According to EY’s report ‘How will the GCC close the skills gap?’, employers struggle to retain nationals due to high salary expectations; however, these employers rank young people’s lack of work experience (53%), communications skills (36%), and required skills and...
International oilfield services company, Expro, posted its annual results for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2015. The company has posted headline revenue of $1.3bn, down 5.6%, and EBITDA, down 15.1% compared the fiscal year ending March 31, 2014.
Despite a challenging global energy market,...
There are currently 25 billion connected objects in the world, making an average of more than 3 objects per person (Cisco survey1). The rapid expansion of connected objects (including 'wearables') raises new challenges around data security for the industry players who...
According to specialists at Abu Dhabi’s Imperial College London Diabetes Centre (ICLDC), it is extremely important to take regular exercise, even while fasting during the Holy Month of Ramadan.
ICLDC’s Dr Farhana Bin Lootah said that exercise is a key contributor to...
A new report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a global management consulting firm and the world’s leading advisor on business strategy, delves into the challenges faced by Exploration & Production (E&P) companies here in the GCC region. The fact is, these are trying times...
Prime central London prices to grow by 7% in 2015
According to CBRE’s latest research paper, post-election UK has seen renewed investor interest in London’s prime residential real estate particularly from Middle Eastern...
New research reports produced by the GSMA, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Internet Society (iSOC) demonstrate that the development of digital societies have the potential to help solve key challenges faced by...
Learning company Pearson today publishes two new reports by the world-leading education expert Professor John Hattie which call into question some of the key reform policies pursued by governments in the last twenty years. Hattie’s research promises to be useful for education policy makers...
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. made great strides in reducing CO2 emissions and improving sustainability in its global corporate activities in fiscal year 2014 while simultaneously increasing vehicle production and plant energy efficiency. The company achieved a 22.6 percent cut in CO2 when compared to...
Global aerospace and defense companies added US$12.7 billion in revenues in 2014 according to a Deloitte study of the top 100 global aerospace and defense companies. Although revenues in the commercial aerospace subsector increased by US$23.7 billion in 2014, the strong growth was partly offset by...