Seven House Republicans asked the FBI in September to demand that Twitter take down the accounts of what the U.S government thinks are terrorist groups, such as Hamas, Hezbollah and Somalia's al Shabaab Al Mujahed “Mujahdeen Youth Movement”.
Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) told in an email The Hill , “Allowing foreign terrorist organizations lik...


Bayt.com the leading job recruitment site is feeling the heat from Linkedin entrance to the Arab world, as linkedin offers job recruitment like bayt.com does and so far has a larger community that Bayt.com. Bayt.com is now trying to redefine its self and evolve into professionals social networking. In that front it recently launched the stream a Q&...
SocialEyes the company that monitors and analyzes social media content from the MENA region and beyond has issued an infographic about how iPhone 5 launch was welcomed in UAE.
The launch of iPhone 5 according to the infographic generated around 6,654 comments online 57% of them coming from Twitter. In September iPhone 5 was mentioned 15,950 ti...
Back to our startup review, today we feature Acadox from Saudi Arabia, Acadox is a social learning and academic networking platform
The startup was founded at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) by 2 Syrian and 1 Saudi Mustafa Nabulsi, Nedal Mourad and Mohammad Alhareeqi. And it was funded by KAUST seed fund program.
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The Online Project a pan Arab social media agency has released recently a report about the top performing brands on facebook in the Arab world. The report titled Facebook
Benchmarks in
the Middle East offers extensive data about top preforming facebook pages for brands across the Arab world
across many industries which can be used to bench...
Professional business social network Linkedin announced that it opend an office in Dubai UAE. Its first office in the Arab world.
In the announcement linkedin said that it have 5 million members from the Arab world, one million of which are based in the UAE and that Members are already networking in over 2,000 LinkedIn Groups in the region....
500 Startups, the Silicon Valley-based venture capital seed fund and
startup accelerator that helps grow startups and get them on track to success, has investments in over 20 countries, and just announced its first in the Arab World, one it hopes will be of many.
The start up is the local reviews site Jeeran, a reviews platform
based in Jordan...
Muslim brotherhood official English Twitter account @Ikhwanweb , has been hacked also the account of the Freedom and Justice Party @FjpartyOrg (the Brotherhood's political arm)
After the hack, the hacker started tweeting anti Muslim brotherhood and anti Husni Mubarak and the other presidential candidate Ahmed Shafek, who was prime minis...
Facebook is set to open its first office in the Arab world this week. The company sent invites to journalists to attend an event in May 30s according to LA Times.
The California based company -based company said details of the new office would not be released until the event, the office would add to its collection of about 30 offices around the ...
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Data analyzed by News Group, the region’s leading media intelligence group, shows that voting in Egypt will conclude in a run-off between Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsy and the independent Islamist candidate Abdel Monem Aboul Fotouh.
The findings are based on months of research, monitoring and analysis conducted by Soc... 


