Dubai / Emirates Business International players in the professional audio-visual (AV) and entertainment equipment sectors are looking to the Middle East as a key growth market, as they turn to the region’s dedicated industry trade show in Dubai to take their businesses to the next level. Economic development fuelled by upcoming mega events and investments into hospitality, education and ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Trade, the premier cross-border trade facilitator, in collaboration with Ports, Customs & Free Zone Corporation (PCFC) Security has launched “Tasreeh”, an advanced automated gate pass service to help customers enter Jebel Ali Free Zone. The 24-hour online service allows hosting companies and port visitors to issue passes and to pay for and receive approvals ...

  Emirates Business HMH – Hospitality Management Holdings has achieved an increase of 12 per cent positive guest reviews year to date as compared to last year at the various hotels managed by the group. Securing an average of 75 to 95 per cent positive reviews, most hotels including The Ajman Palace Hotel, Coral Beach Resort Sharjah and Coral Dubai ...

  DUBAI / Emirates Business Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management and auto- mation, launched Gutor PXC, a standardized, fully industrial uninterruptible power supply (UPS) for harsh environments, in the Gulf region. Ideal for rugged and outdoor settings such as oil and gas exploration and production sites, marine and offshore environments and climates with extreme temperatures, the Gutor ...

  For many decades, Russian intelligence agencies have used what they call “active measures” to destabilize their rivals. Now they seem to be turning those tools on the U.S. political system, though in the process they appear to have violated Rule No. 1 of the spy business: Don’t get caught. U.S. officials say they have strong evidence that Russian intelligence ...

  The recent move to exempt small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from bank guarantees has been taken to facilitate smooth functioning of this sector. It will help SMEs to do their business without any uncertainty and apprehension. The UAE’s growing SME sector has been playing a vital role in shaping its economy. Today, there are over 3,50,000 SMEs in the ...

  Justin Fox With each monthly data release from the Energy Information Administration (there was one last Tuesday) it gets a little clearer. Natural gas has overtaken coal as the main source of electrical power in the U.S.: Gas’s lead over coal will keep growing. Coal-fired generating capacity has fallen 15 percent in the past six years, according to the ...

  After years of explosive growth that killed many a print publication, the online advertising market may be reaching maturity. To keep growing, the biggest ad sellers — such as Facebook and Twitter — will need to find ways to get more money out of existing advertisers, and that means it’s television’s turn to feel the squeeze, because the social ...

  Any day now, India’s government is set to announce an official inflation target for the first time — a major step in the modernization of its economic institutions, particularly the central bank. The idea has been proposed and debated for years, including in a much-discussed 2008 report written for a previous Indian administration by Raghuram Rajan, now governor of ...

  The U.S. general election officially begins on Labor Day, but the dynamics for this volatile race will be established in August. Or: With a polarized electorate, many of the parameters of the contest are already baked into the cake, so little will change over the next five weeks. Both predictions can’t be true, yet political operatives in both parties ...