Archive for May, 2008
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Logta is a new online service aiming to provide shoppers with a one-stop shop for promotions covering Electronics, food items, travel and leisure, real estate, beauty & personal care, clothing, and apparel amongst other categories. The service also provides retailers and brand owners with a new channel to advertise & publicize their promotions, getting their [...]
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Propertyfinder.ae, the popular UAE real estate web portal, and MSN Arabia have announced a new deal today, maximizing propertyfinder.ae’s exposure for real estate agents using their service and their listed properties. The deal gives Propertyfinder.ae access to MSN Arabia’s large user base, a potential regional audience of more than 10 million unique visitors a month. [...]
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
The Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship Competition (QRNEC), which is in its 3rd year now, was created to be a platform to increase the interest of Jordanian entrepreneurs and innovators in designing a path to achieve their dreams. It strives to advocate entrepreneurial skills as students and mature entrepreneurs coalesce their knowledge with their resources along [...]
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
A new poll has gone live on StartUpArabia, you can find it on the first sidebar on the right or vote straight from this post. This poll addresses the question of trust, and it asks: Is trust an issue for you when it comes to Arab startups? Is is an issue for you? Do you [...]
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
FotoArabia is a new Arab stock photography service dedicated to the Arab community of photographers and artists; that was just launched a few days ago from Kuwait. The service aims to provide an online place for Arab photographers and artists around the world to submit their high-quality material and put it up for sale. On [...]
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
In the latest poll on StartUpArabia, the question to the readers was: Do Arab startups really need an Arabic interface? The result of reader voting came out as follows: – 41% of readers thought it was preferable for the website to have an Arabic interface. – 32% of the readers thought it was a must. [...]
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
PixiPost is a Tunisian startup, that was launched back in June 2006, specialized in digital photo printing, and aiming to provide customers with quality photo prints at good prices. The service gives users the possibility to upload their digital photos, organize them in photo albums and order prints of them. The photos are then printed [...]
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
As previously announced, the second DemoCamp Dubai will be taking place at the Radisson SAS in Dubai Media City on May 27th at 7:30PM. The following five demos will be taking place at the event: Darrb: A marketplace for delivery services, it will be presented by its co-founder Murshed (Previously reviewed on StartUpArabia here) Logta: [...]
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
“Tremendous power exists in the fact of continued improvement and the delivery of results. Point to tangible accomplishments—however incremental at first—and show how these steps fit into the context of an overall concept that will work. When you do this in such a way that people see and feel the buildup of momentum, they will [...]
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Last month, the iBlog… iMedia conference on consumer generated media was announced, organized by casualPR, a leading PR agency that focuses on blogs and online media. The event was supposed to take place in Amman, Jordan on Sunday June 1st 2008; But has been canceled due to financial issues and lack of funding and support [...]
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