ABU DHABI / WAM Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi’s Design for Excellence lab have developed new innovations in computer chip technology that present landmark achievements in IT security. Secured by a secret key so that only authorised users may utilise them, and immune to reverse-engineering, ‘logic-locked’ computer chips will provide future users with new guarantees of security for ...
Read More »Emaar to open ‘Dubai Hills Mall’ in 2019
Dubai / Emirates Business Emaar Properties announced the launch of ‘Dubai Hills Mall,’ a family retail district located in the heart of Dubai Hills Estate, the 11 million sqm master-planned green oasis set in easy proximity to Al Maktoum International Airport and Downtown Dubai. A regional retail and leisure destination scheduled to open late-2019, Dubai Hills Mall will have a ...
Read More »ADSIC achieves 80% Emiratisation
ABU DHABI / WAM Emiratisation at Abu Dhabi Systems & Information Centre (ADSIC) hit 80% during Q2. The increased nationalisation pace of posts goes in harmony with a comprehensive plan to implement the objectives envisaged by the UAE Vision 2021 National Agenda . Fatma Hamad Al Hamli, Executive Director of Support Services Department at ADSIC has stated that high Emiratisation ...
Read More »RAKEZ seeks entries for business excellence awards
RAS AL KHAIMAH / WAM The Ras al-Khaimah Economic Zone (RAKEZ) began accepting entries on Sunday for the RAKEZ Business Excellence Awards 2017. The awards, with a cash prize of AED200,000, recognises companies for their outstanding excellence and for their key role in the economic development of the emirate of Ras al-Khaimah. “Would you believe that we only had 120 ...
Read More »VAT workshops for import, export sectors conducted
ABU DHABI / WAM “VAT for the Import and Export Sector and Registration Mechanism†was the title of an awareness workshop organised by the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in cooperation with the Federal Tax Authority, on Sunday to spread awareness amongst import and export companies on the mechanism of applying the value added tax in the country. ...
Read More »UK cranks up pressure on EU to turn Brexit talks to trade
Bloomberg The UK is piling pressure on the European Union to shift the focus of Brexit negotiations away from the terms of divorce and onto their future relationship. Britain will publish a flurry of documents in the coming days laying out the government’s position on topics ranging from data protection to judicial cooperation. Five papers are due to be published ...
Read More »Google unfurls subscription tool for publishers
Bloomberg Alphabet Inc.’s Google is developing new tools designed to boost subscriptions for news publishers. It follows a similar olive branch from Facebook Inc. to an industry that has seen the digital behemoths take over the online advertising market. Google’s latest foray arrives on three fronts. The first is a revamp of its feature, called “first click free,†that allows ...
Read More »UK second-home ownership jumps
Bloomberg One in 10 adults in the UK owns multiple houses, underscoring a growing generational divide in the nation’s property market. While overall home ownership has dropped this century as prices skyrocketed, the number of people with at least two properties has jumped 30 percent to 5.2 million between 2000-02 and 2012-14, the Resolution Foundation said. The vast majority of ...
Read More »Nestle’s Poland Spring is groundwater, alleges new suit
Bloomberg Nestle SA’s Poland Spring Water unit has duped American consumers into paying premium prices for ordinary groundwater that’s pumped from some of Maine’s most populated areas, rather than from natural springs as the company advertises, according to a lawsuit. While Poland Springs says its water bottles contain “100 percent natural spring water†from a source deep in Maine’s woods, ...
Read More »The new Mercedes Maybach concept, a 20-foot-long convertible
Bloomberg At a private estate on Pebble Beach Golf Course in Carmel, Calif., Mercedes-Benz unveiled its latest concept car: the Mercedes-Maybach Vision 6 Cabriolet last week. Like the Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 concept that the company unveiled prior to the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance last year, the Maybach 6 Cabriolet is an electric car that’s nearly 20 feet long, has a ...
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