Aitnews.com celebrates 3rd year as specialized media in the Arab World

Arabic IT News Portal (www.aitnews.com) has celebrated its 3rd anniversary this month, with 8675 news articles posted generating 16,551 comments.

Aitnews.com is a news website entirely dedicated to providing Arabic IT news since September 2005. The past three years have been so successful that Aitnews.com has now become an Arabic reference for anything concerning ICT news and updates.

Likewise, the portal has been received remarkably well by all those interested in the world of information and communication technology. That is, the portal is under way to meet its goal: to be the world’s leading IT news portal in Arabic language.

As per statistics, Aitnews.com has posted over 8700 news articles ever since it was launched. The news covered international, regional and local events, launches, innovations, mergers, alliances, and anything else that had something to do with information and communication technologies, be it computers, internet, mobile phones, electronic games, digital cameras, software or researches.

Having succeeded to fill up such a significant gap in the specialized online Arabic media, Aitnews.com has been generating lots of interest amongst Arab end users and IT specialists. And this huge interest is being translated into high levels of interactions with what the website publishes. Up to this minute, Aitnews.com has posted 17,000 comments for thousands of users.

‘This month we have completed our third year as the leading online provider of the latest IT news and updates for all the Arab-speaking users & specialists all around the world. And we trust that our website has somehow contributed to raising better IT awareness in the Arab world over the past three years,’ commented Ahmed Abd Al Qadir, general manager of Aitnews.com.

‘We have still got a lot more to offer our users and impress them with. And we look forward to attracting serious, big investments that would enable us to run faster into the finish line. We are looking forward to becoming the ultimate reference and leading source of Arabic IT news in the whole world, a vision that involves launching many more new services and sections over the next few years. To do so, more funds need to be injected by an investor who believes in Aitnews.com and appreciates how auspicious it is,’ added Abd Al Qadir.

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Qatar’s largest bank deploys PRIME Perso for EMV Solution

Following successful certification for Visa Smart Debit Credit (VSDC) issuing, Qatar’s largest Islamic Bank, Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB), has announced the rollout of its first EMV Visa Electron debit card with the assistance of TSYS’ PRIME suite of solutions.

Having deployed the PRIME card management system since 2003, QIB added PRIME Perso, TSYS’ value-added personalisation system, to form an end-to-end solution for issuing EMV cards in-house.

The solution will also underpin QIB’s future operations to issue Visa Classic, Visa Platinum and Visa Gold credit cards later this year.

‘By leveraging PRIME’s modular architecture, we were able to swiftly implement PRIME Perso to form a single, integrated solution for our EMV chip card launch,’ said Abdul Latif Al Meer, general manager of retail at Qatar Islamic Bank. ‘We are now in a position to benefit from all the economic and operational advantages relating to one solution, one vendor.’

‘We pride ourselves in delivering added-value solutions on time and within budget, and our most recent project with QIB attests to this,’ said Jaffar Agha-Jaffar, managing director, TSYS MEA. ‘PRIME Perso enables QIB to issue chip cards from its branches, thereby increasing both operational efficiency and security to its customers.’

PRIME Perso operates in conjunction with PRIME Issuer and is compliant with VSDC and MasterCard M/Chip. Its capabilities include all aspects of personalisation, including managing and processing enriched cardholder data, to final card production and embossing.

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