Bloomberg Apple Inc.’s main assemblers are shifting more output to India and Southeast Asia as trade tensions threaten to escalate costs in their longstanding production base of China. Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, known also as Foxconn, said over the weekend it’s investing more than $200 million in India and Vietnam. Smaller rival Pegatron Corp. said it’s moved to Indonesia ...
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Xiaomi rout puts spotlight on Hong Kong’s expiring lockups
Bloomberg Investors locked into holding newly-listed Hong Kong stocks could only watch as last year’s bear market ate away at their returns. The shackles will soon be off. Xiaomi Corp saw a wave of selling after its lockup period — when key investors are banned from selling stock — ended three weeks ago. Similar restriction terms are due to end ...
Read More »Trump to press China over trade as US targets Huawei
Bloomberg The Trump administration will press China to prove it can keep promises in talks this week aimed at ending the trade war, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said, as the US ratcheted up legal pressure on one of the biggest examples of Chinese technological might. In a sign of the importance the White House is placing on the talks, President ...
Read More »EU warns US tech giants to intensify fake news fight
Bloomberg Europe warned the world’s biggest tech and advertising companies that they need to intensify efforts to combat disinformation on their platforms ahead of European elections, or face regulation. The European Commission, the bloc’s executive body, acknowledged that companies such as Alphabet Inc’s Google, Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc, had made “some progressâ€, in particular with removing fake accounts and ...
Read More »Apple’s next forecast to likely show sales are still falling
Bloomberg Anyone looking for an upbeat forecast from Apple Inc is likely to be disappointed when the company’s results were expected on Tuesday. The company is set to report its first holiday quarter sales decline since the iPhone launched, and analysts are predicting revenue will keep shrinking in the current quarter. In early January, Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook forecast ...
Read More »Arab Health 2019 opens in Dubai
Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Minister of Finance and President of Dubai Health Authority, on Monday officially inaugurated the Arab Health Exhibition and Congress 2019, followed by a tour of the exhibitions. More than 84,500 healthcare and trade professionals from 160 countries and 4,150 exhibiting companies from 66 countries are ...
Read More »VP praises achievements of ‘Dubai Aviation City Project’
DUBAI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, praised the achievements of the “Dubai Aviation City Project†in Southern Dubai, which covers a plot of land with an area of 145-square kilometres next to the site of the Expo 202 Dubai. During his tour of ...
Read More »Tawdheef Abu Dhabi Fair inaugurated
ABU DHABI / WAM Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance, inaugurated the 13th Tawdheef Abu Dhabi 2019, which is the country’s leading Emiratisation fair and was attended by many officials. The new edition of the three-day fair, which is witnessing the participation of 107 government authorities and institutions and private companies and was organised by Informa Exhibitions, ...
Read More »DXB keeps rank as world’s busiest international airport
Dubai / WAM Dubai International (DXB), has retained its position as the world’s busiest airport for international customer numbers for the fifth consecutive year, with annual traffic for 2018 surpassing 89.1 million. Aside from record traffic numbers, DXB enjoyed a banner year for customer service with shorter wait times and new retail and food and beverage offerings. The total number ...
Read More »Trump warns of ‘shutdown’ if deal over wall not reached
Bloomberg The committee of lawmakers crafting a plan for the southern US border is expected to start meeting this week, even as a defiant President Donald Trump made clear he won’t take no for an answer in his effort to construct a border wall. “Does anybody really think I won’t build the WALL?†Trump said in a tweet that ran ...
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