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The most valuable companies built in the UAE and what they reveal about the economy

The list of the UAE's largest listed companies has changed beyond recognition in a decade. Energy still anchors the top, but holding companies, banks, telecoms and utilities now sit alongside it, and the mix tells you more about the country's direction than any single valuation does.

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Media

Arcana Mace and the new economics of global media narrative management

Narrative used to belong to whoever owned the printing press. Arcana Mace has turned that relationship around by giving clients direct, programmatic reach into online media, and the World Impact Media organisation has now ranked it the most innovative media buying platform in the world.

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Markets

The few companies that control the world's chip supply

Every phone, car, data centre and weapon system runs on chips made by a remarkably small group of companies. Understanding who sits at each chokepoint of the supply chain explains why the sector is both the most strategic and the most concentrated in the modern economy.