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- Business
- CairoScene
Saudi-Emirati Global Fertility Network Acquires HealthPlus in Jeddah
The Saudi-Emirati Global Fertility Network has acquired HealthPlus Fertility Center, rebranding it under Bnoon IVF as part of a $27 million plan to build the region's largest fertility network. Jun 19, 2025 The Saudi-Emirati Global Fertility Network (GFN) has acquired a majority stake in HealthPlus Fertility Center in Jeddah, expanding its presence in Saudi Arabia's growing women's health sector. The facility will be rebranded under the Bnoon IVF name, following GFN's earlier acquisition of Bnoon IVF Center in Riyadh. Together, the two acquisitions represent an investment of over 100 million Saudi Riyals (approximately $27 million), forming the foundation of GFN's strategy to establish the largest fertility care network in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC. Both HealthPlus and Bnoon IVF previously operated under M42's healthcare portfolio between 2022 and 2024. 'We're seeing a noticeable increase in couples seeking fertility treatment, driven by both primary and secondary infertility,' Dr. Abdulaziz Muhammad AlShahrani, a leading Saudi Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility (IVF) Consultant, Founder of Bnoon in Riyadh and the Group Medical Director at Bnoon, said. 'With growing awareness, more individuals are also considering fertility treatments to help balance their families and prevent genetic diseases." With these new additions, GFN has doubled its treatment capacity and now conducts more than 5,000 IVF cycles annually, making it the largest standalone provider of assisted reproductive services in the Kingdom. 'We have identified a strong pipe-line of potential targets for acquisition across the region," Majd Abu Zant, Founder and CEO of Global Fertility Network, said. "New IVF facilities are also planned in Khobar, Abha, and additional cities across the Kingdom. With the support of our investment partners, we will continue to rapidly expand our network while introducing cutting-edge technologies faster, enhancing clinical outcomes, and making fertility care more accessible across the region.' GFN is also constructing a 3,800-square-metre flagship centre in northern Riyadh, set to open in December 2025. The facility will focus on advanced fertility treatment and reproductive genetics, and will form part of a broader integrated women's health offering across the network.
CNET
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CNET
I Love GeForce Now on My Steam Deck -- Until It Starts 'Waiting for the Next Available Rig'
I started chair dancing when Nvidia told me about its GeForce Now cloud-gaming app for the Steam Deck. My Deck OLED is my most frequently used nonessential device, so I was stoked that GFN provided a way to play Xbox Game Pass Ultimate games on it. And it was great, even on my pretty uneven Wi-Fi connection, until it started tossing me into queues with up to 40 people ahead of me. And that was on Ultimate, the priciest tier with the shortest wait times and longest sessions. It was a blip in my otherwise great experience during the past week -- relatively glitch-free, low-latency gameplay, including when attached to a monitor with a hub for keyboard and mouse -- and it cleared up later in the day, but it was a frustrating blip nonetheless. (I contacted Nvidia, but the company didn't have an explanation like "East Coast servers down for maintenance!" at the ready.) It's something people on the Premium and free plans might experience, though, so it merits discussion. And yet, it's still less glitchy and frustrating than Xbox Cloud Gaming. Sigh. To me, the Game Pass support is the most important feature because a lot of Xbox Cloud gameplay is really erratic for me on my mobile devices. To Nvidia, battery life is most important, I suspect partly because it's critical and quantifiable. There aren't a lot of hardware settings specific to the app. Lori Grunin/CNET And yes, the Deck can last much longer -- I'd say I get a couple more hours out of it -- because it takes a lot less power to run the game in the cloud and stream to you than it does to run locally, which requires a lot more processing to run and render the games. That said, I also tested the app on the Lenovo Go S SteamOS model (which I'm working on a review of and otherwise really like), and that, thus far, seems to have poorer battery life than the Deck, so it may become an important factor for me as well. In general, even weighty games such as Doom: The Dark Ages and Clair Obscur Expedition 33 (the first from Game Pass, the second Steam) played zippily (60-plus fps) on a monitor at Epic/Ultra/whatever quality presets, although I didn't get a chance to test HDR. Platformers like Have a Nice Death (Steam) seemed equally responsive and relatively latency-free compared with running locally. The app provides extensive, or more compact, statistics if you want, but even shrunk down, they take up a relatively large amount of (sometimes critical) real estate on the Deck's small screen. On the flip side, the icon indicating a Wi-Fi bandwidth issue is tiny and easy to miss. While GFN occasionally gave me network warnings, which I'm used to, it never seemed to result in more than the occasional stutter. The extended statistics view takes up a lot of the screen's real estate on the Steam Deck. Lori Grunin/CNET I do find that after about an hour in most games -- especially my current addiction, The Blue Prince (see above re: Game Pass) -- my connection gets wonky enough that some games become bogged down until they become pretty unresponsive and unplayable. GFN seems to provide the most consistency, although I did get dizzy once from buffered camera rotations racing around the screen to catch up with my stick movement. I have a few nitpicks about the implementation that aren't really Nvidia's fault. Installation requires switching to desktop mode, which I always forget to customize, so I can actually hit what I want in the touch interface. I have to look up how to switch every time. Installing only happens once, though, so it's not really a big deal. More long-term annoying is the app's relegation to the Non-Steam Games section of your library, combined with the absence of any content on its screen. GFN also has its own overlay and doesn't provide any statistics, such as how many hours you played a given game for, in its interface, even aggregated for GeForce Now use. All the info is in there, but not always where you expect or want it. As a whole, these make the GFN experience feel disconnected. Note that for free or even Premium plans, your mileage may vary because they run on lower-end GPUs rather than the GeForce RTX 4080-class versions. And you're still restricted to games GFN supports, which is a fraction of the games universe. But it's still a great way to play games on the Deck, especially non-Steam games, if you have one.
