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  Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai offers Lebanese tech startups the opportunity to gain global exposure and investment at one of the world’s most influential technology events, GITEX Technology Week. Significant investment is accelerating Lebanon’s US$400 million knowledge economy, which could add 25,000 ICT jobs and contribute $7 billion to the country’s GDP by 2025, according to a recent report ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the international financial centre in Abu Dhabi, has announced that it has registered and licensed close to 160 companies from a broad range of industries and sectors in its first year of operations. This achievement sets another new milestone in ADGM delivering on its ambition to support Abu Dhabi’s ...

  Frankfurt / Emirates Business As part of promoting Abu Dhabi’s culture and tourism potential globally, Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi) is participating in the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany from October 19-23. At the Fair, a meeting was held between TCA Abu Dhabi and the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business WiFi UAE announces that it is very close to 1.5 million sessions per month, with a quarter million unique users in the month of August alone. Almost half of the sessions (44%) lasted between 11 and 30 minutes, while 32% lasted between six and 10 minutes. Of the online activities, social interactions were amongst the ...

  Ras Al Khaimah / Emirates Business Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority (RAKTDA), which develops the emirate’s tourism infrastructure and plans, initiates and drives its domestic and overseas promotions, has reported exceptional growth in Indian travellers to the emirate this year. The northern UAE emirate recorded a 22 per cent rise in Indian hotel guests between January and September ...

  DUBAI / Emirates Business LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network celebrated the success of leading companies in MENA region in the talent acquisition and employer branding space by hosting the ‘LinkedIn Talent Awards’. Held for the second consecutive year, the awards recognized and acknowledged LinkedIn’s top customers in MENA for the great work and results they’ve been seeing during ...

  DUBAI / WAM Nakheel on Wednesday announced a net profit of AED3.91 billion for the first nine months of 2016, an increase of 8.3 percent on the profit of AED3.61 billion in the same period last year. The company recorded a net profit of AED955 million for third quarter of 2016, 22 percent up on Q3 2015 profit of ...

  SHANGHAI / WAM Abu Dhabi and Shanghai will bolster economic co-operation in trade, investment and technology transfer, after the parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). Khalifa bin Salem Al Mansouri, Acting Under-Secretary of ADDED, and Gen Shing Meng, Vice Secretary-General of Shanghai Government, witnessed the signing, and later discussed means of promoting economic and investment relations between Shanghai ...

  DUBAI / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with Intel Corporation Middle East, to enhance cooperation, develop new initiatives, and enhance the happiness of stakeholders though the adoption and development of the latest technologies and business models. These include the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, data centres, big data, artificial intelligence, ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Aldar Properties awarded an AED155 million contract for the early works of Yas Acres, a golf and waterfront development on Yas Island, to locally-based Bauer Geotechnical Specialised Foundation. Talal Al Dhiyebi, Chief Development Officer of Aldar Properties, said, “We are pleased to award the early works package for Yas Acres within six months of launching ...