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Bloomberg India is emerging as the testing and acquisition playground for global consumer technology companies, especially the so-called FAANGs, according to a veteran internet analyst. RBC Capital Markets’ Mark Mahaney, who calls himself Wall Street’s “oldest internet analyst” after covering the sector for more than two decades, said India is now more popular than markets like China because it has ...

Bloomberg Sony Corp cut the price of its PlayStation Now video-game service in half, to $9.99 a month, a reflection of the increasing competition in online offerings. The industry leader in video games said it’s also adding limited runs of top-selling titles to the service, such as Take-Two Interactive Software Inc’s Grand Theft Auto V, and launching the first global ...

Bloomberg Chinese firms have been snapping up US soybeans, but don’t mistake this as a sign of buyer confidence in upcoming trade talks. The companies, which received a fresh 2 million-ton quota from Beijing to import American beans free of retaliatory tariffs, have been seeking soy every day so far. That’s likely because they want to rush through orders in ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE is the top regional contributor and the world’s fifth largest donor to the World Food Programme (WFP), with 2019’s contributions amounting to $270 million, a top WFP official said. “However, the major contribution of the UAE is hosting the WFP over the past 15 years. The UAE is contributing efficiently to our operations in ...

Bloomberg The World Trade Organisation (WTO) gave President Donald Trump the go-ahead to impose tariffs on as much as $7.5 billion worth of European exports annually in retaliation for illegal government aid to Airbus SE. The award is the largest in WTO history — nearly twice as large as the previous record of $4.04 billion set in 2002. The ruling ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Khidmah has won 14 new contracts in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah. The new contracts have been secured by Khidmah following a highly competitive bid process. In Abu Dhabi, Khidmah won five contracts from the master-developer Aldar Properties in Al Saadiyat Island including the Provision of Hard and Soft FM Services for Mamsha ...

DUBAI / WAM DMCC, the world’s flagship Free Zone and Government of Dubai Authority on commodities trade and enterprise, partnered with Dubai FDI to host a forum on Wednesday under the theme, ‘Advancing the Dubai-China Relationship Through Trade’, as part of the fifth edition of the Dubai Investment Week 2019. The event was held under the patronage of HH Sheikh ...

Bloomberg Oil steadied after sliding for six days in a row as signs of tighter supply in the US and Opec jostled with ongoing concern that a fragile global economy is eroding fuel demand. Futures held near $54 a barrel in New York after falling 8.6% since September 23. The American Petroleum Institute reported that US crude inventories fell by ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai FDI, the investment development agency of Dubai Economy, and the Dubai Future Foundation held the ‘Impact FDI Forum’ at Emirates Towers. The forum was part of a programme of the Hamdan Centre for the Future of Investment, focused on helping stakeholders transform the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals into attractive opportunities for investors and entrepreneurs ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE Ministry of Education, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), and Bloomberg L.P. signed on Wednesday a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), to implement a training and development programme — called the Adnoc-Bloomberg Education Initiative. The initiative is designed to equip a new generation of students with the specialised financial skills needed to excel in a ...