Latest in Tag: online Highlight
Latest in Tag: online

CBE regulates 20m electronic payment cards: Head of CBE payment systems
Electronic payments market in Egypt growing says Ahmed Faragallah

10% of Egyptians use prepaid Visa cards: MENA director of prepaid products
MENA top region for total volume of prepaid card usage with 82.6% growth in the last year, says Sumit Tyagi

400% increase in mobile payments in 2014: EMP Chairman
Around 25% of global economy involves mobile payments, says Paul Edwards

Aqar Map head urges more government cooperation with real estate developers
The websiteâs online visitors reached one million visitors last month, compared to 300,000 two years ago

Jumia online shopping app Google Play store favourite
The shopping application has been downloaded over 100,000 times, the company announced this week

YallaKora.com sees 135% more daily visits than market average
Around 47% of Arab online football viewers visited YallaKora.com, according to the sportsâ website

Jumia signed six international fashion brands, introduced own brand: CEO
Growing e-commerce website has 2 million visits per month, ships 2,000 items per day

Is Facebook making us lonely?
98% percent of women who describe themselves as lonely share “relationship status online,” according to new study

Connectivity, costs and content challenge Arabs online
Almost 50% of a 3,000 person sample face problems in accessing internet; some 40% struggle with absence of Arabic content

Souq.com launches Online Marketplace University
The e-commerce website stated that this come as part of its âcommitment towards shaping the countryâs e-commerce industry and its budding online entrepreneursâ

Visa collaborating with government on online payment services: Visa’s general manager
Daily News Egypt interviews the General Manager of Visa in the North and Francophone Africa region Tarek Elhousseiny

Gulf states step up policing of online media: watchdog
Kuwait topped the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries on the press freedom list but dropped 14 points to rank 91st worldwide.
Online press freedom eroding: CPJ
AFP – US mass surveillance, restrictive legislation and a wave of global cyberattacks drastically restricted online press freedom during 2013, a New York-based media watchdog warned Thursday. The Committee to Protect Journalists has for the first time included cyberspace on its list of countries because of what it called “the profound erosion of freedom in …
More than 20 Arab publishing houses in content industry contribute to âLearnBookâ
Egypt participates in providing books for a new e-library for the Middle East

Egyptian SMEs resist internet lure
Only 7% of the SMEs in Egypt have online presence and 61% have not even considered having a website.

I Am Cairo Radio: Highlighting the beauty of Egyptâs largest city
New online radio launches, and with it a campaign for the love of the Egyptian city

Tajjer offers high quality online shopping
New online platform promises excellent customer service.

Bazaarful creates online souq
New online initiative wants to encourage Egyptian entrepreneurship and become a base for a successful future for Egyptian industry

Facebook, Twoo and Youtube most popular websites in Egypt
News website Christian Dogma came in at sixth place

Changing education one video at a time
Tahrir Academy develops informative and educational shorts that aim to change the way how Egyptians learn.

Lawsuit against top information officials calls for transparency
Media and rights studies group files a lawsuit calling for transparency in radio stations creation process

ADEF prepares youth for the digital age
The foundation has organised several training courses for youth in art, cinema, design, web design, and media technology. The courses are given by media veterans and professionals to make the participants more capable of expressing their thoughts, culture, and insights using open source software programmes.

Marketing research aids democratisation of consumption
Tamer El-Naggar, CEO of TNS’s North Africa branch, one of the world’s leading marketing research companies talk to the Daily News Egypt