DUBAI / Emirates Business Filipinos in the UAE are very optimistic that the quality of life and the investment environment in their home country are on its way to seeing good improvements. A survey conducted by New Perspective Media (NPM), organisers of the annual Philippine Property and Investment Exhibition (PPIE), showed that a whopping 98 per cent of Filipinos ...

  Gregg Petersen / Emirates Business At almost every conference, event or analyst meeting you attend, you’ll hear someone discuss how your business can benefit from the Operating Expense (OPEX) model, greater agility, and faster deployment speeds offered by the public cloud. But let’s be honest: If you go to your internal IT staff and propose the public cloud, you’ll ...

  Bloomberg Even as speculation builds over whether OPEC will clinch an output deal with Russia this month, their negotiations are already paying off. Hedge funds and other investors reversed their bets on falling oil prices at the fastest pace in five months after producers said they would meet in Algiers, data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission show. ...