{"id":11281,"date":"2019-09-10T21:21:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T17:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=11281"},"modified":"2019-09-10T21:21:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T17:21:07","slug":"mohammed-bin-rashid-meets-founder-of-company-sold-for-aed3-3-bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/09\/10\/mohammed-bin-rashid-meets-founder-of-company-sold-for-aed3-3-bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohammed bin Rashid meets founder of company sold for AED3.3 bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, met Founder and CEO Divyank Turakhia whose ad-tech company, a Media.net based in Dubai Internet City, was sold for over AED 3.3 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said, &#8220;Dubai has become the \u2018Silicon Valley\u2019 of the Middle East.&#8221; He added, &#8220;We are witnessing the prominent role of Dubai Internet City in creating new economies and nurturing global entrepreneurs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dubai has witnessed similar multi-billion tech deals including the AED11-billion acquisition of the Dubai-based Careem by Uber and Souq.com that was earlier acquired by Amazon for over AED 2 billion. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum reaffirmed that Dubai will remain an incubator for talent and an ideal hub for tech entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, met Founder and CEO Divyank Turakhia whose ad-tech company, a Media.net based in Dubai Internet City, was sold for over AED 3.3 billion. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said, &#8220;Dubai has become the \u2018Silicon Valley\u2019 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11283,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11281\/revisions\/11283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}