DUBAI: Dubai-based master developer Nakheel is gearing up to unveil a diverse range of projects – collectively worth more than AED3.2 billion – at Cityscape Global 2017. Nakheel will launch six new residential, retail and hospitality developments at four of its communities in Dubai – including its world-famous flagship master development, Palm Jumeirah – when Cityscape kicks off on 11 …

STUTTGART: The Porsche LMP Team took another big step in their mission of title defence in Mexico City today: At the fifth round of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, the Weissach-based team with the two Porsche 919 Hybrids achieved a dominant one-two victory. The championship leading Le Mans winners, Earl Bamber (NZ), Timo Bernhard (DE) …

DUBAI: HE Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Roads & Transport Authority (RTA), revealed that school bus trips accounted for 13% of the total volume of trips during the morning rush hours in Dubai. Statistics showed that the number of students in public and private schools in Dubai in 2016 was about …

DOHA: Twenty years after the first 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea and Japan, the tournament will return to Asia with numerous matches being played at Al Thumama Stadium, a venue that, in a way, represents the link between the two tournaments. Part of the team behind the design of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar proposed host venue were involved …

DUBAI: Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor, Founding Chairman, Al Habtoor Group welcomed a delegation from Lebanon’s American University of Science & Technology (AUST) at his office. The delegation was led by Dr Hiam Sakr, Founder and President of AUST. Dr Sakr was accompanied by Riad Sakr, Vice President, AUST and Dr Nabeel Haidar, Provost and Chief Academic Officer, AUST. Dr Sakr …

BERLIN: “All Samsung Electronics products will be connected and form an IoT (Internet of Things) ecosystem with external partners. We will lead the hyper connectivity of the future,” said BK Yoon, CEO of the Consumer Electronics (CE) Business at Samsung Electronics at a press meeting at IFA 2017. Samsung Electronics is one of the few global companies that covers everything …

DUBAI: The incidents of IT-based frauds are rising in organisations, raising concern among corporate houses and external key stakeholders on how to detect and prevent fraud as companies lose heavily. Companies should select “right people with integrity and competency” to detect and prevent fraud, Abdulqader Obaid Ali, President, UAE Internal Audit Association, told CIOMajlis. Addressing the CIOMajlis at Godolphin Ballroom, …

LONDON: British Airways is introducing a new service called Premium Transfer Drive at Heathrow to ensure that customers who are at risk of missing their connection are able to catch their onward flight. The new scheme applies to customers travelling on a UK domestic flight, who are connecting on to either a short-haul flight in Club Europe, a long-haul service in Club …

BERLIN: At this year’s IFA, the leading consumer electronics show in Berlin, Samsung Electronics demonstrated an array of new Internet of Things (IoT) and intelligent services for home appliances. By 2020, all Samsung devices will leverage connectivity. In preparation for the full-fledged smart home era, Samsung has been spearheading the standardization of global IoT technologies as a core member of …

ABU DHABI: Africa’s largest airline group, Ethiopian Airlines, has renewed its passenger reservations system with global travel technology provider, Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR).  The airline also signed up for a suite of new technology solutions to support its continued growth as a world-class carrier. Consistently posting record profits for the past seven years, Ethiopian Airlines has been using Sabre’s technology for its …