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Honeywell to highlight role of connectivity, technology

  Dubai / Emirates Business In support of the UAE’s drive toward a more innovative future, Honeywell is set to highlight the role of connectivity and technology in supporting national progress at the Innovation Live! summit, the official anchor event for UAE Innovation Week. The event takes place on 21 November, 2016, at Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Dubai. Innovation Live! is ...

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Cloudera expands big data management services to Mideast

  DUBAI / Emirates Business Cloudera, the global provider of the fastest, easiest, and most secure data management and analytics platform built on Apache Hadoop and the latest open source technologies, announced its formal entry to the Middle Eastern market. The data management technology provider made the announcement at its very first Cloudera Sessions in Dubai – held at Sofitel ...

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Street Art to reimagine city destinations for Abu Dhabi

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business An extraordinary programme of street art is capturing the imagination of the community in Abu Dhabi for the 8th edition of Abu Dhabi Art. Curated by Fabrice Bousteau, this tailored programme features the live creation of artistic masterpieces on shipping containers across four locations throughout the city. Street Art’s local and international talents will ...

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HullWiper gets pat for enriching Dubai’s culture of innovation

  Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Maritime City Authority (DMCA) recognised GAC EnvironHull’s pioneering hull-cleaning technology for its “exemplary role” in enriching the Emirate’s maritime sector’s culture of innovation and excellence. The diver- and brush-free HullWiper Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) has been recognised in the inaugural Dubai Maritime Innovation Awards presented by HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al ...

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UAE Armed Forces sign agreements to increase benefits for service personnel

  ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE Armed Forces signed several memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with a number of local companies to increase the privileges provided to all service people through a social initiative launched earlier this year. The signing of the fifth and the latest batch of MoUs takes the total number of companies and businesses to 220, which ...

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UAE-India joint team discusses infrastructure investment criteria

  ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE-India Joint Working Group on Infrastructure Investments held its first meeting in Abu Dhabi. The meeting addressed a range of infrastructure investment-related topics of mutual interest. The Working Group was created under an MoU signed between the UAE and India in February 2016 during the state visit to India of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed ...

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OPEC members to hold ‘informal’ Doha meeting

  ABU DAHBI / AFP At least 11 OPEC members will meet in Doha on Friday for an “informal and consultative meeting,” Qatar’s energy minister Mohammed Saleh al-Sada has confirmed. Speaking on Thursday after the conclusion of a meeting of major gas exporting countries in Doha, Sada said OPEC members would convene in the Qatari capital on Friday morning. “We will ...

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Khalifa varsity to hold ‘2016 Make It’ to inspire UAE young talents

  ABU DHABI / WAM The ‘2016 Make It’ competition, designed to attract the UAE’s best and brightest young talents into manufacturing and engineering, will be held during Innovation Week at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi on November 21 and at UAE University in Al Ain on November 23. The competition will bring together 13 and 14-year old students from ...

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ADGM attends business meetings at Singapore FinTech Festival

  ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) announced that it is taking part in the Singapore FinTech Festival. The ADGM team, comprising Richard Teng, Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) and senior management from the Capital Markets, Human Resources and Strategy and Business Affairs departments, are in Singapore to attend the FinTech Festival ...

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UAE urges Muslim world to stand united against enemies of Islam

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE reiterated its condemnation of the heinous targeting of the holy city of Makkah as a ballistic missile was launched there by the Houthi-Saleh militias. “The attack is an unprecedented, dangerous escalation, and ethical bankruptcy of these militias. Not even religious or ethical boundaries seem to deter them from their crime that has angered the ...

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