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Established in 2005, Palm Hills Development develops residential and integrated commercial developments, small cities, urban communities, hotels and luxury resorts. The company is listed on both the Egyptian Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange, and currently has a portfolio of 26 projects in various stages of development.

The deal to acquire a stake in Palm Hills Development came a day after Union Properties announced it is in the final stages of selling its entire stake in Dubai-based Emicool, a district cooling service provider.

Established in 2003, Emicool is jointly owned by Union Properties and Dubai Investments, with core operations including providing district cooling services for residential, commercial and industrial areas, as well as distributing, transporting and selling cold water used in cooling equipment for individual and corporate clients.

Union Properties reported it had received several offers to buy its entire stake in Emicool from various U.A.E.-based companies. The developer says it is currently finalizing legal formalities of the deal and will be announcing the buyer in the upcoming days.

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Google wants to see both external and internal images of your business for verification purposes (include high-quality images of the building, signage, and staff). Users have become incredibly visually driven so the better your images, the more likely they are to get in contact.

A verification process is required to ensure you’re eligible to own the listing. Verification will usually be done through a postcard in the mail if your listing is new, and by phone call, if your listing is being transferred from a previous owner (For example, if you’re taking over a retail space that was previously verified). Once your business is verified, you will be able to make instant edits to the page should you need to do so.

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To prove that outgoing links to relevant resources can have the same positive impact as incoming links in building your site’s authority and increasing your visibility, the team at Reboot Online decided to put this theory to the test.

They applied a controlled SEO test to experiment with the effects of outbound links. The results? Their study found that websites with outbound links outperformed and outranked those without them.

Reboot Online’s study proved that outgoing links are effective tools when the followed link relates to a reputable source. With Google’s recent announcement that the top-three factors in determining a web page’s ranking include links, outgoing links have reinforced themselves as a powerful tool for your brand’s online visibility.

So, use those outbound links often. But consider the sources of your outbound links: Ensure that they are also well-linked, reputable and technically sound pages. Most importantly, always keep your audience in mind when using outbound links — the linked page must be both relevant and beneficial to them.

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Transactions, sale prices and rents for residential villas and apartments in Dubai all continued to decline through 2016. Average sale prices across Dubai declined by 6.1% over the period Q3 2015 to Q3 2016. We predict that residential sale prices will continue to decline in Dubai in 2017. This is likely to be driven by low oil prices denting investor confidence in addition to a strong local currency reducing the purchasing power of key international source markets such as India and the U.K.

Despite 2017 being a challenging year for retailers in Dubai, we predict that prime retail assets, including the Dubai Mall, Mall of the Emirates and City Walk, will consolidate their position and continue to attract strong levels of footfall and tenant demand. Estimates by the Economist Intelligence Unit indicate that retail spending in the U.A.E. decreased in 2016 between 5% and 6%. This will be the first time retail spending has fallen in the U.A.E. since the global financial crisis in 2008.

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Nabbesh also caters to a worldwide trend, where the freelance or so-called gig economy is taking hold. The most prominent examples of companies built on freelancers are Uber and Airbnb. Software firm Intuit estimates that freelancers will make up a whopping 40% of the workforce in the U.S. by 2020. Dubai was turning into the land of opportunity and Khazen Baz accepted a sales and marketing job there with Accor Hotels. Although her $1,000 a month salary was a step up from the Beirut offer, it was still a pittance against Dubai’s cost of living. Not many in her office also had a formal education in tourism, which made her work environment less than challenging.

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Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO), the integrated free zone technology park, today announced the completion of Phase III of its Light Industrial Units (LIU), with more than 50 per cent already rented.

These units boast hi-tech features to enable seamless and efficient operations across the office/warehouse buildings. In addition to structural, mechanical and electrical designed ceilings, the ready-for-occupation units are equipped with an electronic sounder and complete fibre optic networking, as well as CCTV, 24-hour security and fire alarm system. Using eco-friendly and high-quality materials, the facility conforms to green building specifications.

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Brands may have different business methods, but all of them have a fundamental common goal: to engage with their audiences effectively. Internet and digitalization have opened immense opportunities for brand communication.

In recent times, while considering web design and new marketing and media strategies, one tends to come across phrases such as ‘immersive experience’ and ‘augmented reality’ (AR). Immersion is a term often interchangeably used for virtual reality (VR) these days. Immersive experiences inadvertently offer the ‘wow factor’ necessary to catch a consumer’s eye.

BUSINESS BENEFITS Companies are anticipating remarkable business benefits from immersive digital experiences in areas like maintenance, logistics, field service, and medicine. VR and AR promise to accelerate, simplify, and extend existing business processes while creating new ones that weren’t previously possible.

BUILDING A CONVINCING DIGITAL WORLD To make technology truly immersive, we need to align it with the physical world. That’s going to require more sensors to make more objects interactive, technology infrastructure powerful enough to create convincingly realistic 3D models and screens, glasses, and other interfaces smart enough to not just show data, but interpret it and allow us to interact with it.

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