Facebook is going away from its traditional zero cost marketing efforts to boost membership to its social network and counter its upcoming rival Google+. Historically Facebook relayed on viral marketing to push current members to invite their friends.
But recently several Facebook ads has been popping in the Arab world at Google's AdWords on ...


A number of mobile operators reported over Twitter that BlackBerry service is off in the Arab world and Europe due to problems from RIM.
Mobinil one of Egypt's mobile operators says over Twitter the services resolution time is about 4 pm GMT today.
Update 12 GMT 11/10, service still have problems and not yet restored fully to all users.
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Two-thirds of consumers in the Middle East use the internet to research products and services, according to new research published by Econsultancy and Real Opinions.
The Middle East and North Africa Digital Consumer Report shows that 66% of consumers in MENA are using the internet to look for products or items to buy prior t...
Things are changing for Arab seed startups, as we are witnessing many programs that funds seed startups being launched across the region: Oasis 500 and Meydan in Jordan, Tahrir Sq. in Alexandria Egypt, PlugandPlayEgypt center in Cairo, and Seeqnce in Lebanon.
The new addition to these programs is SeedStartup a startup accelirator based in Dubai....
Google has launched today Google Maps domains enabling local search within a country in Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Oman, and Saudi Arabia.
The Interface of these local maps is available English and Arabic as well French in some countries. Google navigation comes enabled with new Google Maps domains. Go...
One of the oldest online news sites in Jordan Ammoon has accused Jordan Intelligence in hacking the site.
The sites’ editor in chief Bassel Elkour told Jordanian newspaper Assabel the hacking happened when the site posted a statement from some of Jordan’s tribal leaders criticizing certain parties inside the government and corruption in...
Banana Republics referees to CIA run dictatorship countries in latin America, where the government with elite businessmen work together via exploiting the poor population to profit from Banana exports in partnerships with few American businesses. Both the dictator government and the local businessmen are CIA agents.
There are other countries...
eHow is an online guide with more than 1 million articles and videos about how to do things. The site is owned by Demand Media a US company that is set to hit NASDAQ, as it filled for an IPO early this month.
Critics of eHow label the site as a content farm which pushes together an inventory of low quality articles and videos produced by lo...
It is not a jock Obama's administration plan for "entrepreneurship" in the Muslim and Arab world, as the U.S. government Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) approved recently a total of $455 million in financing to support the establishment of five private equity investment funds.
We have gathered data about the U.S. federal ...
Until recently Google presence in the region was with a small office in Dubai, Cairo and Saudi Arabia, with a small team whose focus was in Google Ad words, marketing, PR and Arabizing some of its products, excluding the fully Arabic Google's Ejabat. While all the development work for Google has been carried out from its center in Switzerland.
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