Dubai Business | Kippreport

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

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.

The Media vs social media

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

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

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

The Twitter trial

By Aarti Nagraj • Nov 10th, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, International, Media, The Work

A judge in the US banned a local newspaper from live tweeting during a trial in the courtroom. But judges in Australia have ruled otherwise. Whom do you agree with?

Twitter valued at $1billion

By Kipp • Sep 26th, 2009 • Category: International, Middle East Business News

Social networking site Twitter has entered into a deal with…

Saudi’s “pure” YouTube

By Aarti Nagraj • Aug 30th, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Media/Marketing, Slideshow Article, The Life

A group of people in the kingdom have started a new website to show only the “clean” content from YouTube.

Attacks continue on Twitter, Facebook, Google

By Aarti Nagraj • Aug 8th, 2009 • Category: Middle East Business News

The distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks...

MENA Twitter registration rose 261pc in Q2 2009

By Dana El Baltaji • Jul 20th, 2009 • Category: Middle East Business News, Regional

The number of registered Twitter users in the Middle East and North Africa region increased by 261 percent in the second quarter of 2009...

Sheikh Mohammed on Twitter

By Dana El Baltaji • Jul 13th, 2009 • Category: Dubai, Middle East Business News

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai, has signed up to Twitter and has 1,208 followers...

5 reasons why Paris Hilton made news in Dubai

By Aarti Nagraj • Jun 25th, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Dubai, Entertainment, The People

From skimpy clothes to mobile phones, the media gobbled it all.

The Paris parade

By Aarti Nagraj • Jun 18th, 2009 • Category: Kipp's Blog

Hilton mania has struck Dubai’s media. Brace yourselves.

10 websites to keep you occupied at work

By Aarti Nagraj • Apr 27th, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Dubai, Nation, The Work, office life

From social networking forums to gaming sites, there are various websites on the internet to distract ourselves from work. But research shows that a little distraction makes us more productive.