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Will this social network maintain your privacy?

More social networks outside of Facebook? (Images via Begether) According to the US-based tech news site The Information Facebook users...

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Regional

Kelly Hoey on the power of networks to create opportunity [WamdaTV]

At last week’s ArabNet Beirut conference, Wamda caught up with Kelly Hoey, the New York-based startup mentor, community-building expert, a...

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Regional

LinkedIn launches Arabic platform

LinkedIn has launched an Arabic version of its social networking website that allows new users to register in Arabic and existing users to...

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4 ways to engage your Twitter audience this Ramadan

It’s that time of year again: Ramadan. During this period, many online startups look back to their last year’s analytics to try to make the ...

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An Emirates-developed screenshot sharing app makes a flashing success

Smartphone users are becoming increasingly addicted to sharing screenshots from their mobile devices, as opposed to links that require...

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Et3arraf, the Middle East-focused dating site, announces $150,000 USD fundraising round

With his French business school diploma and his job at an international consulting firm, Cédric Maalouf was following the same path that ...

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What You Look Like to a Social Network [Infographic]

Facebook makes a lot of us feel warm and fuzzy; if commenting on ‘life event’ photos and smugly stalking friends and family halfway around ...

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How are teenagers using social networks? Can Shots of Me surpass Facebook?

Shots of Me, the new social network for selfies (photos taken of oneself), has famously raised $1.1 million USD in a seed-funding round...

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Global

Could Middle East e-commerce benefit from Pinterest?

There was nothing special about the verb ‘pin’ before Pinterest was founded in 2010. Today, online, it's most likely to...

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LINE readies for a $28 billion IPO; could it overtake Whatsapp in the Arab world?

While the tech world is hotly anticipating Twitter's IPO, which could happen before the end of the year at a valuation of around $16...

Social Networks Mobile

LinkedIn goes Orientalist with new Middle East infographic

LinkedIn's new infographic doesn't tell you much you won't know already, if you've read their recent data on the Middle East, but it does...

LinkedIn Social Networks

Can the Arab region keep up with the rise of the social media profession? [Infographic]

Social media use has exploded over the past few years, so much so that today, a "social media manager" is taken for granted as a job...

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Avoid these 10 mistakes that could ruin your company's reputation

For small businesses, reputation is everything. A report recently published by O2 shows that 72% of consumers will not forgive a small...

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Don't overthink your startup's social media strategy

If I had a dollar for every time I heard, “I want our social media to be exactly like Just Falafel. I know we are not in the s...

Social Networks Social Media

Jidari: A sneak peek at an alternative to Facebook from Egypt

Nowadays it's safe to say everyone wants to be the next Facebook, but going head to head with the behemoth on its home turf is something...

Social Networks Facebook

A look at Twitter's IPO: what will change?

Twitter’s IPO, which it announced last week, is one of the most hotly anticipated IPOs since Facebook. After announcing via tweet that t...

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This is the state of Twitter in 2013, while on the verge of a potential IPO [Infographic]

Seven years after its launch, Twitter is on the verge of an IPO. Even though both CEO Dick Costolo and cofounder Jack Dorsey have denied...

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Mobile app MummyChitChats helps mothers in Egypt, UAE, and Saudi

“It all started as a BBM group with friends who became moms around the same time and were eager for help and advice,” says young Egyptian e...

Social Networks Women

How a grad student is tackling the Yemeni market with a wildly unfocused Islamic Google+ clone

Launching a new social network in the age of Facebook is difficult. But entrepreneurs seem to be having an easier time of it, in a market...

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If you want resume or career advice, these two new job portals can help