Aramex, Dubai-based logistics firm, has recently announced the debut of their crowd-based delivery platform in Saudi Arabia, entitled Aramex Fleet.
The company said the new service aims to offer Saudi nationals employment opportunities in flexible last mile delivery work.
Aramex said it is the first among major international logistics and transportation providers to integrate this service in the MENA region, with plans to introduce the platform to at least 10 more countries over the next 12 months.
Saudi nationals are invited to join the Aramex Fleet platform through the official website fleet.aramex.com
Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al Nowaiser, general manager of Aramex in Saudi Arabia, said: “We are excited to announce the launch of Aramex Fleet in Saudi Arabia – Aramex’s largest market in the Middle East and a country which is leading the growth of the sharing economy in the region.
"Aramex Fleet will help to boost economic growth in Saudi Arabia by empowering Saudi nationals through crowdsourced employment opportunities and flexible working hours, whilst increasing last mile delivery capacity for customers during busy periods.”
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Integrated HR and benefits consulting, administration, and tech services firm Buck has recently announced that 30-year seasoned vet of the industry, Interjit Jhajj, has been welcomed as the latest Chief Information Officer (CIO) to supervise Buck's worldwide tech ecosystem.
Previously, Jhajj was a member of the Conduent HRS Consulting Executive Team in Canada for more than 20 years, where he worked to foster collaborative strategy and actions across the Canadian HR business. At the same time, he also served as Leader of Canadian Outsourcing and Global IT for Buck's Engagement practice, where he oversaw development, growth, and delivery of services and worked closely with leaders across other practices and geographies to construct and deliver integrated solutions for clients.
"As Chief Information Officer, I'm excited to leverage my deep understanding of our clients' goals and challenges and partner with them to influence employee behaviors that drive desired outcomes and larger savings for their overall programs," said Jhajj. "I believe our world class engagement and benefits administration services will bring the perspective, strategy, and delivery needed to increase the value of their programs at a reduced cost."
"Inderjit has been a key player at Buck for over 20 years, and led the development of the company's global technology capability," said Jack Freker, Chief Executive Officer of Buck. "As CIO, Inderjit will help enhance and expand Buck's critical infrastructure for global growth to enable continued exceptional client success and technology engagement."
SOURCE Buck
Edited by K. Fanning
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Ecommerce giant, Booking.com, doesn't operate as one single entity, but as a "middleman" of sorts, meaning that, according to a 63-page report by a group of experts to a court in a case in Istanbul involving the company and the Association of Turkish Travel Agencies (TÜRSAB), it does not need a travel agency license to operate in Turkey.
The report, however, suggested that the online agent should pay tax as it generates revenues from its Turkey operations.
“Booking.com is paid a commission for the hotel reservations, thus it is liable to pay tax,” it said.
The lawyer representing the online agent demanded the decision to suspend the company’s activities be lifted.
The court decided to provide the parties some time to present their cases against the report. The court scheduled the next hearing for April 12, 2019.
The Booking.com website and app, headquartered in the Netherlands, have been suspended in Turkey since March 29, 2017 by a court ruling citing accusations of unfair competition in the lawsuit filed by TÜRSAB.
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China's version of Airbnb, Xiaozhu, is stepping up its game by introducing facial recognition-enabled smart door locks in lieu of the more traditional forms of verification. This identifies the tenants as part of a larger effort to increase safety and security within the country's growing home-sharing industry.
The six-year-old company, which runs one of China’s biggest home-sharing sites, said on Monday it plans to install facial recognition-enabled door locks in 80 per cent of its listings in southwest China’s Chengdu city, its second largest market by revenue, over the next year.
Apart from wider adoption of “face-scan check-in” to verify user’s identities, Xiaozhu announced other measures to upgrade safety and security, including equipping more apartments with smoke detectors, gas alarms and burglar alarms. It is also setting up a blacklist of tenants who misbehave during their stay at hosts’ homes.
“Years ago, what we worried about the most was that people didn’t want to share their homes with strangers. Now, home-sharing has become an industry so we need to do more to address the concerns of all parties involved,” said Kelvin Chen Chi, chief executive of the Beijing-based Xiaozhu.
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NoBroker.com, a leading peer-to-peer real estate platform in India, within just 3 months of breaking into commercial real estate, has closed 1,050 deals across Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, and Gurgaon.
The company has saved INR 30 crore (approximately US$42 million) worth of brokerage. Having thoroughly disrupted the country’s residential real estate sector through technological innovation, NoBroker.com, is now transforming the commercial real estate segment with its tech-led approach. NoBroker is currently operational in the five cities mentioned above and is already a leader in residential real estate with 15,000 closures every month.
With around 41 lakh (approximately 4.1 million) small commercial units in top 25 cities, the Indian commercial real estate sector is currently extremely fragmented and disorganized and is plagued by large-scale information asymmetry and lack of transparency.
Within these cities, commercial rental brokerage accounts for around INR 14,000 crore (approximately US$1.9 billion) annually, growing at a CAGR of 13%. The annual brokerage for commercial resale is about INR 7,000 crore (approximately US$999 million). There is therefore huge potential in the small commercial units space which is currently dominated by brokers.
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