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Alwar / AFP With his rickety bicycle and sackcloth mail bag, 62-year-old Indian postman Chet Ram does not look like a worker at the vanguard of an e-commerce revolution delivering everything from mobile phones to cow manure. He pedals miles each day in rural Rajasthan state, ferrying packages to villages and takes payments in cash because most of his customers ...

Cupertino / DPA When it’s Apple, you know it’s going to be big and bold. And so it is with its new headquarters or “Spaceship Campus,” which will cover 260,000 square meters and has a circumference of 1.6 kilometres in Cupertino, California. Computer-generated images of what it will look like show something resembling a giant glass doughnut, with a green ...

Sunaina Rana / EMIRATES BUSINESS With 1, 55,000 sq. feet of land in Safe Zone Sharjah in place, Blend Polymer, one of the leading polymer industries in the Emirates, equipped with the state-of-the-art facility. It aims to manufacture only the finest products. Established in 1990 by Aziz Group & Skyline, Blend Group has been involved in diversified business lines. The ...

Our Correspondent / Emirates Business Louis Moinet is today an independent watch brand based in Saint-Blaise, Switzerland, has been able to woo Emirates with its specialised creation of high-end timepieces, often featuring exotic materials and innovative technology, underpinned by the philosophy of limited edition mechanical art. Damas & Damas Les are the exclusive retailers in UAE for all of Louis ...

Bloomberg Fifty-six years ago, Harper Lee wrote her first novel, which turned out to be one of the greatest literary works of the 20th century. To Kill a Mockingbird’s revelation that in the South—or rather, in America—a black man could lose his life over a crime he clearly didn’t commit, resonates today just as it did when it was first ...

Bloomberg Until recently, the sophisticated view about calorie labels in restaurants was one of despair: A series of studies suggested that the practice, required by Obamacare and modeled on what has been done in New York and other cities, just doesn’t succeed in promoting healthy food choices and reducing obesity. But comprehensive new research offers a dramatically different picture. It ...

Sunaina Rana / EMIRATES BUSINESS With a dream to set up a public space dedicated to art decorative in UAE, like what Le Louvre museum has done in Paris or what Design Museum has done in Milano, world-famous art collector Guillaume Cuiry is contributing remarkably in enhancing the art scene of the Emirates. He is undoubtedly one of the main ...

Our Correspondent / Emirates Business Aiman Kabli is CEO and founder of Lunchmatcher, a professional networking app. Prior to this Kabli has been a seasoned global HR professional with over 12 years’ experience in international staffing and human resource management. He holds an MBA in strategic management from the University of North Texas, and has recruited for large multinationals in ...

Bloomberg Sheri Atwood is the rare Silicon Valley entrepreneur whose pitch includes intimate details about her family—namely, how it was broken up. Twice. “My parents had a horrific divorce,” says the 36-year-old former Symantec Corp. executive. “It felt like the only time they communicated was in court—and when it had to do with money.” Her own divorce years later, and ...

Tokyo / AFP Customers like Shigeaki Yamaguchi may be the last hope for McDonald’s Japan as it battles slumping sales in the wake of an embarrassing string of food scandals. At a location in Tokyo’s busy Shinjuku district, Yamaguchi munched on the chain’s newest culinary offering — french fries drizzled in brown and white chocolate syrup. “Delicious,” the 37-year-old proclaimed ...