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|By Arabian Posr Staff| The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and Borealis have signed a framework agreement to expand both ADNOC and Borealis downstream petrochemicals business and support the delivery of ADNOC’s integrated smart growth and partnership strategy. Under the agreement, ADNOC and Borealis will move to the pre-feed (front end engineering and design) stage for the construction of the Borouge 4 complex, which encompasses a world-scale, mixed […]

Acquisition Positions JumpStart for International Growth & Expansion of its Mobile Game Offerings for Consumers and Educational Institutions Worldwide TORRANCE, CALIF. (July 6, 2017) – NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (“NetDragon”; Hong Kong Stock Code: 777), a global leader in building internet communities, announced that it has acquired JumpStart, the leader in learning-based games for kids. A major player in the global online and mobile learning space, NetDragon […]

|By Arabian Post Staff| The GSMA announced the appointment of Laxmi Akkaraju as Chief Strategy Officer. Ms. Akkaraju, who was most recently Senior Vice President, Global Delivery at EVRY, will join the GSMA effective 1 September and will report to GSMA Director General Mats Granryd. As Chief Strategy Officer, Ms. Akkaraju will work with the GSMA’s operator members in identifying opportunities that will advance the development of the […]

Hackers have been targeting companies that operate nuclear power stations around America, prompting the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI to issue an urgent warning about the severity of the threat, several media outlets reported on Thursday. Both The New York Times and Bloomberg published details from a joint report released by the government agencies last month that described efforts by hackers to infiltrate the systems […]

|By Arabian Post Staff| Al Jazeera Media Network has come forth with its own list of demands as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt demand the closure of all its outlets including broadcast channels and websites. In response to the demands and reinforcing its independent voice, the network made a call for solidarity in the pursuit of press freedom. This call reinforces the importance of preserving the rights of people to have […]

|By Arabian Post Staff|  Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) announced the reintroduction of its Women’s Journey Thailand campaign offering a  range of activities, special deals, discounts and privileges in Thailand during  the month of August. According to the latest statistics of international arrivals to the kingdom, the growth of female travellers has risen significantly over the past few years. According to Mrs. Srisuda Wanapinyosak, TAT Deputy Governor […]

FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX)  announced that the worldwide operations of its TNT Express subsidiary have been significantly affected due to the infiltration of an information system virus. While TNT Express operations and communications systems have been disrupted, no data breach is known to have occurred. The operations of all other FedEx companies are unaffected and services are being provided under normal terms and conditions. Remediation steps and […]

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|By Arabian Post Staff| Chinese operators are on track to launch commercial 5G networks by 2020 and are expected to establish China as the world’s largest 5G market by 2025, according to a new study by GSMA Intelligence and the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT). The new study ‘5G in China: Outlook and Regional Comparisons’, which was published today at GSMA Mobile World Congress Shanghai, […]

|By Arabian Post Staff| Cancer tumours manipulate a natural cell process to promote their survival suggesting that controlling this mechanism could stop progression of the disease, according to new research by the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford. Non-sense mediated decay (NMD) is a natural physiological process that provides cells with the ability to detect DNA errors called nonsense mutations. It also enables these cells to eliminate the mutated […]

|By Saifur Rahman| Remittance by foreign workers in the UAE rose 7.6 per cent to US$43.81 billion (Dh160.8 billion) in 2016, up from US$40.73 billion (Dh149.5 billion) in 2015, according to the UAE Central Bank. The outflows of the workers’ remittances that were settled through the exchange houses grew 9.4 per cent – by Dh10.1 billion to US$32.17 billion (Dh118.1 billion) despite a slowdown in the economy and […]

This glimpse of the future was crafted by: Kate Yoxall When Nicolaus Copernicus proved in the 16th century that the earth actually revolved around the sun, he did more than inflict a breathtaking blow to the human ego. He threw a new paradigm into the atmosphere. Soon brows began to furl with questions around the way that society was configured; if the earth itself was not the centre of […]

|From Anand Vardhan in Denpasar, Bali| The Middle East crisis, which has seen the diplomatic isolation of Qatar last week, is expected to impact Indonesia’s tourism and lead to a consequential drop in foreign earnings. Bali, the single largest tourist destination of Indonesia, has been receiving some 400,000 visitors via Qatar, of which  70% are tourists. The anxiety is all the more heightened as a majority of these […]

|By Saifur Rahman | Executive Editor|Emirates, the world’s largest carrier of international passengers, has raised US$47.43 billion (Dh174 billion) to finance its fleet over the last 10 years, its recently-released annual report for 2016-17 shows.  “Having raised Dh174 billion (US$47.3 billion) over the last 10 years, Emirates continues to maintain a well-diversified and evenly spread financing portfolio. Tapping into various sources of funding, both in terms of […]

|By Arabian Post Staff| Dubai Government is developing a new project development company that will manage projects by Dubai Holding and Meraas Holding, according to a media statement issued on Monday (May 29, 2017). The move is a reflection of the economic reality marked by lower oil price and lower growth outlook that is encouraging governments to consolidate their state-owned businesses to cut costs by creating synergies. It […]

In a paper published in Science, researchers report that Titan, like Mars but unlike Earth, has not undergone any active plate tectonics in its recent past. The upheaval of mountains by plate tectonics deflects the paths that rivers take. The team found that this telltale signature was missing from river networks on Mars and Titan. (via WSJ)

PARIS France said on Thursday it was reviewing its position on the Libyan conflict and for the first time openly called for a united national army that included eastern militia commander Khalifa Haftar to battle Islamist militants. In the previous government, the Foreign Ministry openly supported the U.N.-backed Libyan government of Prime Minister Fayez Seraj, while the Defence Ministry worked closely with Haftar, who has waged a […]

AMD has announced that it will be releasing several new Ryzen processors later this year. This year’s entries will include a series of laptop-focused chips, a high-end desktop chip called Threadripper, and a budget CPU that will be simply called Ryzen 3. Threadripper As of late, AMD has found some success by positioning itself as a more affordable alternative to the likes of Intel and Nvidia, but the Threadripper is […]

DUBAI // In an age when so many of the tales told about the Arab world are tinged with despair, there was at least one night set aside to celebrate some good. That’s what the audience wanted, and they came by the thousands to see it first hand. There to hear the inspirational stories were Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, and Sheikh […]

Lubna Qassim is no career diplomat, but in her varied legal and political career, she has had the privilege of walking the corridors of power in London and Dubai. These days, as well as being executive vice president and group general counsel for Emirates NBD, Qassim is a member of several corporate boards. Qassim, the eldest of four daughters, credits her business acumen to the fact that […]

Tuesday’s court filing argues that UnitedHealth repeatedly ignored findings from its own auditors that risk scores were often inflated, as well as warnings by officials from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that the firm was responsible for ensuring the billings it submitted were accurate. UnitedHealth argued that it had done nothing wrong, and said it would aggressively contest the case. “We are confident our company […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: Donald Trump Jr. traveled to Dubai and met a billionaire business partner in the city-state, discussing “new ideas” as the Emirati’s real estate firm still lists possible plans for future joint projects while Trump’s father is in the White House.The Trump Organization has said it won’t make new foreign deals while Donald Trump serves as America’s 45th president. That didn’t affect the Trump […]

Predictive analytics and machine learning are two technologies we’re hearing a lot about these days. But do they actually present real opportunities for business value? For Flexi-Van Leasing, one of the largest chassis providers in North America with 12 locations and a fleet of more than 130,000 units, the answer at this point is an emphatic “yes.” Cyberwar and the Future of Cybersecurity The company’s chassis units […]

When The Washington Post broke the story this week that President Trump shared highly classified intelligence from a U.S. ally with Russia, not everything the reporters knew made it into print. Halfway through the story, this paragraph referring to the ISIS plot revealed by Trump appeared: “The Post is withholding most plot details, including the name of the city, at the urging of officials who warned that […]

Orangutans prove to be exceptionally awesome moms. One proof: they nurse longer than any other mammal, sometimes into the ninth year of life. New study findings showed that previous estimates of wild orangutan mothers nursing their offspring for up to seven years may be low. The pattern could actually last up to eight or nine years, particularly when young orangutans would supplement their diet with breast milk during […]

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