Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Danube Properties has moved beyond its apartment-led playbook with the launch of Greenz by Danube, a master-planned townhouse and villa community in Dubai International Academic City, as developers race to capture demand for larger family homes even as caution is building around the wider property cycle. The project is the company’s first large-scale integrated community of this kind, with handover targeted for the […]
French President Emmanuel Macron is due to meet Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo on Wednesday, with the war involving Iran and the growing scramble for critical minerals set to dominate talks that reach far beyond bilateral ties. The meeting comes as Japan and France face the same strategic question from different angles: how to protect economic security in a world where energy supplies, shipping routes […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Nothing is developing artificial intelligence-enabled smart glasses for a planned launch in the first half of 2027, marking a potentially significant expansion beyond smartphones and audio devices as chief executive Carl Pei leans more openly into AI-led hardware. The move, first reported by Bloomberg on March 31, would place the London-based company into a fast-forming contest over wearables that many technology groups increasingly […]
Dubai-based Danube Group has said it will retain its full workforce and keep salary payments on schedule, with founder and chairman Rizwan Sajan telling staff the company will not resort to layoffs even as businesses across the Gulf navigate the strain of regional conflict, supply disruption and shakier investor sentiment. The assurance, carried in a public message from Sajan and echoed in local business coverage, applies to […]
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to stop work on a planned $400 million ballroom at the White House, ruling that such a major alteration cannot move ahead without approval from Congress. The order, issued on Tuesday by U. S. District Judge Richard Leon, marks the sharpest legal setback yet for President Donald Trump’s attempt to reshape one of the country’s most recognisable public buildings. […]
Anthropic has acknowledged that an internal release mistake exposed part of the source code behind Claude Code, its AI coding assistant, in an incident that has sharpened scrutiny of the startup’s internal controls at a time when it is selling safety, reliability and enterprise trust as core parts of its pitch. The company said the exposure was caused by a packaging error linked to human mistake rather […]
Security teams are scrambling after two malicious releases of the Telnyx Python SDK were uploaded to PyPI on March 27, turning a widely used developer tool into a credential-stealing backdoor that could execute as soon as the library was imported. The compromised versions, 4.87.1 and 4.87.2, were published at 03:51 UTC and quarantined by 10:13 UTC, leaving a window of a little over six hours in which […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Copper prices climbed on Wednesday after US President Donald Trump said military action against Iran could end within two to three weeks, helping trigger a wider rebound across markets that had been hit by worries over energy shocks, inflation and weaker global growth. The move in the red metal tracked a broader shift towards riskier assets as investors responded to the prospect, however […]
Mistral has raised $830 million in debt financing to build a large AI computing hub near Paris, a move that places the French start-up at the heart of Europe’s effort to develop home-grown artificial intelligence infrastructure and rely less on overseas cloud providers. The funding, the company’s first debt raise, will be used to buy 13,800 Nvidia chips for a data centre at Bruyères-le-Châtel, south of the […]
Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxi service suffered a sharp setback in Wuhan after a system failure caused more than 100 driverless taxis to stop on roads across the city late on March 31, stranding passengers, disrupting traffic and triggering a wave of police calls that has revived scrutiny of autonomous vehicle safety in China’s biggest testing grounds. Police said no injuries were reported, but the scale of the […]
Ripple’s partnership with Convera has pushed the crypto company further into mainstream cross-border finance, linking its blockchain infrastructure with a commercial payments group that serves businesses across more than 140 currencies and 200-plus countries and territories. Announced on March 31, the deal is designed to let corporate customers move money across borders more quickly by using stablecoins as settlement rails while keeping the customer-facing transaction anchored in […]
Bhutan has moved another 374.9 bitcoin, valued at about $25.2 million, out of wallets linked to the Royal Government, extending a wave of transactions that has sharply reduced one of the world’s most closely watched sovereign crypto holdings. Blockchain data tracked by Arkham and cited by multiple market outlets showed the transfer took place on March 31, with the coins routed to an external address beginning with […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Commercial movement through the Strait of Hormuz is showing only the faintest signs of life, with a handful of vessels crossing under tightly controlled conditions as Iran continues to hold effective power over who may pass and when. Tracking data compiled by Bloomberg showed average weekly two-way transits rising to seven vessels through Monday from five a week earlier, a small increase that […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Emirates NBD has closed $2.25 billion in five-year financing, completing one of the Gulf’s largest syndicated borrowings at a time when war-linked market turbulence has unsettled regional assets, shipping routes and funding sentiment. The package combines a $1.75 billion sustainability-linked syndicated term loan and a $500 million Club Commodity Murabaha term facility arranged through Emirates Islamic. The scale of demand appears to be […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Google’s next flagship appears set for a lighter visual polish rather than a dramatic rethink, if the latest Pixel 11 leaks hold up. CAD-based renders circulating this week suggest slimmer bezels, a reworked rear camera bar and a Tensor G6 processor, but they also indicate that the core look of the handset will remain close to the Pixel 10 and Pixel 9 line […]
Samsung is betting that a minute of low-frequency audio can help settle uneasy stomachs on the move, launching its Hearapy app with a claim that a 100Hz tone played through earbuds can reduce motion-sickness symptoms for up to two hours. The pitch is simple: listen before or during travel, stimulate the inner ear’s balance system, and blunt the sensory mismatch that often triggers nausea, dizziness and cold […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Gold edged higher on Tuesday but remained on course for its sharpest monthly decline since October 2008, as investors weighed a powerful mix of delayed hopes for US rate cuts, a surge in energy prices linked to the Iran war and a stronger dollar through much of March. Spot gold was up about 3.2% at $4,652.31 an ounce by Tuesday, yet still showed […]
Federal prosecutors have charged a Maryland man with carrying out two 2021 attacks on Uranium Finance that drained more than $53 million from the decentralised crypto exchange, a case that is drawing fresh attention to long-running weaknesses in decentralised finance and to the growing ability of authorities to follow money through blockchain networks. The accused, Jonathan Spalletta, 36, of Rockville, Maryland, surrendered on March 30 after an […]
Nigeria has forfeited a potential revenue surge from elevated crude prices during the Iran war because it could not raise production enough to match the market opportunity, according to Dele Oye, chairman of the Alliance for Economic Research and Ethics, who said the lost upside could amount to about $20.2 billion a year. He argued that Brent’s climb far above Nigeria’s budget benchmark should have delivered a […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Emirates NBD Group has closed $2.25 billion in long-term financing, in a deal that ranks among the largest syndicated borrowings in the Gulf and underscores the lender’s ability to attract offshore funding even as markets navigate geopolitical tension and higher funding costs. The package comprises a $1.75 billion five-year sustainability-linked syndicated term loan and a $500 million five-year club commodity murabaha facility. […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Distance learning across the UAE will continue until 17 April for schools and universities, extending a policy first introduced earlier this month as authorities maintain a cautious approach to student safety and operational continuity. The Ministry of Education said the arrangement would remain under weekly review, leaving room for further changes depending on how conditions develop. The decision covers nurseries, kindergartens, public and […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Sharjah Islamic Bank is pressing ahead with a rights issue worth up to AED2.59 billion, or about $705 million, in a move designed to reinforce its capital base, fund balance-sheet expansion and preserve financial flexibility as the lender pushes for further growth. The bank said the offer will raise issued capital from about AED3.24 billion to as much as AED4.31 billion through the […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Abu Dhabi has widened its self-supply solar policy to households, allowing villa owners and eligible residential buildings to generate electricity from rooftop solar systems, store power in batteries and use it alongside grid supply, in a move that pushes distributed clean energy beyond commercial and agricultural users and into the emirate’s housing stock. The second phase of the Solar Energy Self-Supply Policy, announced […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Abu Dhabi Global Market has reported a 36 per cent rise in assets under management for 2025, capping a year in which the international financial centre also expanded its workforce by 51 per cent and lifted active licences to 12,671. The figures, released as ADGM marked its 10th year of operations, underline how strongly Abu Dhabi has been drawing global fund managers, banks […]
