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Ooredoo Algeria gets new CEO
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Samsung profit up 53%
High memory chip prices helped the company.
- The world's biggest smartphone maker said its operating profit rose to 13.87 trillion won ($11.55 billion) for the October-December period in 2021
- Thanks to high memory chip prices and strong consumer demand, Samsung had its highest annual sales of 279.6 trillion won in 2021
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Marriott Autograph Collection in Sharjah
Two of Shurooq projects will operate under Autograph brand.
- Khorfakkan Hotel will be developed to cater to the needs of families and adventurers..
- The other five-star development, Kalba Hotel, will be spread across a land area of approximately 60,000 sqm.
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Paramount picks new group CEO
Steve Griessel, the new CEO of the Paramount Group will be providing strategic, financial and operational leadership to the company...
- South Africa born Griessel has served several companies as CEO in South Africa and the US
- Griessel has business leadership and senior management experience of more than 30 years
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Microsoft posts strong earnings
The tech giant bought Activision Blizzard last week.
- The US tech colossus said profit jumped to $18.8 billion in the final three months of last year
- Microsoft investments include pouring money into the booming video game market and by extension the metaverse
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QIIB 2021 profit at $276m
This was an increase of 7 percent in net profit year on year.
- QIIB said in its statement that the Earnings per share (EPS) amounted to QR0.59 (around $0.16) as of December 31, 2021
- This was against an EPS of QR0.55 (around $0.15) for the same period in 2020marking a rise of around 7.27 percent
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Boeing makes $450m air-taxi bet
The investment is in Wisk, which looks to make autonomous air taxis.
- Boeing has added $450 million to a venture that aims to commercialize autonomous electric air taxis
- Wisk envisions some 14 million annual flights serving more than 40 million people in five years
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Meta touts supercomputer
The device is up to 20 times faster than Facebook’s current systems.
- Meta said the machine, known as AI Research SuperCluster, was already in the top five fastest supercomputers
- It would apparently become the fastest AI machine in the world when fully built in the next few months
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Fitch upgrades Saudi Electricity Company’s rating after improved record
Fitch Solutions has upgraded the Saudi Electricity Company's credit rating from A- to A with a stable outlook, an upgrade...
- The international agency emphasized that the new classification was driven by the result of the improvement of the company's independent credit record.
- The agency said that the company's independent credit rating reflects its large revenues and strong market status in the electricity generation.
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Arada secures $41m in finance
The money will fund Aljada mixed-use project in Sharjah.
- While AED37m will finance a villa complex within the Aljada community, AED115m will fund the construction of the final phase of the SABIS International School.
- Founded in 2017, Arada has since launched three communities in Sharjah. Its first project, Nasma Residences, became Sharjah’s fastest-selling community.
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Aldar and EWEC sign clean energy deal
EWEC will supply clean energy to all Aldar owned and managed assets.
- Aldar has increased its ESG ratings within two major global benchmarks, the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and Sustainalytics.
- EWEC is one of the key parties enabling the implementation of Abu Dhabi’s Clean Energy Certificate scheme.
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The no-frills airline will buy 157 aircraft from Airbus.
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Birkenstock to list on NYSE
The German sandals maker has set its share price at $46.
- A total of 32.26 million ordinary shares will be offered in its initial public offering, trading under the symbol BIRK
- Birkenstock recorded revenues of $1.17 billion for the nine months ending June 30, up 21 percent from the same period in 2022
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ExxonMobil to acquire Pioneer
This is the company's biggest takeover since 1990 acquisition of Mobil.
- ExxonMobil will buy Texas-based Pioneer for $59.5 billion based on ExxonMobil's closing price on October 5.
- ExxonMobil said the takeover is the company's biggest since the late 1990s acquisition of Mobil by Exxon.
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Silal acquires stake in SAFCO
SAFCO Group is a food and beverage distributor in the UAE.
- Last year, Silal, in collaboration with Hoogendoorn, one of the world’s innovators in horticulture, launched the Digital Agronomy Service.
- The Service saw deployment of IoT sensors in 100 farms over the course of 2022.