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DUBAI / EMIRATES BUSINESS Dream Design Properties, Australia’s first property investment, wealth-creation and mentoring organization is pleased to have finally open their office doors in the UAE, offering real opportunities for investors from the Middle East and GCC to invest in the booming property market in Australia. Founder, Zaki Ameer, a self-made millionaire, real estate expert and wealth development coach ...

Bloomberg This is the kind of news that school- choice advocates and skeptics alike need to pay attention to: The Economist magazine reports that a team of academic economists found that students who won a lottery in Louisiana to receive vouchers to go to the public or private school of their choice did worse than students who didn’t win the ...

Bloomberg You may have heard technology stocks have had an ugly start to the year. But while they’re battered, they still aren’t cheap. It is true that early 2016 has been unkind to the technology market. Check out this chart of the share price to estimated earnings of the S&P 500 information technology sector index, which includes mega-to-medium companies such ...

Bloomberg Twitter is now, officially, a pinata. Investors have torn into the execution of its business model, its share price and its very reason for existence. Given Twitter’s wayward strategies and revolving-door management structure over the years, some of this may have been inevitable. Still, Twitter has a big audience, it provides a service its users like, and maybe it’s ...

Dubai / Emirates Business US company Cinemersia is launching a new consumer service VR Being There that will bring a new angle to preserving that special day. “With the eruption of VR into the consumer market,” said David Marlett, principal of Cinemersia, “it makes sense for every wedding to now be captured in full spherical 360 degrees. Brides and grooms ...

AFP One half of the world’s most successful song-writing partnership has put down his Hofner bass and picked up his computer to help Microsoft spread some love this Valentine’s Day. Sir Paul McCartney is one of the most famous, successful, revered and respected singer-songwriters in the history of popular music. Therefore it’s not surprising that when he was approached by ...

Relaxnews Versace is getting in the mood for Valentine’s Day with the launch of a romantic new emoji app and a capsule collection of t-shirts. The Versace Emoji app sees the brand’s iconic Medusa turned into a smiley face with a range of different playful expressions and styles. Users can embellish photos from their own library or create original images ...

SAN JOSE / WAM President of Costa Rica Luis Guillermo Solis, received H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The two sides discussed cooperation and ways to enhance it in the best interest of the two countries. During the meeting, they exchanged views on important regional and international issues as well as topics ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Interior (MoI) has deployed 82 automatic defibrillators in different locations across the UAE with the aim to deal with emergencies and heart failure cases. A number of community members were trained to operate the defibrillators that were put for use when needed in public places. Lt. Colonel Omar Ahmed Al Dhaheri, Chief of the ...

DUBAI / EMIRATES BUSINESS The International Maritime Club presented Meena Mathews, GAC’s Regional P&I Manager for the Middle East, with its Excellence in Marine Claims Management accolade at the IMC Excellence Awards ceremony at the Ocean Blue in Sharjah. Mathews was nominated by the Club’s committee of industry specialists for her work in protection and indemnity and insurance over the last ...