India’s Maruti Suzuki offers car ‘subscription’ in 4 new cities

Indian automobile major Maruti Suzuki has launched its ‘Subscribe’ service in four more cities – Mumbai, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar. Earlier, the company had launched the service in major cities like Delhi-NCR, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune. According to the company’s statement, Maruti Suzuki has partnered with ORIX Auto Infrastructure Services India, a subsidiary of ORIX […]

Stage set for e-commerce boom in the region

What are the biggest trends in e-commerce right now in the UAE? To understand the current trends, let me dial back a bit to a decade ago. The MENA e-commerce ecosystem then saw a massive transformation with platforms like Souq offering a wide variety of goods. Fast forward five years, the e-commerce sector changed drastically […]

Suited avatars and digital offices: traders and bankers embrace VR

Once the preserve of gamers, virtual reality (VR) has been seized on by the financial sector as a way of enlivening home working for lonely traders or isolated executives and replicating real-world sales, networking or training events. With 90% of employees at some of the world’s biggest financial firms now working at home due to […]

Get into the swing of virtual working with Dubai’s new programme for overseas professionals

Get into the swing of virtual working with Dubai’s new programme for overseas professionals. Now you can drive your career forward whilst living and working remotely in Dubai. And, continue to serve your employer in your home country. Remote working with unrivalled connectivity, top co-working spaces, world-class sports facilities and sunshine await. If you can […]

2021 McLaren Artura; new hybrid supercar’s name confirmed

McLaren Automotive has announced that their upcoming hybrid supercar will be called Artura. The new model, which draws from McLaren’s proven capabilities in engineering electrified powertrains, will go on sale in the first half of 2021. Although McLaren has the P1TM hybrid hypercar from 2012 and the more recent Speedtail Hyper-GT in its range, the […]

UAE allows 100% ownership of businesses for foreign nationals from December 1, 2020

Dubai: The UAE has scrapped the need to have UAE nationals as sponsors, thus allowing expatriate investors 100 per cent ownership with effect from December 1, 2020. The move is in line with a federal law issued by President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and which amends Law No. 2 of 2015 on […]