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Dubai has secured $3 billion credit facilities for the expansion of its two airports. The Department of Finance for the Government of Dubai, the Investment Corporation of Dubai and Dubai Aviation City Corporation, advised by HSBC, announced the funding agreement and the establishment of Airport Financing Company FZE (FINCO), the long-term funding platform for Dubai Airports, according to news agency WAM. The financing will be used for […]

A report from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has revealed that only 53 percent of people it surveyed were able to nominate an organisation to report the misuse of their information to. The OAIC said that when asked, only 47 percent admitted awareness of a Privacy Commissioner — either federal or state level — but a mere 7 percent said they would report misuse […]

Model-of-the-moment Winnie Harlow will walk the runway during Arab Fashion Week at The Meydan Hotel in Dubai this week. The 22-year-old Canadian, who has the depigmenting skin condition vitiligo, is one of many famous figures taking part in the event, which runs from ­tomorrow until Saturday. “Cardi B, the American influencer and hip-hop artist, will be flying in,” says Jacob Abrian, chief executive of the Arab Fashion […]

Young professionals interested in pursuing careers in the arts will now be able to apply for a fully sponsored internship at one of the world’s most prestigious museums. Thanks to a new partnership between Alserkal Avenue and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, one successful applicant will travel to Italy for a three-month summer internship every year for the next six years – with the first intern […]

Businesses must brace for further cyber attacks this week on a potentially “significant scale”, British intelligence officials warned on Sunday, less than 48 hours after the debilitating WannaCry infection swept across the world. Current data show more than 1.3m computer systems are still vulnerable to infection by WannaCry, which has paralysed hospitals, disrupted transport networks and immobilised businesses, according to cyber security analysts. So far, 200,000 computers […]

Do you use Google Chrome? Do you want to become a Google Chrome guru? Read on! What follows are a collection of tips, tricks, and tools to help you get the most from Google Chrome. There are tips on speeding up the browser and making it consume less RAM, ways to increase your privacy, and extensions that you can install to help you get more done in […]

Emmanuel Macron’s election as president of France received few more rapturous welcomes than that given by Sylvie Goulard, a liberal French politician in the European Parliament and ally of the 39-year-old new head of state. “Finally! Finally, Europe and France reconciled!” Ms Goulard enthused. “What a symbol — a young president, focused on the future, entering the Louvre of the kings of France to the sound of […]

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North Korea’s conducted its latest weapons test on Sunday, presenting South Korea’s Moon Jae-in with his first foreign policy challenge and raising fears that Pyongyang may have developed a new kind of missile. Japan’s defence minister said the missile had reached an altitude of 2,000km on its 700km journey, potentially indicating a new type of rocket. David Wright, a physicist and missile expert, wrote on the All […]

Warning: Contains spoilers for Stephen King’s novel It (and possibly spoilers for the upcoming film adaptation, too). For rampant Stephen King fans like myself, 2017 is set to be a year of glorious, clown-filled happiness. We now have two trailers for Andrés Muschietti’s upcoming adaption of It, and so far things are looking promising. We’ve seen the iconic opening sequence with Georgie chasing his paper boat through […]

Samsung Galaxy S8 review: The good, the bad, the beautiful Samsung sent me a Galaxy S8 to review a month ago, and my personal T-Mobile orchid gray model arrived just a day after my review went live. I’ve been using that device as my daily driver ever since. The Samsung Galaxy S8 is an evolution of the S7 Edge and Note 7, but since the Note 7 […]

The confusing times at ESPN have produced this strange contradiction: The network says it is increasing its commitment to journalism less than a couple of weeks after it dismissed a virtual All-Star team of the best journalists in sports. Yet Bob Ley and Jeremy Schaap insist their new Sunday morning “E:60” show represents ESPN’s premium on reporting and storytelling on important sports issues from around the world. […]

(This version of the story corrects paragraph 10 to show quote was by Interim CFO Bob Blowes, not Robert Morton as previously stated) By Matt Scuffham TORONTO Home Capital Group Inc (HCG.TO) confirmed on Friday it is considering asset disposals to enable it to refinance more quickly and pay off an emergency loan provided by the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan. Shares in Canada’s biggest non-bank lender […]

By Ju-min Park and Jack Kim | SEOUL SEOUL North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Sunday in defiance of calls to rein in its weapons programme, South Korean and U.S. officials said, days after a new leader took office in the South, pledging to engage it in dialogue. The U.S. Pacific Command said it was assessing the type of missile but it was “not consistent with […]

Paul IS THAT YOU!?Image: paul mccartney/instagram By Nicole Gallucci2017-05-13 22:26:20 UTC Yo ho yo ho, it’s apparently going to be a pirate’s life for McCartney!  Paul McCartney — yes, Sir Paul McCartney from The Beatles, that’s the guy — on Sunday posted a photo of his Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales character, which was announced last March. McCartney will be starring in the […]

We’ve all know how security is among the top – if not actually the top – concern for CIOs when making decisions about moving workloads into the cloud. Less often spoken of is visibility: the ability to view in detail and to manage those assets when they’re parked on top of someone else’s infrastructure – whether that infrastructure is simply a datacentre facility or a hosted server. […]

Microsoft’s just-unveiled Surface Laptop is its own approach to take down Chromebooks, but that much remains to be seen. Like Chromebooks, the Surface Laptop features a lightweight operating system. Windows calls it Windows 10 S, similar in aesthetics to the standard Windows 10, but significantly less able. For one, it can’t run desktop apps: only those downloaded from the Windows Store will work, in addition to apps ported […]

Knox Labs Many are claiming that Virtual Reality (VR) headsets are going to be the next big thing. Here’s how to get a taste of that technology for only $7. And the great thing is that this will work with pretty much any smartphone, Android or iPhone! All you need is a Google Cardboard Viewer kit, such as the Knox Labs V2. This is made of cardboard […]

A massive global cyber attack engulfed one in five NHS trusts as some hospitals continued to ask all but emergency patients to stay away amid uncertainty over whether some non-urgent operations and appointments would go ahead next week. However, UK government officials suggested no key data had been lost from the ransomware attacks. A total of 48 trusts were hit by the cyber attack on Friday afternoon, […]

Good morning. Here’s our morning roundup of all the media news you need to know. Want to get this briefing in your inbox every morning? Subscribe here. Washington was convulsed last night by icy nastiness, harsh language and people crying foul. Oh, that was the deciding game in a hockey playoff between the historically hard-luck Washington Capitals and Pittsburgh Penguins, just one of three major sports distractions […]

Oracle this week launched its API platform cloud service, a part of the Oracle Cloud platform that delivers “end-to-end capabilities for designing, prototyping, documenting, testing, and managing the proliferation of critical APIs,” Oracle said in its release. The launch follows Oracle’s acquisition of Apiary, a startup that provided API development tools. The new platform effectively combines Apiary’s API design and governance platform with Oracle’s API management capabilities. […]

UAE residents, many of whom face a long commute each day, turn to a tried and tested wake-up option to supplement their morning coffee. It features a solid base of upbeat tunes, a dash of local news, a spoonful of friendly banter and a sprinkling of competitions – which together make up the potent concoction we call breakfast radio. For many listeners, it is what makes the […]

Romero Rodrigues Contributor Romero Rodrigues is a managing partner at Redpoint eVentures, the Brazilian-focused arm of the Silicon Valley venture firm Redpoint. More posts by this contributor: Fintech is booming around the world. Global investments in fintech companies have continued to rise during the last two years. After international financing for fintech startups hit $19 billion in new funding rounds at the end of 2015, the volume […]

Europe’s investment community has barely had time to breathe a sigh of relief following Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the French presidential elections before starting to fret about other latent threats to the eurozone. Some investors have hailed the election — in which Mr Macron, a pro-EU liberal defeated Marine Le Pen, the Eurosceptic rightwing candidate — as a sign that Europe’s economic recovery remains on track. This […]

2017: The year of the Linux desktop on the Windows desktop. Yes, Microsoft is making it much easier to run the Bash shell, based on Ubuntu, and soon SUSE or Fedora, on Windows 10. No, hell hasn’t frozen over. True, Carmen Crincoli, Microsoft’s Storage independent hardware vendor partner manager, tweeted: “2017 is finally the year of Linux on the Desktop. It’s just that the Desktop is Windows.” […]

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