Bloomberg Project Loon, Google’s high-profile effort to put broadband-emitting balloons into the stratosphere over remote parts of the world, is getting a new leader with practical industry experience. X, the research division of Google parent company Alphabet Inc., said it hired Tom Moore, co-founder of satellite-based broadband service provider WildBlue Communications Inc. He starts as a vice president at ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE became the 33rd developing country member of the WTO to join the Advisory Centre on WTO Law (ACWL) after the Federal Cabinet’s approval of the signing of the Protocol of Accession to the Agreement Establishing the ACWL. Commenting on the country’s ACWL membership, Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy, termed the move as ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) on Tuesday presented the UAE’s third national report to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), as part of the nation’s participation in the Seventh Review Meeting of the Contracting Parties (CPs) to the Convention on Nuclear Safety (CNS) set to take place from March 27 to April 7, ...