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“Why are you still a journalist?” was a heavy place to start this ongoing conversation, I know. But wherever you are in your career, think back to the people you started with. Are they still around? In 2000, a few weeks after graduating from college, I joined the Peace Corps. There’s no journalism program for Peace Corps volunteers. But I knew a few things at 22: Being unattached […]

When Strata + Hadoop World comes around in the US, once a year in New York and once a year, as it is now, in San Jose, CA, it’s a bit of a news feeding frenzy. I’m not even at the event; I was merely pre-briefed by four vendors, last week and yesterday, with announcements they’re making this morning. And still, it’s a lot. Cloudera told me […]

Sheikh Hamdan visited SAP in Dubai Media City Tuesday afternoon. Source link

How much do you think your journalistic background influences the way you will direct the fair moving forward? As a journalist, you accumulate a lot of knowledge and I have been writing about art from the UAE for 15 years so I understand and I am fully aware of the trends, movements, key players, not just regionally but abroad, so that knowledge base is very important. Now, […]

|By Arabian Post Staff| Paris Gallery  announced plans to open 30 new stores for the Group’s various brands and subsidiaries, which will take the total number of  stores to 116 stores by 2021. The luxury retailer currently has  86 branches across the UAE, KSA, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Iraq, Azerbaijan and other countries. The UAE-based Group also confirmed that its total retail areas will reach 3.2 million square feet by […]

Hackers can exploit the insecurity of IoT devices for the purposes of espionage or DDoS attacks Image: iStock Cyberattacks exploiting the insecurity of the Internet of Things and hackers increasingly attempting to compromise industrial connected devices represent some of the biggest threats to the UK, those responsible for ensuring national security have warned. Citing incidents including the internet crippling Mirai botnet cyberattack and vulnerabilities in a children’s […]

The Gulf’s healthcare industry is expected to receive the highest volume of investments in 2017 among non-oil sectors as GCC countries seek to further diversify their economies, according to a new survey. CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals, said its annual Middle East Societies Market Sentiment survey also forecse an increase in hospitality and tourism investment. It said in a statement that in Saudi Arabia, […]

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Image: Supplied South African regulation technology company e4 on Tuesday launched its virtual biometric identity verification service in Australia. Virtual verification of identity (VOI) allows lenders and mortgage brokers to verify new customers to relevant anti-money laundering (AML) and counter terrorism financing standards through a cloud-based application. Typically, when consumers fill out a mortgage application online, they will need to visit a bank or post office branch […]

Mike Pride, the chairman of the Pulitzer Prizes, will retire in the summer after three years running the top journalism awards in the United States. Pride, who is 70, is returning to retirement after a career as a journalist and editor, most recently of the Concord Monitor, according to a press release from Columbia University, which administers the Pulitzer Prizes. “This job has restored my faith in […]

Your daily guide to community and cultural activities across the Emirates for March 14, 2017, including performances, festivals, art exhibitions, film creenings, health and fitness events, talks, classes, workshops and family fun. Aarti Jhurani rounds up 10 things to do today in the UAE. Want to see your event listed here? Email us with the details and contact information at [email protected] newslide Abu Dhabi Theatre See a […]

Business Akram Assaf on founding Bayt.com, where he wants the company to go over the next five years, where good ideas come from within the company, and what he wanted to be when he grew up. We caught up with Akram at Scale-Up UAE by Endeavour, an event that brings together its network of entrepreneurs, mentors, partners and investors from the UAE, the Middle East and around […]

Image: Amit Mehra Photography By Manish Singh2017-03-14 04:19:59 UTC The festival of Holi, also known as the festival of colors, heralds the beginning of spring. It also signifies the victory of good over evil.  One of the biggest Hindu festivals, Holi is also often linked with the eternal love of Lord Krishna and his consort Radha. It’s also the time of the year when everyone — well, […]

Authored by Thierry Meyssan via VoltaireNet.org, This article is a warning – in November 2016, a vast system of agitation and propaganda was set up in order to destroy the reputation and the authority of President Donald Trump as soon as he arrived in the White House. It is the first time that such a campaign has been scientifically organised against a President of the United States, […]

Najla Al Awar, Minister of Community Development, is leading the UAE delegation at the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations in New York. “Women’s economic empowerment represents one of the cornerstones for achieving the 2030 sustainable development goals,” said Ms Al Awar. The UAE delegation includes representatives from the Ministry of Community Development, the General Women’s Union and the Emirates Gender Balance Council. […]

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has asked Saudi Arabia’s King Salman to support the listing of Saudi state oil giant Aramco shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, a Japanese senior government official said on Monday. King Salman said that the kingdom would look into the request because he wants Japanese investors to buy Aramco shares, the official said after the two leaders met. Bourses in Asia and […]

From the geometric work of Tunisian artist Nicène Kossentini – who spent time in Córdoba’s Great Mosque while on a residency in Andalusia and produced abstracted drawings based on Tawq Al Hamamah (The Ring of the Dove), a 11th-century treatise of love written by Ibn Hazm – to the paintings of Ahmed Morsi, the pieces displayed as part of the 11th edition of Art Dubai hold fascinating […]

Recently, the open-source multi-instant messaging (IM) program Pidgin was updated to version 2.12.0. That’s the good news. It’s a very useful program if you work with people using multiple IM services. The bad news is that its developers couldn’t add support to newer IM platforms, such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Slack. Additionally, it will no longer support the deprecated Facebook XMPP, MSN, MySpace, Mxit, and Yahoo. […]

Kuwait’s dual-tranche international debut bond has attracted order books in excess of $15 billion, a document issued by one of the lead banks showed. The debt sale, expected to price on Monday, is split into five-year and 10-year tranches. Initial price guidance was earlier released in the 100 basis points over US Treasuries area for the five-year tranche and the 120 bps over Treasuries area for the […]

ABU DHABI // Driving instructors say they feel powerless to curb reckless attitudes among young learners who are focused only on passing and then hitting the streets at high speed. Tutors said a desire to show off among peers had become a widespread and worrying trend among some young people keen to pass their test with the minimum number of lessons. Instructors and road safety experts revealed […]

If Gavin James needs a reminder that his life has changed radically in recent years, then the setting for this year’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations should do it. The popular singer co-headlines a big Irish bash at Dubai Media City Amphitheatre on Friday, a destination that would have sounded very distant when he started out, as a teenager in Dublin, performing traditional songs for tourists. Now, with […]

Photo Hosni Mubarak waved to supporters in 2015, on his 87th birthday, from the Maadi Military Hospital in Cairo. Credit Amr Nabil/Associated Press CAIRO — An Egyptian prosecutor ordered Hosni Mubarak, the toppled Egyptian autocrat, released from the Maadi Military Hospital in southern Cairo, where he has been held for much of the last six years. But as of Monday night, Mr. Mubarak, 88, still had not […]

Moments ago, UK Parliament passed legislation giving prime minister Theresa May approval to start the Brexit process and allowing the government to invoke Article 50, with the House of Commons overturning amendments from the unelected House of Lords that sought to limit May’s room for maneuver.  While press reports earlier said May could trigger Article 50 as early as Thursday, subsequent reports from Bloomberg suggested that she […]

Business Mona Ataya is the founder and CEO of Mumzworld. We asked her where she wants the company to go over the next five years, where good ideas come from within the company, and what he wanted to be when he grew up. We caught up with Mona at Scale-Up UAE by Endeavour, an event that brings together its network of entrepreneurs, mentors, partners and investors from […]

Starting next month, Microsoft will begin offering a preview of an on-premises/local version of its Dynamics 365 for Operations ERP product. Microsoft announced Dynamics 365 for Operations — a rebranding of Dynamics AX 7 and part of the Enterprise version of its newly combined Dynamics 365 CRM and ERP application bundle — in July 2016. At that time, officials said Microsoft would continue to offer on-premises versions […]

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