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DUBAI / Emirates Business LG Electronics’ (LG) newest smartphone featuring the proprietary FullVision display will become available to consumers around the world starting this week. The LG Q6, designed to meet the needs and expectations of discerning millennial customers worldwide, will be available this week in Korea, soon to be followed by key markets in Asia, Europe, Middle East and ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business You’ve decorated your beautiful home with care: furniture, lighting, paintings, floor covering…Wi-Fi? Perhaps this seems an “odd-man out” but how often is the peace in your home interrupted by expletives resulting from frozen (über-unattractive!) Skype images, cable clutter and other frustrations from faulty internet? Life is too short for so much irritation when the solution is ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business Colt Technology Services announced a strategic partnership with Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) to interconnect the Colt IQ Network with Equinix’s cloud ecosystem. Today, Colt enterprise customers already benefit from connectivity to public and private clouds including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform through Colt’s Dedicated Cloud Access service, and inter-data centre connectivity ...

Gregoire de Clercq Special to Emirates Business The ever-increasing flood of data into and out of an organisation and how best to manage it is one of the greatest challenges and opportunities facing businesses today. Today’s era of ‘data chaos’ – the point where the size and growth of unstructured data vastly outpaces structured data, has created a pressing requirement ...

Here’s a contrarian thought: President Trump had the right instinct to insist that China help resolve the nightmare problem of North Korea. A peaceful solution is impossible without help from the other great power in East Asia. As Trump nears the threshold of a military crisis with North Korea, he needs to sustain this early intuition—and not be driven into ...

Husam Zomlot does not have an easy job. He is the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s representative in Donald Trump’s Washington. And despite Trump’s early promise to seek the ultimate deal to bring peace to the Holy Land, his administration is focused on more pressing matters. Zomlot’s biggest problem these days is a piece of legislation named for Taylor Force, a former ...

Central banks are born to lead. When they start following commercial lenders or asset prices, the message for investors is that the authorities have lost the plot. That’s what is happening with the Reserve Bank of India, which on Wednesday cut its repurchase rate by a quarter percentage point to 6 percent two days after State Bank of India preemptively ...

As the Brexit process lurches from one drama to the next, dominating UK politics, media and business decisions, traders have grown immune to noise surrounding the country’s departure from the European Union. The British pound is trading near the highest in a year versus the dollar as attention turns instead to headwinds for the greenback. Sterling has even held its ...

Emirates Business Jaguar is broadening the appeal of the new F-TYPE with the introduction of the state-of-the-art four-cylinder Ingenium petrol engine. The award winning F-TYPE family now spans from the entry-level four-cylinder model to Jaguar’s 200mph all-weather supercar – the F-TYPE SVR. The pairing of Jaguar’s all-aluminium two-seat sports car with the advanced 300PS 2.0-litre turbocharged powerplant delivers Jaguar sports ...

Emirates Business From the moment Sir Henry Royce introduced the Rolls-Royce Phantom in 1925 it was judged ‘The Best Car in the World’ by the cognoscenti. As a result it has conveyed some of the world’s most influential and powerful men and women to the most defining historical moments over the last 92 years. Every new Phantom that has subsequently ...