Ease of business: Dubai reduces government requirements for doing business

Dubai: Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, issued instructions to reduce government regulations by 30 per cent over the next three months to ease doing business and facilitate procedures for setting up business in the emirate. The move is in line with the […]

Fastly blames software bug for major global internet outage

Amsterdam: Fastly Inc., the company behind a major global internet outage this week, said on Wednesday the incident was caused by a bug in its software that was triggered when one of its customers changed their settings. Tuesday’s outage raised questions about the reliance of the internet on a few infrastructure companies. Fastly’s issue knocked […]

COVID-19 dents global electronics sales: UN

New Delhi: In the first three quarters of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a 30 per cent fall in electronic and electrical equipment sales in low and middle-income countries but only a five per cent decline in high-income countries. This highlights and intensifies the digital divide between north and south, said a new United Nations […]

Now use your voice to write emails in Microsoft Outlook on mobile

New Delhi: Microsoft has announced to bring Cortana-enabled voice capabilities to its Outlook mobile app which will help users write emails, schedule meetings and search. Available in Outlook for iOS first, a new icon in Outlook mobile will appear to activate the voice mode. The users can also respond to messages with their voice and […]

World Bank projects India to grow at 8.3 per cent in 2021

Washington: The World Bank on Tuesday projected India’s economy to grow at 8.3 per cent in 2021 and 7.5 per cent in 2022, even as its recovery is being hampered by an unprecedented second wave of the COVID-19, the largest outbreak in the world since the beginning of the deadly pandemic. The Washington-based global lender, […]