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Dubai / WAM Building on the success of the inaugural class of Techstars Dubai in partnership with GINCO, Techstars, GINCO Investments, and Dubai Fut- ure Foundation’s Area 2071 initiative have invited entrepreneurs from around the world to apply to the second class of the accelerator until October 14. The second Dubai programme will continue to focus on businesses, which can ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Real Estate Institute (DREI), the educational arm of Dubai Land Department (DLD), announced the launch of the ‘Harvard Happy Cities’ programme, which will be held on November 11 and 12 at the Institute’s headquarters in DLD. Mahmoud El Burai, CEO of DREI, said, “We are pleased to work with the American-based Harvard School of Executive Education ...

Bloomberg Total SA’s withdrawal from Iran’s giant South Pars gas field has given China another chance to secure a stake in the world’s most coveted energy assets: abundant and low-cost Middle Eastern oil and gas. Chinese companies have invested in Iraq, the United Arab Emirates and Iran in recent years, and have expressed interest in oil and gas projects in ...

Bloomberg SpiceJet Ltd. completed its maiden flight using a blend of aviation fuel and oil from jatropha seeds, furthering Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push for greater use of alternative resources to cut India’s dependence on oil imports. A Bombardier Q400 aircraft made the one-way trip to New Delhi from the city of Dehradun, about 200 kilometres from the capital. The ...

Bloomberg Italy’s gas pipeline operator Snam SpA signed a memorandum of understanding with China’s State Grid International Development as part of Finance Minister Giovanni Tria’s trip to the Asian country. Snam and State Grid International, a unit of the biggest Chinese power distributor, agreed to examine a range of opportunities in China and elsewhere, with a focus on the use ...

Bloomberg India’s largest natural gas pipeline operator has invited users to book surplus network capacity online as the country prepares to create a distribution hub that sets benchmark prices. State-run GAIL India Ltd., which controls 70 percent of the nation’s network, launched a website for online bookings of pipeline capacity to ship gas across the country. GAIL, with 11,400 kilometres ...

Bloomberg TransCanada Corp. won a 49 percent price increase for space on the pipeline it’s building to haul shale gas from Appalachian fields as labor shortages and escalating land prices pushed construction costs almost $1 billion higher. US regulators approved the Calgary-based company’s request to charge gas explorers $14.663 per dekatherm for space on its Mountaineer XPress Project, 275-kilometre in ...

Bloomberg Surendrasingh Sucharia always has a few thousand rupees in his pocket, but can’t recall the last time he used cash. The 29-year-old product manager in Bangalore uses a string of smartphone apps including ones from Google and India’s Paytm to pay for everything from $40 bags of groceries to street food that costs pennies. A bewildering array of digital ...

Bloomberg India has drawn a list of goods it can export to China, replacing US exports that have become costlier in light of the trade spat between the world’s two biggest economies, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The South Asian nation has identified more than 40 products, including fresh grapes, cotton linters, flue-cured tobacco and alloy ...

Bloomberg Meituan Dianping, the Chinese restaurant review and delivery giant, has started gauging investor demand for a planned Hong Kong initial public offering, people with knowledge of the matter said. A stock offering from the company could raise more than $4 billion, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the details are private. Chinese social ...