Bloomberg Stephen Hawking, the British physicist and black-hole theorist who brought science to a mass audience with the best-selling book ‘A Brief History of Time,’ has died. He was 76. Hawking died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in England in the early hours of Wednesday morning, a spokesman for his family said in an emailed statement. “We are deeply ...

Dubai / Emirates Business In the fourth quarter of 2017, MENA IPO activity witnessed eight deals, representing a 60% surge in volume over the same period in 2016. The MENA IPO value, or capital raised, amounted to $2.5 billion in Q4 2017, over ten times the capital raised last year and the highest since 2014. The UAE led the MENA ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Microsoft revealed plans to deliver the intelligent, trusted Microsoft cloud from its first data centres located in the Middle East, empowering organisations, governments, and businesses to achieve more and recognising the unprecedented opportunity for digital transformation in the region. The Microsoft Cloud, comprising Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics 365, will offer enterprise-grade reliability and performance, combined ...