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Yallakora.com TV Plays Now On Mobile

Saturday, January 16, 2010 8:42

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 [...]

IBAG Announces The First Inaugural Conference for Arab Internet Business

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 0:05

IBAG, International Business Alliance Group has announced today the launch of the inaugural conference that will be held in Beirut on March 25th and 26th, 2010 about the trends and opportunities in internet business in the Arab World.

ArabNet 2010 is high anticipated to be the first event that brings together internet community to learn from [...]

Communicate Monitor (Jan’10): Flip Media, Eye of Dubai, Qardi.com

Monday, January 11, 2010 20:08

Read in Communicate (Issue: January 2010) about interactive/digital media:
Very Briefs: Flip Media provides Du’s new website; Eye of Dubai wins best UAE internet website; Saudi first website for laon camparisons, Qardi.com, up and running….
Destination unknown – Marketing a destination can demand a different way of thinking. Visit London is the organized charged with marketing the [...]

Taya IT Launches In Beta A New Content Discovery Portal for Arabic Web

Monday, January 11, 2010 18:40

In an optimistic move towards the internet in the Arab World, a firm specialized in enterprise and internet search applications, Taya IT, announced today the launch of a new content discovery portal which serves as an independent gateway to discover and share the best content on the Arabic Web.
Yajeel.com was released in beta featuring a [...]

Facebook Launches The Third F8 Developer Conference

Saturday, December 19, 2009 15:55

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 [...]

Breaking: IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process Launches for Arabic Domain Names

Monday, November 16, 2009 0:56

Non-English speakers across the globe will soon have access to the Internet addresses completely in their own language. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization charged with overseeing the Internet’s naming and numbering systems, is today launching a process for delegating a number of internationalized top-level domains.
IDNs are domain names that [...]

Eurosport Arabia To Launch New Website In Partnership With Du

Friday, November 13, 2009 18:12

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 [...]

Air Arabia Launches Its New Website

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 16:27

In line with its ongoing commitment to customer care and technical innovation, Air Arabia, the first and largest low-cost carrier in the Middle East and North Africa, announced today the launch of its new and improved website (www.airarabia.com). This upgraded website provides a simple, user-friendly experience and includes a wide range of new and expanded [...]

The 1st Search Engine for Job Opportunities in the Middle East & Africa

Saturday, November 7, 2009 18:27

Jomea.com announced today the official launch of Jomea.com, the first free search engine for job opportunities in the Middle East and Africa. Designed to facilitate and accelerate the job search process, Jomea offers as well free unlimited job listings to employers, recruiters and job boards.
Through one site and by using a simple keyword search, job [...]

Google Launches Commerce Search [Video]

Thursday, November 5, 2009 9:56

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 [...]

Vodafone Launches Website To Help Parents To Cope with 2.0 Generation

Monday, October 26, 2009 21:44

Vodafone today launched the first comprehensive website to support parents understand their children’s online activities and support them in their digital world. The Vodafone Parents’ Guide (www.vodafone.com/parents), has been developed with leading parenting website Mumsnet (www.mumsnet.com) and tested extensively to ensure it builds parents’ confidence. The aim of the website is to help parents play [...]