Photo Tajrish Square in Tehran. The Iranian economy did not get the boost many had hoped for after the nuclear deal. Credit Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times Iran’s top leader criticized the pace of national economic growth on Thursday in what appeared to be a rebuke of the president, who had forecast prosperous times after the 2015 accord that lifted international sanctions in exchange for […]
Riyadh, 09 March, 2017 Mobile Telecommunication Company Saudi Arabia (Zain Saudi Arabia) announced its financial results for the full financial year ending December 31, 2016. Key Performance Indicators for the 12 months ending 31 Dec 2016: Compared to Full-Year 2015, Zain Saudi Arabia reported: Advertisement Revenues increased by 3% to SAR 6,927 million, Gross profit grew by 11% to SAR 4,401 million. EBITDA also grew by 10% […]
One bit of digital information can now be successfully stored in an individual atom. This result is a breakthrough in the miniaturization of storage media and has the potential to serve as a basis for quantum computing. (via WSJ)
By James Pearson and Heekyong Yang | SEOUL SEOUL When impeached president Park Geun-hye leaves South Korea’s presidential palace she will go back to her house in Seoul’s luxury Gangnam district surrounded by a high wall and bamboo. She may have to move again, next time to a cramped jail cell. South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Friday upheld a parliamentary decision to impeach Park, 65, over a […]
Historically, the marketing team within an organisation has had little to do with the IT department or the product development team, while the CEO was generally concerned only with the revenue marketing ventures were bringing into the business. According to Steve Lucas, Marketo’s new CEO, the role of the marketer should now be more aligned to a data scientist and they should also be involved in product […]
Montclair is a New Jersey bastion of the Trump-doubting privileged class that went back to the future Thursday with an imperiled species: a new broadsheet newspaper. But, if Trump could wind up president, who says a broadsheet Lazarus can’t rise from the media ashes and make it somewhere? The weekly Montclair Local debuted in the 36,000-person bedroom community of New York City rife with ink-stained and digitally […]
SEOUL South Korea’s Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye on Friday, removing her from office over a graft scandal involving big business that has gripped the country for months. Following are some details about the main figures in the graft scandal and the accusations they face. PARK GEUN-HYE, 65 Former president of South Korea Accused of violating constitutional duty as president. Special prosecutors said […]
By Thomas Wilson and Minami Funakoshi | TOKYO TOKYO “Radiation! Bang bang!” Gesturing as if with guns, two boys in Tokyo repeatedly taunted a girl whose family fled to Japan’s capital to escape radioactivity unleashed by the Fukushima nuclear crisis of 2011. Tormented by headaches and weight loss, the girl began to skip classes, and switched schools to escape the bullies, her mother told Reuters. But the […]
Via Jim Quinn of The Burning Platform blog, In Part One and Part Two of this article I revealed how the Deep State’s fake data and fake news propaganda machine can be overcome by opening your eyes, observing reality, understanding how Fed created inflation has destroyed our lives, and why the election of Trump was the initial deplorable pushback to Deep State evil. “The notion that a […]
By Shinichi Saoshiro | TOKYO TOKYO Asian stocks edged up and the dollar rose to 1-1/2-month highs versus the yen on Friday, ahead of the closely-watched U.S. non-farm payrolls report due later in the day. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan added 0.2 percent, taking cues from a modest bounce in Wall Street overnight. Japan’s Nikkei climbed more than 1 percent on the back of […]
SEOUL South Korea’s Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye on Friday, removing her from office over a graft scandal involving big business that has gripped the country for months. Park becomes South Korea’s first democratically elected leader to be forced from office. A presidential election will be held in 60 days, according to the constitution. “We remove Park Geun-hye from office,” Lee Jung-mi, acting […]
New York and London are locked in a frantic race to be the main international listing venue for Saudi Arabia’s initial public offering of its state oil company, emerging as clear frontrunners in what is set to be the world’s biggest ever flotation. Executives from the New York Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange have held talks with Saudi Aramco, the state group valued at as much […]
WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department held out the possibility on Thursday that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson might take reporters with him to Asia after it initially broke with decades of tradition by telling the media he would not. “We are still working out the logistics for this trip, so (we) cannot yet speak definitively as to whether we’ll be able to accommodate any press on the […]
RBC is the first Canadian bank to publicly confirm it has severed ties with customers identified in the Panama Papers leak. (Randy Risling / Toronto Star) | Order this photo The Royal Bank of Canada has closed dozens of accounts linked to the Panama Papers, becoming the first Canadian bank to publicly confirm it has severed ties with customers identified in the leak. The admission came some 10 […]
Report launched in the Middle East in partnership with the Government of Dubai Media Office HE Mona Al Marri: “Report will contribute to the international dialogue at the Forum and guide government communication professionals and decision makers in finding new opportunities for optimising their strategic approach, in addition to understanding the challenges that need to be overcome in a rapidly changing environment.” WPP Leaders’ Report […]
By Julia Edwards Ainsley | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON The Department of Justice is deploying 50 judges to immigration detention facilities across the United States, according to two sources and a letter seen by Reuters and sent to judges on Thursday. The department is also considering asking judges to sit from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., split between two rotating shifts, to adjudicate more cases, the sources said. A […]
By Mark Hosenball | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON FBI Director James Comey on Thursday met with senior congressional leaders, including the intelligence committee chiefs, FBI and congressional officials said. The officials declined to discuss the subject of Comey’s meeting with the group of leaders known as the “Gang of Eight”. U.S. President Donald Trump has alleged that the Obama administration wiretapped his election campaign. The Gang of Eight, who […]
By Alexandra Ulmer | CARACAS CARACAS A World Bank tribunal order for Venezuela to pay $1.4 billion in damages to Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) over nationalizations has been annulled, a lawyer for the government said on Thursday. “We were confident all along that our position was correct and are very pleased that the annulment committee agreed,” Venezuela’s lawyer George Kahale told Reuters by email. There was no […]
The release of the Android 7.0 Nougat update for Samsung’s former flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge had been delayed according to an official announcement from Samsung, but now appears to be rolling out. Owners of other Samsung devices expected to receive the update, the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy A, J series and Galaxy Tab, are now wondering how the S6 delay will […]
By Leigh Thomas and Sudip Kar-Gupta | PARIS PARIS Centrist Emmanuel Macron saw his position as favourite to win France’s presidential election boosted on Thursday in two polls, with one showing him ahead of far-right leader Marine Le Pen in the first round of the two-stage contest. A monthly Cevipof survey, considered the most authoritative because it has a far bigger sample size than most polls, put […]
Photo Palestinians waiting for travel permits to cross into Egypt through the Rafah border crossing this week. In an effort to improve relations with the Egyptian government a new Hamas document would declare that the group is not a part of the Muslim Brotherhood. Credit Said Khatib/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images CAIRO — Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group that has governed the Gaza Strip for a decade, […]
BEIRUT Turkey’s military shelled Syrian government forces and their allies on Thursday, causing deaths and injuries, Syrian state media quoted a military source as saying. State-run SANA news agency quoted the military source as saying that the Turkish bombardment targeted Syrian border guard positions in the countryside near the northern city of Manbij. Turkey intervened in northern Syria in August in support of rebel groups with the […]
By Madeline Chambers and Ralph Boulton | BERLIN/ISTANBUL BERLIN/ISTANBUL German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Turkey to stop invoking Berlin’s Nazi past in criticising cancellations of Turkish ministers’ rallies in Germany, and said she would do everything possible to keep Turkish domestic conflicts from spilling onto German soil. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who survived an army attempt to topple him in July, is working to win the votes […]
Google Cloud Platform may not be the only cloud provider in an enterprise, but it’s willing to offer discounts to make sure it gets its share. (Image: Google Cloud/YouTube) Google Cloud Platform rolled out Committed Use Discounts, which are designed to pass along savings to enterprises for a one- or three-year purchase commitment to Google Compute Engine. Special Feature Cloud Computing: Moving to IaaS Infrastructure as a […]
