Dubai / Emirates Business du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), is soaring as a regional and global leader in Broadcast Services following its success in the latest annual World Teleport Association (WTA) rankings. With strong progress in The Independent 10 (5th) and The Global Top 20 (17th) categories of the WTA’s Top Teleport Operators of 2019, du continues to ...
Read More »Dubai Police unveils first 5G-enabled smart police patrol
DUBAI / WAM Dubai Police, in cooperation with Etisalat, has officially unveiled the first 5G-enabled smart patrol in the Middle East and North Africa region. The smart police patrol is equipped with Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and high-tech cameras connected directly to the Control and Command room via 5G network. Brigadier Khaled Nasser Al-Razooqi, Director of the General Department of ...
Read More »US warns ‘predatory’ China is rejecting rules of global order
Bloomberg US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper warned that China is moving further outside the international order as the world’s second largest economy pursues aggressive economic and military policies at the expense of other nations. Under the leadership of Xi Jinping, China “is heading even faster and further in the wrong direction — more internal repression, more predatory economic practices, ...
Read More »UK economic policy left in disarray after chancellor resigns
Bloomberg The UK’s economic policy was thrown into disarray after Sajid Javid dramatically quit as Chancellor of the Exchequer following a row with Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Johnson’s office could not confirm that the budget will go ahead as planned on March 11, or that the government will keep to fiscal rules — announced by Javid — which require day-to-day ...
Read More »Judge halts Microsoft work on cloud deal after Amazon suit
Bloomberg A federal judge temporarily blocked Microsoft Corp from working on a $10 billion Pentagon cloud-computing contract after Amazon.com Inc asked for the delay as it challenges the validity of the award over allegations that President Donald Trump interfered. The government can’t proceed with implementing the contract “until further order of the court,†according to the decision by Court of ...
Read More »Apple accused by ex-exec it’s suing of poaching staff
Bloomberg A former Apple Inc chip executive sued for allegedly betraying the iPhone maker by launching a startup and poaching its employees accused the technology giant of doing the same to him. Gerard Williams III, who last year left his job as lead chip architect at Apple and co-founded Nuvia Inc, fired back with his own claims against his former ...
Read More »UK housing market sees optimism
Bloomberg UK real estate agents reported that house prices increased for the first time in more than a year last month. In more evidence of a pickup in sentiment following Boris Johnson’s December election victory, which lifted uncertainty about whether the country would leave the European Union, an index of price changes rose to the strongest level since 2017. Measures ...
Read More »FB prepares for wave of influencer marketing in politics
Bloomberg Facebook Inc is trying to clarify how it will handle a new wrinkle in the world of digital political advertising: politicians paying influencers to post on social media platforms like Instagram, which it owns. In the past, political entities were technically barred from offering money for posts, which has become a common practice for marketers. But Facebook is changing ...
Read More »Amazon axes delivery firms over not ‘meeting standards’
Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc is severing ties with small delivery firms around the country — putting at least 1,300 drivers out of work — in an effort to eliminate partners that aren’t meeting its standards. Bear Down Logistics, an Illinois company that rapidly expanded over the past two years, is shuttering operations in five states and letting go of about 400 ...
Read More »Boeing says it doesn’t need to move 737 Max wiring bundles
Bloomberg Boeing Co told US regulators that it didn’t see the need to undertake a potentially costly fix for a wiring issue on the company’s grounded 737 Max, according to two people familiar with the briefing. The planemaker found in an audit last year of the 737 Max that wires were bundled improperly in a way that could trigger a ...
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