The MIT Arab Business Plan Competition, which we covered earlier its launch this year here, has announced the qualified 10 teams for the Final Round of the competition.
The 10 teams will be invited to Dubai to present their business plans on Thursday, June 11, 2009, where The 3 winning teams will be announced in a ceremony in Dubai on Friday, ...
Updated. Update 2. Update 3: Linkedin Bows: Restores Service to Syrian Users, Says a Human error!
AnasOnline blog reports (Arabic link) that Linkedin (AC Group here) completely blocked all Syrian users. According to the blog post:
3 weeks ago when Linkedin blocked all Syrian IPs users , but they were able to access the site by using IP...
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...
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...
Update 2: I made a typo it was 18 videos not 8, sorry Dan.
Updated for Contest section: According to Dan Stuart, 18 videos where submitted, plus about 2x with many drawings, storyboards or assorted portfolio samples. Contributors were generally global with the majority from MENA (the Arab world).
Pan-Arab Virtual Job Fair:
Bayt.com, the...
A new report from Arab Advisors Group analyzes the UAE’s Internet and data-communications market. The country, a regional leader in advanced services adoption, is on track for more growth especially as the market entered a competitive stage.
The UAE's telecommunications market was officially closed to all but Etisalat, which has been the t...
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...
UPDATE: 3 Q&A with STEVEN VAILE, CEO of H2O New Media, bellow.
UPDATE 2: full interview here.
H2O New Media , the technology company focused on white label Social Media applications in Dubai, UAE has confirmed its first round of funding from Equinox International. An undisclosed yet “significant investment” has been sanctioned ...
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...
Finally the US$50 million Intel Capital Fund in Middle East and Turkey is moving, after several years with money setting in the bank with no investments. Intel Capital, Intel Corporation’s global investment organization, has announced an investment in three UAE-based technology companies: Conservus International FZ-LLC, Pulse Technologies F...
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