iPhone prices fall by more than 20%

Price of iPhone 6s has declined almost 20% from Apple’s suggested retail price

iPhone prices in Dubai have seen a substantial decline over the past few weeks even as Apple yesterday announced its first ever iPhone sales slump.

Defending the sales decline, Apple CEO Tim Cook said: “Our team executed extremely well in the face of strong macroeconomic headwinds.”

The world’s most valuable company may be at a crossroads, with iPhone, its billion-dollar device, stumbling and showing signs of slowing down for the first time since the first iPhone was unleashed in 2007.

Sales of iPad, Apple’s second most potent

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EU praises UAE's drive for renewable energy

Dr. Amal Abdullah Al Qubaisi, Speaker of Federal National Council (FNC) met here today with Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation.

They discussed ways to strengthen co-operation between the UAE and the European Union in the fields of energy and scientific research.

Dr. Amal Al Qubaisi said the UAE's strategy for energy enjoys the full support of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Moha

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Ki-Moon to address Africa’s first ICCA congress on international commercial arbitration

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will address the 23rd International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) congress to be held in Mauritius from May 8 – 11.

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South Africa’s Mtn pays former Ceo $1.6 million after resigning over Nigeria fine

South Africa’s MTN paid its former chief executive officer Sifiso Dabengwa 23.7 million rand ($1.6 million) after he resigned over a record fine imposed on the company by Nigerian authorities.

Dabengwa quit in November after Nigerian authorities imposed a $5.2 million fine on MTN’s Nigerian unit in October.

He was awarded a total payout of 40.6 million rand, MTN said in its annual report on Monday.

Non-executive chairman Phuthuma Nhleko was then named executive chairman of Africa’s biggest mobile phone group for a period of six months, to help resolve the fine.

MTN has since managed to negotiate the penalty down to $3.9 billion but is still hoping to reduce it further.

MTN’s share price has been down almost 20 percent

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New space telescope's giant gold mirror unveiled: Bob McDonald

James Webb Space Telescope must survive stresses of launch and then unfold itself in complicated sequence

The giant successor to the Hubble Space Telescope was seen for the first time in its full glory this week, with its 18-segment, gold-coated mirror unfolded as it will be in space. Due to be launched in 2018, the tennis-court-sized instrument

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A new era at Google? Hardware moving to the foreground?

Yes, I am breaking one of my own unwritten rules: putting two question marks in a post title. But this story warrants it, particularly since what I am writing about won’t get much play.

Rick Osterloh, the former head of Motorola, left Lenovo a month ago, the owner of the brand. Google, you may recall, had acquired Moto and kept a pile of patents and an advanced technology group, and spun the rest off to Lenovo. Apparently, Sundar Pinchai, Google’s CEO, thinks that Osterloh is the one to make sense of the many, many hardware efforts that Google has found itself running.

So Osterloh will be overseeing Google’s Nexus,

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