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ABU DHABI / WAM Nawah Energy Company, Nawah, the joint venture nuclear operations and maintenance subsidiary of the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (Enec) and Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco), recently celebrated the graduation of the first UAE National leaders from its Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant Management Certification program. Nawah has designed the program to develop UAE National leaders in managing ...

DUBAI / WAM Moro Hub (Data Hub Integrated Solutions) a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has announced its collaboration with IBM to launch IBM Power Systems as a cloud service for the first time in Dubai. The new cloud service will enable organisations to benefit from improved performance and high data processing speeds, while reducing operating ...

Bloomberg The UK energy regulator is proposing an increase to its energy price cap to help utilities cope with additional costs from customer bad debts brought on by the pandemic. Workers have lost jobs, been furloughed, or are working from home, increasing domestic energy use and some customers are struggling to pay their bills, Ofgem said in a consultation document. ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump is facing rising pressure from prominent Republicans to begin a transition to President-elect Joe Biden — or even concede defeat — as Trump’s long-shot legal challenges failed to gain traction. Several key allies for Trump appeared to lose their patience over the weekend. Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Kevin Cramer of North Dakota — one ...

Bloomberg Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the UK plans to start rolling out two coronavirus vaccines next month before the program gathers pace in the new year, with a return to “normal” possible in the spring. Hancock was responding to trial results announced on Monday by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc showing their Covid-19 vaccine prevented a majority ...

Bloomberg Jeff Bezos gave $684 million of Amazon.com Inc stock to non-profits, days after posting on Instagram that he’d chosen 16 organisations to be the first recipients of money from the Bezos Earth Fund. The world’s richest man donated 220,825 shares of the e-commerce juggernaut, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The Amazon founder has ...

Bloomberg Google’s planned changes to advertising data were targeted by a group of rivals who pushed UK regulators to make the company a top antitrust priority. Marketers for an Open Web is asking the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to temporarily halt Google’s rollout of so-called privacy sandbox technology next year, it said in an emailed statement on Monday. The ...

Bloomberg Shopify Inc expects a banner holiday season as the worsening pandemic encourages more consumers to shop online and buy from the small businesses that sell through its platform. While the pace of growth will likely slow once the pandemic ends, this year’s gains will likely hold up, President Harley Finkelstein said in an interview. The company reported a 109% ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC) announced on Sunday the discovery of substantial recoverable unconventional oil resources located onshore, estimated at 22 billion stock tank barrels (STB), and an increase in conventional oil reserves of 2 billion STB in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The announcements were made following the SPC meeting presided over by His Highness ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi has announced significant increase in revenues from tourism activity in the capital in the third quarter of 2020. Findings from its quarterly industry development committee meeting revealed promising signs of sector recovery, as well as a glimpse into future projects and plans to boost tourism in the emirate. ...