Posts Tagged ‘Saudi Arabia’


Screenshot Update: A new post: #riyadhrain Catastrophe SocialMedia Guide to Save Lives, Ask for Aid & View Traffic.. A massive flood has just stormed the Saudi Capital Riyahd and Twitter was the first and only platform until now that broke the event before any other media. Saudi Arabia twitter users are tweeting live from flooded streets wit...
Screenshot Google announced yesterday that it has added a new feature to its contextual online advertising platform Adwords, for advertisers targeting Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The new feature allows advertisers in both countries to target ads only to specific region, city or geographical location. Google is able to deliver regional targeting because it knows...
Screenshot NDrive a Portuguese based company has launched NDrive's navigation applications for the iPhone, providing mapping solutions for a number of countries around the world with plans for more maps in the future. For the Arab World NDrive has launched 3 iPhone Arabic/English navigations apps for United Arab Emirates (UAE) , Saudi Arabia Morocco and Egy...
Screenshot Post Updated and edited . To see what the Twitter world has been saying about the event tune in here. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is opening now. KAUST inauguration is very significant because it is the biggest technology R&D center and university in the Arab world and is supported by a multi-billion dolla...
Screenshot [caption id="attachment_170" align="alignright" width="210" caption="Twitter logo"][/caption] Update: (Sorry guys there was miss understanding, It is a source/s inside and outside Zain who confirmed that Zain is in talks with Twitter for SMS notifications deal across their branches in the region. As for Zain PR they wrote on an email, that SMS c...
Screenshot Squeezer is an English and Arabic iPhone and iPod app that allows you to shorten URLs, and share them else were. Be it on facebook, Twitter emails or via SMS. Squeezer currently supports many url shorting services: bit.ly tp.ly is.gd and tr.im. This simple and useful application sells on the App Store here for 2$ and was developed by Naser Al Z...
Screenshot MENA 100 Business Plan Competition, is organized by the MENA-OECD Enterprise Financing Network, in cooperation with the Islamic Development Bank and the MENA Center for Investment. and in partnership of MENA 100 regional Partners including QRCE. The MENA 100 Competition addresses innovative entrepreneurs, from the 18 Arab countries participating...
Screenshot In August 2008, Juniper Research forecasted that Service Provider revenues, derived from mobile money transfer services and remittances, will exceed $5bn globally by 2013. While the research firm Informa, predicts that by the same year, more than 424 million mobile users will be sending money to other mobile users in the same country via their mobi...
Screenshot MIT Arab Business Plan Competition is one of the great initiatives that are helping entrepreneurial drive in the region. This year competition saw applicants from 17 Arab countries representing 1,200 teams. The competition announced the 4 winners last week, who were chosen among the top 10 finalist, but who are the winners and what do they do? ...
Screenshot No more Jailbreaking, now Apple has added Arabic language support in their latest iPhone OS 3.0. The update is currently available as a beta for iPhone developers. The iPhone is now available in 4 Arabic speaking countries: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan and Egypt. And it will be available in Qatar soon (any one from Qatar ping me once it is launched th...
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