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Payment gateways in the MENA

Payment Gateways in the #UAE

E-commerce in the MENA region is picking up, a great number of websites selling goods online have been appearing as of late but it still not hasn’t reached its maximum potential a great article as to why can be found on Wamda. Anyone that has worked on an e-commerce website in the region (or at [...]

flipmedia accquired by publicis groupe

Flip Media acquired by Publicis Groupe

It appears that Flip Media, a leading digital media agency in the MENA has been acquired by Publicis Groupe. The agency setup in 2003 by Martin Diessner and Dinesh Lalvani in Dubai will be folded into Leo Burnett Wordwide but will keep its name. Both founders will act as non-executive directors and Yousef Tuqan will [...]

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Rumor: Joob.com shutdown?

We got wind of some chatter that Joob is shutting down, the reasons are still unclear but it seems they’re financial. Joob, a company owned by the Jabbar Internet Group launched in April 2011 in the UAE and has been in Beta ever since. For those of you who haven’t heard of Joob (which is [...]

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Bandoora: A place for independent and local Arab musicians across the #MENA

Bandoora.com is a music discovery website that aims to disrupt the current state of music in MENA region by presenting  independent and local Arab musicians. The site currently has over 250 Band/Musician covering over 32 Arab cities and providing 33 musical genre. We had a quick chat with Abdullah Al-Khaldi the CEO and co-founder about [...]

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#GCC Site ranking report for 2011 By @emeasure

The latest report from effective measure displays site rankings in the GCC for December of 2011. The report states that there was a growth of 12.5% in the number of unique browsers in the following GCC countries: Bahrain Kuwait Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia UAE Which sums up about a total of 46 million unique browsers [...]

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Rumor: Joob.com shutdown?

We got wind of some chatter that Joob is shutting down, the reasons are still unclear but it seems they’re financial. Joob, a company owned by the Jabbar Internet Group launched in April 2011 in the UAE and has been in Beta ever since. For those of you who haven’t heard of Joob (which is [...]

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You don’t have consumer protection laws? It’s OK, Social Media Will do!

  In a country that doesn’t have consumer protection laws, Saudi’s are not complaining, they have found their way with the help of new media. We have heard many stories of violating the Saudi customer rights. Today the story involves a big name. AL Shaya is a Giant retailer, actually the biggest in the GCC. Owning [...]

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Carrefour Saudi and the Social Conspiracy Theory!

    Another failure, another brand, this time on a new level, which is good because it proves that having mere presence on social networks is not enough! It indicates again that some brands still have shallow understanding of social media. Carrefour Saudi is known to be one of the preferred hypermarkets there, it has [...]

How to maintain reputation in Social Media

There are thousands, if not millions of contents on and off line testifying communication is a two way process; in which cover-up and manipulations do not have a place. However some brands and organisations still believe their target audience should see and hear what the brand would like them to see or hear. This may [...]

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Meet the Geek: Hosam Abu Alam

In my latest trip to Jordan, I have managed to sit down and meet with some very interesting people and experts in the Online and Digital industry in the MENA region. My first meeting was with Hosam Abu Alam, who has been working in online marketing for quite sometime now, he has experience managing and [...]

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