Watwet, the Arab social networking and micro-blogging platform, launched in December 2007 by TootCorp, has just gone live with a really cool new design.
The new design reflects the maturing of the service, presenting the exisiting functionalities in a cleaner and more organized way, and rolling out a number of new features.
Among the base functionalities existing […]
In the latest poll on StartUpArabia, the question to the readers was:
What audience should Arab startups target?
The result of reader voting came out as follows:
Out of 79 readers who responded to the poll:
- 35% of them think that it depends on the service
- 32% think they should go for a global audience
- 22% responded that they should go for a wide Arab […]
Etisalat just announced the launch of ‘Internet TV’ in association with MBC Group, to provide television content over the Internet. The company tied up with MBC to enable online viewing of the top nine programmes being aired by MBC during the month of Ramadan through the satellite and mobile TV. MBC began using the Etisalat […]
The first OpenCoffee Club meetup to be held in Cairo is being organized for November 8th 2008, between 10AM and 12PM, at Starbucks Heliopolis.
OpenCoffee Club (OCC) meetups are organized all over the world, and they aim to bring entrepreneurs, investors, startups, journalists, and other web and technology enthusiasts together in a totally informal setting and free format […]
The number of broadband subscribers in the Middle East increased by 48 per cent in 2007 compared to 2006, according to a new report published by industry research company RNCOS.
Info2cell.com, the leading mobile application service provider in the Middle East, has announced that it has launched a comprehensive range of new services for its subscribers to commemorate the holy month of Ramadan.
The new services have been active since September 1, 2008, and are part of info2cell.com’s strategy to constantly deliver fresh and innovative services […]
ShooFeeTV, a free online Arabic television guide, has officially been launched as a useful resource for TV fans, allowing them access to the program grids for the 120 most popular channels, carried by NileSat and ArabSat.
ShooFeeTV has been under development for some time now, recently going public with a beta while they ironed out the final […]
Whizle is a new Dubai-based service, which has been in stealth mode for a while now, ironing out the little details here and there. It is a simple tool that aims to make creating guides and plans and then sharing them easy and straight-forward.
Making a guide or tutorial with Whizle is really simple: In creating […]
Taufeer.com, part of Riyadh-based Taufeer Information Systems LLC, a leading e-commerce service provider, announced that amazon.com, one of the world’s largest online retailers, has joined Taufeer.com e-channel retailers program.
Recently, a study by Kuwaiti-based Inter-Arab Investment Guarantee Corporation (IAIGC), put Qatar’s mobile penetration at 150% as of 2007-end, behind only the UAE’s 173% penetration rate in the entire Arab world.
But Vodafone, which will be the second mobile operator in Qatar and which is preparing for a service roll out towards 2009, disagrees with those numbers, and state that the mobile […]
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The Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF), a regional and international non-profit NGO, in collaboration with Intel announced the launch of the 4th Arab Technology Business Plan Competition.
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