Facebook Launches The Third F8 Developer Conference
Facebook platform launches Third f8 to empower its community of developers that owns over 500,000 applications and over 300 of those have more than one million users each to hack, to build and to delight users. f8 will take place on April 21-22, 2010 in San Francisco. The first f8 conference was launched with 800 developers and entrepreneurs at that time. It helped build the innovative applications which paved the way for developers around the world... Read More
Communicate Monitor (Dec’09): YouTube, Online Games, Digital Agencies
Read in Communicate (Issue: November 2009) about interactive/digital media: Always Game – From World of Warcraft to Whack the Penguin, online gaming is a global phenomenon. And slowly but surely, the Middle East is playing its part. Once a gamer, always a gamer. That’s one saying video game developers like to hear. The world of gaming is a wide and varying as it is entertaining and addictive, but lately there’s one type of game... Read More
Communicate Monitor (Nov’09): Bing, Twitter, Virtual Vouchers, Facebook
Read in Communicate (Issue: November 2009) about interactive/digital media: Sports sites score over Twitter - Research commisioned by Super.ae, a football Web site recently launched by Abu Dhabi Media Company, has found that male Internet users in the Middle East are more than twice likely to visit a sports site as to use Twitter… Bing gains dollars and traffic - The US search advertising market is coming back, and Microsoft’s Bing is... Read More
GMR Monitor (November’09): Mamavents, Marriage Sites, Twitter, Super
Read in Gulf Marketing Review (Issue: November 2009) about interactive/digital media: Events Portal Launches for moms - Brands encouraged to join in sponsored events for children. A portal bringing brands and moms together through sponsored events has been launched. Mamavents is the brainchild of mom of three and marketer Kellie Whitehead. Two events are already scheduled to launch shortly… Marriage sites attract most online ads - Matrimonial... Read More
Booz & Company Insights On e-Government in MENA Region
Electronic government capabilities – in which governments offer services online to citizens, businesses, other government entities, and employees – is a crucial part of a nation’s technological development. Although countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have taken strides in implementing e-government, there is still substantial ground to cover. To successfully implement e-government, MENA nations must take a customer-centric... Read More
First of It’s Kind: Dubai Int’l Film Festival Partners with SAE Institute
SAE Institute, the world’s largest creative media educator, today proudly announced it will partner with acclaimed Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) as ‘Education Partner’ during the event’s sixth edition this year. Under the terms of the agreement, which is the first of its kind in the region and indeed the world, SAE will dedicate film crews to provide constant vision and images for Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF’s) new... Read More
MediaWeekME Monitor (Nov 8): New Media, MSN Arabia, Email Marketing
Read in Media Week Middle East (Nov 8, 2009) about interactive/digital media: Effective Wins LinkonLine – Effective Measure has won the online audience measurement business for LinkonLine, which operates websites sunch as MSN Arabia. New Media Outperforms newspapers in IPA Surve - AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo! improve their overall service, papers struggle to make digital revenue. As study from the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising has... Read More
World’s Largest Muslim Lifestyle Network Adds Media Solutions For Brands
Muxlim Inc., the integrated media company running the world’s largest Muslim lifestyle network, Muxlim.com, has launched a portfolio of integrated media solutions to help brands better understand, target and engage with the American Muslim consumer market. The announcement was made at the American Muslim Consumer Conference on October 31st at Rutgers University in New Jersey. The portfolio was launched in response to the growing importance of Muslim... Read More
Google Gets Serious About Account Info: Google Dashboard
With hundreds of millions of people using Google technology around the world, Google gets serious about Google Account information and privacy for each individual launching Google Dashboard to offer a simple view into the data associated with your account — easily and concisely in one location, finally. Even in the past, Google has taken numerous steps in this area, investing in educating users with their Privacy Center, making it easier to move... Read More
Finance House Abu Dhabi Launches New Online Destination
Finance House Abu Dhabi launches an online destination that contains all the information any investor or customer would be interested to know about Finance House. This corporate website representing the dynamic yet strait-laced Finance House brand online and serving as a two way channel of communication between Finance House as an organization with the general public. The online feedback and job application forms add a dash of basic but essential... Read More
The Premier Arabic Search Engine Ayna Takes Part In Media & Marketing Show
AYNA Corporation announced today, its participation, as main sponsor, in the 5th edition of Dubai Media and Marketing Show 2009, (MMS) organized by Domus Group, and held at the Dubai International Exhibition Centre, Zabeel Hall, from the 3rd till the 5th of November 2009. In its quest to keep up with the latest trends and technologies in event management, marketing, new media, outdoor advertising and publishing, AYNA has decided to take part in and... Read More
Google Launches Commerce Search [Video]
Google launches new service aimed to improve your shopping experience with fast, intuitive Google search technology. The launch eyes the holiday season next month whereby e-commerce transaction spike in November and December until, but it’s not the case in the Middle East. If online retailer and wanna be, Google is making it easy with a new enterprise product, Google Commerce Search. Google Commerce Search is now lives online, so your e-commerce... Read More
Yahsat Abu Dhabi Partners With Intersat Africa To Offer Affordable Broadband
Star Satellite Communications Company PrJsc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat) has signed its first service partner agreement for “YahClick,” Yahsat’s revolutionary satellite broadband service. The agreement was signed with Intersat Africa Limited, an established provider of satellite-based internet services. As part of the service agreement, Intersat will roll out YahClick in Africa. Intersat’s... Read More
Over 100,000 Apps Now Available on the App Store
Apple today announced that developers have created over 100,000 apps for the revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. iPhone and iPod touch customers in 77 countries can choose from an incredible range of apps in 20 categories, including games, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel. App Store users have downloaded well over two billion apps, continuing to make it the world’s most popular applications... Read More
Now Live: A New Arabic Technical Video Knowledge Base
Knowledge base is a special kind of database for knowledge management, providing the means for the computerized collection, organization, and retrieval knowledge. Related to our core industry, a new knowledge base technical video support platform has launched yesterday, Technical Video. Technical Video platform is a collection of screen-casting admin- and user-generated content, it will help spread the knowledge of technology across the population... Read More
Meet The Geek: Mohammad Al Rehaili Owns AI Dinosaur
A casual interview unleashing a real geek lifestyle For everyone to know, what is your full name? Mohammad Al Rehaili What’s your fake name? lool, Moe is the nick name however my friends tease me with the name Muhender Suresh from Heroes How old are you? I’m 26, old enough to have a kid, maybe! For how long have you been on the geek stage? “If we are talking about PCs” I started when I was 15, the first thing I saw in my... 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
OpenX Join Forces With Microsoft Advertising Platform
OpenX Technologies, Inc. (OpenX), the world’s leading independent ad server for web publishers, today announced it has entered into a partnership with Microsoft Corp. that will allow the companies to cross-market and promote products to their respective publisher bases. Under terms of the multi-year agreement, OpenX becomes a preferred partner to publishers for enterprise ad serving solutions. In addition, OpenX will promote Microsoft’s Content... Read More
Nokia To Close Gaming Service N-Gage and Shift To Ovi Store
Reuters reported that Nokia will close its battered gaming service N-Gage next year, acknowledging failure in its first major services offering. Nokia said on its N-Gage blog “We will no longer publish new games for the N-Gage platform”. Nokia is looking for new revenue from online services as its traditional handset market matures, with games and music being the first focus areas. After closing the N-Gage service, Nokia will continue... Read More
New Report: After Playing Games, iPhone Gets Serious about Books
Flurry Inc., a leading mobile application analytics provider and one of the first developers to build, deploy and market direct-to-consumer applications, like Flurry Analytics. A service that allows developers to track consumer behavior and application performance, Flurry has gathered the information in a report which is computed from a sample size of over 2,500 applications, 40 million consumers and 4 platforms: Apple (iPhone and iPod Touch), Blackberry,... Read More
