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Many Arab startups just duplicate International websites especially American based and add few things such as local feel and an Arabic Interface. However there are a number of Arab entrepreneurs and startups who are thinking outside the box and going Global, and some of them...
Us: Arabs or those who speak or currently learning Arabic, find it difficult to understand slang language that are used in other Arab countries than ours, as each Arab country has a different dialect and its own set slang expressions.
For example Examples (Enta Men 3dam el Ra2beh - إنت من عضام الرأبه ) is used in lebanona and Jor...
Berytech the Lebanese NGO incubator, is launching Berytech Entrepreneurs Forum with the support of Mohammad Bin Rashid el Maktoum Foundation (MBRF), taking place on May 21, 22, 2009 at the Pavillon Royal of the Beirut International Exhibition & Leisure Center (BIEL). This premier event is specifically designed to help existing or a...
A new report from Arab Advisors Group analyzes the cellular tariffs for 46 cellular operators in 19 Arab countries. Operators in Lebanon have the highest average cost of prepaid cellular minutes in the Arab World while those in Morocco have the highest average cost of postpaid cellular minutes. Egypt and Yemen offer the lowest average cellula...
Advertising online in the Arab world was very marginal and hard thing to do; advertisers did not know much about online advertising, while websites struggled to get ads, until E-Marketing MENA was born in 2005.
Khaled Jabasini founded E-Marketing MENA using only$15,000 of investment. He came up with a simple idea, instead of each publi...
The Arab Advisors Group analyzed the ownership structure and revenues of all fixed PSTN line and cellular operators in sixteen Arab countries. The analysis aimed at examining the "actual" level of privatization and state ownership in each country measured by the proportionate share of each operator of total market revenues. The analysis also ...
Arab Advisors Group has analyzed recently the ADSL rates in nineteen Arab countries. Iraq and Mauritania have the highest ADSL fees, while Egypt and Algeria have the lowest fees. When rates are analyzed in relation to GDP per capita in each country, the GCC countries and Libya lead the pack.
ADSL remains the prevailing Internet broadband technol...
Press Release:
The Arab social Web shopping portal, SouqElArab.com, partners with LebanonPath.com to better serve Arab communities across the globe with the finest Lebanese and Arab products.
LebanonPath.com is an Online Lebanese shopping Web site that serves directly from the heart of Lebanon with products such as Lebanese sweets, food, coff...
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).
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