Bloomberg Forget email, Slack and the humble telephone. When workers at one Australian company want to talk to colleagues in China, they just turn their heads and look down the “wormhole”. Large screens at the end of each row of desks offer a digital window between offices in Melbourne and Xi’an—7,000 kilometers apart—at real-estate company REA Group Ltd. The ...

  Bloomberg Line Corp. outlined an ambitious artificial-intelligence strategy that promises to transform Japan’s most popular messaging service while pitting it against Google, Facebook Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. The company is launching a suite of AI software tools to power an online digital assistant capable of conversing in Japanese and Korean, Line said at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. ...

  NEW YORK / AP Twitter is adding more tools to curb abuse on its service as part of its ongoing effort to protect users from hate and harassment. Among other things, the service will attempt to identify offenders on its own, even if no one has reported them first. It is the second time in three weeks the company ...

  Bloomberg Niantic Inc., a San Francisco startup, will unveil three new updates to Pokemon Go this year, plus a new version of its original game Ingress, seeking to build on the success of its augmented reality offerings. The developer is also busy working on new augmented reality games, Niantic Chief Executive Officer John Hanke said at a session at ...

  DUBAI / WAM The Federal Electricity and Water Authority (FEWA) has signed an agreement with Mubadala Investment Company, and Siemens, to study the technical and financial viability of building a 2,400 MWA combined cycle power plant (CCPP). Suhail bin Mohammed Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy and Chairman of FEWA, attended the signing ceremony between Mohammed Mohammed Saleh, Director-General of ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The value of non-oil foreign merchandise trade through Abu Dhabi ports increased by 0.1 percent from AED 169.0 billion in the year to date (Jan-Dec) 2015 to AED 170.6 billion in the same period of 2016, according to figures released by Statistic Centre – Abu Dhabi (SCAD). ‘‘This was mainly a result of a 31.7 ...

  DUBAI / Emirates Business Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the region announced its position as the UAE’s most valuable banking brand with a USD 3.406 billon brand valuation in The Banker’s annual brand valuation league table. The Bank also secured a spot among the top 100 global banking brands, coming in seventy-fifth worldwide up from ninety-sixth in 2016. ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, honoured the winners of the International Burda Award at its 14th session. The award was organised by the Ministry of Culture and Knowledge Development in the fields of ...

  DUBAI / WAM A Wellness Symposium, which will throw the spotlight on the $8.3 billion industry in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA), will be launched at Arabian Travel Market (ATM), which takes place at the Dubai World Trade Centre, April 24-27. A partnership between the World Travel Market (WTM) portfolio of events and the Global Wellness Institute (GWI), the symposium ...

  Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, marked on Wednesday the launch of “the UAE’s month of reading” through a series of tweets, highlighting the role of reading in making hope. “Today marks the beginning of the UAE’s Month of Reading at our schools, ...