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Snapchat parent company, Snap Inc., has just filed confidentiality for its initial public offering (IPO), according to reports. News about a Snapchat IPO at a $25 billion valuation first surfaced back in October, and new reports now bolster such claims. The company is reportedly seeing to raise $4 billion, which would lead to a valuation of $25 to $35 billion. The confidential filing with the Securities and Exchange […]

Health experts and professionals in the UAE share some of their favourite apps and why they stand out. newslide Dr Rocco Arzoumanian, dentist at Dr Rocco’s Specialized Dental Center in Abu Dhabi, recommends Brush My Teeth, free to download for iOS, from Beansprites: “This is a game that teaches children how to brush their teeth in an informative and fun way. Children move the brush around the characters’ […]

By Steve Holland and Emily Stephenson | WASHINGTON/NEW YORK WASHINGTON/NEW YORK President-elect Donald Trump closed in on naming two early Wall Street backers to key economic positions but jettisoned a national security expert from his transition team on Tuesday, a sign of the premium he places on loyalty as he confronts the task of building his administration. Trump, a Republican outsider who won a surprise election victory […]

Clouds, weather conditions and intense urban lighting may have prevented some people to see and appreciate the supermoon this week but there were lucky ones who were able to gaze and capture amazing photos of the moon. One man may have been luckier though as he was able to capture what some think is a video of UFOs passing by the lunar orb. The supermoon watcher managed to […]

US President-elect Donald Trump is sending another strong signal that he plans to take a pro-growth and business friendly approach to economic policy, with leading New York investors Steve Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross on his short list for Treasury and Commerce secretary. The pair on Tuesday won the endorsement of billionaire investor and Trump backer Carl Icahn who turned to Twitter after speaking with the incoming Republican […]

By Paul Sandle | LONDON LONDON Google delivered a vote of confidence in London’s future as a technological hub after the Brexit vote on Tuesday by announcing plans for a new building in the King’s Cross area of the city that will house thousands of extra engineers. Google’s Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said computer science had a great future in Britain, citing the talent pool, educational institutions, […]

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Every year, the International Prize For Arabic Fiction invites emerging writers to “nadwa”, a workshop at the Qasr Al Sarab Desert Resort, where they can develop their skills with two established authors. This month, Emirati author Lamees Yousef took part. Her novel Rock, Paper, Scissors was published in 2014, and her follow-up, White Clothes in the Cooking Pot, is due out soon. “Nadwa was an astounding experience, […]

Photo A blanket of smog covered Tehran on Monday. Every year, heavy pollution gets trapped by the Alborz Mountains. Credit Atta Kenare/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images TEHRAN — This week, as a yellow blanket of smog settled in for what is typically a winter-long stay, Reza Shajiee, a prominent hipster socialite, posted a picture of himself on Instagram wearing a gas mask under his motorcycle helmet. The […]

Sweden’s Riksbank is debating whether to become the first significant central bank to issue a digital currency as it responds to an increasing move away from cash in the Scandinavian country. The world’s oldest central bank — it was the first to issue paper banknotes in the 1660s — is launching a project to examine what a central bank-backed digital currency would look like and what challenges […]

Big changes are coming to Overwatch. In addition to a new character in the form of the hacker Sombra and the new “Arcade” game mode, Blizzard is also changing up the game’s leveling system. It’s that last change that has some players worried. Each time a player levels up they get a loot box, which contains various skins, sprays and voice lines for the game’s characters. As […]

A dataminer has burrowed deep into Modern Warfare Remastered’s code and uncovered hidden weapons that hint at the possible implementation of microtransactions. Via Reddit, a dataminer named Tails unearthed a heap of unused content when combing through Modern Warfare’s data files on PC. A lot of the guns found are from other Call of Duty games with the exception of one: The Kamchatka auto shotgun, which looks […]

Photo Mohamed Morsi, the ousted Egyptian president, during his trial in Cairo in June. Credit Mohamed Hossam/European Pressphoto Agency CAIRO — One of Egypt’s highest courts overturned a death sentence imposed on Mohamed Morsi, who was the country’s first democratically elected president and was ousted in 2013 by the military. Mr. Morsi, who is serving a life sentence in prison for offenses related to espionage and inciting […]

CAIRO — One of Egypt’s highest courts overturned a death sentence imposed on Mohamed Morsi, who was the country’s first democratically elected president and was ousted in 2013 by the military. Mr. Morsi, who is serving a life sentence in prison for offenses related to espionage and inciting violence, is likely to remain in prison indefinitely. The annulment of his death sentence — as well as the […]

DUBAI // The delivery of more than 1,000 books for children in Pakistan has been on hold for almost seven months after the shipment was caught up in red tape. In April the first batch of books in the Kitaabie initiative, which aims to establish libraries every 100km in Pakistan, were due to leave the UAE but they have been held up in the courier’s storage space […]

Sharing screenshots or footage of Watch Dogs 2’s full-frontal nudity may get your account suspended by Sony. After accidentally taking down some female NPCs during a playthrough of Ubisoft’s new open world shooter, Adam, a UK QA tester, used the PlayStation 4 Share feature to screenshot a fallen character seemingly wearing crotchless panties. “On Sunday evening I accidentally blew up a few women in a back alley […]

The world’s favourite spy has ­arrived in Dubai with a licence to thrill – or at least, we have his cars, suits, guns, gadgets and even a few of the women that have helped to make the 24 Bond movies the most enduring film franchise of all time, raking in an estimated US$14 billion (Dh51.4 bn) since Sean Connery introduced us to 007 in 1962’s Dr No. […]

November 15, 2016 by: Kathrin Hille in Moscow Vladimir Putin has urged Donald Trump to co-operate on the war in Syria and develop economic ties in his first push to improve strained Russian relations with the US following America’s election. The Russian president spoke by telephone with Mr Trump, the US president-elect, late on Monday and expressed a “willingness to build a dialogue between partners with the […]

A day before its official release, OnePlus 3T has already made an appearance at Oppomart. While the item appears to be serving as a placeholder, some of the listed specifications seem to be the real deal and they confirm a number of leaked information in the past few weeks. Confirming OnePlus 3T Leaks For starters, OnePlus is really calling the device as OnePlus 3T. How about the Snapdragon […]

Three global trends are reshaping GCC travel distribution business models and threaten to weaken the connection between airlines and customers Rise of digital technologies risks weakening connection between airlines and customers In the Middle East, there is growing internet penetration, with a rapid rise in the use of mobile – around 15% of internet users use only mobile for access By getting closer to […]

Photo Donald Trump at a rally against the Iran deal in Washington last year. He vowed during his campaign to renegotiate or renounce the agreement. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times Seventy-six national security experts urged President-elect Donald J. Trump on Monday to reverse his hostility to the nuclear agreement signed with Iran last year and to use it as a tool to ease other tensions with […]

Tokyo is struggling to find out who is advising Donald Trump on Japan policy, as the president-elect prepares to meet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in New York this week in what will be his first meeting with a foreign leader since his victory over Hillary Clinton. Four former US officials said the Japanese embassy had been contacting Asia experts in Washington to identify Trump advisers on Japan […]

A sell-off reverberating through sovereign bond markets tested investor appetite on Monday for a multibillion-dollar corporate bond sale, as money managers wait for volatile price swings to subside. Pfizer successfully completed a $6bn bond sale on Monday but several investors familiar with the sale said interest was subdued by the recent volatility in fixed-income markets, which has seen the yield on both the 10 and 30-year Treasuries […]

You may remember that, last year, Telltale Games and Marvel Games announced a partnership for a game with a 2017 release – then went completely silent about it. It seems that game will be based around the Guardians of the Galaxy. As spotted by ComicBookMovie, a list of in-development projects released by SAG-AFTRA – the voice actors’ union currently on strike in hopes of a better deal from […]

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