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Bloomberg Volkswagen AG aims to produce almost 50 percent more electric cars than it previously targeted, boosting a bet that has already strained profit margins. The world’s largest automaker now plans to build 22 million vehicles over the next 10 years, compared with an earlier goal of 15 million. Return on sales fell last year at the company’s three core ...

ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, on Monday honoured the supporters of Sandooq Al Watan, who have been contributing to achieving the initiative’s national objectives since its establishment. “UAE nationals embody the quintessential Emirati values of giving, the seeds of ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, received on Monday, President Faure Gnassingbe of Togo, at the Beach Palace in Abu Dhabi. During the meeting, the two sides discussed bilateral ties between the UAE and Togo, and means of developing them ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and President Faure Gnassingbe of Togo, witnessed on Monday, the signing of an $15 million agreement between Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development and Togo’s Ministry of Finance, to support micro, small and medium-sized enterprises ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, has approved a series of incentive packages totaling up to AED1 billion for local and international Agriculture Technology, AgTech, companies to build and grow a presence in Abu Dhabi. The announcement aims to drive ...

Dubai / WAM The Ministry of Finance (MoF), held an official ceremony on Monday to celebrate 30 years of signing the avoidance of double taxation and bilateral investment agreements. A press conference to announce and sign a three-year extension of the MoU between the UAE and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), also took place. The MoU stipulates ...

Bloomberg Japan Inc. is pushing back after years of pressure to give bigger pay raises that has been a key part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s campaign to restore stable economic growth. While wages have never reached the level sought by Abe, the results from annual wage talks to be released later this week are expected to show even smaller ...

Bloomberg Nissan Motor Co., Renault SA and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. plan to form a single board that will oversee their alliance’s governance and operations, according to people familiar with the matter, as the automakers try to streamline their decision making following the arrest of Carlos Ghosn. The group will replace two separate Amsterdam-based alliance entities, Renault-Nissan BV and Nissan-Mitsubishi BV, ...

Bloomberg Nvidia Corp. agreed to buy chipmaker Mellanox Technologies Ltd. for $6.9 billion, gaining expertise to help it push into the growing market for data center components. Santa Clara, California-based Nvidia is paying $125 a share in cash for the company, which makes chips used to speed the flow of information across computer servers. That’s a 14 percent premium to ...

Bloomberg Google controls many of the ways businesses access customers online in the US, making it almost impossible to run a company without buying advertising from the internet giant. As politicians increase scrutiny of large technology companies, Google’s lock on these digital relationships is becoming a potential liability, not just a lucrative advantage praised each quarter by Wall Street analysts. ...