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Bloomberg HP Inc will slash as much as 16 percent of its workforce as part of a broad restructuring meant to cut costs and boost sales growth amid the company’s first change in top leadership in four years. The personal computer giant said it will cut 7,000 to 9,000 positions through firings and voluntary early retirement. The job reductions will ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s battle against an accelerating impeachment inquiry is growing tougher after a week of damaging revelations and self-inflicted wounds that emboldened Democrats and put the White House on defense. The president added to the frenzy by publicly calling on Ukraine and China to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, echoing the conduct that sparked the impeachment effort ...

Bloomberg International bond investors may get a chance in coming days to weigh in on Indian wireless carrier Bharti Airtel Ltd’s efforts to pare debt, with market signs indicating enthusiasm for the push. The wireless carrier is planning to sell a dollar perpetual bond — debt with no set maturity — as early as October 8, according to a person ...

Bloomberg India is emerging as the testing and acquisition playground for global consumer technology companies, especially the so-called FAANGs, according to a veteran internet analyst. RBC Capital Markets’ Mark Mahaney, who calls himself Wall Street’s “oldest internet analyst” after covering the sector for more than two decades, said India is now more popular than markets like China because it has ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE Ministry of Education, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), and Bloomberg L.P. signed on Wednesday a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), to implement a training and development programme — called the Adnoc-Bloomberg Education Initiative. The initiative is designed to equip a new generation of students with the specialised financial skills needed to excel in a ...

MONTREAL / WAM The United Arab Emirates has been elected for the fifth consecutive time to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), Council. The UAE will serve its fifth term aboard the international organisation after successfully winning its re-election campaign on Tuesday, garnering 152 votes at the meetings of the ICAO’s 40th Session, running in Montreal, Canada from September 24 through ...

DUBAI / WAM The 10th edition of the Annual Investment Meeting, AIM, is set to take place from March 24-26, 2020, at the Dubai World Trade Centre. The event will offer delegates from around 150 countries a platform to keep abreast of the latest trends and best practices in investments around the world. Themed ‘Investing for the Future: Shaping Global ...

GENEVA / WAM The UAE Ministry of Economy and the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to utilise artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in intellectual property titles such as patents, trademarks, industrial designs, and copyright. The MoU was signed in Geneva on the sidelines of the 59th Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of the Member ...

Bloomberg North Korea fired what appeared to be a ballistic missile designed for submarines, testing President Donald Trump’s tolerance for weapons tests just hours after agreeing to restart stalled nuclear talks with the US. The South Korean military said the missile was fired near North Korea’s eastern Wonsan area just after 7 am on Wednesday and flew 910 kilometers (570 ...

Bloomberg Secretary of State Michael Pompeo kicked off a visit to Europe with talks that focussed on Italian concerns at the prospect of new US tariffs, just as the top American diplomat was drawn deeper into an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Pompeo met with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte at his official residence in Rome, on the first ...