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It's no secret, or surprise really, that young people are obsessed with their phones and online social networking. What do young people do? Socialise, talk about their social interactions and then socialise some more.
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Posted in: Mixed Media
Posted by: Keach Hagey on March 8, 2010 2:09 PM
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Al Waraqoon, printing, UPP
Mixed Media welcomes a guest blogger today, Fatema al Mulla from the Executive Affairs Authority. Take it away, Fatema:
Abu Dhabi's United Printing and Publishing (UPP) announced yesterday
its partnership with Bahrain's Al Waraqoon, a research and
publishing house established and based in its capital, Manama in 2001
by two Bahraini entrepreneurs who had the vision to preserve the
tradition, culture and civilization in the region.
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 The highlight of my Abu Dhabi book fair experience so far was this book, a leather-bound facsimile of a 14th-century Qur'an written entirely in large, gold script interspersed with jaw-dropping illumination.
Continue reading The £60,000 book
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Posted in: Mixed Media
Posted by: Keach Hagey on March 2, 2010 1:04 PM
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Dandana TV, Dish Network, MBC
An American judge has thrown out a nearly $10 million lawsuit against MBC by a New Jersey-based Arab-American TV station, Dandana TV, according to northjersey.com.
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Posted in: Mixed Media
Posted by: Keach Hagey on March 2, 2010 11:17 AM
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MBC, radio, Rotana, Saudi
Rotana paid SR67.35 million ($17.96 million) for the third Saudi radio license, Arab News reported yesterday.
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The folks at Imagenation Abu Dhabi, the film fund owned by my employer, Abu Dhabi Media Company, have been talking for some time about the possibility of doing a project that uses more than one of their partnerships with Hollywood studios and producers.
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 The publishing industry, especially magazine publishers, awaited Apple's iPad like a saviour. But what if these gadgets are actually hurting more than they are helping?
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Posted in: Mixed Media
Posted by: Keach Hagey on February 28, 2010 12:37 PM
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Abu Dhabi Media Company, ADMC, F1, Formula One
Abu Dhabi Media Company, the signer of my paychecks, has just announced its purchase of the regional broadcast rights to Formula One for the next three years. It's hardly a surprising announcement, given that Abu Dhabi just invested heavily in building a Formula One Grand Prix circuit last year and has a vested interest in expanding F1 fandom in the region, but an interesting one nonetheless.
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 OK, maybe that's not the best name for them. (But then, how many people would have guessed that Apple was going to go with iPad?) Whatever it is called, Twitter's advertising platform is coming in about a month, according to Media Post.
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Posted in: Mixed Media
Posted by: Keach Hagey on February 23, 2010 11:23 AM
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Al Waseet International, AWI, Forbes, Fortune, Time
Can the Middle East market support an Arabic-language version of a top-shelf Western business magazine? The last one, Forbes Arabia, shut down in April of last year when its parent company, DIT Group, closed down all of its titles.
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