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Dubai’s Department of Economic Development clarifies 2000 activities under trade licenses

DED completes adding descriptions for 2,000 activities permitted under various trade licenses The Department of Economic Development (DED) has completed the adding descriptions for 2,000...

How 2013 Social Media Trends Will Affect the Future

Social media continues to flourish and evolve. This development will continue in 2014. However, a number of new social media trends emerged over the...

New domain name extensions offer more business opportunities

As you might have heard, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), announced a few months ago that a big new domain...

UAE Public Holidays in 2014

The non-working public holidays in UAE for 2014 will most probably be 13, while employees in the private sector will get only 10 days...

iPhone 6 – Separating the Truth from the Speculations

This year, for the first time, Apple released not one but two iPhones – the improved 5S and the not that much budget-friendly 5C...

1st Day of 2014 – Public Holiday

In the beginning of 2014, the private and the public sector in the UAE will enjoy the same New Year's public holiday. Wednesday, 1st January...

MERS cases on the rise in Middle East

Health authorities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced a new death caused by the dangerous MERS virus. With the last laboratory-confirmed case of...

Doing business in Dubai gets easier: Business licenses online

The Department of Economic Development (DED) in Dubai has further expanded its e-services by enabling customers to get their licenses issued online. The new...

1500 medical tourists seek treatment through Dubai every day

Emirates Airlines is said to fly in 1,500 medical tourists daily to Dubai airport before they take onward flights to destinations such as India,...