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Do Arab Startups Really Need An Arabic Interface? [Poll Results]

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.
- 20% of them […]

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Yamli Wins “Best Web Technology Award”

Press Release: Online tool that enables the transliteration of Arabic using English characters wins prestigious web award
Yamli.com wins “best Web technology award” within year of launch
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – May 14th, 2008 — Language Analytics, LLC, a software startup, has won “Best Web Technology Award” during the 4th Year Pan Arab Web Awards 2008 (http://www.panarabwebawards.org) for […]

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Yamli Enable Advertising In Their Language Tool

More news from Yamli, the cool web-based tool that solves the problem of Arab users who don’t have an Arabic keyboard or who aren’t as comfortable typing in Arabic; They have come up with an interesting way to start generating revenue with their tool: they enabled advertising on their Yamli editor menus.
The ads are in […]

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SouqElArab Partners With Yamli For Better User Experience

Press Release: SouqElArab.com partners with Yamli.com to offer a unique user experience for Arabs
Amman, May 6, 2008
The Arab social Web shopping portal, SouqElArab.com has partnered with Yamli.com, which offers tools that allows easy access and expand the Arabic Web, to offer Arabs the facility that allows Arabic speakers to write Arabic using English alphabet.
Embedded within […]

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Do Arab Startups Really Need An Arabic Interface? [Poll]

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’s question is quite specific to Arab startups, and it asks:
Do Arab startups really need an Arabic interface?
Is it really a necessity? For each and every startup? No matter where […]

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Language Analytics Release Yamli API

Language Analytics, the company behind Yamli, the really cool web-based tool that solves the problem of Arab users who don’t have an Arabic keyboard or who aren’t as comfortable typing in Arabic, by enabling them to type Arabic words out phonetically using English characters, and then converts these transliterations into Arabic characters, have recently released […]

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