Wizards Production: Another gaming player from the MENA region

Not too long ago we wrote about Aranim Media Factory and how the online and social gaming field is changing in the MENA region, so I decided to look for other companies region that are taking a crack at developing games in the region. Which led me to discover Wizards Production a company funded by IV holdings and founded in December 2008 to address the gap in the Arabic Focused Massive Mulitplayer Online (MMO) Social Gaming. Shortly after they’re... Read More

Dubizzle to go Arab-izzle?

If you live in Dubai and have ever thought of purchasing or selling a new/used item or just looking for a new place to move into, then you’ve probably checked out dubizzle.com. For those of you who are not familiar with Dubizzle, it’s a community website offering classifieds and forums for Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Starting out as a classified website for Dubai only, Dubizzle has quickly evolved to include the UAE’s capitol to establish its... Read More

Yallakora.com TV Plays Now On Mobile

Yallakora.com, the leading sports website in Egypt and MENA region announces the launch of Yallakora TV for mobile phones, giving all users the privilege to watch match commentary and sports analysis from their mobile phones. Yallakora.com is now considered the first website in the region to offer mobile phone compatible video streaming, allowing users to watch interviews with players and coaches, match analysis and the rest of the contents of Yallakora.com’s... Read More

Google’s Top UAE Searches of 2009: Gitex, Twitter, FlyDubai, Star Academy

Google announced its annual Zeitgeist, a look at 2009 through the collective eyes of the world on the web. The 2009 Year-End Zeitgeist offers a unique perspective on the year’s major events and hottest trends based on global searches, as well as searches conducted in UAE. 2009 has been an interesting year for the UAE and people are looking to Google for access to information. Here are some of the fastest rising results this year in the UAE. UAE... Read More

Eurosport Arabia To Launch New Website In Partnership With Du

Eurosport Arabia, the new web and mobile sports portal developed in partnership between du and Eurosport, opened its office in Dubai Media City (DMC), the region’s media hub and a member of TECOM Investments. This newsroom will act as the editorial and production hub of the http://arabia.eurosport.com web site and associated mobile services which will be launched next month. The Eurosport Arabia state-of-the art digital newsroom provides journalists... Read More

MediaWeekME Monitor: Microsoft, Tahadi, Twitter, twofour54, Lebanon

Read in Media Week Middle East (Nov 1, 2009) about interactive/digital media: Wunderman confident afte Mideast expansion – Direct marketing agency Wunderman has launched offices in Cairo and Beirut as part of the agency;s expanding work for Mircrosoft, especially geared towards the Windows 7 launch campaign. Ipsos enters busy web measuring market - Ipsos MediaCT is launching an online audience measurement service that could challenge Nielsen... Read More

Google Docs Can Speak Arabic + 41 other languages

Google has just released a new feature on Google Docs, this feature allows you translate your document to 42 languages including Arabic. Simply, you can translate the document going to “Tools” then “Translate Document” and select your language “Arabic”. This service uses Google Translate’s technology which is well-know as un-reliable resource for translating into Arabic; yet, what it’s nice about it... Read More

ICANN Introduces Arabic Internet Domains at Meeting in Abu Dhabi

ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, unveiled to Arab audiences that Internet address system will soon be open to greater customization and localization. ICANN meeting hosted in Abu Dhabi last week is a part of  familiarization campaign for their new program, Internationalized Domain Name (IDN), a program and the generic top-level-domain (gTLD) program reflect the growing ubiquity of the Internet on a global scale and demands... Read More

On June 1st: Are You Going To BING IT or GOOGLE IT

After the buzz around Mircosoft launch of $80 million to $100 million campaign for Bing, the search engine it hopes will help it grab a bigger slice of the online ad market. Bing concept, brand, logo, objectives, and screenshots arrived and the launch is anticipated to be on June 1st. I can tell you that Microsoft is aiming really BIG. Their corporate videos shows that they are looking change people behavior, from “Search Engines helps you search... Read More

First Cisco Entrepreneur Institute Training Center in UAE Opens in Dubai

Cisco has announced its first Cisco® Entrepreneur Institute training center in the United Arab Emirates which was opened on May 10th at the Dubai Knowledge Village. The institute will foster the creation and success of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) by providing practical business insight, facilitating knowledge sharing with local business leaders, and highlighting the role that information and communications technology (ICT) plays in... Read More