In the latest issue of TheEDGE our cover story is the United Nations COP 18 summit on climate that is being held in Qatar this month. Mark van Dijk asks whether the summit will be able to build on the successes of the previous one held in South Africa last year. TheEDGE also spoke with [...]
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Vol 4 Issue 10 Oct 2012
This month’s cover story in about one of Qatar’s more contentious investments, The Shard, a skyscraper that sits on the bank of the river Thames in central London. We take a look at the differing sentiments it has generated from Londoners and Qatar’s role in the project. In this issue we also look at the [...]
read moreVol 4 Issue 9 Sept 2012
The cover story for the September 2012 edition of TheEDGE features Qatars impending railway revolution, as we take a look at the cost and logistics of such a massive undertaking of infrastructure building, and the opportunities for local businesses. As the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008 still lingers we compare the models of [...]
read moreVol 4 Issue 7/8 Jul/Aug 2012
The Ramadan edition of TheEDGE will be for July and August of 2012, in it we cover the economic effects the Arab Spring has had on countries in the region, we also look at Qatar’s investments to develop its educational sector which they hope will transform their nation into a knowledge based economy. In other [...]
read moreVol 4 Issue 6 Jun 2012
In the June 2012 edition of TheEDGE, the cover story takes a look at e-commerce, particularly in our home country of Qatar, where online retail and digital transactions have risen at a phenomenal pace in the past year and are set to grow faster and further in the next. We feature an exclusive interview with [...]
read moreVol 4 Issue 5 May 2012
The cover story of TheEDGE May 2012 Edition concerns the fact that for the first time ever, the three post-World War 2 generations of the Baby Boomers, Generation X and Generation Y are in the workplace simultaneously, a fact fraught with potential conflict. Deborah Rogers, Director of Human Resources at Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha [...]
read moreVol 4 Issue 4 Apr 2012
The April 2012 Edition of TheEDGE features a cover story on the Kony 2012 social media phenom that took cyberspace and the real world by storm in March 2012. Speaking to Qatar-based pundits, Mark van Dijk investigates the viral video, which received more than 100,000 hits in less than a month and what it means [...]
read moreVol 4 Issue 3 Mar 2012
The cover story of the March 2012 issue of TheEdge Magazine, ‘Qatar’s Catalyst for Business’ is an in-depth investigation by TheEDGE team into the status quo of Qatars Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. In early 2012 we spoke to a number of role players and small businesses in the SME sector in the country, to find out whether [...]
read moreVol 4 Issue 2 Feb 2012
Future potential energy shortage may occur in parts of the Gulf Cooperation Council. Edward Jameson investigates this paradoxical reality, which may seem unbelievable due to the abundance of fossil fuel in the region. Rachel Morris also looks at how assistive technology is coming to the fore in Qatars IT sector and we have an exclusive [...]
read moreVol 4 Issue 1 Jan 2012
Rachel Morris writes about one of the most Googled words in the world, innovation, which is regarded as a new idea or method but is also the buzzword of the decade. Morris also looks at how recently Qatar ranked in the top 30 countries in the Global Innovation Index 2011 and is aiming to be [...]
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