Dubai / Emirates Business As businesses today face tectonic shifts within the global economy, success is increasingly defined by the ability to optimize the information surrounding people, organizations and devices. Today at Citrix Synergy, Citrix and Microsoft unveiled an expansion of their strategic partnership to meet the needs of the modern workforce with application and desktop virtualization in the ...

  Bloomberg Borrowers and investors across the Middle East are adjusting to a new landscape following the region’s biggest-ever bond sale. Qatar sold $9 billion of Eurobonds in three maturities on Wednesday, almost double the amount expected by analysts. The issue helped push 2016 bond sales from the Middle East and North Africa, which includes Saudi Arabia and the United ...

  Tokyo / AFP Japan passed a law regulating virtual currency, after the country found itself at the epicentre of a multi-million dollar embezzlement scandal following the spectacular collapse of the Tokyo-based MtGox Bitcoin exchange. Once one of the largest, most established exchanges for the cryptocurrency, MtGox collapsed in 2014 after a suspected theft worth nearly half a billion dollars, which ...