08-10 April (Saturday-Monday): Pharmaconex, Cairo International Convention Center, Cairo. 16 April (Sunday): Coptic Easter Sunday. 17 April (Monday): Sham El Nessim, national holiday. 20 April (Thursday): Closing date for the Egyptian Mineral Resources Authority bid round number 1 for 2017 for gold and associated minerals. 22-24 April (Wednesday-Friday): Food Africa, Cairo International Convention Center, Cairo. […]
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A QUICK NOTE TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS We publish the Enterprise Morning Edition in English and Arabic from Sunday through Thursday before 7am, with a focus on the business, economic and political news that will move markets each day. What you’re reading now is our Weekend Edition, which is light on news and heavy on stories […]
Free association on social media, fintech and Generation Z
To get things started this morning, we have some free association for you on social media (personal and for your business), Generation Z and fintech… Are you worried about what a border guard can see of your social media profile? Or maybe you don’t want your boss (or underlings) to see certain photos you’re sharing […]
Game of Thrones Season 7 trailer is out
Game of Thrones’ seven-episode seventh season is set to debut on 16 July. To whet our appetites, HBO has released a trailer. (watch, runtime: 1:32).
Business Dramas: Wall Street stool pigeons and Samsung’s quest for redemption
The best business drama we’ve read in a long time is Bloomberg’s recent take on the story of Guy Gentile, which it dubs “the Wall Street informant who double-crossed the FBI.” Gentile’s story isn’t as rare as you think: “He became one of the FBI’s 15,000 informants, or ‘confidential human sources,’ as the bureau calls […]
Good news for women waiting until their 30s to have kids
Are you waiting until your 30s to have kids? You’re in luck: Kids are smarter when born to older moms. Conventional wisdom has it that it’s vastly better (for mom and baby) to have kids in your mid-to-late 20s than in your mid-to-late 30s. New research suggests that may not be the case: “Children born […]
Work until you die
Today’s 40- and 50-year olds are going to be the first generation to work until the day they die. “We are entering the age of no retirement. The journey into that chilling reality is not a long one: the first generation who will experience it are now in their 40s and 50s. They grew up […]
People just aren’t a great source of calories…
From the National Geographic: “Cannibalism Study Finds People Are Not That Nutritious.” The bottom line: “While our ancient ancestors did practice cannibalism, eating other humans just couldn’t compare with taking down a mammoth.” In other words, any of us with ancestors who ate someone else’s ancestors probably did it for ritual reasons, not as a […]
The best reconstruction of T-Rex’s face. Ever.
And while you’re on National Geographic, those among you nostalgic for any one of the Jurassic Park movies should go read this piece, which notes that, “Thanks to an exquisite 75-million-year-old fossil, paleontologists have crafted the best-ever reconstruction of a tyrannosaur’s face.” (The second film in the Jurassic World trilogy — the reboot of Jurassic […]