Dubai World Trade Centre gets ‘SafeGuard Label’ on visitor safety and wellbeing

Dubai: The Dubai World Trade Centre has been certified with the ‘SafeGuard Label’, which guarantees that the destination complies with all possible standards to ensure safety and wellbeing of visitors. The certification was issued by Bureau Veritas. DWTC thus becomes the first convention and exhibition centre in the Middle East to receive the Label, which provides […]

Electric car startup Lucid to follow Tesla into energy storage

Lucid Motors Inc., the electric-vehicle startup that revealed its first production car last week, is following Tesla Inc.’s footsteps into the energy-storage business. The Newark, California-based company is developing home batteries – similar to Tesla’s Powerwall – and utility-scale devices, Chief Executive Officer Peter Rawlinson said in an interview. They will have the same battery-cell […]

Hiring of women in UAE hits a low point during April, says LinkedIn

Dubai: There were fewer women joining the UAE workforce during April at the height of the lockdown phase to counter the COVID-19 spread, but have shown signs of recovery since June, according to LinkedIn, the networking platform. Hiring of women dropped to 31.3 per cent, but then recovered above the full-year 2019 average by July. […]

General Motors explores market for electric ‘flying cars’, say sources

General Motors Co is exploring options in the aerial taxi market, including whether to build the vehicles known colloquially as “flying cars,” as part of a push by the US automaker to look for growth in related transportation markets, two people familiar with the matter said. Chief Executive Mary Barra on Monday briefly made her […]

UAE viewers stick with video-on-demand viewing despite work and entertainment options

Dubai: Despite the distraction of back to work and more leisure options, UAE viewers for video-on-demand are still putting in the same number of hours as they did during April to June’s lockdown phase. “The “new normal” when it comes to hours spent watching streaming video-on-demand is 18-19 hours a month,” said Danny Bates, Chief […]