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UAE Space Agency commences virtual activities of Global Space Industry Accelerator programme
UAE Space Agency and Krypto Labs will commence a series of webinars
Takeaway shares soar as orders recover from lockdown dip
Takeaway said order volumes had bounced back by the end of March,
TikTok is a winner in global viral challenge
The app has been downloaded roughly 2 billion times
Surviving COVID-19: Tech-savvy UAE businesses score on outbreak readiness
Disruption of global supply chains, plummeting markets, downward revision of corporate forecasts and travel restrictions are just a few snowball effects of Covid-19 on businesses
Universal Group raises workers' salaries amid COVID-19 crisis
The company continues to inject new investments as part of its expansion plans
Prince Sultan Cardiac Center activates distance learning as coronavirus precaution
Education officials likewise accelerated the electronic learning process to compensate for the lack of daily schooling
Zoom hires former Facebook security chief to beef up privacy, safety
Zoom is facing widespread criticism from users worried about the lack of end-to-end encryption
German foreign ministry restricts use of Zoom over security concerns - report
It was currently impossible to ban its use entirely
Hedge fund firm DG Partners' main computer-driven fund up 10% -source
DG Partners, founded in 2002 by David Gorton, runs $1.5 billion in assets under management.
France working on `StopCovid' contact-tracing app, ministers say
The French app would only use bluetooth and not geolocation
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TikTok is a winner in global viral challenge
The app has been downloaded roughly 2 billion times
Videoconferences zoom toward market-boom reckoning
Zoom now has 200 million daily video participants, a 20-fold increase since the end of December
Samsung discovers perks of working from home
The $263bln tech conglomerate is weathering the Covid-19 pandemic well so far despite plunging demand for smartphones