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03/10/2014

Wishing everyone a happy Eid al Adha.

27/07/2014

Lucky Strike wishes all of our friends, staff, customers and suppliers Eid Mubarak!

19/07/2014

A great interactive submarine cable map and information on how the internet really works. is a major investor in many large and regional projects.

The map (pictured) was built by London-based Builtvisible and plots the growth of the 5,561,268 miles (8,949,994 km) of cable starting with the UK-France line in 1989.

28/06/2014

May you reap and enjoy the promised blessings of Ramadan. Ramadan Kareem to you and your family!

19/06/2014

Some great business 'classics'to read up or refresh your memory

Maybe you're starting an MBA in the fall. and you're wondering what books to read before you start. Or maybe you're a rising business executive who's getting ready for your summer vacation, and you're looking for something interesting to read. Or maybe you're just heading to Seattle for a sales conf…

04/06/2014

Some great analysis on technology trends by a remodeled VC, makes one slide

Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker's data dumps have become a highly anticipated event in the tech industry, as her research helps everyone else level..

26/05/2014

'Work hard. Be Humble. Anything else is just luck' The remarkable story of a barber who owns a car rental service in . I am sure that there are many stories like this in and , please feel free to share.

Ramesh Babu bought a Maruti Van with his meagre savings in 1994. By 2004, he had a fledgling car rental business with seven regular cars. In 2014 he has a fleet of 200 cars.

11/05/2014

A remarkable story of a Romanian computer scientist that arrived in the US with $26 and sold three startups for US$500m. And no, he hasn't retired he is doing his fourth and in only 18 months has achieved US$45m in sales.

Christian Gheorghe's life is a rags-to-riches story worthy of a Disney movie, and no one is more surprised, or grateful, than he is.

07/05/2014

Alibaba is much bigger than most realise and it's an amazing success story of a huge technology conglomerate that may one day be one of the world's top ten companies.

Alibaba, which is expected to file for its IPO any day now, isn't just the "Amazon of China"—it's also the Dropbox, PayPal, Uber, Hulu, ING Direct, and more. Though Google has its fingers in a similarly high volume of pies, its enterprises, unlike Alibaba's, are exclusively digital. Alibaba's distin…

06/05/2014

If property speculation continues unchecked, Dubai will become uncompetitive to businesses as the cost base will be too high even when compared to states with income taxes.

DUBAI, May 6 (Reuters) - Dubai may need stronger measures to counter property speculation in the emirate, a senior International Monetary Fund official said on Tuesday as it warned again about a potential real estate bubble.

05/05/2014

Wow congratulations and . This is truly a unique service that enhances the city's great qualities that used to be overlooked.

Bullish on its lucrative travel business, Etihad Airways launched a new premium travel experience that has hotel-like features and a private-jet-like cabin on the upper deck of the A380.

05/05/2014

India has a young population and plenty of potential to get to a sustainable level of long term growth that China had. It has to happen.

India has long been an economic laggard to China but that may be about to change.