Seoul:  The world’s biggest smartphone and chipmaker Samsung Electronics issued a rare apology Wednesday after its chairman was jailed for sabotaging union activities. Chairman Lee Sang-hoon and executive vice president Kang Kyung-hoon were both jailed for 18 months for leading a wide-ranging operation to deter staff at Samsung’s customer service unit operating a union. Samsung Electronics […]

Also an advance birthday gift for the Dubai resident.

Biological evidence at the crime scene helped nab the culprit.

WASHINGTON: The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has settled foreign corruption charges against former Goldman Sachs Group Inc executive Tim Leissner for his involvement in Malaysia’s multibillion-dollar 1MDB corruption scandal, the agency said on Monday. The SEC has permanently barred Leissner from the securities industry for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by […]

Instagram is finally making rules to govern content in influencer advertising. Influencers, the photo-sharing app’s most-followed users who are paid by brands to post, will no longer be allowed to promote products related to vaping, tobacco and weapons, Instagram said Wednesday in a blog post. The decision came after the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority ruled […]

For more than 150 years, the Tata Group has been synonymous with India’s nation-building project, venturing into everything from autos to airlines when its country needed them. And no executive better personified the country’s emergence on the world stage than Ratan Tata, whose string of dazzling takeovers took a largely domestic firm global. Now at […]

Dubai: Social media giant Facebook has announced all advertisements on its platform in the UAE will now be subject to a value added tax (VAT). This means any individual or entity looking to advertise on Facebook will have to factor in an additional five per cent VAT on its services. The move by Facebook follows […]

The rally was a convenient venue for Trump to address the matter at hand and let the rhetoric fly.

All over the emirate, popular NYE spots are already gearing up for the celebrations.

Hong Kong: Hong Kong’s unemployment rate rose to the highest level since 2017 in November, as months of protests continued to damage the Asian financial hub’s economy. The overall unemployment rate rose to 3.2 per cent as of the end of November, the Hong Kong government said in a release on Tuesday. That’s in line […]