Saudi Arabia is looking for investors for a $109 billion plan to create a solar industry that generates a third of the nation’s electricity by 2032 according to bloomberg.
The plan is to have 41,000 megawatts of solar capacity within two decades, nuclear, wind and geothermal would contribute 21,000 megawatts.
The government is targe...
Saudi Arabia occupied the first rank among the countries with the highest proportion of mobile phone users in the world with a ratio of 188%, followed by Vietnam and Oman in the second and third places respectively, according to a recent study.
The study conducted by the United Nations Conference on Trade and development (UNCTAD) indicated t...
Four innovative projects have been named winners in the latest Seed Fund round at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
The winners were announced at a Gala dinner at the Academic Campus, Thuwal on Wednesday March 14, 2012. They were on hand to discuss their individual products and innovations at the event.
Here are ...
Saudi Arabia Communications and Information Technology Commission, a government body that overseas the sector, has issued its report for the first half of 2011.
The report (Arabic link) says that there are 12.5 million Internet users in Saudi Arabia representing 44% of the population a growth from 5% in 2001. Saudi Arabia’s population is 27 mi...
Saudi based National Net Ventures or (N2V) is one of the largest Internet holding companies in the Arab world, it invests “venture funds” in Arab Internet and mobile startups and owns and develops its own ventures. The Company owns a number of popular websites including: HawaaWorld an Arab women destination site, N2V Development House a so...
HawaaWorld, one of N2V’s companies, announced that it has acquired “entertainment world” http://www.tt5.com, one of the largest entertainment websites in the Arab world, to serve its goal of enriching its content. Amount of the deal and its terms were not announced.
tt5.com offers entertainment content on a daily basis covering fields such...
Mobily a mobile operator in Saudi Arabia has launched Mobile apps competition with Awards up to 90,000 USD. Mobile developers can compete on 3 awards: best app award, best app idea award, best app design. each awards will offer the winner 30,000 USD in cash prize.
The competition is open for all developers (Update: seems only for Saudi Arab...
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...
National Net Ventures (N2V), one of the top leading t Internet Holding companies in the Middle East, announced today its investment in True-Gaming.net, a video games portal geared to the Arabic market.
We do not know how much did N2V invested in true-gaming.net or whether this investment is part of its early stage investment package to star...
Seems that Wikileaks started something that can not be stopped, clone versions of the site are poping everywhere in order to expose governments corruption.
Latest of them is a site called KSA Leaks which is being hosted on blogger and posting leaks about what is happening in the Saudi kingdom.
Currently the site displays what documents of c...
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