Bloomberg With Amazon now gobbling up more than 40 percent of all online spending in the US, that’s left traditional retailers scrambling for the rest. Walmart Inc., Target Corp. and Best Buy Co. have all made big investments in recent years in e-commerce — sprucing up websites, offering more delivery options and making acquisitions like Walmart’s $16 billion deal for ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi Business Centre of the Department of Economic Development (DED) has registered 2,935 licences during first quarter of 2018, an increase of 26% compared to the same quarter last year, which only saw 2,328 new licenses, according to the report issued for the first quarter of 2018. The report monitors commercial activities in Abu ...

FUJAIRAH / WAM The total foreign trade of Fujairah during 2017 was valued at AED14.377 billion, 5.9 percent higher than the 2016 figure of AED13.577 billion, according to the 2017 Yearbook issued by the Fujairah Statistical Centre. Direct foreign trade rose from AED5.995 billion in 2016 to AED6.372 billion in 2017, an increase of 6.3 percent. Of this, imports accounted ...