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Fast Lebanon or Furious Battle
In support of the Lebanese campaign towards a country with fast internet and part of the responsibility to disseminate the…

Apple started unleashing hell on Playbook retailers
While Devin Coldewey of Techcrunch blogged about a rumor yesterday between Best Buy and Apple, he remained at the surface…

Gaddafi Regime Detains Microsoft Country Manager
Microsoft’s country manager in Libya, Khalid Elhasumi, has been held in custody by Libyan authorities in Tripoli since the evening…

ictQatar: Taking the lead on online engagement in Qatar
ictQatar, the supreme council of Information and Communication Technology and the most active government body responsible for setting ICT policy…

There’s an app for that!
After almost a year ago I got an idea to start developing mobile applications targeting users from the MENA region,…

Mustaqil.com is now live
A while back we mentioned a new startup from Jordan called Mustaqil.com an online portal for freelancers purely in Arabic….

Survey: E-commerce in the Middle East conducted by Gonabit and YouGovSiraj
A recent survey carried out by Gonabit and YouGovSiraj was released during the ArabNet 2011 Forum and it gives a…

Abu Dhabi money not good for Zynga – *Revisited
* Correction: Ok so I posted this article below and thanks to Eamonn an tomgara (2 of our readers, I…

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…

Q&A with Aranim Media Factory
Not too long ago I published a post about social gaming in the MENA region and mentioned how Aranim Media…

Rumor: Blackberry Playbook and Appworld available in March throughout the MENA region?
According to sources who have been working closely with the RIM guys in Dubai, a tip was submitted to the…

Facebook statistics in the MENA region
This report has been updated, you can read the latest numbers and statistics from the second release of the Arab…

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…

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…

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…

Syria uprising on Facebook
The Middle East is in turmoil seeing what happened in Tunisia and what is going on in Egypt, seems like…

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…

Internet TV in the MENA region
Techstorm Middle East the Dubai based technology company dealing in New media technology helps create custom solutions for broadband internet,…

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…

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…