Abu Dhabi / WAM Emirates Post is expanding its product offering with the introduction of a digital location management service for the UAE businesses, called ‘Smart Places’. In partnership with Local Knowledge, a local listings management company, the new service will provide an easy and accessible solution to business owners who seek to claim and update their business on Google ...

Ajman / WAM Representatives of the Ajman Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Consulate of Zambia discussed joint economic cooperation and various investment opportunities available to both sides, in a bid to increase the value of trade and promote partnerships between investors from Ajman and Zambia. The chamber was represented at the meeting by Salem Al Suwaidi, Director-General of the ...

Sharjah / WAM A study by the Expo Centre Sharjah on the reality of the global exhibitions sector and the prospects amid the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic has shown that 74 percent of those participated in the study underlined that virtual shows are seen as important complementary to the physical exhibitions, while 60 percent said that online exhibitions will ...

Bloomberg FirstEnergy Corp’s chief executive officer pushed to distance the company from its former unit that owns nuclear plants benefiting from an Ohio state law at the crux of an alleged racketeering and bribery conspiracy. CEO Charles Jones said the company hasn’t had control of decisions made by its former FirstEnergy Solutions unit, now Energy Harbor, since November 2016. And ...

Bloomberg Cenovus Energy Inc is taking advantage of a plunge in the price for credits that allow the oil-sands company to produce more than output limits imposed by Alberta. For August, those credits are trading at about $1.25 a barrel, compared with $7 or more before the global pandemic, according to people familiar with the market who asked not to ...

Bloomberg Canada’s oil-sands producers are taking their time at restoring production, leaving the country’s normally congested pipelines with room to spare. Enbridge Inc said that nominations to ship heavy oil on its Mainline, the country’s biggest oil-export network, exceeded capacity by 7% in August versus 3% in July. For the sixth straight month, no rationing was imposed for light oil ...

The United Nations currently predicts that by 2027, India will overtake China as the world’s most populous country. Estimates suggest India and Nigeria will together add 470 million people in the next three decades — almost a quarter of the world’s population increase to 2050. According to a new study from the University of Washington (UW), however, several developing nations ...

Users continue to flock to Twitter Inc’s social media platform, but that doesn’t necessarily make it any better of an investment for shareholders. Twitter posted strong audience growth for its second quarter. Its key user metric — average monetizable daily active usage — came in at 186 million for the three months ended in June, up 34% from a year ...

It’s sinking in: most of the 130,000 schools in the US will likely not fully open as Covid-19 diagnoses continue to break records. Should parents admit defeat and have one parent quit the workforce to provide childcare and supervise remote learning? Before making this decision, consider the longer-term costs of taking a break from work. Taking a career break means ...

There’s nothing arbitrary about an epidemic. While each disease is the product of a chain of accidental genetic shifts, the process that turns a novel infection into a devastating outbreak is as much social as biological. The vast majority of new conditions will die out before they spread beyond a handful of people. Only rarely will one exploit the fault ...