Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’

Facebook founder named ‘media person of the year’

By Kipp • Mar 8th, 2010 • Category: Middle East Business News

Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, 25, will be honored at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in June.


March 7

By Kipp • Mar 4th, 2010 • Category: Best of the web, Cover Story

Dubai Death: 'The Last Assassination of its Kind'?; Loosey Goosey Saudi; How to Get Customers on Facebook and Twitter; Recovery in Progress; Car recalls: from Toyota to Nissan; The World's Most Anticipated Architecture


Making friends with Facebook

By Aarti Nagraj • Feb 25th, 2010 • Category: Cover Story, Regional, The Work, marketing

Middle East brands are slowing starting to embrace the benefits of social media.


Iran’s user generation

By Austyn Allison • Feb 19th, 2010 • Category: marketing

Former head of BBC Persian Rob Beynon says that social networks may have been pivotal in the Iranian elections, but they don’t mean news is dead.


The futility of a Facebook fatwa

By Ben Flanagan • Feb 8th, 2010 • Category: Kipp's Blog

The Middle East is witnessing exponential growth in the use of social networking sites, despite the apparent social problems posed by the likes of Facebook.


February 4

By Kipp • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: Best of the web, Cover Story

UK firms owed $2bn in Dubai; ‘Lost’ in Tehran; NY Uni draws up UAE rights charter; Women as leaders, not stereotypes; When ‘BFF’ go to court; Dubai ‘makes Florida look prudent’; How to suck at Facebook.


Status update: This could get you arrested

By Kipp • Feb 1st, 2010 • Category: Kipp's Blog

Under a controversial new law in India, Facebook updates and Tweets can be used as court evidence against individuals.


The Media vs social media

By Kipp • Jan 25th, 2010 • Category: Kipp's Blog

Five journalists. Five days. Only access: Facebook and Twitter.


Making tea and Facebooking…

By Kipp • Jan 24th, 2010 • Category: Kipp's Blog

Welcome to an average office worker’s life in the UAE (and probably the rest of the world).


December 18

By Kipp • Dec 17th, 2009 • Category: Best of the web, Cover Story, Dubai

Dubai’s Lifeline; Tiger’s Domino Effect; The Apocalypse Is Not Upon Us; Google's phone: World-Changer or Just a Bad Idea?; Clickety-Click; 10 Unbelievable Facebook Stories


Top 10 Google searches in 2009

By Kipp • Dec 6th, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Slideshow

While the King of Pop stole the top spot, many international entries have found a place in Google’s fastest rising searches in 2009 list.


December 4

By Kipp • Dec 4th, 2009 • Category: Best of the web, Cover Story

Why Dubai Matters; Less Clothes, More Customers; Lessons From Dubai World; 10 Countries with Huge Foreign Debt Bills; Keep Chasing Tiger’s Tail; 12 Most Controversial Aids Ads


Saudi in an uproar

By Kipp • Dec 1st, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Regional, Saudi Arabia, society

Jeddah is in ruins after only four hours of rain, and Saudis face further strife if the city’s sewage lake breaks the dam. A sewage lake?


A Facebook folly

By Kipp • Nov 22nd, 2009 • Category: Kipp's Blog

A lady in Canada reportedly lost her health benefits for depression after uploading some photos of herself looking happy on Facebook.


From now on, Kipp’s playing nice (on Facebook)

By Kipp • Nov 18th, 2009 • Category: Article, Kipp's Blog

Apparently, Facebook is not off limits.


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