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How to Win Friends, Influence People in Digital Age

Dale Carnegie Training Chairman to visit UAE to mark the organization’s 100th Anniversary

With $400 billion ‘in play’, hedge funds face challenges

The hedge funds industry faces challenges in 2012, but also a year of significant opportunity, according to a Barclays Capital report, The Money Trail,...

Dubai shoppers deprived of Victoria’s Secret speciality

Victoria’s Secret’s new luxury lingerie line has been released, but not yet in Dubai, according to the Dubai Chronicle's statistics.

RERA approves Oceana community service charge

Asteco Property Management has reported that Dubai's Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) has approved the 2012 service charge budget for Oceana residential and resort...

World Economic Forum: Jobs are Top Priority

42nd World Economic Forum Annual Meeting closed today, with business leaders urging resolute action to promote growth and employment

Four Mega Cruise Vessels simultaneously at Dubai Cruise Terminal

For the first time in its history, DP World’s Dubai Cruise Terminal has welcomed four mega cruise ships at the same time

Tamweel reports 2011 net profit of AED 102 million

Tamweel PJSC, the UAE Islamic home finance provider, announced today its financial results for the 12 months ending December 31, 2011, demonstrating continued profitability...

Salary increase included in salary transfers for January

HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, UAE Minister of Finance announced that the Ministry of Finance (MoF) has successfully...

Roche Diagnostics to establish headquarters in Jafza

Roche Diagnostics announced that it will set up its Middle East headquarters in Jafza and commence operations next month.

Global Outlook for Real Estate remains unclear

Macro-economic and political landscape uncertainty suggests that a cautious outlook for commercial real estate is likely to persist into 2012, according to a new...

Lack of inflation – negative factor for silver price

Silver outperformed the yellow metal for yet another week, pulling the gold to silver ratio to .51.11 from 51.81 last week.

Abu Dhabi long term ratings Aa2, Moody’s

Moody's Investors Service's has detailed its summary credit opinion on Abu Dhabi, which includes certain regulatory disclosures regarding its ratings.

Bullish sentiment on gold as hedge against inflation

With gold prices continuing to beat various moving averages, a signal some analysts perceive as being bullish, the demand for the yellow metal lifted spot prices

Pension schemes for UAE companies under development

Falcon Private Bank is developing pension schemes for expats to help companies manage retirement savings for workers in the UAE

UAE’s undervalued markets may have bottomed out

Dubai and Abu Dhabi stock markets hit fresh multi-year lows in January, but analysts now comment that they may finally have bottomed out.

Social media pressures business, government leaders

Technology and social media are significantly changing the way leaders in business and government make decisions

No country is immune from the Eurozone debt crisis

The Eurozone needs to provide a significant increase in available resources to the firewall against the debt crisis.

Global Village breaks a new record in visitors number

Global Village witnessed a new record on Friday with the arrival of more than 120 thousand visitors since two o'clock noon