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Dubai / WAM The Commercial Compliance & Consumer Protection (CCCP) Sector in Dubai Economy has seen a growing number of international brands being enlisted on its ‘IP Gateway,’ the digital platform created to protect intellectual property (IP) rights as well as trademarks and commercial agencies. The portal, which supports the strategic focus of Dubai Economy on positioning the emirate as ...

DUBAI / WAM The Federal Authority for Government Human Resources (FAHR) issued a circular to all ministries and federal entities regarding the quarantine period for employees infected with the coronavirus or had been in contact with someone who tested positive. Circular No. 04 of 2021 stipulates that federal government employees who have received the two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) is organising the virtual Agile Governance Global Summit on February 1 to share the best global experiences in good governance and corporate agility between the public and private sectors in the UAE and abroad. “Organising the Agile Governance Global Summit is part of our efforts to achieve the vision of His ...

DUBAI / WAM Enoc group launched a dedicated aviation portal, https://myfuel.enoc.com that includes a host of functional benefits to enhance customer and B2B relations. The new portal includes tools and capabilities that will enable the initiation of nominations (online orders), 24/7 customer dashboard access to account statements and fuel price, as well as the around the clock support for customers ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden held his first phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, pressing him on issues from the poisoning of opposition leader Alexey Navalny to the massive hack of US computer systems that’s been linked to Moscow. The Kremlin confirmed that the call took place Tuesday, describing the conversation as “businesslike and frank.” The leaders also talked about ...

Bloomberg Europe’s economy is starting to follow the familiar script of lagging its international peers when recovering from a crisis. That was the upshot of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) forecasts, which downgraded the growth outlook for 2021 across Europe and underscored a generally poorer performance compared with China and the US. Such diverging fortunes reflect the stringency of lockdowns ...

Bloomberg Argentina posted its first trade deficit since August 2018 as exports collapsed after a lengthy strike in some port operations. The country recorded a trade deficit of $364 million in December, compared to a $500 million surplus forecast by economists in a Bloomberg survey, government data published Tuesday showed. While imports grew 25% in annual terms driven by an ...

Bloomberg Microsoft Corp. said fiscal second-quarter sales rise 17%, a faster clip than analysts projected, thanks to buoyant demand for corporate cloud-computing services and software tools that support at-home workers. Revenue in the period ended December 31 rise to $43.1 billion, the Redmond, Washington-based software maker said in a statement. That exceeded the $40.2 billion average estimate of analysts polled ...

Bloomberg UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak will hold talks with his Swiss counterpart as the two countries seek to deepen financial services ties in the wake of Brexit. The virtual discussions with Federal Councilor Ueli Maurer will focus on the goal of “a comprehensive mutual recognition agreement” to cut costs and barriers for UK firms operating in Switzerland ...

Bloomberg Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff proposed temporarily allowing expanded debt spending by Germany’s federal government, prompting a swift rejection from officials in his own party. Helge Braun, Merkel’s chancellery minister, wrote in Handelsblatt newspaper that the country’s so-called debt brake, which is enshrined in the constitution, should be altered to allow more borrowing to help offset the impact ...