April, 2017

• 3 April

  BlackBerry expands licensing strategy

  

    Emirates Business BlackBerry Limited on Monday shared new details on its broad licensing strategy which addresses the growing need for secure, connected devices and endpoints in today’s Enterprise of Things. The first phase of BlackBerry’s strategy, announced in September 2016, was focused on providing the most secure and comprehensive Android software for smartphones around the world manufactured and marketed ...

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• 3 April

  Former Google VP unveils startup for clean, cheap N-energy

  

    Bloomberg With the sweep of a single executive order, President Donald Trump unwound the Obama-era framework of regulations designed to combat climate change and announced that he was “putting an end to the war on coal.” But not everyone in high-tech is ready to return to the age of fossil fuels. Mike Cassidy, who was formerly vice president at ...

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• 3 April

  Blast on Russian subway kills 10; 2nd bomb defused

  

    ST. PETERSBURG / AP A bomb blast tore through a subway train in Russia’s second-largest city Monday, killing 10 people and injuring about 40 as President Vladimir Putin visited the city, authorities said. Hours later, police found an unexploded device in one of St. Petersburg’s busiest subway stations, sending a wave of anguish and fear through Putin’s hometown. There ...

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• 3 April

  Trump meets Egypt’s Sisi to talk IS, foreign aid

    WASHINGTON / AP President Donald Trump welcomed his Egyptian counterpart, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, to the White House on Monday for talks ranging from ways to collaborate in the fight against extremism to efforts to bolster Egypt’s flailing economy. In an Oval Office meeting, Trump said that el-Sissi has done a “fantastic job” and declared his support for Egypt and ...

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• 3 April

  Britain to offer Jordan more trainers in anti-IS strikes

    AMMAN / AP British Prime Minister Theresa May has begun a visit to Jordan where she is to announce plans to send more British military trainers to help the kingdom’s air force in the fight against IS group extremists. Jordan’s royal court said on Monday that May and Jordan’s King Abdullah II toured a military facility, inspecting a rapid ...

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• 3 April

  Suspects charged in London mob beating of asylum-seeker

    LONDON / AP Authorities in London charged five people on Monday over an unprovoked attack on a 17-year-old Iranian-Kurdish asylum-seeker as police sought to piece together the act of mob violence that police say involved as many as 30 people. London’s Metropolitan Police said all five suspects were charged with violent disorder, with one also charged with racially aggravated ...

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• 3 April

  India may dilute China- championed Asia trade pact

  

    Bloomberg India’s foot dragging on a China-championed Asia trade pact has increased the risk the deal gets diluted or delayed. A fear of being flooded by Chinese imports and an insistence on global mobility for its IT services workers is behind India reluctance to move forward. While Asia’s third-largest economy may eventually sign on to the Regional Comprehensive Economic ...

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• 3 April

  Tax amnesty windfall brightens Indonesia’s S&P upgrade odds

  

    Bloomberg After netting more than $10 billion in revenue from its tax amnesty program, Indonesia may be a step closer to winning a much-coveted investment grade from S&P Global Ratings. The nine-month amnesty drive, which ended on Friday, led citizens to declare 4,866 trillion rupiah ($365 billion) of assets hidden from tax authorities. The success may help Southeast Asia’s ...

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• 3 April

  Correcting America’s ‘ailing’ health system

  

    Here’s a radical idea for reframing the health care debate on the ruins of the GOP’s half-baked plan: Let’s listen to doctors, rather than politicians. And let’s begin with a simple formula offered last week by the National Academy of Medicine: “Better health at lower cost.” Better and cheaper. It’s hard to argue with that prescription. Because the real ...

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• 3 April

  Singapore takes on China over a surfeit of lemons

  

    After seeing investors in Singapore duped for years by misbehaving bosses, the city’s stock exchange is taking its fight for justice to mainland China, an exemplar of egregious corporate behavior in the post-Enron world. Singapore Exchange Ltd. said last week that its lawyers in the People’s Republic filed complaints with the authorities against Wu Xinhua, executive chairman and CEO ...

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