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Domino’s to use self-delivering robots to carry pizzas in Europe

  Bloomberg Starship Technologies, the London-based company that has created six-wheeled self-driving delivery robots, will begin taking customers Domino’s pizzas in Germany and the Netherlands. Starship, launched in July 2014 by two former Skype co-founders, Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis, will whisk pizzas to customers’ doors if they live within a one-mile radius of certain Dominos pizza shops in “select ...

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Sharers rather than authors more important on social media

  NEW YORK / AP The person who shares a news story on social media is more important than the story’s actual source in determining whether readers believe it, a study by the Media Insight Project has found. In a previous study, consumers said they paid greater heed to where the story originated. But the Media Insight Project, a collaboration ...

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UAE’s listed firms offer AED33.83bn dividends

  ABU DHABI / WAM Dividends suggested by board of directors of 71 companies listed in Abu Dhabi and Dubai financial markets for the fiscal year 2016 have grown substantially to AED 33.83 billion. The dividends have already been approved by some of the general assemblies of the companies. The per share dividends are reckoned the highest in the Gulf ...

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