Facebook ‘most popular’ social network in UAE, survey finds
UAE residents spend an average of approximately five hours of their day on social media, a new YouGov survey finds. Through surveying over 5,000 UAE residents, it was revealed that the time spent on...
View ArticleRamadan on Twitter: An international conversation in numbers
While the month of Ramadan is regarded as a spiritual time for Muslims around the world, Twitter users took the conversation onto the social network, sharing their most precious moments and events from...
View ArticleTwitter adds more user control with latest features
Social networking site Twitter announced Saturday that it is adding two new settings, enabling users to customise their usage experience by controlling what they view in their feed and what they get...
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Twitter COO Adam Bain to leave, Noto to replace him
* Firm has hired bankers to field acquisition offers but has seen few bidders * It said it would cut 9 per cent of global workforce to keep costs down * Stock price has plunged to below $18 from a...
View ArticleGoogle to restrict ads on fake news sites
* Google to prevent fake news sites from using AdSense * Aimed at halting spread of misinformation * Fake news on Google, Facebook and Twitter allegedly helped Trump win election Alphabet Inc’s Google...
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Cybercrime alert: Nearly half of UAE users add people they don’t know
* 75 per cent on social media don’t interact with people they have added as friends * Survey shows 49 per cent of respondents accepted 50 per cent of unfamiliar requests * 97 per cent have experienced...
View ArticleDaily brief: Social media ads to hit $50bn by 2019, Italian PM resigns
The value of advertisements on social media is expected to reach $50 billion by 2019, quickly catching up with newspapers. Here are all the stories you need to know about today. Egyptian billionaire...
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Social media ads to hit $50bn by 2019: Zenith
* Social media advertising forecast to hit $50bn in 2019 * It will overtake newspaper ad spending by 2020 * Zenith sees 4.4 per cent growth in global ad spend in 2017 The amount of money spent on...
View ArticleDaily brief: Fed hikes rates, Twitter introduces live video broadcast
The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday, as Twitter introduces a new feature allowing users to broadcast live videos from the app. Here are the top seven business stories you need to...
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Daily brief: FNC approves UAE 2017 federal budget, Iraq gets new loan
The Federal National Council in the United Arab Emirates endorsed the federal budget for 2017. The World Bank approved a new loan of $1.485 billion to help Iraq. Here are the top seven business...
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Twitter CTO Adam Messinger to leave in latest executive exodus
* Messinger was with Twitter for 5 years and became CTO in March 2013 * Engineering VP Ed Ho will now take over all product and engineering * In October, Twitter announced lay-off of 9 per cent of...
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Why Dubai closed 9,000 social network accounts
* 8,894 social networking shut for pushing counterfeit goods * Instagram accounts topped among closed, 94.5 million followers together * Unauthorised sellers to be fined AED25,000 * DED confiscated...
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CEOs who lead by example with annual salary of $1
* CEOs at the highest paying enterprises can earn 130 times the average salary of a worker * Some global CEOs are practically working for free; making their wealth elsewhere * Top CEO Conference and...
View Article7 top tips for social influencers in Ramadan
Influencer marketing is a relatively simple but incredibly effective form of marketing that focuses upon specific key individuals rather than the target market as a whole. But who is an influencer?...
View ArticleSnapchat is talking the talk, but will it walk the walk?
Snapchat is one of the most popular social applications today. Not everyone gets it, but it’s particularly famous among the youngest smartphone users including teens and young adults. As of the third...
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Is gaming a way of socializing for Saudis?
This week, Nielsen’s research focused on Twitter’s gamers in Saudi Arabia, aged 16-54. Key finding: 82 percent of people on Twitter in Saudi Arabia are interested in gaming. Read: Want to save your...
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Not to miss: UAE’s top tweet, retweets and hashtags of 2017
As we reach the end of 2017, Twitter is reflecting on the year that was: from breaking news, to entertainment, sports, and local conversations. UAE’s Most Retweeted In 2017, the most Retweeted Tweets...
View ArticleWhich giant companies have secret financial problems?
By Neil Petch, Chairman at Virtugroup Whether you’re a new entrepreneur or CEO of a giant multinational, some things never change: financial problems can affect everyone. So what can we, as...
View ArticleBad evolution: The $3.3bn mistake Facebook’s Zuckerberg is trying to correct
Evolution is a good thing. It means that you are doing what it takes to survive. Facebook has evolved, but to the worse. It may have saved itself from extinction after lately realizing that it had been...
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Is this the end for Facebook?
Facebook is 14 years old! It’s old by today’s teen standards who are often bewildered that their parents are still using it! “Daddy, get a life,” they might say. But when Facebook first came into use...
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