazon.ae! The world’s largest e-commerce platform is now giving Middle Eastern users access to its gigantic catalogue ; Deliveroo and McDonald’s UAE complete the UAE’s first ever hot air balloon delivery to a Dubai desert safari ; A new trailer for “Spider-Man: Far From Home” has just been released! Watch the full episode and join the conversation at startupminute.co.

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Trump Tweets New threat in China-USA Trade war There has been a new twist in the ongoing US-China Trade War. Trump said in a Sunday afternoon Twitter post (5 May 2019)  that the current 10% tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods will increase to 25% on Friday. He also threatened to impose 25% levies on an additional $325 billion of Chinese goods “shortly.” Chinese Trade Delegation uncertain Chinese Vice Premier Liu He had planned to bring a large delegation to Washington on Wednesday to hash out a trade deal. There had been talk in recent days that something resembling a deal could result. Instead, two sources briefed on the talks said the Chinese side may consider backing out of this week's negotiations.  Trump's new threats, they said, threaten the six-month truce. In return, Trump may have made them after Beijing threatened to renege on some previously discussed commitments. One source had said the Chinese vice premier would likely cancel the trip he'd planned for himself and a 100-person delegation. This was for the final round of talks that U.S. officials had previously said could yield a deal by Friday. In September 2018 Chinese officials canceled a trip  in similar circumstances. New Trade Reality or Trade War Negotiation tactic? A second source said Trump's decision to more than double the tariff rate on $200 billion of goods was meant to send a message to Liu to not come to the U.S. with more “empty offers.” The Chinese spokesman would not elaborate on the number of people on the Chinese team, the length of the trip, or the date of departure. He also emphasized that such back-and-forth in the trade negotiations have happened before. He underlined that the latest round of talks saw “positive” progress. US-China Trade Sticking points Major sticking points between the U.S. and China have been intellectual property theft and forced technology transfers. The two superpower also disagreed as to whether tariffs should be removed or remain in place as an enforcement mechanism. Reaction to Trump Tweet “The very fact that it's a nuclear threat brings people to the table," said Warren Buffett on CNBC. "But you don't want to have too many nuclear threats out there because someday somebody may feel apt to fulfil one.” World markets, including the S & P 500, the Shanghai and the Hong Kong stock exchanges dropped sharply  on the news. However,  later they all rebounded substantially on the basis that this was probably a negotiating tactic rather than a realistic future plan. The response of US businesses over the last months to the trade war  has been strong: A number of US businesses have been relocating factories to Vietnam from China. More recently, many businesses have been importing and stockpiling goods as a pre-emptive measure in case the threatened tariffs materialise. Amazon rebrands “Souq” as amazon.ae (UAE) On Tuesday, Amazon announced the launch of a new marketplace targeting the Middle Eastern market. With the launch, Amazon said that it is rebranding Souq, the e-commerce company it bought for $580 million in 2017, to Amazon.ae. The Souq.com URL takes you to Amazon.ae, but Souq is still available in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. It should be possible for UK/EU or US based 3rd party sellers to start selling on the platform immediately. Amazon opening new Fulfilment Centre in the Midlands of the UK Amazon has plans to open a new  new fulfilment centre in Kegworth, East Midlands, UK. They are about to start recruiting for over  500 new permanent jobs. Amazon's new FC will help meet  demand, expand selection and enable third-party sellers  to scale up their businesses. Stefano Perego, Amazon's Vice President of UK Customer Fulfilment, said: “We are thrilled to begin recruitment for 500 new permanent roles in Kegworth, with competitive wages and comprehensive benefits starting on day one. We are delighted to expand our operations in the East Midlands.

Shane shin is the Co-Founding Managing Partner at Shorooq Investments, a leading early stage tech-focused VC fund in the MENAT Region. We had the chance to catch up with Shane and discuss what the motivations were behind Shorooq investments backing four startups. These startups are from different industries and were at different stages on their startup journey, but there are definitely some commonalities between the four, that makes them investable. If you are a startup looking to raise and don't know how to approach VCs or what they look for, this episode is for you! Check out Shane shin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaneykshin/ Check out Shorooq Investments here: http://shorooq.ae/ Check out Sarwa here: https://www.sarwa.co/ Check out Souq al mal here: https://www.souqalmal.com/ae-en Check out Trukker here: https://www.trukker.ae/ Check out Yawmi here: https://yawmi.com/ Follow us on Social or use #StartupHustleME to connect: https://www.facebook.com/startuphustleme https://www.instagram.com/startuphust... https://www.twitter.com/startuphustleme www.linkedin.com/company/startup-hustle-middle-east/ Email us on: startup.hustle.me@gmail.com Visit our Car rental startup: https://ejarcar.com Get in touch with Yellow here: https://welcometoyellow.com/ If you are looking to start a new business in the Middle East, or are looking for information on how to grow your startup, this podcast is for you! Join us on our journey as we build our own startup, Ejarcar.com, and hear success stories from established entrepreneurs and VCs in the Middle East. Startup Hustle Middle East is a weekly podcast, hosted by Siddharth and Mamta Varerkar. This podcast will cover topics like how to build a lean startup, how to pitch, growth-hacking tips to market your product and we also interview leading thought-leaders in the Middle East. You can find our audio podcast on all podcast platforms - apple podcasts, google podcasts, castbox, spotify, itunes etc. If you have the Anchor app, you can also leave us a voice note to be featured in an upcoming episode. #KeepOnHustling

Uber Technologies has agreed to buy Careem in a $3.1 billion (Dh11.39bn) deal that is the largest technology sector transaction in the Middle East so far, eclipsing Amazon’s $580 million acquisition of Souq in 2017. With governments across the region looking to nurture start-ups in the technology space, the size of the Uber-Careem deal, as well as the increased availability of expertise and liquidity in its wake, will be seen as a catalyst for both budding entrepreneurs and investors, from inside and outside the Middle East.  Mustafa Alrawi, The National's Assistant Editor in Chief, breaks down the impact of the deal with Chris Nelson and Kelsey Warner. What impact will the deal will have on the region and its start-up scene?

In this episode, Ghadah and I talk about our trip to the Cloth Souq and why it’s one of the places we love in Kuwait. From the variety of colors and textures to the creative window displays, the Cloth Souq is a terrific place to wander around and be inspired. In addition to the goods that are being sold there, the architecture is also something to be admired. Built in the mid-1970s, Souq Safat (the complex that houses the different branches of the Cloth Souq), is an example of extensive in-situ concrete works. One of the main features of the market was its underground parking, which was revolutionary at that time. My father, architect Kamal Bhuiyan, was the on-site supervisor for the architectural restoration and renovation of Souq Safat after it was damaged in the 1991 war. He shares some of his observations of the market from an architectural perspective, some of which are mentioned in the episode, along with other points that will be further explored in a future episode.

A seasoned entrepreneur and business leader, Muhammad Chbib has been integral in the inception, strategic development and operation of several organizations in Europe and the MENA region since the late 1990s.After graduating in 1998 Muhammad started up his first Internet startup in Munich/Germany. From 2004 to early 2011, Muhammad led McKinsey & Company’s client service teams, where he served various Fortune 500 companies in the online, financial and telecommunications sectors, both in the Middle East and Europe.In 2011, Muhammad moved to Dubai to take the entrepreneurial plunge with Sukar.com, an online fashion platform, which was acquired by MENA’s biggest online marketplace Souq.com in 2012.From April 2015 until August 2018, Muhammad led the Online Unit of Saudi travel giant Al Tayyar Group, developing the company’s technology arm in the online travel space. This business unit generated close to USD 1 billion total sales within three years only, catapulting its two online travel agency brands, tajawal and Almosafer, to become regional leaders.After exiting Al Tayyar’s Online Unit Muhammad is working on launching a platform targeting Muslim Consumers worldwide, to offer an exciting user experience in booking Hajj & Umrah travels.Fluent in Arabic, German, English and French, Muhammad is German of Syrian descent. His upbringing and professional experience in multinational organizations has seen him successfully develop brands to large cross-nation audiences.On this episode, he shares his entrepreneurial journey with us and shares his insights into difficulties he faced along the way.Enjoy the show!Recording Note: Since the original recording Manal.com has pivoted to offer bespoke travel opportunities targeting Muslim travelers globally.Show Notes:01:30 – On being born and raised in Germany02:30 – Accepting his first job offer straight after University03:00 – Joining his true job after university 8 weeks later…04:00 – His first startup – an exploration into the copycat startup model of Rocket Internet05:00 – Attending an industry conference as a speaker with just 2 slides prepared06:00 – On defining success for his first startup and the journey07:45 – His souvenir from his first startup (which he maintains to this day)09:00 – How his consulting for startups and corporates lead him to Dubai in 200310:30 – The six years with McKinsey11:15 – His takeaways from working at McKinsey12:45 – How health issues lead him back to the startup life14:30 – On maintaining relationships when talents join and exit15:45 – LinkedIn’s role in matchmaking the investor to the entrepreneur16:30 – His time at Sukar.com18:30 – Exiting to Souq.com then launching Desado19:30 – The difficulty of marketing local designer brand vs. well-known brands in the region and the pivot21:30 – Difficulty finding investors in the region at the time23:00 – Having foreign investors leading the investment round25:15 – Difficulties faced when originally setting up a startup legal structure at that time28:30 – The corporate-backed venture approach to startups at Tajawal33:30 – Bringing his tech co-founder with him for the next startup35:00 – The startup experience and environment even with corporate backing37:15 – AlMosafer, Tajawal and the strategic business unit40:00 – On funding factors and access to funding43:30 – Muhammad outlines his next upcoming venture45:30 – “When you have four children, there is no switching off”48:00 – Power naps and brain waves48:30 – On role models and setting entrepreneurial examples51:30 – The importance of routines with children and coffee53:45 – His daily work routines55:15 – The only book he’s ever gifted56:00 – Being self-reflective56:30 – Understanding we have limited time57:00 – Arabs are not victims and it’s important not to think in those terms57:30 – Importance of teaching children to code See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

And why does every holiday need to be commercialised? Last weekend, Dubai’s malls went head-to-head with websites like Noon and Souq to compete for a share of your hard-earned cash. On this week’s episode, we examine why people love a sale so much, and what leads companies to try and make money from every holiday possible (think Halloween, Valentine’s Day, Christmas, Eid, etc.) Consumer behaviours are changing, and less people are fighting with crowds in stores for a discount TV. More and more people are opting to shop sales digitally, from the comfort of their homes. But not everyone is sold on the e-commerce revolution. We talk to two people who aren’t interested in online shopping (and one who isn’t particularly interested in shopping at all), to find out what makes them spend, and the changing ways people are choosing to hit the sales.

Pour cette session de Coinxomatik le label Souq Records sera le fil rouge du mix. Crédit Photo : Coinx Playlist : Atbara…

American e-commerce giant Amazon launched its services in Turkey on September 19. The company's new Turkish website, Amazon.com.tr, is now up and running and features a wide variety of products, such as books, electronics, household items, and toys. With its huge product selection, Amazon hopes to provide customers with everything they need online at more affordable prices. The company also promises easier and faster delivery to its customers. Aside from attending to its customers' needs, Amazon Turkey is also catering to local businesses. The company lets businesses of any size sell on its website for free to encourage them to branch out into the online platform. Alpagut Cilingir, the website's Seller Services head, said that Amazon will produce more tools that can help in further selling its products in the future. Amazon Turkey's promising and auspicious future already attracted many local businesses. On its first day alone, over 1,200 local businesses reportedly signed up on Amazon.com.tr, and about two million products were posted on the site. In addition to Turkey, Saudi Arabia is another country where Amazon will run its operations. Recently, Souq, an e-commerce site in Saudi Arabia, introduced the Amazon Global Store. Through the site, Saudi Arabia locals can conveniently access over one million products that are for sale on Amazon in the United States. Amazon is also hatching a plan to start an insurance comparison website, a search engine where people can compare prices of insurance policies. If the plan pushes through, the website could be a huge success for Amazon because many of its existing customers buy products, which need insurance coverage, from its website.

2017 was seen as a watershed for the tech ecosystem in the UAE and wider Gulf region; Amazon bought Souq.com, more than half a billion dollars was invested into hundreds of start-ups and the entrepreneurial fire was truly stoked. November will feature a number of events and conferences drawing in regional and international VCs, other types of investors and start-ups together, to take stock of where we have arrived and what the future might hold for the sector. Host Assistant Editor in Chief, Mustafa Alrawi speaks to Bana Shomali, founder of home services market place Servicemarket.com which recently raised $4 million in its latest funding round about why the investment base is broadening and what it takes to rapidly scale a business.

Show Takeaways:On how the MENA startup ecosystem has evolved over the last few years…There has been a lot of positive change and growth in the startup sector. Opportunities have arisen around smart phone apps for entrepreneurs and startups to address problems. The number of funds in the region has increased and the ability to raise capital is a lot easier. As we have seen exits in the region, a lot of the teams involved with those exits are then re-investing in the ecosystem either as VCs and/or by starting new startups.On where the MENA startup ecosystem is heading next and the challenges they face…The market is big, young and very tech savvy. Startups need to continue to focus on actually solving problems. We will continue to see global eyes focus on the region, but we still see some difficulties in additional funding rounds, however overall we are on the right track.On the Step Conference…We see a lot of entrepreneurs at the conference and also tend to see entrepreneurs coming back again the following year; whether that means their startup has grown or their ideas have pivoted, it’s a good sign of growth in the MENA startup ecosystem. Check out more episodes from the 2018 Step Conference Series and learn more about Souq.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Show Takeaways:On how the MENA startup ecosystem has evolved over the last few years…A few years back we would’ve only seen early stage startups, where as now we are seeing exits and substantial scale ups occurring, with the advent of the region’s first unicorns (e.g. Careem) and the acquisition of Souq.com by Amazon.On where the MENA startup ecosystem is heading next and the challenges they face…The markets are fragmented and the amount of VC money is still behind other markets (as a percentage of their GDP); so funding and access-to-market needs to be improve to truly achieve the region’s potential. The scaling process is slowed down in such a fragmented market, we don’t see what we see in other huge markets such as United States, China or India. The role of government support also plays a factor – the research that comes from other governments also contributes to their own startup ecosystems.On the Step Conference…When one explores the Step Conference, one can see that this ecosystem is happening and growing. There is an energetic vibe one can sense at the Step Conference, the entrepreneurs and startups are solving problems of the market and one needs to support them. Check out more episodes from the 2018 Step Conference Series and learn more about Wamda Capital. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Alexa famously squared off against the Google assistant at CES, but what was all the hype really about? Regardless of whether you call them digital assistants, chat bots, or AIs, these voice-activated devices are quickly making their impact felt everywhere, including here in the UAE. Souq.com was selling the Echo Dot – the hockey puck-sized device that houses Alexa – in the UAE during the holidays, part of a global push on the part of its parent company, Amazon, to grab markets share. But does Alexa in the UAE do everything it can in the US? And it brings up some questions, such as: do you need to be polite to your digital assistant? To get a better feel for what Alexa is all about, we bring it (her?) into the studio to ask a few questions. It quickly becomes apparent that Alexa is listening ready to talk…. maybe a little too much. Alexa isn’t the only digital assistant making headlines though. There are a lot of them coming on to the market, including Siri, Google Assistant, Cortana, and Bixby.

Everyone who works in retail has heard that shopping malls are the dominant shopping force in the UAE. Well, if this past Black Friday was any indicator, things may be changing. While preliminary figures are still not available for the past weekend, anecdotal evidence suggests that defenders of brick and mortar stores may have to eat a little crow with their turkey this year. Malls, due largely to their communal nature, still did a brisk business this past weekend due to the emirate-wide Super Sale, but Black (and White!) Friday sales online were also booming, so much so that several retailers had to delay some deliveries due to a surge in demand. It ain’t over yet, either. Today is Cyber Monday, which means more online deals. It’s just time to face facts. E-Commerce, thanks largely to Souq.com and a few others, has arrived in the Middle East. The new question is: What will physical retailers do to adapt? Ed will be talking to retailers at the Middle East Retail Forum, which starts today.

Following a blockbuster week in the UAE featuring three key business exhibitions, this week was always going to feel quiet. Thankfully. That’s not to say that the gears of commerce are not already beginning to turn: This weekend is one of the biggest in the retail calendar. Here in the UAE, we have the annual White Friday sale. We discuss what this means for the e-Commerce market here, and whether Noon.com will need to start introducing big events of its own in the retail calendar if it is to keep pace with the well-established Souq. We also discuss the minutes of November’s Fed meeting and what, if any, implication it will have on December’s interest rate hike, and the Autumn budget set to be presented by the conservative government in Britain.

Recently the Muscat Municipality opened the doors to the long awaited Muttrah Fish Souq, so I’m down here poking around and finding out what’s changed under the roof of this modern building. Has tradition and charm left when we tore down the old? Let’s find out! In this episode of the Sultanate I bring my microphones down to the tour around the new souq. You can view images from this visit to the souq at the associated episode post on my website. Check it out!  Sultanate Ep 021: Muttrah Fish Souq Links Sultanate Ep 007: Muttrah Souq 6 Fun Things to Buy at Muttrah Souq Riyam - Muttrah Hike (C38) Follow the show and find more about Oman at: www.beyondtheroute.com Facebook Instagram Twitter Do you like what you hear? Be sure to tell a friend and tell me what you like in the comments at www.beyondtheroute.com. You can also leave the show a review on iTunes. Thank you, and I look forward to hearing from you.

This month on the Sultanate podcast we head down the newly opened Muttrah Fish Souq. The episode launches on the 5th of October, 2017. Subscribe using Sticher, the iOS Podcast app, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you don’t know how to do that, click this link. Follow the show and learn more about Oman at: www.beyondtheroute.com Facebook Instagram Twitter

A 60+ minute mix from my visit to Doha, Qatar / a mini soundtrack for wandering the streets of the Souq. Similar style as my Istanbul mix yet a "slower" 115 bpm with a middle eastern focus / progressive feel throughout. Enjoy! QATAR / DOHA PLAYLIST 1. Hasmik Harutyunyan- Tikranakerti Ororootsayin (Armen Miran Remix?) 2. Yokoo & Retza- The Akashic Records 3. Sam Shure- Arabiskan 4. Armen Miran- Nani Jan 5. Fashion Victimz- Sand & Storm 6. Calavera & Manya- Seta 7. Dahu- Desolate (Hraach Remix) 8. Hearthug- Yuth 9. Amyn- Twisted River (Canson Remix) 10. Krystyano & Kataa- Hayq 11. Ali Farahani- Younan 12. Armen Miran- Heavenly 13. Ilona Maras- Asrar 14. Lucefora- Dusk Til Dawn (Hraach Remix) 15. Simon Vuarambon- Siberian 16. Simon Vuarambon- Liberation 17. The Soul Brothers- Sheikha 18. Just Emma- Scars in the Sky (Armen Miran Remix)

Are you ready to buy your groceries online? In this episode, the Business team takes a closer look at the latest blockbuster e-commerce deal; Amazon’s $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods, the US-based grocery chain. Are people willing to buy perishable goods online? And, within the UAE, what do retailers think of the rise in e-commerce and the challenges it presents? After Amazon’s acquisition of UAE-based Souq.com, the team also discusses what the Whole Foods deal means for the region, and whether we can expect Whole Foods to start deliveries to the Gulf.

David Katz, Senior Audit Manager in EisnerAmper’s Technology and Life Sciences Practice, discusses Amazon’s recent purchase of Middle Eastern e-commerce site Souq. Katz tells us about Souq, the Middle Eastern e-tail landscape, what the deal entailed, and why this is a key acquisition for Amazon.

In this in-depth episode, the team discuss the rise of eCommerce in the region. Following the purchase of Souq.com by Amazon last month, and with the likes of Noon, Al Tayer, Majid Al Futtaim, and Namshi all hot on Souq's heels, we look at why eCommerce still hasn't taken off. Is it cultural factors? Is it simply a lack of investment and effort from the major players thus far? Do people like seeing things in person before purchasing them, or are they worried that courier companies will never find their villa? All this and more is covered in today's episode, the second half of which features an interview with Chris Schroeder, CEO, venture capitalist, and author of a book on startups in the Middle East, titled "Startup Rising -- The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East".

EP078 - Amazon News http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at Razorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. In Episode 78, we catch up on a lot of the new Amazon news including: Amazon Bookstore opens in Chicago (very near Jason's home) A number of analyst raise their guidance on Amazon stock, which is now almost double Walmart's market cap Amazon hosting a summit to help brands sell direct Amazon Private Label update Amazon Go store delayed Amazon gets NFL Thursday night football Amazon hiring work from home customer service people New Product - Amazon Connect, AWS cloud SaaS callcenter application New Product - Amazon Chime, AWS cloud SaaS video conferencing application  Amazon Opening 1m sq-ft FC facility in VA Amazon acquired Souq.com - middle east marketplace - Dubai, Abu Dabi, UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain  Amazon shuts down Quidsi Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 79 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday April 6, 2017. New beta feature - Amazon Automated Transcription of the show: Transcript Jason: [0:25] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show this is episode 78 being recorded on Thursday April 6th 2017 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:40] Hey Jason and hey Jason Scot show listeners Jason was looking at our logs out on iTunes and we've been so busy interviewing retail luminaries that we you and I have a report on since early March so I have a ton to catch people up on. Jason: [0:56] That I told you I'm super excited and I'm equally excited to be talking to you with my full voice. Scot: [1:05] Yeah yeah it's good to have normal Jason back and put froggy Jason kind of into the, into the catalog there on time hopefully listeners went to put off by it I hear that Mr lister's listen to a set 2X anyway so you were still at Chipmunks on I'm sure it's fine. [1:22] Just kick off you I have been quite the world traveler I haven't done anything since shop talks up and kind of boring but tells about you any interesting World travels through portal. Jason: [1:33] I have been on the road quite a bit since shop talk mostly customer visits but I did get to do an event I like to do every year in New York City. Did may not be super for me or do a lot of our listeners so it's called the path to purchase Institute and they put on this annual show called The Shopper marketing Summit and it has stork Lee is not been a very digital Summit it's a long time event, targeted at Shopper marketers that focus on on marketing inside of brick-and-mortar retailers in what was in. Scot: [2:06] Circulars or like a circular makers work. Jason: [2:10] Other. There's a little bit of that it yeah but it's a it's a lot more like product displays like temporary point-of-purchase materials like promotions and in-store promotions products samples. I'm all all the sort of the traditional tools are retail or would use to promote products and more so Brands than retail or so the show is really focused on. Like what it what is the best tactics for Mondelez are Procter & Gamble to use to help their their product get disproportionate attention on the Shelf. [2:49] Yes I would I just found interesting is you know that, how much digital had permeated the conversation there so they were first they asked me to speak so we actually did, I was on my co-workers from this we did for our workshop on digital disruption and talking about all the ways that the. The we filled the whole discipline a shopper marketing has been fun and I disrupted by by digital and then you don't evolve impact of purchase, but they were a lot of other another you like speakers from Kimberly-Clark talking about digital merchandising and then frankly a lot more presentations that you would have extradition Alee expected to see at Academy show your now starting to see if some of these traditional shows in their ways to go though. If you like the sessions that were most popular with the audience where we would probably be pretty rudimentary touch are average listener but it is interesting that these traditional disciplines are now you know really starting to focus on our space. Scot: [3:52] Digital is eating World As We predicted. Jason: [3:55] It is indeed in while I was there are our friends at Amazon open the new book store 2 blocks from my house. [4:21] As I said Amazon open their Chicago bookstore and I presume because Jeff is such a loyal listener that he carefully selected a location only a few blocks from my house. Scot: [4:32] Tell Sam to you've been just to refresh listeners in case they shame on them missed the episode when last you were travelling Amazon book stores you went to the Seattle and right. Jason: [4:43] Yeah yeah we've been in Seattle want a couple times now but I was there. Scot: [4:47] The New York. Jason: [4:48] Recently didn't I don't think the New York one is open yet. Scot: [4:52] I think that one Telus about Chicago and I'll do some research. Jason: [5:00] Yes I have been the two personally I've been in the Seattle won in the San Diego one which are very similar and they have evolved over the times I visited them until then, looking at Chicago Chicago is a little different than the last two in a couple of regards the most notable difference is that it has a coffee shop at. So he has an expresso bar they're serving Stumptown Coffee which is a favorite. Coffee brewer from my old Hometown to Portland Oregon. [5:31] Omen none of the other Amazon site been to have a cafe or any food I'm so so you know. That was certainly an interesting evolution. [5:43] Also had a few new categories in it so one of the things that I hadn't seen before is there was a popular kitchen accessories Gondola in the store. [5:57] And that is a little interesting like traditionally another merchandise books in the store physical books and. Quick refresher for pubs that will talk to you before then listen to some the other shows it's not. [6:11] Designed a traditional bookstore would be design right see a couple thousand square feet you want to get as many books as you can into that that's 2000 square feet so normally most of the books are. Merchandise down their spine and only a few promotional books are merchandise facing you this Amazon store has very few books in it because all the books on merchandise facing you so that it's a much more attractive presentation the print. Paper price tags next to every book in that price tag. Orwell fact tag has the reviews from Amazon on its what has the star rating in in a couple select customer reviews reviews play an important part in merchandise in the store and no actually have gondolas. For merchandising books by rating like these are all books that are rated over 4.8 stars who are the top rated books for the city of Chicago things like that that you know it's a real clever social merchandising, pricing is really weird any stores they charge list price if you're not an Amazon Prime member. I'm in if you are an Amazon Prime member you get the online price, but because as we all know the online price changes so often they don't print the online price in the store so you literally have to use the Amazon app on your phone to scan the fact tags, to see what the current prices of the book you're going to buy or use one of the scanners that they have built into the store. Scot: [7:34] Cool so you were right I was wrong I think this is a Jason and Scot first the that have not opened the first location in your cat's Columbus Circle and its opening in the spring so I think they have like. William another month here and then the second one they announce is going to be across from Empire State Building so they announced to open none in New York but opening one soon. So Columbus Circle will be first and empire state will be second tell me more about the the kitchen section of the store. Jason: [8:04] Yep so as I was saying like you know you have that kind of book presentation and then the book of all the Amazon stores is really that Amazon branded. Electronics rights of the stores really about Kindle and Echo and you know I would call it a consumer electronics store dressed as a bookstore. And so on certain they're happy to sell books in that store but it really feels like the job of the stores to educate customers about the the candles and The Echoes In The Fire tablets. [8:34] And so the center of the store is around that they have their sort of equivalent of a Genius Bar where you can get Live help they do you know scheduled live demos and tutorials a lot of those kinds of things and so you know traditionally. Those are the two kinds of things that are in the store that Electronics including accessories and third-party products that work in the. In the Amazon Alexa echo system in the inbox inside this Chicago store with the first story I have seen that had other, hard Goods in addition to Amazon products and the books and so they would have had a gondola that's like best selling kitchen appliances on Amazon and it's showing things like. Immersion blender smoothie machines KitchenAid mixers think things like that and so they would really like. The bed you know 10 of the best selling products in another category and put them in the front of the store. Scot: [9:31] Did you see I'm a some tweets that and I visited the Amazon store and December of 62, been a while Minnesota and the baby with the tweets of Sean a lot more of the Amazon basic showing up in the store did you see evidence of some of the private label stuff kind of creeping. Jason: [9:50] Yes in categories that are related to electronics right so that they get a lot of the Amazon basic bike cables and batteries are our merchandise but they're really merchandise as accessories for. The fire tablets and things like that. There's not a display that's like I sorted based on being Amazon basics for sample there just interspersed on the on the displays where they would be most appropriate. Scot: [10:16] Yeah we're going to talk about a little bit later but they've got enough private label and apparel I wonder in those New York stories if we can't magically see a little infection section open up and be kind of nurse in to see how that progresses. Jason: [10:27] Yeah it it's only well-liked into Italy the stores they design so far are lacking some amenities you'd normally expect in a Apparel Store like dressing rooms and things like that but like. Could easily be retrofitted or or more to your point like the next door could easily Adam. Scot: [10:43] Anything else from from the roof. Jason: [10:46] Nope I think given all the other exciting stuff we have to talk about that it should probably cover it on the Jason trip reports for this week. Scot: [10:55] Cooper Center in the Amazon new section I wanted to go back to shop talk and that was kind of late March. They had Amazon had two speakers at shoptalk this year which is interesting bit been notoriously shy about going to conferences but, they were pretty bold today had Stephanie Landry in this was her second year at shot talk and she talked about prime now I didn't really get much knew from that other than that continues the area where they are aggressively expanding, I'm in one of the things I like two references you know they sent really once they decided to put. Pedal to the metal on Prime now they opened up in 4245 markets in the span of two two and a half years so a lot of people, talk about these experiments are doing in the coffin so it's just an experiment but I always caution people that, Amazon decides this out of the experiment they can scale it really quickly so it was good reminder, program and what they can do and you're one of the guy thats decided to build a consumer-oriented business one of the most interesting quotes from that was it when someone looks good. Question from the audience about, the profitability of it and she said well it Amazon know we really focus on the customer first and then we can we saw for profit II, and that in the cooler that was the interesting part and she said, it's much harder to sell the customer problem then a customer experience problem kind of meeting you this whatever they're building isn't lighting customers versus a profit problem. [12:31] That's really kind of an interesting talks about putting the customer first but Amazon really really does it and, the donut since day one when they could afford to now they obviously have the luxury of being able to do that but you know they really don't care about the probability this thing they want to really don't know that customer experience and then they'll kind of get there on the profit side and that's how it started when Prime launch never thought they were crazy and it could never, make any money and I. [12:58] When I heard from Amazon and sit there is a lot of controversy as a launch that the basis was really into it and a lot of people could you do the math on Prime you can kind of say. Our best people aren't going to pay for shipping and are worse people are going to get free shipping and there's no way this economic make sense but I think they didn't those people didn't count on was. It was such a delightful program for customers their volume when up connects and then it going to match Pace herself so it was kind of interesting it was, but I like that one comment. The second speaker was the first to stop talking it's Peter Pharisee and Peter for a while and he works for Sebastian gunningham and runs the marketplace part of, Amazon and the surprise from me is when I've seen him speak at our conferences and and I think it's been an internet retailer wants it's usually about the other sellers on the marketplace. Did this talk at shoptalk was 100% about brands, talking it essentially the whole thing was targeted to Brands how they're an important constituent Amazon and then he talked about, for reasons why they should saw on the platform they're all pretty obvious no shipping we have the scale we're friendly DeBrands these kinds of things it was a real surprise because I've never seen Amazon talk that way about Brandon Sac to know if. If one of the questions I get a lot is what does Amazon have any chinks in their armor that kind of thing. And the relationship with brands has been strained and you know some some Brands I talked about it in my panel where you know a lot of Brands we talk to you. [14:31] Go with the nuclear option I call it where they essentially say look we're going to yank our stuff Nike is kind of most famous or they've decided not to work with Amazon and a 1st or 3rd party relationship and they prohibit people from selling any authorized resellers from Sun their stuff on Amazon, so so I think Amazon realizes that's a challenge and they kind of had a softer messaged for Brands than I've ever heard. [14:52] Did you a catch either this. Jason: [14:55] Yeah I got both of them and I would totally agree with you on the Amazon Prime now you know both how fast they were able to scale that and 18 months getting to them when they have to us but also you know the shocking thing is, it was like a hundred and eleven days from the first meeting where they discussed doing one hour delivery opening that first. 1 hour delivery concept ride in so that that level of agility is super impressive and terrifying. And I just like to quote someone was asking when she describes Amazon Prime now the think the picture of when has in their mind is that's the service you use to deliver the cold medicine when you're sick because you physically can't go out of the house, and you need to quickly, and she was pointing out that those kind of emergencies are are part of the service but that the overwhelming majority of the service is not for those things that need to be delivered in an hour but rather for things that consumers just wanted an hour and so it's it's less about. You know it only gets used as a necessity and more than it's a delightful customer experience that people appreciate I also. So that you know that sort of reminded me of another Super recent Jeff Bezos Square where he was talking about how they had lots of great Innovations over the years that they loved inventions that Amazon loved. Consumers didn't really care about and he is talking about the fact that like I can assure you that no no invention that consumers don't adopt has ever been disruptive in so just sort of. [16:27] Focusing on the fact that like the hardest part of this whole equation is is figuring out an experience that that's magic to Consumers and that they want to do. Scot: [16:36] Yeah you just reminded me to that I think some breaking news Stephanie put out there is that occasionally if possible on Echo orders they will if it's in pruritus that and Delight customers by delivering it in an hour, did you did you catch that Amazon. Jason: [16:54] I think you're exactly right I think she said that like if if you order from from Echo and it's available in Prime now they'll deliver in an hour that sort of surprise and Delight you. Scot: [17:06] Cool and then another thing that's been really interesting is so so since October unrelated but what happens is that kind of screwed into the corner of Wall Street and kind of, you know that check their channels and they update their models and, right towards the end of March and early April everyone started doing that and several analysts came out and said you know we we actually think Amazon underpriced here and a, the time Amazon was out about a hundred $800 the stock price and some analysts came out and, for that I follow are there kind of called what's the axe on Wall Street which is kind of the leading analysts they really but that price Target up to over $1,000 so one went to, 1025 and even kind of sad you know we think. The Amazon probably will be the first trillion-dollar market cap stock so then a couple other in-laws followed suit and then the stock took off and as of this recording it's about $900 so that's. Pretty big run from 800 to 900 what is that, yeah I'm about 15% and yeah when you're dealing with a company decides a Amazon that that is a material change so Amazon is worth about twice the market cap of. Not now market cap for one thing and revenues are different you know Walmart has more Revenue than Amazon all these kinds of things we're just talking about the what Wall Street thinks the two companies are valued at, I'm in if you do those notes so that's a good headline right now to lead our company thousand 25 on the stock in the stock reacts but. [18:43] I make a habit of reading these things and it is pretty nice thing you know they talk about different colors that that Amazon has now the one that it's been pretty crazy about is the cloud computing Amazon web services. That it continues grow faster than people have thought and be more profitable the prime business with Amazon is having to disclose more about prime than they ever have and in their annual report, they gave some new disclosures that essentially let people back into that there's between you can get a range it's not exactly have to kind of make some assumptions, between 50 and 70 million Prime users so it's kind of putting it about 65 million Prime users show, that's bigger than some people thought it's smaller than others but it puts a real number there with people are pretty excited about and then the other thing that the new disclosures did is a. Put some boundaries on the ad business I just kind of two parts to the Amazon advertising business there's. [19:39] ICBC peace and that's broken out in their financials one way and then there's a banner key switch is broken out another way up and it's a pretty material business it's it's you know it. [19:50] Any projected growth forward it'll be the number three as business behind Facebook and Google next year so it's already bigger than Twitter. For example show. People get pretty excited by that now scale wise it's in the single-digit billions and Facebook and Google or in the very high double-digit billions so it's going to take a long time to catch them and I don't know if it ever will be I think. It was pretty excited by that because it's also extremely high margin business along with AWS season. [20:23] In kind of another color. Is it that's interesting is and yeah we talked about it here on the Jason Scot show first is this kind of Alexa and when Wall Street talks with Alexa their kind of wrapping a lot in their there. [20:36] Not only talking about the personal assistant but all the things behind it the semantic engine the machine learning the all all the natural language processing in those kinds of things, and what about analyst Mark mahaney he's kind of said that. 10 billion dollar business in when you report it is not just the sales of Alexa devices but all the ancillary things around the same time Amazon also announced Alexa for the iPhone which is. [21:03] To boxing I want to talk about I'm just talk is. You know that Wall Street is also waking up to the fact that at the same time where these analysts upgraded Amazon they downgraded Google which I thought was interesting and I specifically in the Google Beyond grade called out and said, we believe the Goodwills on a crash course with Amazon and decided the study of United Site a lot that shows that products arches really switch from Googled Amazon but they also talked about that business and they did make a pretty compelling argument that a, you know in a world where Amazon news whatever the buying that ad. Business could be more valuable than Google for Google has some search intent but Amazon has a product intense that was kind of interesting take and you and I have talked about early on. Is it go to this voice is just your voice, so we're going to call it kind of world Amazon monetizes by selling stuff and Google they announce recently too then. Montage by ads and there now putting ads into you know some of the different things you do on the Google home assistant which is pretty cheesy to be honest with you show. [22:07] Really interesting. Example of of Amazon having someone's back against the wall in a funny way and no Google trying desperately like let's forget the customer experience through some ads right in here when you ask. Does the home assistance for the weather kind of thing it's this really really terrible so I thought show, I know we have some Wall Street folks listening but I thought it was really interesting to hear a lot of what we talked about really summarize really well as it's kind of you know the pillars behind this this upgrade, and then when you we look at that the result of that Amazon is now worth a Walmart at Target a Costco BestBuy and CBS all together so that's another kind of interesting thing the other result of that. Is that Jeff Bezos rocketed up the Forbes 500 list two number two jumped over Warren Buffett and a second only to Bill Gates so. To put that in perspective and haven't seen when do this this is a Jason Scot exclusive show, Bill G is at 84 billion and Bezos is now at 76 billion as of recording this so I did the math and if they Amazon stock gets over a thousand, assuming that there's no big change and let me a Bill Gates is doing then he will be the richest person so there you go. Jason: [23:29] That is crazy I asked you for the Jason Scot show and I'm I believe that those two guys live like a mile apart so that's a pretty affluent square mile in Seattle. Scot: [23:41] Yeah yeah on if they like check each other's mail in their gun and stuff. Jason: [23:46] If they are I would hope that people that do that. Scot: [23:48] Yeah you never know hey Bill could you check my did you watch the dog one at a time. Jason: [23:56] Exactly I think Jeff would have a robotic dog. There's a bunch of other Amazon stuff going on as well as one that. Got a lot of attention in my world is there some leaked invites the Amazon has invited a bunch of the, the brands and protect the consumer packaged Goods Brands to West Summit at Amazon where Amazon wants to talk to them about getting more serious and selling direct and give them some advice about what they need to do to, successfully sell Direct. Scot: [24:38] What's what's the buzzer you heard any some scoop on that whole thing. Jason: [24:42] Yeah well so the. The sort of clickbait headlines then because you know Amazon wants to partner with Procter & Gamble to bypass the Walmart and Kroger and all those those things and well. I think that's certainly true, I actually think that Amazon is is less worried about like stealing those customers from Amazon or from from the traditional brick-and-mortar retailers and Amazon some more interested in, setting those those Brands up to be more successful on Amazon in the digital era so I think this this is a lot more about. Kid convincing and controlling these companies to change their product configurations to be more e-commerce friendly so, think about the bundling sizes think about how they package their products you know in a lot of other product categories Amazon very successfully was able to get manufacturers to change how they package their goods to make them more, consumer-friendly on Amazon so they had this whole frustration free packaging program for example and, consumer consumer packaged goods are predominately designed to Market to customers on a store shelf and so their package really isn't very friendly too. A shipping in that Amazon cardboard box and I think Amazon interested in convincing them to fix that. Scot: [26:11] Yeah yeah yeah and then no Jason Del Rey who's been on the show had some interesting kind of reaction from the brands that felt like. Another too caught up in this Amazon vs Walmart war and everyone wants lower prices so that's certainly not a not a pleasant place to be what would you advise to brands that are kind of. I'm sure you guys get a lot question about this one how do you tell folks to avoid that. Jason: [26:36] Yeah well I mean to twofold I got I do think of you a brand that that's in that space that you you do want to be on Amazon at this point right. Like more than half the growth in that category over the next three years is coming from digital and Amazon is today more than 50%, of that that digital pie so pretty expensive mistake to, not be where all that customer demand is on the Amazon platform obviously we did we did show a couple weeks ago with Melissa talking about the a lot of the fundamentals of being a. On the Amazon platform and Jason does article really sort of. Emphasize one of the points from that show right and that's that there's this this really real negative cycle at the moment where. [27:30] You sell products on Amazon and so you don't party yourself to dream with Amazon is that that you'll give Amazon the best pricing and you won't sell it less than them and they have all these algorithms that watch your price and react to them, so so did when you give a different bundle to Costco and Costco selling a case of Campbell's Soup and the price per ounce in that case is very low. Amazon sees that and drip drop the price on quantity one of that that can of soup to that super low price and then they're selling a super low and then Walmart emergence kick in, and start beating you up for selling the product much lower on Amazon then you're offering the quantity one price to Walmart, so that the challenge at the moment is. Is that you when you think about these products of you really think about reconfiguring the products for. E-commerce you probably want to think about more than packaging like you you probably want to create. Different skews that are different enough that they don't trigger that that's where the pricing cycle. [28:42] And so that potentially even means like you know different formulations are different flavors or or you don't. [28:50] Different sized squares of Swiffer on Amazon than the squares at Swiffer that you buy. In Walmart so that those aren't the same skew and they don't they don't get caught in that pricing cycle. Scot: [29:03] Any definitely wanna make sure your Warehouse bundle isn't comfortable feeling so good that stuff. Jason: [29:09] Exactly and I do it in the long run that's just not sustainable like that you know the both Amazon and Walmart or someone. Benefiting from that at the moment and then warm in the margins just aren't there for the manufacturers to get squeezed between those two guys and so you know either. The manufacturers will have to find some other way to survive by selling direct without those guys and those guys are both launch private labels and you know I think we're seeing the Collision Course between these product manufacturers in these in these products resellers. Scot: [29:43] Another Hot Topic kind of in this vein is Amazon truly ramping up private label as we talked about at the top of the show so suppose folks are familiar with Amazon basic switches things like HDMI cables and whatnot, another Washington lest I follow has done a lot of research and it's fascinating start some usually the trademark, the bowels of the trademark database and Amazon this is hard because Amazon uses a lot of shell corporations. [30:13] Misdirection let's just very legal misdirection to try to hide what they're doing so these folks kind of trying to get down and they know that. This agent to really works and Amazon and there's ways they can get back into it then they searched on Amazon and they kind of, figure out that if these things they find our exclusive on Amazon to prime or or there's a certain you can kind of tell how the age of the pages are written the. It's actually private label so they've identified a good kind of. [30:42] 15 to 20 private labels that a lot of people don't know about one we talked about on the show is Amazon elements um and you know. We we talked about that but the area where there's the most growth is in apparel so there's things like. All of moon is a woman's Bohemian inspired casual clothing it was hurting both of these are prime exclusive which means that if you're not on Prime you you see them but you can't buy them and there's a lot of worry, and the way the way I seen it now is. So Amazon has you have the name brand so let's see all pick on one I don't know a good Bohemian brand but let's say dress shoes show. Men's dress shoes so they'll have. Cole Haan or someone like that and that'll be the name brand and let's say that's like $125 then we'll be a Chinese kind of just no no straight from the manufacturer and it will have a brand but it's brand you ever heard of, I'm in it is clearly in a clearly a Chinese brand so it'll be Brand X and it'll be. $30 Lynnwood Amazon will do as that's a big Golf Mill kind of split the middle so somewhere in that 60 to $70 is were there and check their private label. And it will it will have a much more kind of now it feels Amazon it feels like it's backed up by Amazon Prime exclusive, doesn't exactly say Amazon all the time so like to have one Franklin and Tremont some kind of sounds like was at Johnson and Murphy so that Franklin and treatment which is men's dress shoes and that that will be in that 60 to $80 great show. [32:18] And asked me to hell, why how do they decide where to do this and what I've heard from folks is its data driven so they can actually know their database gotten smart enough where it will go identify, and balances between supply and demand so they'll see there's demand in men's dress shoes for an $80 shoe and they will go. Godin work with manufacturers and create what they think is a missing by looking at the data and put it out there so that's really you know. [32:49] Everyone in cpg in grocery stores does private label but I think the way Amazon is doing it is is pretty unique by for a couple reasons the way the way they're laying it in with the Chinese manufacturers going directly to Prime and those kinds of things. Jason: [33:03] Yeah and I think what's interesting is even you talk to release a few people and they they have you know they want to talk about Amazon private label strategy and I like to point out no no no no. Private label strategy it's a label strategy. [33:19] That way you know a lot of the traditional private label it's about like in all the same feature set at an alternate a price point. And you know a lot of these products like their they're targeting alternative price points not necessarily lower by the way in and they're they're optimizing features for that price point so you know these are. These are not just knock-off products of a national brand and Mini cases. And so you know and many of them they're putting marketing behind trying to build the brand and the most notable today of course this is Alexis is a total credible, billionaire brand that that Amazon has built and so. I wouldn't necessarily say there a great brand Building Company yet but they're getting consistently better and they're iterating and so I don't rule out the day that that's some of these apparel brands. You know how are legitimate brands on their own that that stand out and have customers that are interested in buying them. [34:22] I think I'm pretty interesting one you mentioned. [34:27] Amazon elements day I just got an email they have launched a vitamin D products so this is entering the nutrition space which is. Another space that I think. Their data has shown then there's an opportunity and right now it's an exclusive invite only products you have to apply to buy it which I did and I just got accepted and one of the novel features. Is it that they have sort of the Amazon Firefly x-ray technology built into their product packaging in so I haven't received the bottle yet but like when you ain't Amazon app. With your camera at these new bottles you get a ton of supplemental information about the product so it sort of. Enhanced virtual packaging for a for these products. Scot: [35:20] Yeah that's kind of a page out of the on this Playbook right but they. It's hard to put that all in a little vitamin bottles eyemagine that's kind of part of it is bye bye running out of real estate they can and it can be dynamic too I guess if they can. Jason: [35:35] Yeah and change it all the time and again it goes back to this in the old world where you printed the label on the package and that was your marketing and then that label lived on a Walmart show, that you know there was one approach but in this new world where it's coming in a cardboard box that that packaging plays a different role right like it's it's not the zero the first Moment of Truth for you anymore it's a post ownership experience that's most important on that bottle and so you know it's pretty interesting that Amazon is is obviously the first move there but I think a lot of what they do talk to the cpg companies about in their Summit, is a sort of moving in that direction. Scot: [36:16] And then the big news since shop talk I'll let you jump into that one. Jason: [36:22] Yep so we've been talking about this for a little while that that Amazon had another store concept it was under construction and they unveiled it last week. And it is called Amazon Fresh pick up. [36:35] Inside this is a extension of Amazon Fresh do you build a cart of products in in your app. [36:44] On Amazon Fresh and instead of having them delivered to your home. They are available at this Amazon fresh pickup location and you drive through what amounts to sort of a drive-through stall. [36:57] I'm at this location and someone comes out and puts the groceries that you ordered in the trunk of your car so you never have to get out of your car. You don't have to perfectly synchronized being home when the Amazon Fresh guy comes to your house so that you can get the milk and put in the refrigerator you go and pick it up from Amazon when you want. But it is a lot more convenient than having to shop and bag for all your groceries yourself. So we we talked in this show a lot that buy online pickup in-store is probably going to be the dominant model for digital Grocery and you know that that's one area where the traditional grocery stores have a big advantage over Amazon because they have a bunch of stores. Amazon doesn't I think what we're seeing here is Amazon's first generation answer to that problem. [37:43] I'm delayed open a store and the most notable thing I think we expected all of that we were curious whether you be able to walk in the store and buy anything which at the moment you can. But the big sword of fire across the customer experience is that they are implying a 15-minute guarantee. So 15 minutes after you quick check out on your mobile app your groceries can be ready to put in your trunk and so what that means is. You're just leaving your friend's house from dinner and you realize you need some stuff for breakfast in the morning, you know you can order it and likely swing by that the Amazon Fresh pick up location on your way home or you can remember at the end of soccer practice that you need some stuff. Order it on the soccer field and pick it up on your way home none of the other grocery pick-up have anything like a 15-minute guarantee like most of them don't have a guarantee, some of the best service levels are you have your groceries ready in an hour and much more typical is will have your groceries ready in like 4 or 5 hours and so. You know once again this is kind of like you know the industry shipped everything in one to two weeks and Amazon comes out and says will ship everything in 2 days. You know they're saying will do buy online pickup in-store but we'll do it in 15 minutes. Scot: [39:00] Yes the grocery I had like 3 questions for you so the first one of watch the video like 50 times the, it seems like it's very shoppable the store do you feel like actually go in and Shop or will it be restricted to just pick up area. Jason: [39:16] So I expected before they announced it that there would be some limited use cases of going into the storm shopping but might take from the video in the folks I've talked to is than this first generation that's not the intent that the that the inter the store is exclusively for, the merchandisers to do product picking and take the product out to your store, car so there is no get out of your car experience in the store at the moment is my understanding. Scot: [39:45] Looks like there's this kind of bank it's almost like a Sonic drive-thru where there's like, these Banks of places drive-through rights instead of this linear model that my grocery stores to have you going to parallel model and it looks like there's two 15 Lanes but that's interesting, that makes the scheduling kind of thing make more sense right because you get this window you go up there and that your understanding and. Jason: [40:13] Yeah are you want to serve customers and parallel Nazi really red so, the more of those pick up Windows like they're not windows but if you know you saw that the more of those Lanes you have the more simultaneous customers you can serve, oh I would suspect that there's not a fixed number of those lines I would suspect that that the number of lanes they offer is going to totally depend on the. The footprint of the site they have for the store and and you know that. Demand density in that in that go I would say that a bunch of the other grocery guys that have gotten serious about grocery pickup, do something similar so you go to the market where Walmart is doing grocery pick-up you will see like a big Bank of drive-thru stalls, that frankly was very similar to the the Amazon model but the big difference at the moment would be that that 15-minute guarantee. Scot: [41:08] Got it and then so no one else is close to that because my frustration is our local Harris Teeter offers it and, you know what you go through you carefully pick all your groceries and then it says oh I'm sorry this is like Friday and I'm getting my weekend groceries in it'll say we're sorry there's no slots open for the weekend your kids your Tuesday hot. Jason: [41:29] Yes so you've hit on a super sore subject most of the grocery pick-up have like two flies right like the window is too long so you you didn't. Do a big advance planning thing and you want to pick that up pretty soon after you ordered any Mini cases and so in very few of the grocery stores have a guarantee they have service levels they shoot for right like so. The shoot for that hour but they don't guarantee that our, I mean that's a problem but then the bigger usability problem that you just highlighted it is almost all of them won't tell you what the pickup window is until after you build the list and check out and so you don't find out that they can't meet your needs and till after you've invested a bunch of work with him which really, frustrated customers and makes customers mad. Scot: [42:16] How does Sohail how does Amazon get around that by just kind of saying I feel like the grocery store must they must want to know how much is in the car to know how much time so Amazon something. Jason: [42:29] Yeah I mean my assumption and it again it's not. 4 slice of the video implies that they can do it in 15 minutes it does not explicitly say they have a guarantee. And so at the moment it's for employees only somewhere to go store so we haven't actually gonna try it or even yet talk to someone that's been through it all I'll be back out in Seattle in a couple weeks an alternate logo, go stock the site and see what I can work but. If it's a true 15-minute guarantee then you know that puts all the onus on Amazon and it takes all the burden off of the customer right like you don't. You don't need to worry about if you know you're never going to get have to wait longer than 15 minutes so you just you just jump in order the stuff to do it. But we'll have to see to your point like if you can't know your pick up time until after you build your list then that really limits that utility. Scot: [43:26] Yeah so who do you think the main company is going to step up and kind of this are using people just aren't worried about it cuz he's just an experiment. Jason: [43:35] No I so I think the two people that are most worried about it have already been countering it before they want to store right like so I think I mean. That Walmart sells the most groceries of anyone in the country and they have. [43:52] Probably three or four hundred of these pickups tours and you know they do have quite a few that dedicated pickup locations, similar to the store that aren't even Walmart store and you know frankly if I showed you a picture of it and took the branding off you'd be hard-pressed to tell the Walmart pickup store apart from this Amazon Fresh pick up store so so you don't Walmart is certainly doing the play from their side, Kroger has now rolled out pick up in store to 400 stores Kroger's the largest. [44:23] Actual grocery retailer in the US and for Tampa Bay on your Harris Teeter Teeter is what is one of their brands. I think they were actually the first ones to do pick up I think they did pick up before trigger bottom but the. Both of those companies understand that that's going to this is going to be a huge use case they have to get it right in there both investing a lot of money along with Amazon you don't I think. Before Amazon watches store they wouldn't you know you would have said hey hear the things where Amazon has a huge advantage and and we have some huge advantages to we have 4000 stores are we have 2000 stores we have much bigger parking lots in all all of these sorts of things, you know I think the big the big fear here is. The Amazon recognizes the pickup is a significant opportunity in their opening a couple stores and. You going back to RR Prime now conversation. If these stores work well for Amazon and they they demonstrate customer demand that this is delightful experience for customers and frankly like I've seen a lot of evidence that customers really do like grocery pickup. [45:33] I think they could scale those store super quick right like I think they could either buy a retail and convert all that the that retail footprint into these pickup stores. Or you I think like they did with Amazon Prime now they could easily open $2,000 things in 12 months of if they decided that the market supported. Scot: [45:55] Yeah speaking of Amazon go there was some news there what's up what's going on with you. Jason: [46:00] Yep so you know they watched it last year in 2016 and it was for employees only and just supercoat reminder this is, the convenience store will you grab the items in you you walked out of the store and you don't have to check out or pay or do anything and artificial intelligence in the cameras in the store. Figure out what you took with you and charge you for it so it's just walk out technology hashtag jwalk. [46:24] So that was supposed to be for employees only last year and was supposed to open to the public early this year and as of now it's still hasn't opened and there is a lot of internal rumors that it's not going to open to the public for a while and the reason is, but they are struggling to support some of the edge cases and one of the biggest cases they're struggling as support, is apparently when they get more than about 20 people in that store the time they lose the capacity to accurately track all those people and their purchases. And so like you have a few people in that store and that the technology seems to work very well and you know again I can neither confirm or deny that I have myself been in the store and tried it and it worked quite well. But it's easy to imagine that that there's not an unlimited capacity to track people and so you know. Scaling could be one of the problem then so you know that the rumor is hey this is super interesting technology but it may be further away from. Being totally commercialized because they need to sell some of these these ads cases in this capability problems. Scot: [47:30] To get some computer problem or you think that 20 people the chances of being able to date they can't tell them apart if you think it's more. Jason: [47:38] I think it's both of those things I got like the number of people is just one of the edge cases they talk about other education as wife. I got it takes off his jacket when he's in the store or guy puts on a hat when he's in the store. And you know all of all of those things can be hard like as I pointed out in the fact this is kind of a mock store it's only three gondolas there's no blind spots in the store you're not allowed to use the restroom in the store you know how all these other things. I'm inside you don't from day one I looked at this and said hey this is totally cool technology. But I don't think we're going to see a fleet of these stores competing with 7-Eleven in the near term because it. [48:16] Even if you nail the experience in this little prototype with the three walls of Prada. [48:22] You're still a long way from being able to do it in a 7-Eleven and you're much for the way from doing it in a 200,000 square-foot Walmart store. So it's cool technology is you think we might see parts of that technology before we ever see the whole store so one thing is. Does cameras take perfect inventory and every retailer struggles to know what their inventory is every retail loses a ton of money because they have out of, they have soup in the back of the store in the store room but they're out of stuff on the shelf and customers are shopping for soup, and it takes 6 hours for a quick to notice that they're out of soup and they have to go get more and bring it out but with this technology you know exactly what your inventory is so it makes it better for buy online pickup in-store it makes it better for, showing your inventory to people that are pre shopping and don't want to drive to the store until they know you have it in stock and it makes it better for all these out of stocks and all these sort of other use cases so I think was on commercial that piece of the technology before they completely. Commercial ice JJ Watt. Scot: [49:25] Cool I'm picturing all these Amazon guys watching the security tapes and they're like who is this guy taking off his jacket look at this hat and like to juggling apples and I have a feeling that guy looks a lot like our very own retailgeek. Jason: [49:39] You you you do you don't even have to pick her if you go to the store in the far corner of the store like this the stores all windows and so you can actually see the back room with all the guys dressed in Orange, they're watching tablets and frankly that's that's exactly what they're doing they're helping, teach the machine the edge cases so it's not like they're the computer can follow you in there and it and they're replacing the computer with humans but what happens is when the machine gets it wrong a human. Audited and tells the computer what's right so the computer can get it right next time in and you you could watch those guys work if you stand in that corner. Scot: [50:17] Call Lisa friend told you. Jason: [50:21] You can see that from outside the store so. Scot: [50:23] Okay good. Jason: [50:27] Couple other little things I know we were burning on time but Amazon was pretty interesting new influencer program so that they've always had an affiliate program, where you know you can you can blog about stuff or put stuff on your social network and put a link in it and you'll get a commission on the sales on Amazon. And you know if anything they're tightening up that affiliate program and I think you know if you months ago that they will wear their commissions on a lot of stuff but they Now launch this bespoke influencer program which is targeted at. High-volume influencers and it gives them custom vanity urls, I think it rewards than more generously for sales and it's just it's an interesting invite-only program and the reason I say it's interesting is. The news influencers are really becoming the new product marketing vehicle so like in the old world what you generate product for demand for a product is you buy Super Bowl ad are you run a TV ad and you, you reached 30 million people in one shot now the way you generate demand for a product is, you know through these micro influencers in and finding the woman that that talks about the particular makeup style, that suits your product and getting her to blog about your product and put links in it and Amazon appears to really recognize that Trend in is building better tools to support that trend. Scot: [51:51] Yeah we've we've talked about them and if folks had a chance to listen to the coast program for example we talked about kind of the death of the the merchant King of the merchant Prince and forget all we got, and I. [52:03] Merchant Prince so this is this is you read about these influencers replacing and it's kind of Amazon saying yeah this is this is a thing. Jason: [52:13] Yep yep so that's interesting Amazon did the first drone delivery in the US last month so I thought that Mars space conference the Jeff Bezos was that, date they do it hurt some sunscreen and then I thought the first time they got FAA approval to do a commercial delivery in the US I think one that got a bunch of bugs this week is, did they stole the NFL deal from Twitter. Scot: [52:38] Yeah so the scoop there is last year Twitter bought the streaming rights for the Thursday night games I think there's four or five of these games the kind of itsfunneh, they didn't play out but there's notoriously that the running joke is the Thursday night games and up being like. The worst games out there because it's usually like the worst two teams in the league kind of think so. Jason: [53:02] I know you're talking about my team is on every Thursday night away. Scot: [53:05] Yes the Chargers and the I don't know all the Cleveland Browns. Jason: [53:13] Cleveland Browns we play the LA Chargers play the Cleveland Browns every Thursday. Scot: [53:17] Will guess what and now it's going to be on Amazon Prime and the Twitter deal never made sense to me and there was there some interesting scuttlebutt that you know to Twitter paid 10 million. And when they pay that a lot of news folks reported that folks are scratching your head, they knew any of the other people that been on this would be like Google with YouTube Amazon bit on that last year imagine with Facebook is now in the running for these things that you have a bit more and there was scratching your head why did Windows, Twitter didn't do much with it and now Amazon has won it this year and they're paying 50 million so 5x with Twitter page, obviously that's a lot of money and you know the people are kind of saying we'll why would they do that. And what's interesting is if you think about Amazon prime number one that Amazon has already announced it's going to be prime exclusive content. They have a lot of data on this so you know they've done another number of programs that driving program his name I can't remember you pray noticed. [54:19] And you know they've picked it up for these things and it brings in enough subscribers that have more than paid for itself so to do the math of this if you kind of think of, hundred dollars for Prime which is where Prime is right now you really only need about 50,000 new Prime members to come in and justify that $59 price tag, those are big numbers but when you have 65 million Prime people get another 50k actually isn't that. [54:45] Doesn't seem like that hurdle and I would imagine there's if you're an NFL fan you're sitting on the fence and, this is as you get access to your games and you get free shipping and all the other things that come along with prime so I imagine it'll actually be pretty lucrative for them and and possible so that's kind of a call I guess. The other thing I saw just quickly Amazon is really hurting a lot of customer service folks they announce they're going to hire 30,000 customer service reps, and they're doing a lot of customer service reps working from home, this is interesting we're hiring a customer service rep at my company spiffy actually interview the lady that had done this before, show you what Amazon does this they essentially they train you that give you an online training program on how to be a good front line customer service, person and then they just have some basic requirements for you to do this at home usually its high-speed internet desktop, or laptop that's higher end and then you need to get a mic with a headphone and a mic cept they actually tell you the ones that they recommend, and then, they actually will turn you on you know you you've been kind of run this program you check in and you're getting a customer service calls and then you log out and you get paid on kind of an hourly and ratings and and performance bases 3 inputs I found that fascinating and kind of funny, right after I talk to this lady Amazon announced that they were productize in this so anyone can use this functioning functionality now it's part of AWS. [56:20] And it's that this call center that lives in the cloud and it's called Amazon connect, and then before that they took another internal to over they have there and videoconferencing Build-Off AWS called Amazon Prime so Amazon is now kind of putting out these things and then release him to AWS which is which is itself. [56:41] A TBI system it is really kind of small Lego blocks to couldn't do anything with unless your developer and now they're actually kind of releasing these pretty robust applications on top of AWS, another quick one is the announcer opening yet another for Film It Center this was a million square feet in Virginia. And finally they made what's one of their bigger Acquisitions in a while and it's this Marketplace from the Middle East called so I think I'm saying that right Sou. Tube.com that started in the UAE and then, Calibre where it has like lots of countries in the Middle East that a cover so it covers Dubai Abu Dhabi Egypt Saudi Arabia Kuwait and Bahrain, there's it's rumored that this was a $659 acquisition of the company had raised, money at kind of north of a billion so she could have a bit of a Down Round but I think a good outcome for those folks there is some other really big Marketplace that's launching out of Saudi Arabia that has in a billions of dollars of investment, think it's this is kind of Amazon playing a little bit of defense and suit kind of thing on this is a good time to find a safe. Courtney storm I looked can't find the DMV for that but the Middle East is it your 50 million people, lots of opportunity there so so but interesting play on Amazon Amazon news day. [58:05] They also shut down I'm sure you saw this some Curious we think they should down Quincy.com the whole not just good you.com but the diapers and all the subs, things are weird news about this so they they shut it down because it wasn't profitable and but then several people, Channel each to the press that well we just had Amazon zigzag here at the annual kickoff which I imagine would be like, January I'm saying that you know where this path to profitability and we've had a profit month so a lot of people scratching their heads and so people reading the tea leaves there that this is some kind of a, Bezos messed around with Mark Lori who's over the founder of jet that's not Walmart not really sure I buy that but any thoughts from you on that. Jason: [58:51] Yeah I know I have the same thought as you I got I just don't think that. Did Jeff Bezos is going to screw around with a bunch of people's Alive's just to play a game and Mark Laurie right and you know there are people that are losing their jobs at Quincy. And I think there has to be a sound or business reason that they're moving away from it and I've heard the same rumors you that they haven't been profitable but that there, Basie profitability in 2017 so that that makes you scratch your head why they closed it and the ones out that occurs to me is. Did the Dave they vacillated back and forth on this idea of having all these separate URLs and. Distributor sort of Distributing there traffic across all those other URLs versus aggregating it all in the. Amazon property and I do think it's possible that in the early days they felt like Amazon wasn't a credible source for some of these these specific product niches and so having a dedicated. URL on a dedicated site made sense in there you know where moms that would want to join the. The diapers.com program that wouldn't want to be Amazon moms and you know that back then there was the SEO advantages to having diapers in the URL and all these sorts of things and I think I think of Donna way I think. I think. The Amazon bran is much bigger and stronger today and I just think Amazon may have decided that makes more sense to aggregate all the Shoppers on the Amazon platform and have him get access to all. [1:00:24] 400 million products and then it's just it's just not worth continuing to work hard to get quizzy to profitability when the core platform is going so well. Scot: [1:00:34] Yeah and I'm not sure they Consolidated the back in like some of the other things like they definitely have Zappos but I've never heard that they - Consolidated that I think it was still running out of a warehouse New Jersey and stuff so. Jason: [1:00:45] No I need all the employees for sure where New Jersey so I don't I don't I'm not certain about the tech. But I think that's true and the other thing I would just went out as I think all the employees that Mark Lord knows the web from Quincy he took from them long ago and they were to check which was also it would New Jersey show. Scot: [1:01:01] And they're all at Walmart now. Jason: [1:01:02] Yeah it just doesn't make sense that that that that Jeff is doing that for out of any malice for Mark. Scot: [1:01:09] Couple that was a heck of a lot Amazon news they've been busy busy little guys up there in Seattle any non Amazon news you want to hit here at the bottom of show. Jason: [1:01:19] Given time I think just a couple of things there continues to be that this mall again and talk like this, this is shaping up to be a really rough time to be in retail so, there are lots of early indicators that q1 sales for retail just going to be horrible across the board and that's really scary and we're just seeing announcement after announcement about you know retail orders that are. Taking these austerity measures and cutting stores and things like that and so you know, Payless's bankruptcy announcement you you add up all the announced clothes stores and it's over 2,500 stores that already been announced to close this year and we're only in April, last year the major retailers closed 1600 store so where. We're way ahead of last year's store closing and I'm sure we haven't seen the last of that I have a feeling after all the q1 earning reports that we're going to see a lot more negative news before it starts to turn around. Scot: [1:02:26] Yeah couple quick ones from me on the marketplace at so eBay was also shop talking that they had their see you again and when again I had, the head of advertising on my panel and you don't it's going to see eBay is not out of swinging pretty hard he made some political statements there was really excited about but they in the world e-commerce their big announcement was, and then but no you know I think the shop talk trucks I have done a really good job of getting people to announce things at the show that that's kind of. Makes it extra special worth going to so they announced at the show, two things essentially that you don't number one they have a new program where they're going to guarantee 3 day delivery on about 20 million items on eBay and they had a program called Fast and free, I was kind of like a loose kind of promised United it wasn't like. Primate you stuff in two days I was kind of this thing kinda gets to you usually on three days we think it will. Jason: [1:03:26] I get to you faster than other stuff. Scot: [1:03:28] Yes me that you kind of fast this is like, it into a launch and hasn't launched yet but you know at least the verbage from the executives is we're going to guarantee 3 day delivery on 29 items.. So that's good you know it's not 2 days but also you don't have to do it so it's free 3-day show, so that's interesting and then use the rest of his time to really talk a lot about machine learning and you're talking about how. If you were seller and you wanted to sell a widget you could take a picture that widget in the email recognize it and kind of say, hey Jason are you selling this podcast microphone and it looks like a roadie 200 and and no do you want to is that right and you want to spend list it for some pretty interesting things you know they're around morning and he pretty much said. You're not going to do machine learning now you're going to be if actually dead and three years when this is kind of the table Stakes so I agree with that, yeah he talked to some skeptical kind of long-term eBay kind of folks and you know the the Starkey kind of answer to that as well you know you go to eBay and search for something you can't find it why don't they put the machine on that part of the site so, yeah that that it is honeybaked continues to cut under invest in that part of the shopping experience so, they had some of the dishes they haven't really known as best I can tell taken root yet but they are working on it but it does feel like, some of the stuff they're doing is nibbling at the edges if you, if I'm what you're looking for so I'm a huge fan so I thought they came out swinging in an aggressive I just I just worry that they really need to prove that customer experience it Scot several iterations. [1:05:08] Not only Amazon but you know how many channel in and all the other players out, the last thing is so Amazon is been investing at this is kind of a backdoor more Amazon news I guess, I've been Amazon really know that they don't break out the numbers but, from all the data that's available like from comscore and things it seems like they're really true that market up there Bill, tennis centers of invested billions of dollars there they were to start up there that they were unicorns mean that over a billion dollar valuation Snapdeal and Flipkart, not news lot of rumors that those two guys are considering merging two kind of have a viable alternative Amazon so it's pretty interesting in in in of the only Market that Amazon is lost in his chinaware Alibaba, had a bit of a head start and Amazon couldn't you know it's a good country for Amazon but it's the one area where they're like number two or I could argue number 3 or 4 actually behind, attention JD show. [1:06:07] Amazon didn't like that and I think they've decided they're going to win an Indian this is a really ended Good indication that they they are. Even though there's some bureaucratic things where they can't do first party there they can only do third-party but they've they've launched FBA so it's a weird country it's it's, spa and third party but no first party but that model seems to be work

Amazon analyst Cooper Smith from L2 Inc on how Amazon drives customer loyalty, why apparel is next for Amazon, and why Amazon is serious about delivering the last mile. Cathy Morrow Roberson from LogisticsTI analyses Amazon's acquisition of Souq.com, including implications for logistics and delivery in the Middle East.

On the 29th of March- Ganga and Yamuna are legal people, Theresa May invokes Article 50, Samsung launches a new smartphone, Tencent bought a big stake in Tesla, Amazon bought Souq.com for $800 million, The US admitted its likely role in a deadly Mosul bombing, Uber abandoned Denmark, India defeat Australia to win Border-Gavaskar Trophy and Richard Branson wants Kiwi farmers to raise weed, not cows Follow us on: FB: www.facebook.com/newspodcast/ TW: twitter.com/newsonthegoo SC: @ashwin-chhabria-764883296

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On this episode, Dr.G is joined by Christopher Schroeder – a fierce advocate for the role startups can play in helping revolutionize growth in emerging markets around the world. As a serial entrepreneur, venture investor, and former media executive, Chris gives us an up-close perspective of how the media has falsely portrayed the landscape of the Middle East (and other emerging growth markets) and how startups are revolutionizing economies from the ground up. In this episode, Chris shares with us the unexpected stories of transformational startups he encountered along his frequent journeys to the Middle East, how startups will define and shape world economic progress, what opportunities he sees on the horizon for upcoming entrepreneurs, and how his upbringing shaped his current thinking.  All this and more on today’s episode. Now, That’s Unusual. About Christopher Schroeder Christopher Schroeder is an entrepreneur, speaker, author and venture investor. He was the co-founder and CEO of HealthCentral.com, one of the leading content and social consumer health and wellness platforms in the United States as well as CEO and publisher of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. Schroeder’s impressive resume also includes a career in finance and a stint in President George HW Bush’s White House. Schroeder received an invitation to speak at the 2010 Celebration of Entrepreneurship in Dubai, and this opportunity began his journey in writing the best-seller Startup Rising. In 13 subsequent trips to the Middle East, he interviewed over 150 entrepreneurs, investors and global tech leaders. In addition to the book, Schroeder has also written about startups and technology in emerging growth markets for the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Fortune and Harvard Business Review among others. Key Interview Takeaways While it is important to understand and acknowledge the conflict taking place in the Middle East, it is a mistake to see that as the only narrative and overlook the thousands of talented young entrepreneurs building enterprises in the region. We can learn from the United Arab Emirates’ government and business focus on world-class innovation and technology. Their “free zones” attract the best talent because it’s easier to succeed, which in turn spurs innovation and encourages an open exchange of goods, ideas and capital. Throughout the history of growth markets, the first major successes in the world of software enabled tech startups are models brought in and adapted to local markets. Schroeder cites Souq (often referred to as “the Amazon of the Arab world”) as an example of this successful adaptation. An estimated 25% of tech startups in the Middle East are run by women. Yes, women in the region wrestle with particular challenges, but Schroeder alludes to the ability to work around challenges as the definition of a great entrepreneur. We live in an era of co-authorship, where layering innovation in regional and growth markets and taking advantage of shared learning will make for great global enterprises. Schroeder argues that “anything less than that will be a missed opportunity.” The pervasive unleashing information is empowering because it gives people access to knowledge rather than force-feeding them a particular narrative. (Unfortunately, that access can also confuse and unnerve people, causing them to seek out “what they want to hear,” and those limited narratives are available through technology as well.) Organizations that are not able to take a hard look at where the world is going and how it may directly affect them face an existential threat. They must adapt or these companies won’t survive. Learn More About Christopher Schroeder Website Resources Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization by Parag Khanna   To subscribe to the podcast, please use the links below Click Here to Subscribe via iTunes Click here to Subscribe via Stitcher (Android users) If you like the show,

With its narrow alleyways and tiny shops, Muttrah Souq offers shoppers a taste of traditional Omani life. Muttrah Souq quietly rivals other historical marketplaces around the world in terms of authenticity, but little was known about this important souq, until now. Meet Maxine Burden, the Australian author and expat in Oman, who literally wrote the book on the history of Muttrah Souq with her book Throw Down the Anchor: The Story of Muttrah Souq. She spent years gathering stories and photos from local merchants, residents, and shoppers to bring this history to life. In this episode of the Sultanate Maxine takes us on a tour of Oman's main shopping center to show us what she finds unique. She also gives us a great overview on the history hidden behind the souq's modern improvements. So, join Maxine Burden and myself as we go on-location to one of the worlds last remaining traditional arabian souqs. Grab your headphones, sit back, and relax!  View Muttrah Souq images in the associated episode post on my website. Sultanate Ep 007: Muttrah Souq Podcast Links Centre for Omani Dress Bait al Zubair Follow the show and find more about Oman at: www.beyondtheroute.com Facebook Instagram Twitter Do you like what you hear? Be sure to tell a friend and tell me what you like in the comments at www.beyondtheroute.com. You can also leave the show a rating on iTunes. Thank you, and I look forward to hearing from you.

Podcast from our Radio Show - CarTalk - on Dubai Eye 103.8FM from 27 June 2016 with Dr James Piecowye.The Nissan Maxima - striking innit? Chevrolet's for sale on Souq.com? Ramadan Special Editions. Little-known Subaru? WRX, Focus ST or Toyota 86? But you won't believe what gives the most horsepower for the money? What car doesn't have electric windows anymore? Ram truck is big value. Classic Land Cruiser available in five-door version again - for AED140k. Lexus LX570 - any good? Should you import 'vintage' classic cars into the UAE to sell? New Corvette will be 'mid-engine'? Line-Lock - what it is? What does it do? Oh... and a little bit of Brexit. Shahzad reckons he is better at burnouts than Line-Lock. He even thinks he can accelerate better than a launch control. Long term Chrsyler 300C SRT - you won't believe the fuel economy we got out of it. What's the optimal speed? What is that on a Wrangler? Listener is buying a Subaru WRX! We suggest gold wheels. Plus where to get advice. What are rear spoilers really for? Somewhere to put the Karak and Oman Chips Sandwich. Ford GT special edition looks awesome. How LeMans helps manufacturers. What are postcards? And why are we talking about them? Listener thinks his Jeep has been modified all wrong? Fun car for a roadtrip in the mountains in Italy? Mini Cooper Diesel, Infiniti Q30 or VW Golf? Should we wait for the new Ford Raptor - or buy remaining stock if available? Why don't people modify the Toyota Prado?

Mustafa Alrawi and Andy Scott discuss a possible IPO of souq.com and renaissance in retail sales.

Welcome back to Digital Media & Tech in Dubai, (DMT/d), for the second episode of our brand new podcast focused on bringing listeners topical segments and informative conversations with local experts exploring the latest news and developments in the digital media and tech scene in the burgeoning international capital that is Dubai, as well as the greater ME area. Hosted by Spencer Striker, PhD, Digital Media professor at the American University in Dubai--the episodes are recorded on location at AUD in the heart of Dubai's Media City. Special guest for episode 2, “PAZ Knows Digital Dubai,” is Joe Akkawi, Chief Digital Officer at PAZ Marketing, an influential PR firm based here in the city that he co-founded with his father and sister back in 2007: http://pazmarketing.com/ As a graduate of the American University in Dubai, Joe went from earning an IT degree in 2004, to working in web development in the early 2000s, to running digital/social for PAZ, where he manages top clients, from hot startups like Fetchr to megabrands like Harley Davidson. Topics discussed in episode 2 include: The growth of PAZ Marketing in Dubai during the city's dynamic decade. Joe's opinions on who are the key social media influencers in the region right now, including: Max of Arabia https://www.instagram.com/maxofarabia/ Bin Baz https://www.instagram.com/bin_baz/ Huda Beauty https://www.instagram.com/hudabeauty/ How the expansion of PAZ Marketing has mirrored the rise of the Dubai startup scene these past ten years, whereby key startups have hired PAZ to scale them toward rapid impact, including Cobone.com (acquired by Tiger Global), Sukar (acquired by Souq), and CashU (acquired by Maktoob). Current PAZ clients range from successful Dubai-based startup, Fetchr http://fetchr.us/about/ , to one of America's most icon brands, Harley-Davidson, http://www.harley-davidson-dubai.com/ , for which Joe has the awesome challenge of strategically rebranding for the GCC, Levant, and NA regions. Finally, Joe provides some expert insights on how to approach a Snapchat marketing play in the region, as well as some of forecasts for the future of digital Dubai. Hosted by: Spencer Striker, PhD, Digital Media professor at the American University in Dubai https://twitter.com/spencerstriker Special Guest: Joe Akkawi, Chief Digital Officer, PAZ Marketing https://twitter.com/JoeAkkawi Special Thanks to Reina Dib and Joy Semaan of the AUD Marcom Team https://www.instagram.com/audubai And huge shout out to stellar AUD student and podcast producer, Rana Daoud https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranadaoud Featuring Video Game Remixes by the legendary Chris Bateshttp://pazmarketing.com/http://fetchr.us/about/http://www.harley-davidson-dubai.com/

Welcome back to Digital Media & Tech in Dubai, (DMT/d), for the second episode of our brand new podcast focused on bringing listeners topical segments and informative conversations with local experts exploring the latest news and developments in the digital media and tech scene in the burgeoning international capital that is Dubai, as well as the greater ME area. Hosted by Spencer Striker, PhD, Digital Media professor at the American University in Dubai--the episodes are recorded on location at AUD in the heart of Dubai’s Media City. Special guest for episode 2, “PAZ Knows Digital Dubai,” is Joe Akkawi, Chief Digital Officer at PAZ Marketing, an influential PR firm based here in the city that he co-founded with his father and sister back in 2007: http://pazmarketing.com/ As a graduate of the American University in Dubai, Joe went from earning an IT degree in 2004, to working in web development in the early 2000s, to running digital/social for PAZ, where he manages top clients, from hot startups like Fetchr to megabrands like Harley Davidson. Topics discussed in episode 2 include: The growth of PAZ Marketing in Dubai during the city’s dynamic decade. Joe’s opinions on who are the key social media influencers in the region right now, including: Max of Arabia https://www.instagram.com/maxofarabia/ Bin Baz https://www.instagram.com/bin_baz/ Huda Beauty https://www.instagram.com/hudabeauty/ How the expansion of PAZ Marketing has mirrored the rise of the Dubai startup scene these past ten years, whereby key startups have hired PAZ to scale them toward rapid impact, including Cobone.com (acquired by Tiger Global), Sukar (acquired by Souq), and CashU (acquired by Maktoob). Current PAZ clients range from successful Dubai-based startup, Fetchr http://fetchr.us/about/ , to one of America’s most icon brands, Harley-Davidson, http://www.harley-davidson-dubai.com/ , for which Joe has the awesome challenge of strategically rebranding for the GCC, Levant, and NA regions. Finally, Joe provides some expert insights on how to approach a Snapchat marketing play in the region, as well as some of forecasts for the future of digital Dubai. Hosted by: Spencer Striker, PhD, Digital Media professor at the American University in Dubai https://twitter.com/spencerstriker Special Guest: Joe Akkawi, Chief Digital Officer, PAZ Marketing https://twitter.com/JoeAkkawi Special Thanks to Reina Dib and Joy Semaan of the AUD Marcom Team https://www.instagram.com/audubai And huge shout out to stellar AUD student and podcast producer, Rana Daoud https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranadaoud Featuring Video Game Remixes by the legendary Chris Bates

On this episode of YIP we give you not one, but TWO fabulous interviews. Ta da!!!! I know. We're awesome. First we meet the frisky ladies of Troupe Zahara and then we are entertained and amazed by the faaabulous SamiTe'! The YIP Crew share their picks for Bhangra hits and classic bellydance music and there is much hilarity had by all!Download Episode 55Or Listen Here:On This Episode:Princess Farhana (blog) - "Please Welcome to the Stage..."Maria GimmeShimmy - Orlando performer and teacherTempest's Teapot (blog) - "Concrete" vs "Abstract", Dance and Model AirplanesYIP Podcast on FacebookCoco la FramboiseLetters from Kit Club Bellydance (BDSS thing)Flamenco Tammy - Flamenco Del SolShimmy Knights Sabrina Fox (Facebook)Stefanya (Facebook) - picture of rockin' lace dress!My Fitness Pal Sewing on Turkoman buttons (tribe.net)Florida Tribal Dance 8track.com - Rachel Brice (a.k.a. Arbibi) mixes"Rollin" - Diplo"Tommy's Theme" - Noisia Gurbhej Brar (Facebook)Jassi SidhuJaswant Heera - listen to the entire song "Nach Ke" on Youtube.comTroupe Zahara performing in Tampa, FLSpatula City! (UHF clip)Dancing With A Spatula Wand (The Blue Faerie) - "My body, my castle and a bunny"Deep Roots Dance Blog (Shay Moore) - "YIP Podcast - John Compton!", "Class Ettiquette 'Rules'"Miramar - "10 Golden Rules to Dance By"Khan el-Khalili SoukShira.net SamiTe'