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  Dubai / Emirates Business E-businesses constitute one among the fastest growing businesses in the UAE, with more and more UAE residents and national investing in the e-commerce realm. Currently, UAE leads the GCC in e-commerce growth and in 2015, the number of B2C e commerce in the MENA region reached an estimated height of $15 Billion rising from $9 ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority (SCTDA) said that this year’s international summer campaign had a positive effect on the tourist numbers in the Emirate. The SCTDA campaign which ran in collaboration with the emirates accommodation sector was run in parallel with the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s summer campaign which promoted the commerce ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Entrepreneurship is a source of economic growth in all parts of the world, and in many Middle Eastern countries it is one of the main economic drivers. Bayt.com, the Middle East’s leading job site, teamed up with YouGov, a pioneer in online market research, to ascertain the current levels of understanding and interest in entrepreneurship ...

  ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Citrix has announced its intent to take its cloud-first, mobile-first approach to new heights through its partnership with Microsoft by developing the next generation of the Azure RemoteApp service. The offering will combine the simplicity and speed of Microsoft Azure RemoteApp with many of the enterprise capabilities of Citrix XenApp to revolutionize app delivery from ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business dubizzle, the UAE’s leading classifieds platform, has published its first ever luxury and prestige motors report looking at trends over the first seven months of 2016. According to the report, almost 145,000 car ads were posted, with over 7,000 luxury car ads, including Porsche and Bentley, and 36,000 prestige car ads, including Mercedes-Benz and BMW, ...

DUBAI / EMIRATES BUSINESS Ducab, the UAE-based leading manufacturer of high-quality cables and cabling products, hosted its 2nd annual Professional Training Program where Emirati university students received on the job training at the company’s facilities. The summer training initiative is the outcome of the company’s commitment to Emiratisation and local talent development in the country. Ducab hosted over 40 male ...

DUBAI / EMIRATES BUSINESS du announced the launch of its latest prepaid campaign for existing large enterprise and government customers. Data + Minutes is a limited offer that provides existing prepaid customers with special offers on data and minutes tailored to their needs. This deal will run until end of September. Eligible customers may dial *055# to see and opt-in ...

  DUBAI / Emirates Business Dubai Properties (DP), a leading Dubai-based real estate master developer and asset manager announced townhouses in the Portuguese-inspired community, Casa Dora at Serena in Dubailand will be released soon for sale at the DP sales and customer services centre in Ras Al Khor. Following the success of the first release of townhouses in the Bella ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi Ports, the master developer, operator and manager of the Emirate’s ports and Khalifa Industrial Zone, on Saturday announced a major expansion plan in Khalifa Port. The expansion at Khalifa Port, one of the world’s fastest growing container, bulk cargo and roll-on roll-off vehicle transport ports, will add 1,000 metres of quay wall ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM With the return of the 2016-17 academic school year, parents are encouraged to motivate their children to look forward to going back to school today, with particular emphasis on the first day of school. The ADEC’s last census indicated that there are about 375,000 students returning to public and private schools (130,147 and around 245,000, respectively) ...