Google announced yesterday an initiative to build a vibrant Arabic web and boost the amount of Arabic content online: “Arabic Web Days” a one-month program with initiatives by both global and regional players in the Arab world to inspire users to create more content in Arabic. The program theme is “It’s better in Arabic.”
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Saudi based National net ventures (n2v) has announced that it invested in Mjalati. The startup offers multiple online Arabic magazine-networks for women, lifestyle, and business.
The company was an internal startup project inside N2V founded and managed by Haitham Massoud from Jordan.
Ahmad Takatkah, Early stage Investment Director at N2V, co...
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...
After Nokia's launch of mobile Ramadan 2010 specific applications, Yahoo Maktoob announced today launching a new Ramadan website, the micro site includes three main sections "spiritualities", "ramadan and People" and "entertainment." The Muslims month of Ramadan is expected to start this week.
The new site will introduce a number of featur... 


