SAN FRANCISCO / AP Slack Technologies, a fast-growing startup trying to wean businesses off email by hooking employees on its more informal messaging service, is now hoping to snare the world’s biggest companies as customers. The company unveiled a new feature intended to let workers in different departments communicate more easily with each other. The new option, called “Enterprise …

  Dubai / WAM DIFC Courts, Dubai’s establis- hed English-language commercial courts, handled cases totalling AED5.85 billion (US$1.59 billion), up 5 percent year-on-year, in 2016. The main Court of First Instance (CFI) handled approximately the same number of cases as in 2015 but saw the average value of each increase by 17 percent to AED104.58 million. The total value of …

  RAS AL KHAIMAH / WAM Foreign trade in Ras al-Khaimah grew by 38 percent between 2011 and 2015, according to a study published by the local Chamber of Commerce and Industry, called “An analytical study about foreign trade in the emirate of Ras al-Khaimah”. Dr Ahmed Rashed Al Shamili, Assistant Director-General for Commercial Services and Business Development, said the …