Tag: dubai
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Dubai Twestival 2009 #2
Hi all, Just got back from the second Dubai Twestival that took place today at 8 PM. Organized by a wonderful team (PK, Woo, esperanca, Stephanie and Baher and Abhamalpani – please let me know who I missed), it was a success. Thanks all, Michael
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Dubai Twestival 2009
Yesterday evening, it was the Dubai Chapter of the Twestival. Twestival is a festival, organized by the Twitter community worldwide. Over 165 cities worldwide participated on this event to support the Charity Water foundation. The Dubai chapter was held yesterday in Barasti, Mina Seyahi. It was an amazing event, and had a great turnout. It’s…
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Another good Democamp Dubai
2 days ago, there was the 4th episode of Democamp Dubai. This event brings an opportunity for internet startups to present their product to the public – and it’s an amazing chance to do some networking and getting to know the people. I know I blog about this event a bit late, just like I…
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Wishlist for 2009
Dear all, Happy new year to all, I wish 2009 will bring you good health, prosperity and success. In these times, many would hope for economical stability, so we should add that to this also. 2008 was a good year, we launched places.ae, and were approached by some very interesting companies for partnerships, and have…
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Dubai 2.0, more transparency please
This post is not necessarily about the current credit crunch, and how Dubai is affected. Although it leans onto it. I just had a coffee with a good friend of mine, and we were speaking about the status of Dubai, and the entire region actually and it’s corporate profiles. And what is lacking is transparency.…
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Dubai Credit Card Fraudsters arrested
Dubai Police arrested a gang of Arab men, who stole over 200 million dirhams using credit cards doing online shopping, Gulf News said. They were tipped off in August about the guys, and caught most of them now (one out of four is out of the country).
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Dubai jails yahoo email account hacker
An Egyptian secretary guessed the password of a yahoo account of an Emirati UN employee, and was sentenced to three months in jail and deportation. The “hacker” emailed the victim that he broke into her email account, and was going to release pictures and “other secrets” of her, according to GulfNews. Not the cybercrime caliber…