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IBM’s $33bn Red Hat takeover a game-changer for ‘cloud market’

Bloomberg IBM’s $33 billion purchase of Red Hat Inc — the world’s second-largest technology deal ever — is aimed at catapulting the company into the ranks of the top cloud software competitors. The cash deal, IBM’s biggest by far, boosts the 107-year-old computer-services giant’s credentials overnight in the fast-growing and lucrative cloud market — and gives it much-needed potential for ...

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Startup Quid raises $38mn in venture funding

Bloomberg Quid Inc, a startup that helps companies analyse large volumes of text from news, social media and the web, raised $37.5 million in venture funding, the company plans to announce on Monday. The deal was led by REV Ventures, the investment arm of LexisNexis owner RELX Group Plc, which contributed about $10 million. Other investors include Julian Roberson, the ...

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Tesla profit blowout reverses much of Musk’s damage to stock

Bloomberg Profit secured. Tesla Inc blew away expectations with just the third quarter of positive earnings in its history, bolstering Elon Musk’s bid to make selling electric cars a financially sustainable business. The profit and cash that Tesla generated sent its shares surging to levels last seen in mid-August, when the chief executive officer was still in the midst of ...

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UAE has begun benefitting from fourth industrial revolution

Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Sunday inaugurated the fourth session of the 16th legislative chapter of the Federal National Council (FNC). Dr Amal Abdullah Al Qubaisi, Speaker of Federal National Council, delivered a speech welcoming Sheikh Mohammed and his inauguration of the ...

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DIFC brings financial world closer to young Emiratis

Dubai / WAM Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the leading financial hub in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia (Measa) region, has concluded the first edition of its ‘Finance for Youth’ programme, which gathered over 45 select Emirati finance and business students and fresh graduates for five days of insightful talks and conversations at The Academy. The Programme featured ...

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UAE issues new law to enhance monetary policy performance

ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has issued Federal Decree-Law No. 14 of 2018 regarding the ‘Central Bank and Organisation of Financial Institutions and Activities’. The provisions of this law does not apply to the Financial Free Zones in the State and the financial institutions regulated by the authorities of those zones. On ...

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ADGM, IDB join hands to support Abu Dhabi’s industrial sector

ABU DHABI / WAM The Registration Authority of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with the Industrial Development Bureau (IDB), of the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (DED), to support strategic industrial projects, expands the region’s industrial sector, and promote economic diversification. The agreement was signed by Khalifa bin Salem Al Mansouri, Under-Secretary ...

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Trump calls for unity after 11 killed in synagogue shooting

Bloomberg Donald Trump condemned “all forms of evil,” including anti-Semitism, after a mass shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh left 11 people dead in what’s being investigated as a hate crime. “We mourn for the unthinkable loss of life that took place today,” the president told a gathering of young farmers in Indianapolis, pledging the full resources of his administration ...

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India speeds ahead of China in electric-vehicle revolution

Bloomberg An electric-vehicle revolution is gaining ground in India, and it has nothing to do with cars. The South Asian country is home to about 1.5 million battery-powered, three-wheeled rickshaws — a fleet bigger than the total number of electric passenger cars sold in China since 2011. But while the world’s largest auto market dangled significant subsidies to encourage purchases ...

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Naspers to invest $2bn in Swiggy

Bloomberg Naspers Ltd. is planning to increase its stake in Indian online food-delivery business Swiggy as the startup plots its third fund-raising round of the year, according to people familiar with the matter. Africa’s largest company by market value has indicated that it intends to support a financing that could raise more than $600 million, Swiggy’s biggest to date, according ...

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