Dubai Private Equity Buys in Europe With Sukuk: Islamic Finance

Millennium Private Equity Ltd., a Dubai government-linked investment company with about $5 billion in capital, plans to use Islamic financing for venture capital in Europe after buying the first corporate sukuk in the U.K.

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Advertising expenditures in UAE decline 4% in first half

01 September 2010 ABU DHABI — The advertising expenditures in the GCC region grew by 20 per cent in the first six months of the year, showing significant growth in all member nations of the economic bloc, in contrast with a four per cent dip in the UAE.

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Mags Gain Ad Pages, Revenue for First Time since ‘07

For the first time in nine quarters, total magazine ad pages and rate-card-reported revenue posted gains during the second quarter, according to Publishers Information Bureau (PIB). During the second…

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Business : Advertising expenditures in UAE decline 4% in first half

ABU DHABI — The advertising expenditures in the GCC region grew by 20 per cent in the first six months of the year, showing significant growth in all member nations of the economic bloc, in contrast with a four per cent dip in the UAE.

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Bertelsmann makes 1st-half profit, raises outlook

Improving European advertising markets and cost-cutting efforts helped Bertelsmann AG to a net profit in the first half, prompting the media group to raise its full-year forecast on Tuesday.

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Maxus to stop buying autorefreshed ads

Maxus has become the first media agency to publicly refuse to buy autorefreshed online advertising. David Gaines, CEO of the WPP-owned agency told Mumbrella that the industry had been talking about the issue for too long. He said: “We keep tiptoeing around the issue. Everybody at the agency got told last week. We are going to

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