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Bloomberg Facebook Inc.’s messaging service WhatsApp was given a one-month ultimatum by one of Europe’s strictest privacy watchdogs, facing an order to stop sharing user data with its parent without getting the necessary consent. France’s data protection authority CNIL gave a sharp warning to WhatsApp by issuing a formal notice, criticising it for “insufficiently” cooperating. The decision comes a year ...

Bloomberg It’s quite a cocktail: throw in some profit-seeking techies, mix in the age-old Roman Catholic Church and add a twist of anti-globalism. What you get is a startup hub. A year ago, venture capitalists Stephen Forte of Fresco Capital Fund and Eric Harr of Imagine Ventures—both based in California— asked the Vatican to back a technology competition among startups ...

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, on Monday received Team Abu Dhabi, who recently won the Formula 1 Powerboat World Championship title. The winners were accompanied by His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, Adviser to the UAE ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA), the regulatory body for Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO), the integrated free zone technology park, on Monday announced the findings of The Cloud Report 2017, commissioned in partnership with IBM and produced by Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. Launched at a joint press conference ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Airport Freezone Authority (DAFZA), has launched the ‘DAFZA’s Strategy for Islamic Economy’ which is based on strategic initiatives involving the Islamic economy and halal sectors. The strategy will help attract more foreign direct investments (FDIs) to the sectors and support the ‘Dubai – Capital ...

Dubai / WAM The Real Estate Investment Management and Promotion Centre, the investment arm of Dubai Land Department (DLD), has concluded its real estate roadshow and workshops in the United Kingdom. London was the last destination in the real estate roadshow, which aimed to promote Dubai’s real estate market and attract British investors. The roadshow, which earlier visited the Russian ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump will declare China a “strategic competitor’’ to the US in a speech that lays out an official national security strategy heavily influenced by his views on trade and economic relations, senior administration officials said. The language, as described by the officials, appears softer than the label used by National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, who last week ...

Bloomberg Many of the cargo containers passing through India’s busiest port in Mumbai have a small piece of Japan Inc. attached: Devices from NEC Corp. that can be tracked as the containers rumble through the interior of Asia’s third-largest economy. The partnership between NEC and the port illustrates the strengthening relationship between Tokyo and New Delhi. Japan is seeking growth ...

Bloomberg Coffee trading is slowing in Vietnam, the top robusta producer, on expectations that a larger harvest and changes to the London futures contract next year will give buyers bigger discounts. Roasters and traders are delaying purchases on bets that a bigger crop currently being gathered will push prices lower, according to traders attending the Asia International Coffee Conference in ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Theresa May will set out her plan for how a proposed Brexit transition period will work, stoking a potential new row with the European Union as she tries to keep different factions inside the Conservative Party on her side. May was expected to address Parliament around 3.30 pm London time on Monday, saying that after March ...