France Telecom, Orascom Telecom to meet over Mobinil
CAIRO: Executives of Egypt s Orascom Telecom will meet this week with counterparts from France Telecom to discuss the Mobinil ownership row, Orascom said on Tuesday. France Telecom and Orascom…
Saudi Rotana says News Corp in stake talks
DUBAI: Rupert Murdoch s News Corp is in final discussions to buy a stake in Saudi broadcaster Rotana Media, a Rotana executive said Tuesday. News Corp is in talks with…
Egypt shares dip as OT extends declines
CAIRO: Egypt s benchmark index dipped 1.9 percent, with Orascom Telecom dropping on uncertainty over the outcome of an offer by France Telecom for outstanding shares in Mobinil, traders said.…
France moves Africa summit to avoid inviting Al-Beshir
PARIS: France-Africa summit will be held in France instead of Egypt after Paris made clear it did not want Sudanese President and indicted war criminal Omar Al-Beshir to attend, a…
Mubasher partners with Fidessa, looks to integrate Arab stock markets
CAIRO: At the recent meeting of the Union of Arab Stock Exchanges (UASE), the CEO's of securities exchanges from Morocco to Oman agreed that in order to strengthen Arab markets,…
Coco before Chanel
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. So remarked Oscar Wilde, a century before the emergence of a split second…
NY Film Critics name The Hurt Locker' best film
The Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker added to its award-season momentum, winning best film from the New York Film Critics Circle.The group, which announced its selections Monday, also awarded…
Rights for robots?
PRINCETON and WARSAW: Last month, Gecko Systems announced that it had been running trials of its "fully autonomous personal companion home care robot, also known as a "carebot, designed to…
India remembered
PARIS: "Do not forget India. That warning made sense 10 or 15 years ago; not any longer. India is now impossible to ignore, much less forget, owing not only to…