E42: Amazon Alexa's Dr. Raf Fatani on why tec...

Dana Baki is the co-founder and COO at MUNCH:ON, a UAE born startup that was solving the corporate lunch problem. MUNCH:ON which started as LUNCH:ON was utilizing kitchen’s off-peak to deliver affordable meals to corporate executives. The business was experiencing high growth unt ...  Show more

Ben Harburg is the Managing Partner at MSA Capital, a Chinese VC with $2.5bn of assets under management and MSA Novo, a newly established emerging markets fund with focus on the GCC. Ben brings a decade of expertise investing in Chinese tech companies to the Middle East & North A ...  Show more

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 w ...  Show more

Welcome to Real Arabic, your key to learning spoken Levantine Arabic in an engaging, interesting way. This is an introduction to the podcast. For more information, and for podcast transcripts visit our website: https://realarabic.weebly.com You can support these podcasts by donat ...  Show more

Alexa was due for an upgrade, and now it has gotten one. This week, Amazon held its annual media event where it debuted a slate of new hardware, software, and services. The company reserved the spot at center stage for Alexa, the voice assistant powering all of Amazon’s smart hom ...  Show more

هل من الممكن أن ننسى التكلم باللغة العربية بعد أن هاجرنا إلى بلاد الغربة؟ و في حالتنا بالخاصة، هل كنا نعرف كيف نتكلم باللغة العربية أصلاً؟ المتحدثون في هذه الحلقة: سداد، رضا، لانا، عمر و هاشم. Is it possible to forget how to speak in Arabic when you move abroad? And in our case i ...  Show more