Mark your calendar for the Government Social Media Conference

  On June 7-8 for the first time in the MENA a Government Social Media Conference will take place in Dubai, UAE at the Al Murooj Rotana Hotel. The conference is organized by The Business Council and after speaking with the conference manager Mr. Hijazi Natsheh he confirmed to us that this event will be the first of many with the possibility of it being occurring in different... Read More

Democamp Amman Tomorrow

Democamp Amman will be held at 7pm (8pm UAE time) tomorrow, and according to a press release there will be around 400 people attending the event from techies, investors and startup enthusiast. The six finalists that will be demoing were chosen from a total of over 35+ submissions so hopefully people who will attend will get a chance to see some innovative demos. For the people who... Read More

Inkezny wins first place at Startup Weekend Cairo

Startup Weekend Cairo (SWC) a 54-hour event that brings leaders and entrepreneurs together was held last week in Cairo at the American University of Cairo (AUC) in partnership with National Net Ventures (N2V) and The Business School at AUC. For all the people who were following the tweets on #SWcairo the event seemed to be a huge success with loads of entrepreneurs, mentors, speakers... Read More

Middle East Social Media Marketing Conference

A very interesting event that will hopefully provide better insights for all the marketers in the region on social media will be taking place later this month. This is something we’ve been talking about a lot lately since all the reports and surveys from the MENA region always produce the same answer “The need to understand social media better” and so on. you can... Read More

Demo Camp Dubai Review

Yesterday we attended DemoCampDubai for those of you who followed the tweets the event had its ups and downs, but that’s not what I’m going to write about in this article I will focus on giving a summary on all the demo’s and scoring them on the basis of their presentation, demo, idea originality and usefulness from 1 – 5 (1 being the lowest and 5 being... Read More

Are you a fan of new ideas? Then don’t miss Democamp Dubai

We previously mentioned here Democamp Dubai an event happening tomorrow between 5 p.m – 8p.m at The American University in Dubai, School of Engineering Bld. 3rd floor. According to the organizers there is a number of great submissions which should make the event very interesting, so for all the people in Dubai interested in finding out what the next venture coming out of... Read More

App dev days summary (Day 2) iPhone development basics

Day two of the event at twofour54 in Abu Dhabi, which held 3 different sessions running in parallel. The first session covered Blackberry development the other was covering development for Symbian and the last (the one we attended) was the iPhone iOS basics. The key speaker was Amir Jahanlou from SAE Institute Dubai, he specializes in developing apps and 3D games. Amir started... Read More

App Dev Days summary (Day 1)

Today twofour54 held a very useful and exciting mobile user experience (UX) training session with the presence of David Ashford of Apps Arabia, Magnus Nystedt Group Editor at the Corporate Publishing International (CPI), the publishing house that brings pcworld and macworld Middle East. And the main speaker was Oliver Weidlich of Mobile Experience: Director of Design & Innovation. After... Read More

Are you attending Democamp Dubai? We are!

On April 27th a Democamp session will be held at the Dubai Internet City, to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation in the MENA region. The event will take place between 5 – 8 pm at the American University in Dubai, School of Engineering Bld. 3rd floor. The event doesn’t focus on any specific subject, demo’s can be in English or Arabic, can be made for a specific... Read More

Apps development day – Free event

A free event Apps Dev Days open for all to attend about developing mobile applications and considering designing apps for mobile. It is a collaborative event between twofour54, Apps Arabia and Corporate Publishing International (CPI). The event will be held on April 24 – 25 in Abu Dhabi in twofour54′s headquarters, tadreeb which is a part of twofour54 will host a series... Read More

Demo Camp Amman wants your submissions

Demo Camp Amman is just around the corner the event will take place in Amman, Jordan on May 1oth at the Zara Expo from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm and is free to all. This is a very exciting opportunity for anybody that has an idea and would like to demo it to the tech community, companies and investors in the MENA region. The deadline for submissions is closing near and the last day... Read More

Events happening in the MENA region

There are a couple events going on in the coming weeks in the region which present a good channel to network with professionals and experts in the industry from the MENA region. Below is a list of what’s going of what’s going on soon: TECOM SME Builder Event When: Feb. 24, 2011 from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm Country: Dubai, UAE Venue: The Dubai Knowledge Village Conference... Read More

Avenue Social: new social media player in the MENA region

Everybody by now knows the power of social media especially with the recent uprisings and demonstrations being organized on social media networks in the MENA region. However not all social media usage is political, brands are increasingly getting on the social media networks to engage with their consumers and create a new channel of communication with them. That’s why the... Read More

Event: Digital One Digital Marketing Summit

Digital One a digital marketing summit organized by WSI in partnership with the TECOM Media Cluster will be held on Thursday February 10th from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm at the Address Dubai Marina Hotel. The all day event will include the following speakers: Hussam Jandal: Has more than a decade of experience in the online and digital marketing industry, and holding top accreditation... Read More

It’s official we’re a media partner with the Apps World and Social Media World Forum Middle East events

You might have noticed that we have added two banners in our sidebar, those are for the upcoming Apps world Middle East event and Social Media World Forum Middle East event Both events will be held in the same venue at the Dubai World Trade Center on the 2nd & 3rd of May 2011. Six Degrees an events and exhibitions company specializing in running social media related conferences... Read More

Google and Twitter (with the help of Saynow): let there be tweets from #Egypt

CNET has reported that Google and Twitter teamed up to provide people in Egypt a way to send out their tweets without an internet connection. As reported the country’s internet has been offline for a while now. Users with a voice connection need to dial one of three numbers which are: +16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855 and their voice messages will be converted... Read More

Report: Online spend in the MENA region negligible

A report prepared by Pan Arab Research Center (PARC) reveals the advertising spending in the region for 2010. Growth was positive in almost all the countries except the UAE where it dipped 3% this appears to be a good indicator that the UAE will go back into the positive in 2011 after dipping 26% in 2009 due to the real estate sector being hit in the recession. Below are the main... Read More

Comedian to get 1 million USD by asking millionaires on Youtube?

A comedian by the name of Craing Rowin in the USA has requested people millionaires to give him 1 million USD. For what, you ask? he still hasn’t decided! I have to admit, these clips are funny and I’m still not sure whether they’re real or not but from the expressions on his face in the last video it seems that someone has really given him 1 million dollars! Now... Read More

Wow Skype is communicating with me in Arabic… I think?!

I just received this emailer from Skype and at first I was amazed not because they were communicating with me, but at the fact that they were doing it in Arabic. I mean they are really getting their act together after all they did manage to step up their game last year so for them to send me a emailer letting me know that I can video chat for free on my iPhone I was delighted to... Read More

Foursquare in the UAE

Foursqaure the location based application which lets users check in to their favorite places is definitely growing worldwide, but don’t count out Foursqaure from the MENA region. I recently downloaded the application which is available on almost all platforms and I was amazed to see the number of users from Dubai all competing for badges and points (these are unlocked with... Read More