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Bloomberg Huawei Technologies’s rotating chairman, speaking publicly for the first time since the shock arrest of its chief financial officer, warned that blacklisting the Chinese company without proof will only hurt the industry and snarl the advent of future wireless technologies worldwide. The company took swipes at the US and its allies on Tuesday during its first press event since ...

Bloomberg Hiroto Saikawa, the Nissan CEO who’s been thrust into global prominence since the arrest of Carlos Ghosn, is getting his first chance to explain the Japanese carmaker’s corporate-governance challenges to its alliance partners face-to-face. The chief executive officer is travelling to Amsterdam for a meeting starting from Tuesday of Nissan Motor Co., Renault SA and Mitsubishi Motors Corp., according ...

Bloomberg General Electric Co is set to close out one of its worst years since the financial crisis, and 2019 may be another precarious one. The challenges are many and over the next few months, new Chief Executive Larry Culp will have to revamp GE’s power business, sort out liquidity problems arising from cash flow shortages and soaring financial liabilities, ...

Bloomberg European Union negotiators reached agreement on tighter caps on carbon dioxide from cars in a bid to spur the development of clean vehicles. Representatives of EU governments and the European Parliament fixed a 37.5 percent CO2-reduction target for 2030 compared with the 2021 limit. The deal in Brussels marks a compromise after the 28-nation Parliament in early October demanded ...

Bloomberg A UK startup that designs semiconductors used for artificial intelligence applications has raised $200 million from investors including BMW AG and Microsoft Corp. Graphcore Ltd is one of a number of companies trying to design a new class of chips that will be better at crunching the vast amount of data needed to make computers smarter. They argue that ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Theresa May has given herself another four weeks to save the Brexit deal she says is still the only way to avoid a chaotic split from the European Union. Last week, May called off a parliamentary vote scheduled for December 11 on the withdrawal agreement after concluding it would be defeated amid overwhelming opposition from politicians ...

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 at the Beach Palace in Abu Dhabi, the Speaker of the National Assembly of South Korea, Moon Hee-sang, and his accompanying delegation. Dr Amal Abdullah Al Qubaisi, Speaker of Federal National ...

Dubai / Emirates Business In line with its efforts to support the UAE National Innovation Strategy, His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Minister of Finance (MoF), on Monday launched the Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund Accelerator. The launch took place at a special event held at Dubai Opera, in the presence of HE ...

DUBAI / WAM Following the decision by President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, declaring 2019 as the ‘Year of Tolerance’, the Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, directed the formation of the ‘Supreme National Committee for Tolerance’. The newly formed Committee for Tolerance will be chaired by His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, ...

Dubai / WAM The UAE government launched an interactive initiative, titled, ‘Government Experience Dialogue’, to showcase innovative technologies and the latest developments of leading companies and institutions, as well as to explain the effects of these technologies on future government services. The dialogue sessions are part of a series of initiatives that aim to gather decision-makers and international experts, to ...