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Nigeria bets on jumbos and springs to woo tourists

AFP A luxury safari is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when potential tourists think of Nigeria but that’s exactly what Yankari Game Reserve is hoping to change. In Africa’s largest economy, suffering from the collapse in global oil prices, tourism is being touted as a panacea to slow growth and a depreciating naira. Leading the charge ...

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Print now, digital dark ages loom

Justin Fox / bloomberg Read a history that spans times ancient and modern, as I’ve been doing lately, and you encounter a striking shift in the late Middle Ages. Until that point, documentary information is scarce, and narratives must be pieced together from smatterings of written matter and archaeological evidence. Afterward, historians face a growing surfeit of information, and their ...

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Living the ‘virtual’ reality

RITIKA SHARMA / EMIRATES BUSINESS In this tech-driven age, cloud computing is one of the most innovative mantras that enterprises are using to optimum levels to keep their operations agile and up-to-date in the prevailing ecosystem of cut-throat competition. Also cloud is offering a flexible platform to the companies that are struggling with the problem of handling big data efficiently. ...

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