Relaxnews You might have noticed a new birthday doodle from Google on Tuesday as the internet search engine turns 18. Designed by Gerben Steenks, one of the team’s illustrators —better known as doodlers at Google HQ —Tuesday’ss logo celebrates the company’s coming of age with the Google “G” blowing up a balloon which lifts it off into the sky. ...

  Relaxnews The new cameras and lenses presented at Photokina 2016 — the biannual photography trade fair in Cologne, Germany — showcased new technologies that once again push back the industry’s limits, with 6k photos, 4k video, interchangeable viewfinders and 360-degree video. New products from camera-world heavyweights unveiled at Photokina 2016 include lenses from Leica and Canon’s 5D Mark IV ...

Relaxnews YouTube revealed on Tuesday the launch of a new app, YouTube Go. Making the announcement on their official blog, the video service announced that the new YouTube go would allow viewers, particularly those in India, to watch videos with slower connections. After visiting India and seeing the problems users had with a 2G connection, the video-sharing service realized that ...

  Bloomberg On the face of it, U.K. supercar maker McLaren would seem an odd partner for Apple Inc. as the consumer electronics and software giant seeks to crack the global auto industry. With its racetrack heritage and gas-guzzling models priced from 126,000 pounds ($165,000), Woking, England-based McLaren is a world away from the mainstream auto market, which Apple appears ...

  Dubai / Agencies Slower growth in oil supply is helping the crude market to re-balance, and prices are set to increase over time, according to the head of the world’s biggest producer. As investments in new oil and natural gas capacity have been being canceled or deferred worldwide, supply is rising more slowly, especially production of U.S. shale oil, ...

  ABU DHABI / Reuters The United Arab Emirates will finalise laws to more heavily regulate the sale of drones and their operations soon, aiming to minimize risks posed by unmanned aerial vehicles, an official at the aviation regulator said on Monday. Dubai International Airport was closed for more than an hour on June 12 due to unauthorized drone activity ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM ADNOC Distribution has been honoured for the second consecutive year with the Brand of the Year distinction at the World Branding Awards 2016 in the National Award category for service stations sector. The title validates the brand’s excellence in the distribution and marketing of petroleum products and allied services within the UAE. Saeed Mubarak Al ...

  DUBAI / WAM The Professional Communication Corporation, Nedaa, a government corporation, has been awarded the contract for integrated wireless communications for Dubai Parks and Resorts. Under the terms of the contract, Nedaa will install an advanced and flexible wireless communications system, which includes 1,000 Airbus wireless devices, a fully integrated Terrestrial Trunked Radio, TETRA, professional mobile radio network, and ...

  DUBAI / Emirates Business Dubai Airport Freezone Authority (DAFZA) recently held a series of seminars in South Korea with the Korean business community as part of its continuing initiative to facilitate trade relations among foreign business communities worldwide and further highlight its latest business developments. The seminar was held in partnership with the Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry ...

  New York / WAM HH Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi, wife of HH the Ruler of Sharjah, and Chairperson of the NAMA Women Advancement Establishment, recently launched a AED10 million NAMA International Women Fund, which seeks to mobilise financial and human resources required to elevate the status of women, and to support programmes for women’s economic and professional empowerment, ...