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• Oil’s turnaround may support Gulf markets

  16, June 2015
  

  Elsewhere in the region, Dubai's bourse may remain in a speculative mood and focus on high-beta mid-caps such as Amlak Finance, Arabtec and Union Properties.

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• Qatar’s secretive sovereign fund to restructure, say sources

  16, June 2015
  

  A spokesman for the QIA, which is estimated by industry tracker the Sovereign Wealth Center to have $304 billion of assets, declined to comment.

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• Infiniti Q70 unveiled in Dubai

  16, June 2015
  

  “The Q70 is fully newly designed, we’ve changed the front of the car with the new grill, we now have LED lights, we’ve also redesigned the tail lights of the car, so now it has a much lower and wider stance than its predecessor.”

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• Tourism contributes 14 per cent to Jordan’s GDP

  16, June 2015
  

  “Helps in creating job opportunities and introduces hard currency in the economy”

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• Saudi Arabia’s customs revenues hit SAR27.9 billion in 2014

  14, June 2015
  

  Most duties collected at maritime entry points

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• Google launches Google Preferred for YouTube

  14, June 2015
  

  Google’s ‘Preference score’ algorithm surfaces and ranks the channels that are among the top 5 percent of all YouTube channels. The score accounts for watch time as well as engagement metrics like number of subscribers, likes, comments and shares.

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• Visitors to Egypt increase by 7.4 per cent in April

  14, June 2015
  

  Eastern European tourists dominate

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• Research finds enterprises in the region under-prepared for digital future

  14, June 2015
  

  By 2020 more than 7 billion people on at least 30 billion devices will have created 44 zettabytes of data (or 44 trillion gigabytes), according to Gartner and IDC respectively.

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• 85 per cent of Saudi companies don’t have websites

  14, June 2015
  

  18.3 million Internet users in Saudi Arabia

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• Visa launches #NotATourist campaign to inspire summer travel

  14, June 2015
  

  #NotATourist also offers travelers a platform to describe the many facets of a destination by sharing their own images, videos, posts and comments, making them ambassadors or tour guides of their favorite travel spots.

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• Ajman’s industrial exports hit AED1.3 billion in 2014

  14, June 2015
  

  Metal products, boats and machinery account for 44 per cent of total exports

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• Sovereign wealth funds better poised to manage liquidity crunch

  14, June 2015
  

  As per Invesco’s findings, investors – hungry for returns – are increasingly looking at alternatives as a class to allocate their assets. There also seems to be a link between asset classes and region, with an affinity in emerging markets toward infrastructure investment and in developed markets to real estate.

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• Oman’s Phoenix Power $146 mln float heavily oversubscribed

  14, June 2015
  

  Phoenix Power is a vehicle which owns, maintains and operates the Sur Independent Power Project, which generates 2,000 megawatts of electricity and was officially inaugurated in April.

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• Movies as marketing tools

  14, June 2015
  

  A recent Expedia.com research revealed that London was the top outbound European destination for UAE travellers.

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• Dubai Silicon Oasis launches Roads Improvement Project

  09, May 2015
  

  To add 2.7 kilometres of new Road Infrastructure at Hi-Tech Park

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• Qatar Commercial Bank host event for staff, families

  09, May 2015
  

  Senior Management honour long-serving staff members as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations

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• UAE RTA launches construction of ‘Route 2020’ project

  09, May 2015
  

  A broad gathering is held for 100 global companies to explain project details

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• Emirates Palace wins five awards at 2015 World Travel Awards

  09, May 2015
  

  Emirates Palace also took away awards for Abu Dhabi’s Leading Hotel Suite, Abu Dhabi’s Leading Resort and Middle East’s Leading Hotel Suite 2015

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