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MIT Arab Business Plan Awards Declared

DUBAI — Two fledgling companies, one involved in patient financing, and another, a service provider that can rank non-spam emails according to their importance, competed with more than 1,200 companies from 17 countries spanning North Africa, the Gulf and Levant, and emerged as first place winners to split the $50,000 prize money in the 2009 MIT Arab Business Plan 
Competition.

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Road Projects Worth SR1b ‘on the Anvil’

JEDDAH — Jeddah Municipality’s road projects amount to a total of SR5billion, of which, projects worth SR1 billion are on the anvil, according to Ahmad Banafa, general supervisor for municipality projects. “Projects that are currently under bidding are estimated at SR1.1 billion while 35 projects worth SR3 billion are still in the designing phase,” Banafa said.

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