Kenshoo Global released the Q1 2014 paid search advertising trends data in the form of an infographic focusing on the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) region. The world around us is always in flux and benchmarks such as those can help paid search marketers better understand the world around them. Statistics The...

Prince Mohammed bin Naif bin Abdulaziz, Minister of Interior, Saudi Arabia, launched 2 new e-services: the issuance of Saudi passports online and electronic authorization. The service should contribute to improving services provided to citizens and enable them to issue the Saudi passport electronically...

The Middle East represents a rich but surprisingly under served region in the field of e-commerce. Whilst the share of connected population rises across the region, lack of sufficient tools for digital payment hinders faster growth in electronic retail purchases. According to a report by yStat.com, B2C...

Facebook, the leading social network which boasts over 1.25 billion monthly users around the world, doesn’t seem to be losing momentum. Egypt and Jordan are the two countries that are leading Facebook’s growth in the Middle East. A continuing steep rise in the number of internet users in...

Popular IM WhatsApp announced via a blog post that they now have half a billion active users throughout the world. Apart from the impressive user stats, the 5 line blog post also highlighted a high rate of multimedia sharing throughout the platform: “Thanks to all of you, half a billion people...

Do you have what it takes to join the Google Student Ambassador Program. Then what are you waiting for. The deadline is on May 1st, 2014. To all the students in the Middle East and North Africa who have wanted a chance to be a part of the Google community, learn about new products and technologies, and...

Aqarmap.com, an Egyptian Real Estate Search Engine that allows people to search thousands of properties and Real Estate projects, has just launched in Saudi Arabia. The site has an easy to use interface, which allows researchers to easily compare units and find what suits their needs and budgets. It...

Omar Azkagh, a 22 year old hacker from Tanja in Morocco, discovered a security bug in Facebook pages and gets awarded for it. The bug is a security breach related to pages on the social network which allows users to easily gain admin access to those pages and steal them from their owners. Facebook investigated...

Emirates Airline has increased its mobile presence with the launch of the Emirates App for iPad on the global App Store. Customers can use the app to: - Search 130 Emirates destinations Book flights, check-in online Download their boarding pass and Manage their Emirates Skywards frequent flyer account You...