Bloomberg Instead of hiring a professional photographer for an important marketing job last year, Massimo Portincaso gave the job to computer software. Portincaso, the head of marketing at the Boston Consulting Group, was tasked with overhauling his company’s website. It was a straight-forward assignment, giving the site a fresh look highlighting the business’s capabilities. When the time came to ...

  Relaxnews Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, took to Twitter to announce that the world’s leading music streaming site has topped 40 million paid subscribers — a new record. Spotify now counts more than twice as many paid users as its main rival, Apple Music, which has already signed up 17 million subscribers in just over a year. This new record ...

  AFP On bakery walls, buildings and roadside sheeting in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, street artists fed up with war are painting for peace as young musicians, actors and artists campaign to end decades of conflict. A mural of a child in a singlet working at a sewing machine reads “the young who are tired are the ones who will ...

  DPA Martin Heimeier decided to leave the hole in the roof as it was, though it has been capped with some concrete. The cover over the 3.5-metre-wide gap gouged by the bomb — more about that later — has been painted gold and has a spotlight so that Heimeier’s tenants can light up the ceiling recess whenever they want. ...

DUBAI / WAM In his capacity as Ruler of Dubai, the Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has issued Decree No. 27 of 2016 forming the Board of the Emirates Global Centre for Accreditation. According to the Decree, the Director-General of Dubai Municipality chairs the board with Hussein Salem Al ...

  DUBAI / WAM flydubai on Tuesday announced its half-year results for 2016 and reported total revenue of AED 2,302 million (US$627 million), an increase of 5.4 percent compared to the same period last year. A loss of AED89.9 million (US$24.5 million) was also reported which is 39 percent lower than H1 of the previous year. During the period, passenger ...

  DUBAI / WAM Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) Ltd. announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire 80 percent of Jordan Aircraft Maintenance Limited from The Abraaj Group. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Joramco has a solid track record as a leading independent commercial aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility serving a wide range of ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM Researchers at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology have developed a novel type of ‘buckypaper’, a thin film composed of carbon nanotubes, or grids, that have better thermal and electrical properties. Researchers believe the innovative buckypaper could be used to create ultra-lightweight composite materials for numerous aerospace and energy applications, including advanced lightning strike ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi Ports, the master developer, operator and manager of the ports and Khalifa Industrial Zone in the Emirate, has seen a successful first half of 2016 with new remarkable results announced on Tuesday. This comes in parallel with the prosperous economic growth witnessed in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, reaffirming its prestigious commercial ...

  Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, commended the sports achievements of the UAE National Paralympic team at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The team won seven gold, silver and bronze medals. While meeting the members of the team at Zabeel ...