Bloomberg American Airlines Group Inc. gave in to pressure from employees and adopted a profit-sharing programme, acknowledging the issue was thwarting efforts to improve labor relations and the carrier’s performance. American joins the other large US carriers — Delta Air Lines Inc., United Continental Holdings and Southwest Airlines Co. — in splitting some earnings with employees. Starting this year, 5 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

ALKESH SHARMA / EMIRATES BUSINESS Carbon Black leads a new era of endpoint security by enabling organisations to disrupt advanced attacks, deploy the best prevention strategies for their business, and leverage the expertise of 10,000 professionals from IR firms, MSSPs and enterprises to shift the balance of power back to security teams. Only Carbon Black continuously records and centrally retains ...

DUBAI / WAM Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, was briefed on the engineering designs and the general plan of the One Central mixed use project, which is being implemented by the Dubai World Trade Centre Authority (DTCA) in the Central Business District in Dubai at a ...

ABU DHABI / WAM HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, Chairman and Chief Executive of Emirates Airline and Group, and Chairman of Dubai Aviation City Corporation, on Wednesday signed a contract agreement with Al Jaber LEGT Engineering and Contracting LLC(ALEC), paving the way for the Passenger Terminal Building expansion at Al Maktoum International ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE’s non-oil trade with Australia stood at US$2 billion in the first nine months of 2015, making Australia one of its major strategic trading partners, Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy, said during a meeting with Australian Ambassador to the UAE, Arthur Spyrou, on Wednesday. He said there were 48 Australian companies, 60 ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The United Arab Emirates concluded ratifying the Trade Facilitation Agreement and notified the World Trade Organisation (WTO) of acceptance of the agreement, becoming the first Arab country to do so. Sultan bin Saeed Al-Mansouri, Minister of Economy, said that the Trade Facilitation Agreement is one of the most important agreements within the WTO multilateral trading system. ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Following the announcement of the Real Estate Law No. (3) of 2015 in the capital, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, ADCB, obtained the first escrow agent registration certificate from the Department of Municipal Affairs (DMA), upon signing the agreement with the governing body. Real Estate Law No. (3) was issued to adopt the real estate escrow regulations, ...