Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Land Department (DLD) have announced that it will be an active contributor to the 36th edition of GITEX Technology Week 2016. DLD will unveil its latest top 5 real estate smart technology advances and smart applications to serve the real estate sector. His Excellency Sultan Buti Ben Mejren, Director General of DLD said: “Gitex ...

  DUBAI / Emirates Business dnata, one of the world’s largest air services providers and a member of Emirates Group, announced on Saturday it has selected Avaya as a strategic technology partner to power its customer service digital transformation strategy. Avaya Private Cloud Services (APCS) will deliver a complete customer experience transformation solution that will create a seamless, personalized experience ...

  AJMAN / Emirates Business Ajman Chamber of Commerce and Industry signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Coface Emirates Services and National General Insurance Company (NGI) to extend trade credit solutions and risk management services to member companies of the Chamber. The agreement, signed by HE Abdullah Omar Al Marzouqi, Executive Director of Membership Registration and Transactions Services at ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Café 302, the newbie of Abu Dhabi became the finish post to the MENA’s adventurous biker group on the weekend. Known as Hawks MC, this group encompasses individuals who are professionals of the corporate world with a passion towards biking. They travel together around the country on their massive Harley Davidson machines, which cannot ...

  DUBAI / Emirates Business du’s highly anticipated Cyber Security Conference, which was held at Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai on proved to be a resounding success as luminaries from across the globe shared their knowledge and experience about the threats posed by cyber security, and the opportunities this opened for the development of future technologies. Eminent international speakers raised key ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Academics, scholars, heritage specialists and researchers will gather in Abu Dhabi for the 4th GCC Heritage and Oral History conference, on the theme, ‘Technology and Sustainable Gulf Heritage: Archiving Reality and Future Prospects.’ Organised by Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi), the conference will welcome delegates from history and heritage departments ...

  When South Korean officials talk about the growing nuclear challenge from the North, they use red-alert phrases like “existential threat,” “imminent danger” and “dagger at the throat.” They want Americans to understand that this long-running story of brinksmanship has entered a new phase. One senior South Korean official told me starkly: “A nuclear missile from the North can land ...

  You have to hand it to economists — they say the darndest things. In a Wall Street Journal survey, a group of economists “put the odds of the next downturn happening within the next four years at nearly 60 percent.” Oh no. Today, we will make another entry in the catalog of how worthless predictions tend to be, and ...

  With the passing of revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej and the naming of his son to the throne, the question of when and to whom power would be transferred in Thailand has finally been answered. The real question, however, remains: how to empower the Thai people. While little can be said about how Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn might rule — ...

  The world’s envoys just pledged to make the planet safer by reaching a pact to curtail hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). HFCs are the fastest growing greenhouse gases. They are used in air conditioners, fridges and aerosols. Cutting HFCs will reduce global warming by 0.5 degrees by 2100. However, the transition from HFC to substitutes like ammonia, water or gasses called hydrofluoroolefins, ...