October, 2016

• 4 October

  Electrics up front at Paris car show

  

    FRANKFURT / AP Carmakers are finding the Paris auto show, held in a city whose mayor wants to ban diesels to reduce pollution, to be a fine place to show off new zero-emission electric vehicles. Most prominently, Volkswagen will unveil a small electric car as part of its pivot from diesel to more electric models as it struggles to ...

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• 4 October

  Pilots, air traffic controllers shifting to text messaging

  

    CHANTILLY / AP Airline pilots and air traffic controllers are on schedule to switch to text communications at most of the nation’s busiest airports by the end of the year, a milestone that holds the potential to reduce delays, prevent errors and save billions of dollars in fuel cost, says the Federal Aviation Administration. Controllers and pilots will still ...

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• 4 October

  Twitter opens ‘Moments’ feature to the public

  

    Relaxnews Twitter has released a new feature that allows all Twitter users to create their own “Moments,” made up of collections of Tweets connected by common subject matter. The feature was first introduced to the social platform in October 2015, originally curated solely by Twitter employees and certain publishing partners, but has been slowly opening up to the public. ...

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• 4 October

  Facebook expands reach with buy-and-sell ‘Marketplace’

  

    San Francisco / AP Facebook launched on Monday a “Marketplace” trading platform that lets users of the vast social network buy and sell goods with each other in a mighty challenge to the likes of eBay and Craigslist. The new feature puts Facebook — with a global base of 1.7 billion users — squarely in competition with local online ...

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• 4 October

  From warehouse to art haven

  

  Miami/ AFP A decade ago, Jessica Goldman Srebnick was afraid of walking through Wynwood, a derelict warehouse neighbourhood in Miami. Today, she is the virtual curator of an open-air art gallery that has turned the area into one of the hippest places in the United States. Windowless factory warehouses in the bleak urban district have become a venue where artists, ...

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• 4 October

  How important is a career? Not much, say anti-success thinkers

  

    Berlin / DPA “And what do you do?” Hardly a first chat with a stranger goes by these days without someone asking the question. But why is it so important what we do? And why is a successful career such an important goal for some people? For the members of Haus Bartleby, a network founded two years ago and ...

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• 3 October

  ‘We are determined to make further progress’

  

    ABU DHABI / WAM Under the leadership of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE will spare no efforts to invest in human resources as we aim to develop leading educational models on which we rely to make a difference, and which feature the 21st century skills to address issues in a fast-changing world, His ...

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• 3 October

  UAE embarks on a new era: Mohammed

    DUBAI / WAM The UAE hosts the best minds in the world as it aims to shape the future, and started a new era today where it proactively plans for the future, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said. Sheikh Mohammed’s comments were made during the ...

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• 3 October

  DXB marks record 7.7mn passengers in Aug

    Dubai / WAM Dubai International Airport, DXB, welcomed a record 7.7 million passengers in August, eclipsing the previous record achieved in July, according to the monthly traffic report issued by operator, Dubai Airports. Passenger traffic at DXB reached 7,727,105 compared to 7,282,256 in the corresponding month last year, an increase of 6.1 percent. The year to date traffic totalled ...

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• 3 October

  First Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit in March

  

    Abu Dhabi / WAM The inaugural edition of the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS) will be held at Al Reem Island, in Abu Dhabi, from March 27-30 the organising committee has announced. The GMIS will bring together high-profile representatives of public and private sectors, and representatives of civil society organisations. It will also attract global innovators in the ...

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