September, 2016

• 25 September

  Security risk in sharing your birthdate online

  

    AP Of all the personal information people tend to give out willy-nilly on the internet, birthdate is perhaps the most ubiquitous. It’s not just Yahoo and Facebook seeking that information. Websites, newsletters, online stores and a plethora of other places want your birthdate — and many services won’t let you sign up until you provide it. And it’s probably ...

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• 25 September

  What to do if you’ve been breached in the Yahoo hack

  

    Relaxnews In recent weeks Yahoo has been prompting users to change their passwords and to add a phone number as an extra layer of security and on Thursday the reason for these requests became clear. The tech company announced that a hack could have compromised 500 million users’ details. MAKE THE CHANGE NOW Whether you’re one of the 500 ...

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• 25 September

  Snapchat launches new video-catching sunglasses

    San Francisco / AFP Vanishing message service Snapchat announced it will launch a line of video-catching sunglasses, a spin on Glass eyewear abandoned by Google more than a year ago. The California-based company, which also announced it is changing its name to Snap Inc., said in an online post that its Spectacles will be “available soon,” with media reports ...

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• 25 September

  A new era of action photography

  

    Emirates Business While smartphone cameras are still unable to compete with high-end DSLRs, the gap is closing. Despite their shortcomings, the flexibility of smartphones leaves them well-equipped to capture content that is off limits to traditional cameras. From 360 Virtual Reality-ready content and action photography to wide-angle shots, the ability of smartphones to interact with companion devices or smart ...

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• 25 September

  Textiles in tatters

  

    Bloomberg A neglected waiting area, empty reception and dim lights greet visitors at what used to be the biggest textile factory in the northern industrial area of Pakistan’s economic hub. At its peak Al-Abid Silk Mills Ltd. employed 7,600 employees in Karachi, now only a handful can be seen in the near-abandoned garment workshop. It’s one of hundreds that ...

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• 25 September

  Migrant workers in Moscow face discrimination, dangers

  

    Moscow / AFP Kyrgyz migrant worker Belek Asanbekov sits at the kitchen table of his cramped Moscow apartment, scrolling through pictures on his mobile phone of friends killed days earlier in a fire at work. One of his seven flatmates, Gulbara Boobekova, a 45-year-old mother of two, was minutes away from finishing her 12-hour night shift at a Moscow ...

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• 24 September

  TDIC opens sales centre at Saadiyat Lagoons district

    ABU DHABI / WAM The Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC), the master developer of major tourism, cultural and residential destinations in Abu Dhabi, announced on Saturday its opening of a new and dedicated Lagoons Sales Centre, located at the Saadiyat Lagoons District construction site. The Sales Centre’s convenient location next to New York University Abu Dhabi offers potential ...

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• 24 September

  New Yas Acres homes to go on sale from Oct 4

  

    ABU DHABI / WAM Aldar Properties on Saturday announced that public sales for the third phase of Yas Acres, Aldar’s AED 6 billion flagship golf and waterfront villa development on Yas Island, will commence on October 4 at the Aldar Sales Centre on Yas Island. This phase, consisting of 260 homes will include, for the first time, 2 bedroom ...

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• 24 September

  Jafza-Japan explore investment, growth plans in various sectors

  

    Dubai / WAM Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza), the UAE’s flagship trade and logistics hub for the wider Middle East region and Africa, has become a distribution hub for Japanese goods and products and has supported the companies in reaching the regional countries and beyond, said Talal Al Hashimi, Chief Operating Officer, Jafza, to a Japanese Business Forum. The ...

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• 24 September

  Central Bank delegation attends ACB governors meeting in Rabat

    ABU DHABI / WAM A delegation of the Central Bank of the UAE attended on Thursday the 40th Regular Meeting of The Board of Governors of Arab Central Banks and Monetary Institutions in Rabat, Morocco. The Meeting Agenda included discussion of regional and international economic and financial developments, the recommendations and actions of Arab Committees for Banking Supervision and ...

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