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Bloomberg Google officially closed its $1.1 billion deal with HTC Corp., adding more than 2,000 smartphone specialists in Taiwan to help the search giant chase Apple Inc. in the cut-throat premium handset market. The deal will help Google design more of its own consumer hardware and could set it up to wade deeper into special-purpose chips—like Apple. Google’s most recent ...

Bloomberg Volvo AB boosted its forecast for truck markets in the US and Europe this year as low fuel prices and interest rates push demand, a development that’s expected to put more strain on an already tight supply chain. The shares rose the most in three months. The world’s second-biggest truckmaker raised its expectation for industrywide North American deliveries by ...

ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and His Highness Sheikh Tahnoun bin Mohammed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Ruler’s Representative in Al Ain Region, have received a number of dignitaries and state representatives of neighbouring Arab nations, who came to pay their ...

MADRID / WAM King Felipe VI of Spain received His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, in Madrid and expressed the importance of enhancing cooperation between the two countries in various fields. King Felipe and HH Sheikh Abdullah discussed ways to strengthen historical bilateral relations between the UAE and Spain and ways ...

Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Tuesday received Pavel Filip, Prime Minister of Moldova, and his accompanying delegation. Sheikh Mohammed welcomed Filip and discussed with him a number of issues related to developing friendly relations and cooperation between the two countries, and building ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR), on Tuesday unveiled details of its 2018 corporate outlook focusing on ensuring safe, secure and peaceful nuclear and radiation programmes in the country. Addressing a media briefing, Christer Viktorsson, Director-General of FANR, said that “the UAE is moving rapidly forward with developing its nuclear sector (and) FANR made ...

Bloomberg Businesses waiting for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to follow through on a pledge to cut corporate taxes may need to wait a bit longer. In his last full budget before 2019 elections, Modi is facing a revenue squeeze that may make it difficult to deliver on a promise to lower the basic corporate tax rate over time to ...

Bloomberg Ola, India’s biggest ride-hailing startup, is heading down under. It’s the overseas debut for Ola, which will start inviting drivers in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth to sign up, it said. Ola will be competing with Uber Technologies in Australia. The two companies have been going head-to-head in India’s $10-billion ride-hailing market where the ramshackle public transportation systems in cities ...

Bloomberg SAP SE Chief Executive Officer Bill McDermott has backed US President Donald Trump’s tax plan, and revealed a $2.4 billion deal for Callidus Software Inc., its biggest acquisition in more than three years. SAP said it will pay $36 a share for Dublin, California-based Callidus, known as CallidusCloud, to give Europe’s biggest software company access to new sales analytic ...

Bloomberg Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin’s Dalian Wanda Group Co. has put its last two overseas property developments up for sale, according to people familiar with the matter, in the latest unwinding of a decade-long overseas buying spree that put it in the cross-hairs of Chinese regulators. Wanda is seeking buyers for a hotel, office and apartment complex in Chicago and ...