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  Bloomberg The indictment of Samsung Electronics Co. de facto chief Jay Y. Lee and four other top executives on bribery and embezzlement charges threatens the company’s ability to make major strategic decisions, including acquisitions and management changes. While the world’s biggest maker of mobile devices has capable managers who will, as before, continue to roll out new products and ...

  Bloomberg Hyperloop Technologies Inc., which is building a super-fast transportation solution based on an idea by billionaire Elon Musk, is in initial talks with the Indian government and companies to partially build and operate the vehicle on some routes, its chief executive officer said. The Los Angeles-based company, known as Hyperloop One, will decide by end of this year ...

  Bloomberg Copper traders were left confused over the state of play at the world’s top copper mine: the owner said wage talks had resumed, while the union said striking workers have had no contact with management for a week. “The good news is that we are back around the table and things are starting to come together in some ...

  Bloomberg Brexit may aggravate a headache for the UK’s embattled steel industry: more under-priced Chinese supply, according to a trade group. Britain, which is looking toward a future of free trade outside the European Union, has for years resisted a proposal that would raise EU tariffs on imported steel, saying it would increase costs for users. If the UK ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The national service is one of the bedrocks for building generations who are capable of addressing challenges and instilling the values of loyalty, belonging and sacrifice for protecting the nation, preserving its achievements and gains, spurring national development and consolidating the nation’s security and stability, said His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown ...

  Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, toured on Monday the Gulfood 2017, a food and beverage commodity expo, held at Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC). Sheikh Mohammed was accompanied by Chairman of Dubai Civil Aviation and Chief Executive of Emirates Group HHSheikh Ahmed ...

  Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA), the regulatory body for Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO), the integrated free zone technology park, unveiled on Monday the commemorative plaque and laid the foundation stone of “Silicon Park”, the first integrated smart city project taking shape at the hi-tech park. Once complete, ...

  WASHINGTON / AP A new military strategy to meet President Donald Trump’s demand to “obliterate” the IS group is likely to deepen US military involvement in Syria, possibly with more ground troops, even as the current US approach in Iraq appears to be working and will require fewer changes. Details are sketchy. But recommendations due at the White House ...

  Bloomberg Shivam Shankar Singh woke last month to an e-mail from an Indian government department. It had a name, address, mobile phone number and bank account with a code for money transfers and investments made in a dairy farm. None of the details were his. The e-mail contained details submitted to a program that collects personal and biometric data, ...

  Bloomberg SoftBank Group Corp.’s Masayoshi Son, sporting a black turtleneck similar in style to the late Steve Jobs, laid out his vision for the future of technology and called for partners to help make it happen at the smartphone industry’s biggest annual gathering. Son reiterated his belief that computers will exceed humans in intelligence in three decades, and that ...