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Bloomberg An indie Taiwanese hacker said he will not proceed with a plan to take down Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page and broadcast it live on Sunday. Self-professed bug bounty-hunter Chang Chi-yuan, who ferrets out software flaws in return for cash, said on Facebook this week that he would live-stream an endeavour to delete the billionaire’s account at 6 pm local ...

Bloomberg A run-in with the US Securities and Exchange Commission may prove to be the recipe for reform that corporate governance experts have said Tesla Inc.’s board needed years ago. The electric-car maker has been forced to find an independent chairman to replace Elon Musk as part of a $40 million accord with the SEC to settle fraud charges related ...

Bloomberg Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai, whose company drew the ire of senators for failing to send a top executive to a hearing earlier this month, has agreed to appear at another session on Capitol Hill. Pichai had a round of visits in Washington on Thursday and Friday, meeting with lawmakers and the White House’s top economic adviser. “This ...

Bloomberg Mass-market carmakers like Peugeot have a recurring nightmare: Their vehicles being relegated to transport hardware while apps provide the value that consumers care about. To counter this scenario, Peugeot is trying to prove that style will still matter with a show car that resembles the classic 504 Coupe from 1969. While the styling is retro, the technology is futuristic ...

NEW YORK / WAM His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, continued holding bilateral meetings with his counterparts on the sidelines of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 73), at the UN headquarters. His Highness met Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mauritania; Kang Kyung-wha, ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, has launched a smart application system to assist field officers at Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD). The new application will allow officers to carry out multiple tasks, including the issuance of eviction notices electronically. His Highness highlighted the Department’s drive ...

Dubai / Emirates Business The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), held a meeting on Saturday to discuss preparations for the launch of KhalifaSat, the first satellite to be developed 100 percent by Emirati engineers in the UAE, into orbit aboard the liquid-fuelled H-IIA rocket on October 29. Hamad Obaid Al Mansouri, Board Chairman of the MBRSC, who presided over the meeting, ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development (KFED), in collaboration with Mohammed Bin Rashid Establishment for SME Development, Dubai SME, successfully held the second Tawasul Forum for 2018 in Dubai in the presence of Khalifa Fund’s members and SMEs entrepreneurs, as well as government and private entities. The forum is part of a series of qualitative initiatives ...

Bloomberg Almost 200 Congressional Democrats got a go-ahead from a judge to pursue a lawsuit claiming that Donald Trump is violating a Constitutional ban on receiving benefits from foreign governments without their permission while he’s president. US District Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington denied a Justice Department request to dismiss the lawsuit, filed last year by Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal and ...

Bloomberg Facebook Inc. said it discovered a security breach earlier this week that affected almost 50 million accounts the latest in a series of missteps that are undermining confidence in the company’s social network and business model. The social-media network said in a statement that it has fixed the breach, which allowed hackers to take over people’s accounts. Law enforcement ...