August, 2017

• 6 August

  Gemalto certified by GSMA for eSIM subscription base

  

  DUBAI / Emirates Business Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, has announced its on-demand connectivity service. It is the first in the world to demonstrate full compliance with the stringent security requirements of the GSMA’s Security Accreditation Scheme for embedded SIM (eSIM) remote provisioning. As a result, OEMs, mobile operators and service providers worldwide can be assured that Gemalto ...

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• 6 August

  HP reinvents retail with new POS system

  

  Emirates Business HP Inc. is reimagining the retail industry with the unveiling of its innovative and versatile all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) system, the HP ElitePOS. The company is working with leading retail and hospitality customers and partners to reimagine how technology can transform the in-store experience for customers. With e-commerce influencing consumers’ shopping experiences, brick and mortar retailers must ensure sales ...

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• 6 August

  Ericsson, Qualcomm, MTS carry out LAA trial in Russia

  DUBAI / Emirates Business Together with MTS, the largest mobile network operator in Russia, and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, Ericsson has conducted the first successful live trial with a commercial small cell product of Rel-13 Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) technology in Russia. The demonstration was conducted in an MTS test lab over a live network and ...

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• 6 August

  It’s time to sync your TV commercials to Facebook, Instagram

  

  DUBAI / Emirates Business Mobile video is exploding. Over half of all video views are on mobile and mobile video consumption is increasing exponentially on Facebook. Mobile is where your customers watch everything from video ads to branded content—and it’s time to adapt yours to match. Businesses around the world are experimenting with PockeTVC including Emirates in the United Arab ...

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• 6 August

  For once, on Russian row, Trump may be right

  

  When all right-thinking people in the nation’s capital seem to agree on something—as has been the case recently with legislation imposing new sanctions on Russia—that may be a warning that the debate has veered into an unthinking herd mentality. Sanctions were already an overused tool of foreign policy before President Trump this week peevishly signed into law a measure imposing ...

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• 6 August

  Passing buck back to government

  

  At their meeting recently, the makers of India’s monetary policy cut interest rates only marginally. They would seem to have had little choice—but also little confidence that a deeper cut would jumpstart the Indian economy. The preceding days and weeks had featured a deluge of worrisome data, all of it pointing in the same direction: the economy was slowing down, ...

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• 6 August

  What we need to know from the July jobs report

  

  US economic data releases this week fell short of consensus expectations and markets have been lowering their expectations of a Federal Reserve hike. That means there will be even more attention on the employment report for July, which will be released Friday. What is most needed—for Main Street, for Wall Street and for an orderly normalization of Fed policy—is a ...

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• 6 August

  UK ban on gas-powered cars a small, serious step

  Britain and France announced last month the death of the internal combustion engine, both scheduling it for 2040. Their ban on gas- and diesel-powered cars may only accelerate a process already well on its way, but it will help reduce the future effects of climate change and pollution now. The trend towards electric vehicles is coming from both government and ...

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• 6 August

  Oil’s going, going, gone: Crude worth revealed at auctions

  

  Oil producers who for years tracked top OPEC member Saudi Arabia to help set the price of their crude could now be looking to go solo. With $100 oil a distant memory and US crude eating into their share of prized markets, they are seeking new ways to assess if their supply may be worth more—a prospect that’ll help prop ...

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• 6 August

  Peak US autos may not mean peak Canadian auto-parts stocks

  

  It’s hard to be a Canadian auto-parts bull when US car sales are falling, Nafta negotiations are about to start and the loonie is rising, but there are reasons for investors to hold their nerve. No subsector of the S&P/TSX Composite Index has generated more consistent outperformance when bond yields are rising, according to Matt Barasch, Canadian equity strategist at ...

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