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Acquisition Positions JumpStart for International Growth & Expansion of its Mobile Game Offerings for Consumers and Educational Institutions Worldwide TORRANCE, CALIF. (July 6, 2017) – NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (“NetDragon”; Hong Kong Stock Code: 777), a global leader in building internet communities, announced that it has acquired JumpStart, the leader in learning-based games for kids. A major player in the global online and mobile learning space, NetDragon […]

|By Arabian Post Staff| The GSMA announced the appointment of Laxmi Akkaraju as Chief Strategy Officer. Ms. Akkaraju, who was most recently Senior Vice President, Global Delivery at EVRY, will join the GSMA effective 1 September and will report to GSMA Director General Mats Granryd. As Chief Strategy Officer, Ms. Akkaraju will work with the GSMA’s operator members in identifying opportunities that will advance the development of the […]

|By Arabian Post Staff| Al Jazeera Media Network has come forth with its own list of demands as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt demand the closure of all its outlets including broadcast channels and websites. In response to the demands and reinforcing its independent voice, the network made a call for solidarity in the pursuit of press freedom. This call reinforces the importance of preserving the rights of people to have […]

|By Arabian Post Staff|  Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) announced the reintroduction of its Women’s Journey Thailand campaign offering a  range of activities, special deals, discounts and privileges in Thailand during  the month of August. According to the latest statistics of international arrivals to the kingdom, the growth of female travellers has risen significantly over the past few years. According to Mrs. Srisuda Wanapinyosak, TAT Deputy Governor […]

|By Arabian Post Staff| Senaat, the industrial investment holding company managing the assets of the Abu Dhabi government, announced marginally lower revenue and profits for 2016. The Group claimed a solid performance by operating companies, reflecting the resilience of its business model. Revenues of AED 13.4 billion (2015: AED 14.0 billion) were marginally lower compared to the previous year and total EBITDA also declined slightly to AED 1.8 […]

|By Arabian Post Staff| UAE’s National Bonds Corporation announced the results of its 2016 Savings Index for select GCC countries based on a survey conducted across Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman. The results showed that the UAE recorded the highest percentage of regular savers – 37 percent – compared to 25 percent in Saudi Arabia and 27 percent in the rest of the surveyed GCC countries […]

|By Arabian Post Staff| Chinese operators are on track to launch commercial 5G networks by 2020 and are expected to establish China as the world’s largest 5G market by 2025, according to a new study by GSMA Intelligence and the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT). The new study ‘5G in China: Outlook and Regional Comparisons’, which was published today at GSMA Mobile World Congress Shanghai, […]

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|By Arabian Post Staff| Gold plunged after trading volume hit 1.8 million ounces in just one minute and gold traders were shaken by the plunge, Bloomberg reported. Gold traders shaken awake by Monday’s rapid price plunge said the move probably won’t mean an end to the sleepy pace that’s characterized the market in recent months. Bullion sank at 9 a.m. in London on Monday after a huge spike […]

|By Arabian Post Staff| Cancer tumours manipulate a natural cell process to promote their survival suggesting that controlling this mechanism could stop progression of the disease, according to new research by the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford. Non-sense mediated decay (NMD) is a natural physiological process that provides cells with the ability to detect DNA errors called nonsense mutations. It also enables these cells to eliminate the mutated […]

|From Anand Vardhan in Denpasar, Bali| The Middle East crisis, which has seen the diplomatic isolation of Qatar last week, is expected to impact Indonesia’s tourism and lead to a consequential drop in foreign earnings. Bali, the single largest tourist destination of Indonesia, has been receiving some 400,000 visitors via Qatar, of which  70% are tourists. The anxiety is all the more heightened as a majority of these […]

|By Arabian Post Staff| Dubai Government is developing a new project development company that will manage projects by Dubai Holding and Meraas Holding, according to a media statement issued on Monday (May 29, 2017). The move is a reflection of the economic reality marked by lower oil price and lower growth outlook that is encouraging governments to consolidate their state-owned businesses to cut costs by creating synergies. It […]

|By Arabian Post Staff| Consumer confidence in the UAE remained uncertain in 2016 resulting in the Dubai retail market experiencing further softening in Q1 2017, according to a latest report by Knight Frank. “Well-established malls with higher footfall continue to maintain healthy occupancy rates; however the delivery of additional retail supply is expected to put pressure on overall occupancy rates. UAE shopping malls are also expected to […]

|By Arabian Post Staff|The London High Court has upheld the injunction granted to ICICI Bank UK against leading diamond merchant family of Mehtas, considered legends in the diamond trading business and pioneers in Indian industry’s inroads to Antwerp. This means that the well-known Mehta family of Belgium lost their bid in London’s High Court to unfreeze certain of their family members’ assets, as they continue to be […]

|By Arabian Post Staff| Xanadu Real Estate Development, a Dubai-based property developer, announced the delivery of nearly 200 luxury villas and townhouses with a development value exceeding Dh750 million, part of the Dh8 billion worth of projects it helped deliver with its partners over the last six years. These include 130 Townhouses at Jumeirah Village Circle, worth Dh300 million and 68 luxury villas at Jumeirah Golf Estates, […]

|By Matein Khalid| The financial markets finally cottoned on the increasingly sordid political realities created by the Trump White House. Trump could well be impeached for obstruction of justice if he tried to pressure FBI Director James Comey to drop an investigation on disgraced General Michael Flynn’s contacts with Russian intelligence before the election. The appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the scandal means Washington is […]

|By Arabian Post Staff| Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) dispensed AED3.9 billion in concessionary loans to support four projects and AED1.7 billion in government grants to finance 13 projects last year. Since inception in 1971 till end-2016, ADFD’s total development funding and investment portfolio registered AED80 billion, with the number of beneficiary countries reaching 83. Of this, concessionary loans totalled AED35 billion, while UAE government grants […]

Facebook’s family of apps are moving in together. Facebook, Messenger and Instagram are each testing a feature that shows notification counters from the other apps and lets you instantly switch between them. The feature could boost engagement across the apps by using those maddening red notification jewels to constantly remind you there’s something to see in the other apps. This way if you miss or dismiss an […]

A view of Earth from 36,000 nautical miles away as photographed from the Apollo 10 spacecraft during its trans-lunar journey toward the moon. While the Yucatan Peninsula is obscured by clouds, nearly all of Mexico north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec can be clearly delineated. Source link

The completion date for new passenger terminal at Dubai’s Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC) has been pushed back to 2018. Dubai Airports, the owner and operator of DWC and Dubai International Airport (DXB), said in its 2015 statement that it expected the expansion to complete in the first quarter 2017. “The expansion of Dubai World Central’s passenger terminal building from the current five million passengers per year […]

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Lubna Qassim is no career diplomat, but in her varied legal and political career, she has had the privilege of walking the corridors of power in London and Dubai. These days, as well as being executive vice president and group general counsel for Emirates NBD, Qassim is a member of several corporate boards. Qassim, the eldest of four daughters, credits her business acumen to the fact that […]

“We need to reassess every single thing we are doing as to what we can do to bring an end to this conflict,” added Mr. Beasley, a former governor of South Carolina who was appointed to lead the agency by the Trump administration in March. Continue reading the main story By making Riyadh, the Saudi capital, the first stop on his tour, observers say, Mr. Trump has […]

Predictive analytics and machine learning are two technologies we’re hearing a lot about these days. But do they actually present real opportunities for business value? For Flexi-Van Leasing, one of the largest chassis providers in North America with 12 locations and a fleet of more than 130,000 units, the answer at this point is an emphatic “yes.” Cyberwar and the Future of Cybersecurity The company’s chassis units […]

When The Washington Post broke the story this week that President Trump shared highly classified intelligence from a U.S. ally with Russia, not everything the reporters knew made it into print. Halfway through the story, this paragraph referring to the ISIS plot revealed by Trump appeared: “The Post is withholding most plot details, including the name of the city, at the urging of officials who warned that […]

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