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Dubai’s Emirates Airlines has denied a European Commission charge that it has mislead customers over website ticket prices.

The airline was one of nine named and shamed by the European Commission on Thursday for failing to act on concerns that they were misleading customers on their website.

It comes just days after Emirates launched a new "best price" promotion via its website guaranteei
Microsoft has notified the second round of its employees in the US and internationally, who are affected by job cuts. The group is aiming to lose 5,000 positions as it brings costs into line with the economic downturn, the Wall Street Journal has reported. April saw the IT giant register its first fall in quarterly revenue since it became a public company in 1986.
It’s official. The UAE is the hardest-hit market, advertising-wise, in the Middle East. According to a report by Dubai-based Pan Arab Research Center (PARC), UAE ad spend in the first quarter of 2009 dropped 14 per cent compared to last year. At the forefront? Usual suspects like property and financial services advertising, which fell 60% and 46% respectively compared to last year. The property s
Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) became the very first operator in the Middle East to get Ericsson’s state-of-the-art, environmentally and aesthetically friendly relay tower.

Mohammed Al-Marzuqi, Director of Mobile Network Development at Mobily, reiterated Mobily’s commitment to preserving the environment by pursuing energy-saving technology. He said that Mobily was the first company to use the new To
Dubai-based publisher DIT Group, which produces Forbes Arabia and PC Magazine, is to shut down.

Head of finance and business process Rumaiz Mohideen tells Communicate that the publisher is to cease operation “very soon,” with the loss of around 40 jobs.

Although Mohideen says the credit crunch has influenced the move, he says the main reason is the corporate direction of DIT’s Saudi Arabi
A few months ago, I wrote a column for Business Islamica magazine on the potential role of Islamic venture capital in the GCC. In the last few weeks, the Gulf Venture Capital Association released its 2008 Private Equity and Venture Capital in the Middle East report. The report, as in previous years, focuses primarily on private equity due to the much greater relative share of funds flowing int
we would ideally publish our examination of the Lynx fiasco, which will be as definitive a story as we can produce on what exactly happened. Sadly, however – as with everything else in this saga – it’s dragging on.
Dubai's first low cost airline, flydubai, on Monday announced it would launch its service in June, with the first flights taking off to Lebanese capital Beirut and Amman, Jordan.
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