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DUBAI / Emirates Business Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) is preparing for the fourth edition of its Gulfood Manufacturing, the Middle East’s largest food, beverage, manufacturing and processing exhibition, which promises to be the biggest show to date, shining the spotlight on thousands of the latest food industry solutions and hot topics such as Value Added Tax (VAT) and sector-shaping ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business Under the patronage of HE Dr Abdullah Belhaif Al Nuaimi, Minister of Infrastructure Development and Chairman of the Federal Transport Authority – Land and Maritime, the third Maritime Academic Conference & Expo (MARACAD 2017) was held at the Dubai World Trade Centre. MARACAD was held amid the UAE’s comprehensive international campaign to rally support for its ...

Bloomberg Toyota Motor Corp. is eyeing airless tires to help reduce the weight of battery-electric and fuel-cell vehicles and boost performance, even though the technology is years away from being ready for commercial use. The automaker is using airless tires—featuring individual motors in each wheel—on a vehicle for the first time with its hydrogen-powered concept car, Fine-Comfort Ride, unveiled at ...

Bloomberg China’s Didi Chuxing is in talks with Japanese taxi operator Daiichi Koutsu Sangyo Co. to provide ride-hailing services for Chinese tourists visiting Japan, according to a person familiar with the matter. The service is expected to launch this spring and will allow visitors from the mainland to use Didi’s app to summon and pay for Daiichi Koutsu’s taxis operating ...

Bloomberg At the Brookfield Square mall in Wisconsin, the landlord, CBL & Associates Properties Inc., needed a new occupant for a fading Sears. CBL had been tinkering with the mix for the past few years. Earlier, in 2008, it completed a 20,000-square-foot expansion, adding grocery stores and restaurants and renovating the interior. In the end, it found its tenant: the ...

Bloomberg Apple Inc.’s biggest suppliers from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. climbed on Monday after delivery times for the iPhone X stretched to as much as six weeks in the US, underscoring demand for the marquee smartphone. Shares in Hon Hai, the main assembler of Apple devices, climbed as much as 3.6 percent in Taipei. ...

Bloomberg Facebook Inc.’s strategy to stamp out fake news is struggling. The company outsources the process to third-party fact checkers who can only tackle a small fraction of the bogus news that floods the social network, according to interviews with people involved in the process. And screenshots obtained by Bloomberg reveal a process that some partners say is too cumbersome ...

Bloomberg Theresa May’s government will step up its diplomatic efforts to win over skeptical European leaders as part of the UK’s drive to push stalled Brexit talks forward from discussing divorce to the future of trade. Brexit Secretary David Davis plans meetings in London and various EU capitals with senior officials from Germany and elsewhere, amid concerns that some member ...

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 Steven Mnuchin, US Secretary of the Treasury, to discuss joint efforts to dry up sources of terrorism financing and take stock of the latest regional and global developments of mutual concern. Mnuchin is ...

Dubai / WAM Under the patronage of Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Civil Aviation Authority and Chairman and Chief Executive of Emirates Airline and Group His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum inaugurated the first International Road Federation (IRF) Middle East ...