Dubai: 

The Middle East is an area of interest and intrigue to many organisations. It is often seen as a region of promise and opportunity, however cultural differences, linguistic challenges and legal complexities can prove a stumbling block and a barrier [...]

London: 

China’s leading search engine Baidu will be joining Russian market leader Yandex and Middle Eastern search engine Ayna at the International Search Summit London on 28th October.

Senior Product Manager for Baidu, Min Cui, will be speaking on the Chinese [...]

Beirut: 

The Middle East is one of the major growth regions for the internet, and a study released this week revealed that web users in the region spend more time online than many of their Western counterparts. Here, Omar Khaled, [...]

FIRST International Congress concerned with the Online travel business in Sharm El Sheikh Egypt 15-19/12/08

The Arab Advisors Group Analysis of E-commerce expenditure reported a total number of e-commerce users in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Lebanon in excess of 5.1 million in 2007 … B2C e-commerce volume exceeded …

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LinkBait goes to 2nd grade – Israeli web2sport community purchased a soccer team and [...]

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At least two major new features are arriving in Google’s webmaster tools console according to information from the SES San Jose conference and the official Google webmaster tools blog.

The latter has announced support for the Internationalizing Domain Names [...]

ABC Electronic audit says that the busiest ‘audited’ website in the Arabic language is the Dubai-based news site Al Arabiya.net with 22 million page views in November 06 – the audit period. Al Arabiya.net was launched in March 2003 as a satellite channel giving 24 hour Arabic-language news across 5 continents. Its portal-style website also features an Arabic-language search engine and claims to have over one million page views per day.

The Egyptian’s Orascom Telecom has launched their mobile version of search engine http://www.onkosh.com with .mobi top level domain extension onkosh.mobi that compatible for mobile devices.

Naseej is one of the popular ISPs in Saudi Arabia has launched mobile search engine and directory called “Daleel Raheeb” http://www.raheeb.com for Saudi market only at least in the first phase. This new service is still Beta version, which works with two mobile operators Jawal and Mobily.

Google established their Middle Eastern branch in Egypt last year for Business Development purpose; now they are strengthening their regional existence by taking part of the most important IT events in the region at Cairo ICT Exhibition from February 4 – 7, 2007.