Our Correspondent / Emirates Business Biddi.com, the online portal that let you buy and sell anything, has formally launched its operations in the UAE. Biddi.com is an intuitive free e-commerce and listing site selling just about anything. It creates an ecosystem for buyers and sellers to interact seamlessly, backed by door-to-door delivery and secure payments — including cash on …

  Our Correspondent / EMIRATES BUSINESS Seiko was founded in 1881, when Kintaro Hattori opened a watch and clock shop called ‘Hattori Tokeiten’ in the Ginza area of Tokyo, Japan. 11 years later, in 1892, he began to produce clocks under the name Seikosha, meaning roughly ‘The house of precision’. Seiko in Japanese means ‘precision’. The first wrist watch produced …

  ABU DHABI / WAM A national tourism strategy will provide a framework of action that will help mobilise all stakeholders to position the UAE among the best tourism destinations in the world, Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy, said during a meeting with officials in charge of the tourism sector in his ministry. The minister also called …