March, 2016

• 29 March

  Codemotion to bring tech talents around the globe

  

  Emirates Business Organisers of Codemotion Dubai, to be held from April 1–2 at the Impact Hub, Downtown Dubai, have announced that there is a high demand for tickets for one of Europe’s largest tech conferences devoted to coding development, which is being held for the first time in the Middle East. Offering a unique platform for pioneering coding developers and ...

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• 29 March

  GCC leaders to discuss new biz strategies at top CEO meet

  

  Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business Exchanging views about the effects of diversification and disruption of technology, business leaders in the GCC will come together on a platform at the Top CEO conference on April 5. Trend Magazine and I INSEAD – the leading international business school, would also be recognizing the Arabian Gulf region’s leaders for their commendable contribution in ...

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• 29 March

  Internships key to staff retention

  

  Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business According to UAE-based portal InternsME.com, internship programmes are a great way to maintain the ‘talent funnel’ which benefits the corporates in reducing unemployment and enhancing work environment. Jean–Michel Gauthier CEO deems that the corporates can avoid hiring the usual up-front and long-term costs of hiring, “Majority of interns are on student or parent visa sponsorship, ...

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• 29 March

  Unified talent platform from BigScreen

  Emirates Business BigScreen Middle East, the first cloud-based, software-as-a-service for human resource management, has announced the launch of its Unified Talent Management platform across the Middle East. Unified Talent Management is a Management and Workflow Solution designed by BigScreen to cover ALL aspects of talent management from hiring new staff to appraisals of existing employees. BigScreen addresses the constant challenges ...

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• 29 March

  dubizzle marks a decade of buy-and-sell in UAE

  

  Emirates Business Recording over 270 million page views per month, dubizzle — the country’s leading classifieds platform — celebrates 10 years of transforming the UAE’s second-hand market place and consumer behaviour as a whole. “In the space of 10 years, dubizzle has completely redefined the culture of ownership in the UAE by kick-starting the country’s second-hand economy, and bridging a ...

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• 29 March

  Upstream Oil and Gas firms spend smart on digital tech

  

  Emirates Business As upstream oil and gas companies scrutinize every dollar invested, they’re spending smarter today on digital technologies, seeking to drive value and reduce costs amid low oil and gas prices, a new survey by Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) reports. Respondents to the ‘2016 Upstream Oil and Gas Digital Trends Survey’ included international oil companies ...

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• 29 March

  Erdogan heads to Washington amid strained USA-Turkey ties

  

  Brussels / AFP Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan heads to the United States for only the second visit of his presidency at a time when relations between the two key NATO allies are severely tested by widening differences over the Syria conflict and human rights. Erdogan, who became president in August 2014 after over a decade as premier, has yet ...

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• 29 March

  Turkey summons German envoy over ‘anti-Erdogan’ TV song

  Ankara / AFP Turkey summoned Germany’s ambassador to protest a two-minute song lampooning President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that was broadcast on German television, a diplomatic source said on Tuesday. “We summoned the ambassador last week to communicate our protest about the broadcast that we condemned,” the source said. “We demanded that the broadcast is removed from the air.” German regional ...

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• 29 March

  Israel silent on reported threat to Jewish kids in Turkey

  Jerusalem / AP Israeli and Turkish officials refused to comment on Tuesday on a report by Britain’s Sky TV that the IS group planned to attack Jewish school children in Turkey. The report came after Israel advised its citizens on Monday to leave Turkey “as soon as possible,” citing the potential for extremist attacks. “Terrorists from the so-called IS have ...

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• 29 March

  Myanmar lifts emergency in Rakhine state

  

  Yangon / AFP Myanmar’s outgoing government on Tuesday lifted a state of emergency in conflict-hit Rakhine, a parting gesture that coincides with turbulent relations between Aung San Suu Kyi’s new administration and the western state’s powerful Buddhist political party. Rahkine is deeply scarred by communal violence between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims that began in 2012, presenting one of the most ...

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