Dubai / Emirates Business In its efforts to continue engaging with customers through various channels, Mashreq, the UAE’s leading financial institution will be engaging with customers and the public through a LIVE Facebook session on November 17 at 6 pm to answer any queries about the property market such as when is a good time to buy and what ...

  Sharjah / Emirates Business Fifty percent of the AED 100 million renovation project, Al Bait Hotel in Sharjah, has been developed, as announced by the Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq). The new hotel, which is expected to be a prestigious hospitality and heritage landmark located in the Heart of Sharjah – the largest heritage-focused project in the region, ...

  DUBAI / Emirates Business The digital age has drastically altered how businesses market their products. Thanks to the meteoric rise of digital solutions, marketing has now emerged as a more powerful and a resource-rich function of business. Marketing, now more than ever, is the most integral function responsible for creating and sustaining an enduring relationship with the most important ...

  The White House sent a secret “hotline”-style message to Russia on Oct. 31 to warn against any further cybermeddling in the U.S. election process. Russia didn’t escalate its tactics as Election Day approached, but U.S. officials aren’t ready to say that deterrence worked. The previously undisclosed message was part of the high-stakes game of cyber brinkmanship that has been ...

  In the world of making everyday life more digital, something is starting to tip. You can see it at Noyes Air Conditioning Inc. on Monday mornings. They used to be a nightmare, as recently as 2013, says General Manager Chris Kaufman in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Seventy technicians would dump a week’s worth of service tickets on accountants who’d then scramble ...

  A pipeline in North Dakota has become a rallying cry for protesters seeking to stop new fossil fuel projects. Their goal — reducing emissions — is the right one, but their methods —opposing and sabotaging pipelines — are wrong. Climate Change Maybe the pipeline, which once completed would carry oil to a shipping terminal in Illinois, needs to be ...

  South Korean President Park Geun-hye is in the middle of a political scandal that may lead to her impeachment. It centres on Choi Soon-sil, a shadowy confidant of the president, accused of using her personal ties with Park to coerce local firms to donate millions of dollars to non-profit foundations Choi set up and then used for personal gain. ...

  One week after India’s sudden declaration that 500- and 1,000-rupee notes were no longer legal tender, the economy is in chaos. And that’s perhaps because the policy was designed as much to shock and awe observers with the government’s command of the Indian economy as to control India’s “black money” problem. What seemed at first to be a masterstroke ...

  Jack Rivkin, who introduced many of the innovative research practices that eventually became commonplace at Wall Street’s biggest firms, passed away last week. He was 76. He was a warm and witty observer of the investment business, and was best-known for his work running Shearson Lehman Brothers’ research department. He also served as chief investment officer of Neuberger Berman, ...

  This year has been full of news about the slowing or perhaps even end of globalization. The main evidence is that global trade volumes appear to have stopped rising, something that hardly ever happens outside of a recession. Still, if you step back a little, you can make a case that the globalization train is still chugging — slowly ...