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DUBAI / WAM Hotels and desert camps in Dubai have just one more month to enter the 2017 Dubai Sustainable Tourism Awards. Part of the Dubai Sustainable Tourism initiative, the awards will recognise hotels and individuals who are adopting tangible measures to contribute to enhanced sustainability within the emirate’s tourism sector. Establishments can enter the awards via the Dubai Sustainable ...

­­­­­­­­­­­Bloomberg The angry birds at Rovio Entertainment Oy are set to lay a golden egg for the company’s founders. The firm is planning an initial public offering as early as next month that could value the maker of the Angry Birds mobile games and movie at about $2 billion, said people familiar with the matter. The company could raise about ...

Bloomberg In a sign that dealmaking in the financial-technology sector may be heating up, a German fintech firm has made the rare move of acquiring a startup to beef up its customer base. Deposit Solutions GmbH, a Hamburg-based company that enables consumers to move their savings around a network of 15 European banks to find the best interest rate, on ...

Bloomberg Securitas AB is replacing its chief executive officer with an insider who’s almost two decades his junior to steer Sweden’s biggest security company through a paradigm shift from manned guarding to big data and artificial intelligence. Magnus Ahlqvist will take over as CEO in March next year after Alf Goransson asked to step down after more than a decade ...

Bloomberg Google isn’t the only Silicon Valley employer being accused of hostility to white men. Yahoo! Inc. and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. were already fighting discrimination lawsuits brought by white men before Google engineer James Damore ignited a firestorm—and got himself fired—with an internal memo criticising the company’s diversity efforts and claiming women are biologically less suited than men to ...

Bloomberg Portugal’s economic growth decelerated more than forecast in the three months through June, expanding at the slowest pace in a year. Gross domestic product rose 0.2 percent from the first quarter, when it expanded 1 percent, the Lisbon-based National Statistics Institute said in a preliminary report on Monday. That fell short of the 0.6 percent increase predicted by economics ...

Bloomberg Netflix Inc. signed a multiyear contract with Shonda Rhimes, poaching the creator of the hit TV series “Scandal” and “Grey’s Anatomy” from Walt Disney Co.’s ABC network. Rhimes will produce new series and other projects, the companies said in a statement on the Netflix website. She will continue her existing work with ABC, but all new developments by her ...

MELBOURNE / Reuters The last massive component of Australia’s $180 billion liquefied natural gas construction boom arrived on Monday, stepping up a race between Anglo-Dutch giant Shell and Japan’s Inpex to start chilling gas for export in 2018. Company reputations are at stake, as well as first access to overlapping gas fields and Australia leapfrogging Qatar as the world’s largest ...

Bloomberg Oil traded near $49 a barrel as Libyan output and exports declined amid security threats and a labor dispute in the port of Zueitina. Futures fell 0.3 percent in New York after Friday’s 0.5 percent gain. Libya’s biggest oil field cut output by more than 30 percent, a person familiar with the matter said Sunday, while the head of ...

TUNIS / Reuters Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) said it was investigating security violations that had taken place in recent days at Sharara oil field, the country’s largest. The NOC gave no detail of the incidents in a statement released late on Sunday, but said the head of security at the field had reported that the breaches were due to ...