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Dubai / WAM The UAE official government portal ‘UAE Government’ views have surpassed 20 million, while portal users reached about 7.5 million (2.5 million are from outside the UAE) and users’ sessions reached 12 million in two years since the portal was revamped and enriched with content in April 2017, reported the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA). Hamad Obaid Al Mansoori, Director-General ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Saif Mohammed Al Suwaidi, Director-General of General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), has officially inaugurated the “Abu Dhabi Air Accident Investigation Laboratory”, established by the Air Accident Investigation Sector (AAIS), at the authority’s headquarters. “The lab offers great potential for the Air Accident Investigation Sector to operate effectively and smoothly, based on data recorded by flight recorders. ...

Bloomberg Brookfield Asset Management Inc and Fortress Investment Group are among the bidders for a portfolio of 15 hotels owned by Anbang Insurance Group Co, according to people familiar with the sales process. Blackstone Group LP, South Korea’s Mirae Asset Management, and GIC Pte, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, are also among the bidders for the hotels, the Financial Times reported, ...

Bloomberg Masayoshi Son can’t stop talking about how artificial intelligence (AI) is going to change the world. Now SoftBank Group Corp will finally have a board member who is an expert on the subject. SoftBank named a new director: Yutaka Matsuo, a professor at the University of Tokyo who focuses on social network mining, natural language processing and AI. SoftBank ...

Bloomberg The US crackdown on Huawei Technologies Co could make Apple Inc’s already troubled business in China even more difficult, hobbling iPhone sales in the world’s biggest smartphone market and disrupting the company’s supply chain, according to analysts. US President Donald Trump effectively banned US companies from working with Huawei. That’s sparked concern on Wall Street about potential retaliation by ...

Bloomberg Escalating tensions between Washington and Beijing are wiping billions from the net worth of China’s richest surveillance tycoons. The billionaires behind Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co and Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co have watched their combined fortunes sink by more than $8 billion since March 2018 as shares of both companies sank on speculation of potential US sanctions. The losses ...

Bloomberg The Trump administration is preparing to announce another round of aid to farmers hurt by the trade war with China as soon as Thursday, people familiar with the plan said, a package of assistance that could exceed $15 billion. The aid plan is largely modelled on the program the administration put in place last year after China slapped retaliatory ...

Bloomberg BP Plc lined the road leading to its annual shareholder gathering in Scotland’s oil capital with hoardings touting investments in renewable energy. Inside the meeting, there was a fierce debate on whether the energy major was telling the truth. Investors large and small grilled BP’s Chairman Helge Lund and Chief Executive Officer Bob Dudley for over two hours on ...

Bloomberg California sued the Trump administration over the government’s decision to withdraw a grant of almost $1 billion that would have funded a high-speed rail project, suggesting the move was a political response to the state’s challenge of the president’s declaration of an emergency on the southern border. The Federal Railroad Authority announced it would cancel the grant on February ...

Bloomberg BMW AG Chief Executive Officer Harald Krueger’s job is on the line over concerns he’s not aggressive enough in steering the luxury carmaker’s titanic shift towards electric and autonomous vehicles, people familiar with the matter said. Some supervisory board members are questioning whether he’s the right choice to lead the company and will discuss the CEO’s second-term prospects in ...