SHARJAH / WAM The Sharjah Economic Development Department (SEDD) in a strategic partnership with the Ministry of Energy and Industry (MOEI) will host the UAE-Russian Business Forum, on February 19, 2020. The Forum aims to enhance and strengthen ties of trade, economic and investment cooperation between UAE, in general, and Sharjah, in particular, and the Federal Republic of Russia, and ...

Dubai / Emirates Business du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), is soaring as a regional and global leader in Broadcast Services following its success in the latest annual World Teleport Association (WTA) rankings. With strong progress in The Independent 10 (5th) and The Global Top 20 (17th) categories of the WTA’s Top Teleport Operators of 2019, du continues to ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Police, in cooperation with Etisalat, has officially unveiled the first 5G-enabled smart patrol in the Middle East and North Africa region. The smart police patrol is equipped with Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and high-tech cameras connected directly to the Control and Command room via 5G network. Brigadier Khaled Nasser Al-Razooqi, Director of the General Department of ...

Bloomberg US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper warned that China is moving further outside the international order as the world’s second largest economy pursues aggressive economic and military policies at the expense of other nations. Under the leadership of Xi Jinping, China “is heading even faster and further in the wrong direction — more internal repression, more predatory economic practices, ...

Bloomberg The UK’s economic policy was thrown into disarray after Sajid Javid dramatically quit as Chancellor of the Exchequer following a row with Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Johnson’s office could not confirm that the budget will go ahead as planned on March 11, or that the government will keep to fiscal rules — announced by Javid — which require day-to-day ...

Bloomberg A federal judge temporarily blocked Microsoft Corp from working on a $10 billion Pentagon cloud-computing contract after Amazon.com Inc asked for the delay as it challenges the validity of the award over allegations that President Donald Trump interfered. The government can’t proceed with implementing the contract “until further order of the court,” according to the decision by Court of ...

Bloomberg A former Apple Inc chip executive sued for allegedly betraying the iPhone maker by launching a startup and poaching its employees accused the technology giant of doing the same to him. Gerard Williams III, who last year left his job as lead chip architect at Apple and co-founded Nuvia Inc, fired back with his own claims against his former ...

Bloomberg UK real estate agents reported that house prices increased for the first time in more than a year last month. In more evidence of a pickup in sentiment following Boris Johnson’s December election victory, which lifted uncertainty about whether the country would leave the European Union, an index of price changes rose to the strongest level since 2017. Measures ...

Bloomberg Facebook Inc is trying to clarify how it will handle a new wrinkle in the world of digital political advertising: politicians paying influencers to post on social media platforms like Instagram, which it owns. In the past, political entities were technically barred from offering money for posts, which has become a common practice for marketers. But Facebook is changing ...

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc is severing ties with small delivery firms around the country — putting at least 1,300 drivers out of work — in an effort to eliminate partners that aren’t meeting its standards. Bear Down Logistics, an Illinois company that rapidly expanded over the past two years, is shuttering operations in five states and letting go of about 400 ...