Japan’s Preferred Networks has only one publicly available product, a whimsical application that uses artificial intelligence to automate the colouring of manga cartoons.

Yet the four-year-old firm has become Japan’s most valuable start-up, with a venture capital funding that priced it at more than $2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. Toyota, its biggest backer, handed over $110 million on a bet its algorithms will"...

Bahrain national carrier Gulf Air recently partnered with Dreams Society, a non-profit organisation established in 2011 with a mission to fulfil the dreams of children affected with terminal illnesses and debilitating diseases, .

A number of young children and their parents visited the airline’s headquarters, meeting with Gulf Air chief executive officer, Krešimir Kučko and Gulf Air deputy chief executive officer Captain Waleed Abdulhameed Al Alawi, along with other members of the airline’s"...

India’s largest luxury car maker Mercedes-Benz India on Monday introduced the Mercedes-AMG GLE 43 4MATIC Coupe ‘OrangeArt’ and the SLC 43 ‘RedArt’ limited editions, priced at Rs 1.02 crore and Rs 87.48 lakh (ex-showroom) respectively.

Available in limited (25) numbers,"...

Iraq is to host a West Asia Football Federation championship in the southern city of Basra in November, the first international tournament to be staged in the country since the 1990s.

Iraqi authorities late Sunday hailed WAFF's invitation to host the tournament, following the decision in March of world football's governing body FIFA to lift a three-decade ban on Iraq hosting international football.

Iraq"...

Iraq Duty Free has responded to allegations regarding the renewal of its contract to run the duty free concessions at Baghdad and Basra airports in Iraq.

According to the statement from its CEO, Ahmed Kamal, the owner of company has not been convicted of “any crime of punishment that deprives the freedom in Iraq.”

His"...

Sri Lanka’s Colombo Dockyard PLC (CDPLC) has successfully secured a contract with Toyota Tsusho Corporation (TTC) of Japan to build two vessels; Pilot Station Vessel and Buoy Tender Vessel, for General Company for Ports of Iraq (GCPI).

TTC and GCPI signed the Prime Contract on 27th April 2018 in Dubai. Subsequent to the signing of the Prime Contract, TTC signed the Sub Contract Agreement with CDPLC as TTC’s preferred Shipyard for the"...

Rudaw’s Research Center held a seminar on Monday in Erbil on the Kurdish issue in German media and the position of the Kurds in Germany.

Besides individuals from the Kurdistan Region, a number of foreigners, including Jan Jessen, the supervisor of the political department of the Fonk Media Center, and Serdar Yuksel, the representative of the German Social Democratic Party, participated in the seminar.

The representative of the Social Democratic Party of Germany said the Kurds and Peshmerga"...

LSC Warehousing and Logistics Services Co was named ‘2018 KSA Warehousing Service Provider of the Year’ at the 2018 Frost & Sullivan Middle East Best Practices Awards Banquet - held on 14th May at Atlantis, The Palm in Dubai.

LSC Warehousing and Logistics Services Co provides a comprehensive and an"...

Investors looking to build up their wealth have five major options available to them today, one of which is now widely considered a Ponzi scheme in financial circles despite undoubtedly making some wealthy on the way up.

We are talking about stocks, bonds, real estate, precious metals and cryptocurrencies.

Interestingly, in a recent Gallup poll, 34 per cent of Americans"...

China and the United States announced on Saturday (May 19) that they had reached a “consensus” to reduce the trade deficit.

The United States and China announced on Saturday that Beijing would 'significantly' increase its purchases of US goods in order to reduce Washington's trade deficit with China, according to DW.

The US is seeking a deficit"...