Two years ago, Instagram, one of the fastest growing mobile networking services, joined the bandwagon of promoting advertisements. A trend of paid advertisements ascended into every Home Feed in the form of eye-catching, interesting, and informative posts, with a minute difference in appearance – a blue “Sponsored” tag alongside. Hoisting its ‘sales’ from USA in […]

Calling all technophiles in Dubai and UAE! Get those smart phones ready for a new and improved online task management experience with M, brought to you by Facebook. ‘M’erging artificial intelligence with a human element Here’s M! The new virtual assistant from Facebook that can make restaurant reservations, buy a birthday present for your spouse, […]

Being known as the ‘Shopaholic’s Paradise’, Dubai is indeed the hotspot for some of the best buys. Let alone the shops that are seen in and around the city overflowing with buyers, the surge of shopping by Dubaians have also cast a record on the online shopping arena. Well, this article is not going to […]

The Periscope app from Twitter made its debut in Dubai this week. Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) is the first in the Middle East to broadcast a live streaming video on the new Periscope app. Since the broadcast was done without any fanfare or media publicity, the maximum number of users viewing the live transmission […]

WhatsApp, the most popular mobile messaging app in UAE has become more user- friendly. With an avid user base of 63% of UAE’s mobile phone users, the latest feature has certainly been welcomed by users across Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi. After acquisition by Facebook in 2014 for $19 billion, the revenue for the app […]

It’s quite surprising to see how many companies across the Middle East still do not have proper customer service channels set up. Customer service, in the traditional sense, may be seen as needing a significant investment and is often considered out of reach by many smaller businesses. This, however, is no longer the case. When […]