Technology

DUBAI / Emirates Business Mobile video is exploding. Over half of all video views are on mobile and mobile video consumption is increasing exponentially on Facebook. Mobile is where your customers watch everything from video ads to branded content—and it’s time to adapt yours to match. Businesses around the world are experimenting with PockeTVC including Emirates in the United Arab ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business As South Korea prepares for the largest winter sporting event in its history, LG Electronics (LG) focused on improving automated services at the main hub for the world’s travelers – Incheon International Airport (IIA). LG put into service a number of Airport Guide Robots and Airport Cleaning Robots at the award-winning airport to assist travelers arriving ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business LG Electronics’ (LG) newest smartphone featuring the proprietary FullVision display will become available to consumers around the world starting this week. The LG Q6, designed to meet the needs and expectations of discerning millennial customers worldwide, will be available this week in Korea, soon to be followed by key markets in Asia, Europe, Middle East and ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business You’ve decorated your beautiful home with care: furniture, lighting, paintings, floor covering…Wi-Fi? Perhaps this seems an “odd-man out” but how often is the peace in your home interrupted by expletives resulting from frozen (über-unattractive!) Skype images, cable clutter and other frustrations from faulty internet? Life is too short for so much irritation when the solution is ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business Colt Technology Services announced a strategic partnership with Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) to interconnect the Colt IQ Network with Equinix’s cloud ecosystem. Today, Colt enterprise customers already benefit from connectivity to public and private clouds including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform through Colt’s Dedicated Cloud Access service, and inter-data centre connectivity ...

Gregoire de Clercq Special to Emirates Business The ever-increasing flood of data into and out of an organisation and how best to manage it is one of the greatest challenges and opportunities facing businesses today. Today’s era of ‘data chaos’ – the point where the size and growth of unstructured data vastly outpaces structured data, has created a pressing requirement ...

Bloomberg A photo of your shiny new car on Instagram or the Facebook post about your chic holiday cottage may lead India’s taxman to your door. Starting next month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government will begin amassing a warehouse of virtual information collected not just from traditional sources like banks but also from social media sites, as it looks to ...

Bloomberg Samsung Electronics Co.’s quarterly profit and revenue topped analysts’ estimates, fueled by the success of its new Galaxy S8 smartphones and demand for semiconductors. Net income rose to a record 10.8 trillion won ($9.6 billion) in the three months ended June, the Suwon, South Korea-based company said in a filing, exceeding the 9.75 trillion won average of projections compiled ...

Bloomberg Slack Technologies Inc. is raising about $250 million in a funding round co-led by SoftBank Group Corp., according to people familiar with the matter, as the Japanese investment firm helps drive a new venture capital boom. Investors in the round are expected to value the San Francisco-based company, which sells software for workers to communicate with their colleagues, at ...

Bloomberg Facebook Inc.’s investors are salivating over the revenue potential for the company’s chat businesses, Messenger and WhatsApp, after CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he’d like to move “a little faster” to make money from them. The company has warned that sales growth, fueled primarily by mobile advertising, will slow because it can’t keep loading ads into users’ news feeds on ...