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  Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, stressed the importance of long-term investment in innovation and supporting UAE innovators and enabling them to turn their ideas into innovative projects that benefit people. “Supporting UAE innovators is a key pillar of the future work and efforts ...

  Sharjah / WAM His Highness Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, and President of the University of Sharjah (UoS) on Monday received a delegation from ABET, the US-based Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, who are on a visit to the emirate. The parties discussed academic progress being made by the UoS. ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM An innovation guide for companies operating in the UAE has been launched by the Ministry of Economy to promote a culture of innovation and increase awareness regarding the importance of research and development, R&D, for businesses and the entire economy, the Ministry announced on Monday. The guide, prepared in collaboration with the National Research Centre of ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai has improved its ranking to claim the 15th position on the second edition of the Dubai Innovation Index, which was released by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry on the side-lines of the UAE Innovation Week. The survey, launched by the Chamber in cooperation with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), analysed 28 top global innovation cities. ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Honeywell (NYSE:HON) named the Burj Khalifa as the UAE’s “smartest” building at the Middle East’s first-ever smart building awards presentation at the Innovation Live! Summit today in Dubai. The world’s tallest structure also received the award for the Middle East’s smartest “high-rise residential” building. The summit, an official anchor event of the widely celebrated UAE ...

  Dubai / WAM The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE) is launching 11 environmental initiatives between November 20-26 to mark the UAE’s second annual Innovation Week, launched by Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The Ministry is holding several contests for its employees and public during ...

  London / AFP Facebook on Monday became the latest US tech giant to announce new investment in Britain with hundreds of extra jobs but hinted its success depended on skilled migration after Britain leaves the European Union. The premier social network underlined London’s status as a global technology hub at a British company bosses’ summit where Prime Minister Theresa ...

  Bloomberg Hungary’s plan to cut its corporate tax rate to the lowest in the European Union from next year may spark a “race to the bottom” as its ex-communist peers look for ways to compensate investors for rising wages, according to BMI Research, a unit of Fitch Group. Wage pressures are set to intensify next year as central Europe ...

  PARIS / AFP Home sharing site Airbnb aims to extend its network of tax agreements to 700 cities by the end of next year, Monday’s Financial Times has quoted its chief executive as saying. The company has already clinched 200 tax agreements that allow it to collect and remit hotel taxes to local authorities, Brian Chesky told the newspaper. ...

  London / AFP Prime Minister Theresa May promised Monday to boost research investment as she sought to reassure business leaders nervous about the “cliff-edge scenario” of Britain leaving the European Union. May told a Confederation of British Industry (CBI) conference that her government would invest an extra £2 billion a year ($2.5 billion, 2.3 billion euros) in science research ...