August, 2016

• 27 August

  Spotify to retaliate against Apple’s exclusive artists

  

    Bloomberg An escalating battle between Apple Inc. and Spotify Ltd. is leaving some musicians caught in the crossfire. Spotify has been retaliating against musicians who introduce new material exclusively on rival Apple Music by making their songs harder to find, according to people familiar with the strategy. Artists who have given Apple exclusive access to new music have been ...

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• 27 August

  Best Buy set to be virtual reality’s first mainstream test

  

    Bloomberg Best Buy Co. Chief Executive Officer Hubert Joly was sold on virtual reality after he was almost eaten by a shark in an experience he called “mind- boggling.” Now he’s betting the masses will be enthralled with the technology too. In what’s seen as the first mainstream test of VR products, Best Buy began rolling out demonstrations for ...

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• 27 August

  Bollywood rules LakmE ramp

  

    Emirates Business A star-studded show marked Lakmé Fashion Week in Mumbai, with Etihad Airways presenting the celebrated Indian designer Manish Malhotra at the unveiling of his winter festive collection. Famed for his lavish Bollywood costume designs, Malhotra’s stunning show featuring 75 models was attended by more than 400 guests who experienced an innovative adaptation of a traditional opening, ‘Etihad ...

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• 27 August

  Sonia Rykiel’s best catwalk moments

  

    Relaxnews Sonia Rykiel, the Parisian fashion designer who shook up the French style scene, has passed away at the age of 86. We look back at some of her most visionary catwalk moments. Rykiel burst onto the scene in the late 1960s, and remained the darling of the Parisian fashion world even after Parkinson’s disease forced her to take ...

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• 27 August

  Fashion sector wakes up to wearable trend

  

    Relaxnews As technology advances inexorably, the domination of wearables seems increasingly inevitable. And it seems that the mainstream fashion industry is gradually waking up to the necessity to embrace the trend, teaming up with tech brands to ensuring that their trackers, smart devices and other connected items acquiesce with the rules of stylish design. With tech brands such as ...

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• 27 August

  Ukraine’s national costume conquers the catwalk

  

    Kiev/ AFP Fashionistas the world over are snatching up a must-have item for the “boho chic” look — an embroidered blouse or dress that is, in fact, Ukraine’s national costume and new symbol of unity. Fashion bible Vogue wrote in its US May issue that the peasant-style “vyshyvanka”, as it’s called at home, has “made waves far past the ...

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• 27 August

  Blackberry adds DTEK50 to its ‘smart’ list

  

    Emirates Business BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ: BBRY; TSX: BB), a global leader in mobile communications, has announced its new smartphone DTEK50T. Touted as the world’s most secure Android smartphone, DTEK50 is BlackBerry’s second smartphone powered by Android, after the PRIV. Fully equipped with Android Marshmallow 6.0, DTEK50 combines BlackBerry’s unique security, privacy and productivity with the full Android experience in ...

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• 27 August

  Conflict bleeds Mozambique’s fauna dry

  

    AFP Passing through the aged faded gates into Gorongosa National Park, it’s difficult to imagine you’ve just entered Mozambique’s largest wildlife sanctuary. Bled dry by a long civil war that ravaged Mozambique from 1976 to 1992, the park has seen a remarkable turnaround in the last decade. But even as it rises from the ashes, a fresh bout of ...

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• 25 August

  WIBC 2016 set to strengthen ethical proposition of Islamic finance

  

    DUBAI / EMIRATES BUSINESS In strategic partnership with the Central Bank of Bahrain, World Islamic Banking Conference (WIBC) 2016 is set to gather over 1,300 leaders onto a single platform to chart new areas of growth, address economic uncertainties, and unlock opportunities available for the global Islamic finance industry. The event will be held at the Gulf Hotel in ...

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• 25 August

  Foreigners purchase AED595.3mn worth of shares on DFM

    Dubai / WAM Foreign investors purchased AED595.3 million worth of shares on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) and sold AED596.1 million over the week, DFM said on Thursday. Net foreign investment on the market reached AED780,000 as aggregate sale. Value of shares bought by foreigner investors comprised 39.8 per cent of the total value of stocks traded during the ...

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