Dubai / WAM Dubai Future Accelerators (DFA), an initiative of the Dubai Future Foundation (DFF), has announced that the second phase of the eighth edition of its flagship programme is well underway to position Dubai as a leading city of the future. Being hosted at the DFF’s innovation ecosystem, AREA 2071, the Fall Cohort’s participating entities include Dubai Roads and ...

The City of London’s chief coping mechanism for dealing with Brexit’s threat to the financial services business is to dismiss the loss of jobs and investment as a trickle rather than a flood. Yes, cheerleaders argue, some 7,500 jobs have been moved to the European Union, but that’s a fraction of the hundreds of thousands predicted by the doomsayers. Sure, ...

When India’s minister for commerce and industry recently urged his followers to “connect with me” on Koo, an “Indian micro-blogging platform,” he did so on Twitter. That should be a lesson to the US social media giant: In its battles with India’s government and others around the world, the platform needn’t surrender its principles too easily. The implied threat from ...