UPDATE: see Editor's note bellow. I have received from Delphine Eddé the founder of Wikeez an email answering my questions and giving more insight into Wikeez: Who are we ? An online community for fans ! As you said it  in your article we're a social entertainment site, it defines it very well ! Wether your are fan of a movie, an actor,...

  Wikeez a Lebanon based new social entertainment web site has received USD $250,000 from Kuv Capital, the funding will be used for development and attracting market adoption. Wikeez allow people to publish and exchange on their favorite subjects centered on entertainment topics (TV shows, movies, celebrities, music and sports). In wikeez...

Hampshire, UK. New research has forecast that over 400 million mobile subscribers worldwide will use their mobile phones for ticketing by 2013. However, the study concluded that trials and pilots are not being implemented into full mobile ticketing services as quickly as expected for several reasons including bar code reading issues, lack of reader...

Muslim.com the Muslims social network which was launched late 2006, is planning to launch a  virtual world like SecondLife  but for Muslims. Unlike second life TechCrunchUK reports that this idea will be more tailored to the Muslim world. The service which will be launched in 4-6 weeks will allow things such as Muslim women to ware hijab, and ...

As The Kuwaiti cellular market awaits the launch of the third mobile operator Viva  by the end of 2008. A new report from Arab Advisors Group titled "Kuwait Communications Projections Report ", projects cellular subscribers to grow at a CAGR of 9.4% from 2008 to 2012, reaching 4.37 million and a penetration rate of 97.2%. Kuwait’s telecom mark...

Founded in 1996 as a subsidiary of the Egyptian company LINKdotNET, LINK Development‘s Facebook Dynamics CRM Connector, is a new application to enable companies to communicate with and handle queries from customers through Facebook. As facebook has reached more than 100 million members worldwide including millions in the Arab world, now...

If you are outside USA, Canada and UK, you no longer can get your twitter friends update via SMS, though a number of starups came along to offer you twitter SMS but with hefty charge per SMS. Well that change now if you use Brightkite (BK)- which is still in privet beta- because BK now supports international SMS updates via a UK number, in-boun...

Bayt.com the leading online job recruitment in Middle East, has announced that it will host the first virtual job fair in Jordan starting on 19th of this month for 5 days tell 23 of Octobar 2008.  Job seekers can attend this virtual job fair anywhere they are via any PC with internet and web browser. When attending, job seekers can send th...

Yamli .com takes on major challenge to arabic content on the web CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –  Yamli.com one of my best Arab startups has released a free API that allows the easy integration of its award-winning Arabic transliteration technology into any website. Yamli’s Smart Arabic Keyboard allows users to type Arabic using Latin characters by conv...

HAMPSHIRE, UK -- The increasing availability of mobile handsets capable of receiving free-to-air analogue and digital terrestrial TV signals will adversely impact the prospects for dedicated mobile broadcast TV networks, according to a new report from Juniper Research. While the report says that more than 330m mobile users worldwide will own...