Business & Money | Monday 24 October, 2016 2:32 pm

How Blockchain Can Revolutionize UAE’s Financial Services Sector: Booz Allen Hamilton Report

Blockchain technologies have the potential to revolutionize the rapidly growing financial services sector in the UAE and broader GCC region, according to a new report from Booz Allen Hamilton, titled ‘Blockchain: Application to Financial Services in the GCC Region’. The global...

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Business & Money | Monday 24 October, 2016 2:25 pm

VISION-X Announces New Partnership With Saudi Association of Optometry Ahead of Three-Day Trade Show

The Saudi Association of Optometry has signed a new agreement with Vision-X, the Middle East’s only optical business event, to create collaborative efforts in supporting the eye-care sector across the GCC and wider region. The partnership has been announced as Dubai prepares to become the...

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Business & Money | Monday 24 October, 2016 2:19 pm

wasl properties Launches its Latest Project in Jumeira

wasl properties has announced the first phase launch of its mixed-use development ‘wasl 51’ in Jumeira. The real estate management company, a subsidiary of wasl Asset Management Group, has started leasing 24 villas during the first stage of a phased programme. The launch forms part of...

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Healthcare | Monday 24 October, 2016 1:09 pm

Business Plays Vital Role in Tackling UAE Breast Cancer, Say Survivors

Breast cancer survivors say the efforts of Dubai’s multicultural business community are vital to tackling the disease and continuing to boost survival rates. Linda Berlot, a British expat living in Dubai, who has been free from the disease for five years discovered she had breast cancer...

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Culture & Education | Monday 24 October, 2016 1:07 pm

Arab Innovators Compete to Offer Practical Solutions to Regional Problems

Innovators from Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt and Jordan succeeded in passing through the first two prototyping episodes of Stars of Science, Qatar Foundation's flagship 'edutainment' reality TV show on MBC4. Under intense questioning from an expert jury,...

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Beauty & Style | Monday 24 October, 2016 1:04 pm

Rubaiyat Hosts A Second ‘MADE TO MEASURE’ Service

Rubaiyat, the fashion house of the Kingdom, is hosting for the second time this year its unique “Made to Measure” service, which provides men with top designer-brand suits measured and made by tailors representing the world’s top fashion houses. “’Made to...

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Business & Money | Monday 24 October, 2016 9:46 am

Earnings and Macro data to drive financial markets the week ahead

Written by Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at FXTM Last week’s robust U.S. corporate announcement indicated that there’s a high chance for corporate America to get out of its five consecutive quarter long profit recession. According to factset, 78% of S&P 500 companies...

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Beauty & Style | Monday 24 October, 2016 8:50 am

Fashion Forward Dubai presents SS'17

FFWD SS’17 has presented collections from Arwa Al Banawi, Maram, KAGE, Sotra, Kristina Fidelskaya, Hashe, Ezar and House of Nomad x Reebok Classics   Day 2 saw S*ucette x Powerpuff Girls, Ziad Farouki, Lama Jouni, TAIR, Salta, Zena Presley, Said Mahrouf, Hussein Bazaza, Bedouin,...

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Business & Money | Monday 24 October, 2016 7:34 am

TII at HBKU's CHSS Calls for Paper Submissions for Upcoming Translation Conference on "21st Century Demands

The Translation and Interpreting Institute (TII) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University's (HBKU) College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) is now accepting submissions for the Eighth Annual International Translation Conference. The two-day event is scheduled to take place from March 27 -...

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Technology & IT | Monday 24 October, 2016 7:31 am

Extraordinary engineering for the essential lens in every professional photographer’s bag

The AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8E FL ED VR, a next-generation fast zoom lens compatible with Nikon FX-format DSLR that offers a consistently fast maximum aperture of f/2.8 throughout its entire zoom range, is introduced by Nikon Middle East FZE today.   “The AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm...

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