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Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. was cited again as a marketplace for fakes on a US blacklist, another sign of increasing tension between the US and China. The Office of the US Trade Representative included Alibaba’s Taobao online marketplace on its list of “Notorious Markets,” citing a high volume of reported counterfeiting and piracy. The agency acknowledged steps Alibaba has ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business The Dubai Islamic Economy Development Centre (DIEDC) on Sunday announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Group of Strategic Vision ‘Russia – Islamic World’ (RIW Group) to exchange expertise and best practices in the field of Islamic economy. Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy and Chairman of DIEDC, and Rustam ...

Sharjah / Emirates Business Sharjah’s NAMA Women Advancement Establishment (NAMA) and the London-based international organization Global Thinkers Forum (GTF) have launched the Athena MENA Mentoring Programme 2018 to help women in the region to develop new skills and expertise, and to enhance, enrich and expand their professional and personal prospects. The two organisations confirmed the launch of the programme at ...

Bloomberg The European Union will spend one billion euros ($1.2 billion) to try to catch up to China, the US and Japan in supercomputing, the European Commission said. But as the initiative launches, uncertainty over Brexit is creating anxiety among British computer scientists that the UK may miss out on opportunities from the plan. The goal of the project is ...

Bloomberg Intel Corp., trying to defuse concern that fixes to widespread chip security vulnerabilities will slow computers, released test results showing that personal computers won’t be affected much and promised more information on servers. The chipmaker published a table of data showing that older processors handled typical tasks 10 percent slower at most, after being updated with security patches. The ...

Bloomberg Companies pushing new virtual reality headsets talked a good game at CES 2018 in Las Vegas. Facebook’s Oculus touted new features in its upcoming $200 Oculus Go, a device designed to do for VR what the iPhone did for the smartphone, Google and Lenovo showed off a jointly designed headset that will sell for the half the price of ...

Bloomberg Tunisia’s main opposition parties derided a government pledge to increase aid for low-income families, urging Tunisians to step up protests over IMF-backed austerity measures as the country marks the seventh anniversary of the revolt that inspired the Arab Spring uprisings. “Government actions are just painkillers and cannot deal with the situation,” Ahmed Nejib Chebbi, head of the opposition Democratic ...

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 Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Minister of Interior of Saudi Arabia, who is currently visiting the country, in Al Ain on Saturday. During the meeting, the two sides reviewed ...

New Delhi / WAM Dr Ahmed Abdul Rahman Al Banna, UAE Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to India, and Arun Jaitley, India’s Minister of Finance, discussed means of boosting bilateral relations between the two friendly nations, especially in trade and investment. During the meeting, held at the Ministry of Finance headquarters in New Delhi, Dr Al-Banna said that the relations between ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), the leading national entity for development aid, and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the global platform for international cooperation on renewable energy, on Saturday announced that $25 million in concessional loans from ADFD have been earmarked for two solar PV projects, one each in Mauritius and Rwanda. Announced ...