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Hot Spots 2025: Dubai Moves Up to 23rd Place

A new Economist Intelligence Unit research report, "Hot Spots 2025: Benchmarking the Future Competitiveness of Cities," commissioned by Citi, projects that São Paulo,...

Amazon Launches a Fan Fiction Store

Kindle-manufacturer (Check the 4th of July price) and online retailer, Amazon.com, announced that it is opening an online store for fan fiction works. It...

UAE Private Sector Growth Slows in June

Growth of business activity in the UAE's non-oil private sector slowed in June from a three-month high in the previous month, as expansion of...

Gold Firmly Advances

On Tuesday, gold futures firmly advance, following a strong start at the beginning of the of the third quarter. In electronic trade, so far gold...

Promising Real Estate Markets for Investors

Although, the real estate markets of a number of countries across the world are modestly recovering from the global financial crisis, various industry forecasts...

How to Behave during Ramadan in Dubai

The Holy Month of Ramadan in Dubai is quite different and unique, because of the cultural heritage of people from many different nationalities living...

Early Treatment of HIV May Save 3 Million People by 2025

Globally, 34 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2011, according to estimates by the World Health Organization. On Sunday, it...

Dubai Property Market Cools Down

The last time the Dubai property market ceased rising was in the fall of 2008. The reason was the financial crisis which spread across...

Designer Branded Hotels to Contribute to Dubai’s Reputation of Fashion Hub

The Palazzo Versace Dubai hotel is scheduled to open its doors next year, according a number of most recent media reports. However, the construction...

Most Innovative Countries in 2013 Revealed

Global Innovation Index 2013 - US Rejoins Five Most-Innovative Nations as Switzerland Keeps Top Spot, Local Dynamics Key to Overcoming Global Innovation Divide The United...

Amazon Slashed Kindle Price for 4th of July

Click here to avail the special offer on Kindle Fire HD 7" today If you haven’t heard by now, the biggest trend in consumer technology...

Silver, Gold Strengthen on Asian Buying

Silver price finished at $19.60 an ounce in June. During last week, the white metal lost another 2.55%, further, the average weekly rate was...

UAE Stock Markets Top Performers in H1 of 2013

In the first six months of 2013, the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) and Abu Dhabi's Emirates Securities Market (ADX) advanced the most among...

Gold Poised to Bounce

Last week, gold has been hammered as a deluge of selling emerged from Western traders dumping exchange traded products like ETFs. In addition, fund...

Over-diagnosed in Dubai? Healthcare Business is Booming

Cracking knees? You are not alone - many people in the Gulf suffer from problems with their knees, because of lazy lifestyle and extra...

Video Messaging, Picture Sharing, HD Video Go Mobile with Skype

When you ask people “What’s Skype?”, pretty often the answer you’ll get is “it’s a free video calling app for PC or Mac.”...

Instagram Introduces Videos – Learn How to Make One

Facebook’s Instagram surprised users with a brand new feature. The company added a video sharing option to the platform. The new feature is quite similar...

DED honours assessors of 2012 Business Excellence Awards

The Dubai Department of Economic Development (DED) honoured the assessors of the Dubai Quality Award (DQA) and Dubai Human Development Award (DHDA) 2012 at...