Bloomberg Lamborghini said it’s almost sold out for the year as an easing pandemic unleashes a free-spending attitude among consumers confined to their homes for months. The Italian supercar brand is set for “strong growth” in 2021 and has sold about 10 months of its production capacity, Chief Executive Officer Stephan Winkelmann said in an interview at the Milano Monza ...

Bloomberg French investigators said Volkswagen AG has been charged in a fresh crackdown on alleged deception over diesel emissions that’s also embroiled rival Renault SA. VW was charged on May 6 and must now make a 10 million-euro bail payment and provide a 60 million-euro bank guarantee, an official at the Paris prosecutor’s office said in a statement. The announcement ...

Bloomberg Apple Inc has hired Ulrich Kranz, a former senior executive at BMW AG’s electric car division, to help lead its own vehicle efforts. The technology giant hired Kranz, about a month after he stepped down as chief executive officer of Canoo Inc, a developer of self-driving electric vehicles. Before co-founding Canoo, Kranz was senior vice president of the group ...

Dubai / WAM According to Coursera’s Global Skills Report 2021, the UAE ranks first in the Mena region and second globally in overall business skills, only after Luxemburg. This year’s study draws on performance data since the pandemic’s onset from more than 77 million learners on the platform to benchmark skills proficiency across business, technology, and data science for over ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden’s blueprint for the US semiconductor industry marks an ambitious effort to set industrial policy for a critical sector of the economy, but the strategy will need more money and global support to take back chip supremacy and preempt a rival effort from China. The White House outlined a sweeping plan to secure the conduits for critical ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Mubadala, the Abu Dhabi-based sovereign investment company, on Wednesday announced that it has joined the EIG-led consortium which has entered into a transaction with Saudi Arabian Oil Co (Aramco) to acquire a 49 percent equity stake in the newly formed entity Aramco Oil Pipelines Company. Mubadala said in a statement that Aramco will retain the remaining ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi University (ADU) has retained its position in the top 701-750 universities globally in the prestigious Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings for 2022 for the fourth year in a row while continuing to significantly improve its position on various indicators. The university has improved its score in different key indicators. Compared to previous performance, ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Hub71, Abu Dhabi’s global tech ecosystem, and the Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) have partnered to support early-stage tech startups in growing their teams and scaling their businesses with the purpose to generate societal impact. The partnership complements Hub71’s new programme, ‘The Outliers’, enabling startups from around the world to collaborate with leading corporations and government ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Emirates Development Bank (EDB), a key financial enabler of the country’s economic diversification and industrial transformation agenda, has succesfully closed its $750 million five-year bond issue, priced at a fixed re-offer yield of 1.639 percent per annum in the Regulation S markets. This was the second USD transaction issued under EDB’s $3 billion Euro Medium Term ...

Ajman / WAM Abdullah Al Muwaiji, Chairman of the Ajman Chamber of Commerce and Industry, discussed with Jaan Reinhold, Ambassador of Estonia to the UAE, prospects of economic collaboration and ways to boost bilateral trade between two nations. This came as part of the ambassador’s visit to the chamber to explore ways to benefit from the investment opportunities the two ...