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Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business Exchanging views about the effects of diversification and disruption of technology, business leaders in the GCC will come together on a platform at the Top CEO conference on April 5. Trend Magazine and I INSEAD – the leading international business school, would also be recognizing the Arabian Gulf region’s leaders for their commendable contribution in ...

Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business According to UAE-based portal InternsME.com, internship programmes are a great way to maintain the ‘talent funnel’ which benefits the corporates in reducing unemployment and enhancing work environment. Jean–Michel Gauthier CEO deems that the corporates can avoid hiring the usual up-front and long-term costs of hiring, “Majority of interns are on student or parent visa sponsorship, ...

Emirates Business BigScreen Middle East, the first cloud-based, software-as-a-service for human resource management, has announced the launch of its Unified Talent Management platform across the Middle East. Unified Talent Management is a Management and Workflow Solution designed by BigScreen to cover ALL aspects of talent management from hiring new staff to appraisals of existing employees. BigScreen addresses the constant challenges ...

Emirates Business Recording over 270 million page views per month, dubizzle — the country’s leading classifieds platform — celebrates 10 years of transforming the UAE’s second-hand market place and consumer behaviour as a whole. “In the space of 10 years, dubizzle has completely redefined the culture of ownership in the UAE by kick-starting the country’s second-hand economy, and bridging a ...

Emirates Business As upstream oil and gas companies scrutinize every dollar invested, they’re spending smarter today on digital technologies, seeking to drive value and reduce costs amid low oil and gas prices, a new survey by Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) reports. Respondents to the ‘2016 Upstream Oil and Gas Digital Trends Survey’ included international oil companies ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Pursuant to the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, ordered changing the name of the ‘Mushrif Central Park’ to the ‘Mother of the Nation Park’. This comes in recognition ...

DUBAI / WAM HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, UAE Minister of Finance and Chairman of the Board of Dubai World Trade Centre Authority, on Monday announced the 2015 annual performance results of Dubai World Trade Centre(WTC), highlighting an impressive 12% year-on-year increase in traffic to deliver 2.74 million delegates and attendees, coupled with a ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The United Arab Emirates and the Republic of Finland signed an agreement on the exchange of information for tax purposes between the two countries. The agreement was signed by Younis Haji Al Khoori, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance(MoF), and Riitta Swan, Ambassador of Finland to the UAE; in the presence of Khalid Ali Al Bustani, ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Researchers from the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology developed a novel device that can track and concentrate sunlight onto high-efficient solar cells, without mechanically moving to follow the sun’s path across the sky. This proof-of-concept research is the first step towards the development of a self-tracking concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) system. “Traditional CPV systems rotate solar ...

RITIKA Sharma EMIRATES BUSINESS The UAE has an unmatched 83 percent pre-primary enrolment rate spread across 500 nursery schools across the Emirates. What fuels the apparent growth of this segment is the growing number of expatriates and rising awareness among parents to take their children’s pre-school years seriously and choose a nursery of highest standards. Reports state that the overall ...