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Spotlight | UAE
Abu Dhabi police raid offices of collapsed messaging app Tawasal

LogoSubscribers only By Pierre Gastineau and Michael Sweeney
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French technology entrepreneur Éric Léandri in Toulouse, France, 15 November 2019.
French technology entrepreneur Éric Léandri in Toulouse, France, 15 November 2019.
French technology entrepreneur Éric Léandri in Toulouse, France, 15 November 2019.
French technology entrepreneur Éric Léandri in Toulouse, France, 15 November 2019. © Ortola/Lecarpentier/Réa

The fall of an UAE super-app (1/2) – Launched as the Emirates' answer to WhatsApp and once boasting more than half a million monthly users, Tawasal SuperApp went offline in October, after months of financial problems and allegations of intellectual property theft. With shareholders in a legal dispute, police searched the group's offices on 5 November, sources say.

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