America’s biggest, quietest tech monopoly has finally come under fire. If you made a cell phone call this year, you probably used a Qualcomm chip. The company makes the best modems to connect to cellular networks, but according to a federal complaint, it’s also spent years twisting arms and threatening partners to make sure that none of its competitors get a chance to do so. […]
Dubai-based Emirates airline has confirmed a restructuring of staff has seen some jobs become redundant. The airline declined to comment on the number of positions lost, but said “a very small number of staff” had been impacted. Arabian Business understands the training and recruitment division was affected after the airline decided to limit staff hiring and non-essential training, although this was not confirmed by Emirates. Impacted employees […]
By Roberta Rampton | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump met with a dozen American manufacturers at the White House on Monday, pledging to slash regulations and cut corporate taxes, but warning them he would impose taxes on imports if they move production outside the country. Trump, who took office on Friday, promised to bring manufacturing plants back to the United States – an issue he said […]
A policeman marks the site where firearms were recovered after a clash in Makilala, North Cotabato. —CARLO AGAMON MAKILALA, NORTH COTABATO—While the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) panels are talking peace in Rome, a clash between soldiers and communist rebels erupted here on Saturday. A rebel was killed in the encounter in the remote village of Biangan, said Lt. Col. Harold Argamosa, […]
US President Donald Trump has just days after taking office signed an executive order signalling that America will back-out of the Pacific trade pact that was a key tenet of Barack Obama’s pivot to Asia. Mr Trump had vowed on the campaign trail to dismantle the Trans-Pacific Partnership that the billionaire businessman-cum-politician has argued is bad for US workers and companies. The move is the administration’s first […]
President Donald Trump addresses business and trade issues on Monday. Highlights of the day follow: BUSINESS Trump meets with a dozen prominent American manufacturers at the White House, promising to cut regulations and corporate taxes but warning them of penalties if they move production outside the country. TRADE Trump could sign an executive order on Monday intended to renegotiate the free trade agreement between the United States, […]
By Amanda Ferguson | BELFAST BELFAST Sinn Fein named Michelle O’Neill to succeed Martin McGuinness and lead the Irish nationalist party into Northern Irish elections in March, marking a shift towards a generation not directly involved in decades of conflict. McGuinness, a former Irish Republican Army (IRA) commander turned peacemaker, bowed out of frontline politics last week, saying illness and Northern Ireland’s current political crisis had led […]
The Syrian government and rebels opened talks in Kazakhstan on Monday as part of a Turkish and Russian-backed effort to end the Arab state’s near six-year civil war. It is the first time the warring parties have held negotiations in a year, and if successful could mark a turning point in a conflict that has killed an estimated 400,000 people, while also underlining the increasing roles of […]
“I hope the American administration will act on two levels: one, to not discuss moving the embassy to Jerusalem, and second, for the administration to lead negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis with the aim of achieving a political settlement,” Mr. Abbas said. Continue reading the main story The Israeli news media was filled with speculation on Sunday that the Trump administration would immediately announce the embassy […]
Dubai developer Nakheel and Thailand’s Minor Hotels have signed a management agreement for a new 372-room hotel to be constructed at Ibn Battuta Mall. Under the agreement, the hotel will be managed under the AVANI Hotels & Resorts brand, Nakheel said in a statement. The 18-storey hotel, for which a construction contract will be awarded next month, is the second Nakheel hotel at Ibn Battuta and one […]
Photo Credit Celia Jacobs/ArtCenter ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — “My grandmother told me that the man is the head and the woman is the neck,” said an East European student in my class. “It makes me so mad. I don’t want to be the neck.” The other students in the class, all women, and none of them from the same country (and none from the United […]
By Tetsushi Kajimoto | TOKYO TOKYO Japanese companies believe that neither U.S. President Donald Trump nor Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe want to see the yen weaken significantly, a Reuters poll showed, a development they worry could spark an unwelcome political backlash. The Reuters Corporate Survey, conducted Jan. 4-17, also found that Japanese firms want Abe to push Trump hard on trade issues, while nearly a third […]
More than a decade after An Inconvenient Truth, former Vice President Al Gore and husband-and-wife duo Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk have released a sequel to the Academy Award-winning documentary. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Gore discussed the long road to the sequel, the continuing threats of climate change, and his hope for the new administration. The original documentary 11 years ago set a high bar for […]
The agreement continues the efforts to support strategic projects in the emirate, according to the Abu Dhabi Vision 2030 Abu Dhabi, January 22, 2017 The Office of His Highness Sheikh Falah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), as part of its support for the project to link the cities of Abu Dhabi and Al Ain via Hyperloop technology. […]
In one of the first international phone conversations by the new US president since his inauguration, Israel PM Netanyahu is set to call Trump on Sunday afternoon: the civil war in Syria, the Palestinians and the nuclear agreement with Iran will be on the agenda Netanyahu told his weekly Cabinet meeting. PM Netanyahu: This evening there will be a telephone conversation between President Trump and myself. — […]
Mozilla argues that the internet’s decentralized design is under threat by a few key players, including Google, Facebook, Apple, Tencent, Alibaba and Amazon, monopolizing messaging, commerce, and search. Image: Google Much of the internet is in a perilous state, and we, its citizens, all need to help save it, says Mark Surman, executive director of Firefox maker the Mozilla Foundation. We may be in awe of the […]
After more than 10 years, how did “An Inconvenient Truth” change the conversation on climate change? Tech Times looks back at the climate crisis in the decade that followed the award-winning film. ( Christopher Furlong | Getty Images ) When the documentary first premiered, An Inconvenient Truth presented data and information that were, in fact, inconvenient. The world back then was complacent about the massive usage of fossil […]
The world’s largest pension fund, Japan’s GPIF, is under intensifying pressure to draw a “line in the sand” on corporate governance standards in the country as other investors rail against a controversial takeover deal. The imbroglio centres around Panasonic’s proposed purchase of PanaHome. Investors say it represents one of the sternest tests to date of Japan’s stewardship and governance codes, guidelines introduced in 2014 as part of the “Abenomics” drive to […]
Energy ministers from OPEC and non-OPEC countries meeting in Vienna on Sunday have struck a positive note regarding their agreement to cut oil output as a committee set to monitor compliance with the deal meets for the first time. “I am satisfied, I am optimistic and, as I said, the markets are on their way to rebalance and it’s happening,” Saudi energy minister Khalid al-Falih said. Compliance […]
Submitted by Robert Parry via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Whenever The New York Times or some other mainstream news outlet holds itself out as a paragon of professional journalism – by wagging a finger at some pro-Trump “fake news” or some Internet “conspiracy theory” – I cringe at the self-delusion and hypocrisy. No one hates fake news and fact-free conspiracy theories more than I do, but the […]
By Rania El Gamal and Vladimir Soldatkin | VIENNA VIENNA A committee of OPEC and non-OPEC countries responsible for monitoring compliance with a global agreement to reduce oil output is set to meet for the first time in Vienna on Sunday. The committee is expected to discuss how to best monitor compliance with the deal reached late last year as well as what level of compliance would […]
Helena Grech from Strasbourg Wednesday, 18 January 2017, 13:08 Last update: about 2 days ago Nationalist Party and European People’s Party MEP David Casa professed that he is “embarrassed” of his government over its role and handling of the Panama Papers scandal. His comments were made during a plenary session following the Prime Minister’s address at the European […]
A president-elect’s Cabinet choices provide an early and often-illuminating marker of where the new administration is headed in both tone and policy. The confirmation process is an enduring slice of Washington Kabuki theater, complete with contentious hearings and the thrust-and-parry of politicians scurrying to make their partisan points. But even by the usual standards, Donald Trump’s Cabinet-level selections and their hearings are displaying a stunning level of […]
ASTANA, Kazakhstan: Syria’s government and opposition fighters will on Monday sit down at the negotiating table for the first time in nearly six years of war, the latest diplomatic push to end hostilities. Hosted in the Kazakh capital Astana, the talks will see an opposition delegation composed exclusively of opposition groups negotiating with the regime of Bashar Assad in an initiative sponsored by opposition backer Turkey […]
