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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Centimetercube etablishes publishing division

Centimetercube, a Dubai-based architecture and design company, announced the formation of a Publishing Division within the company under the name of Centimetercube Publishing.

Centimetercube Publishing will most immediately look at publishing a magazine and local photography book, and future plans for other projects.

The focus for all the publishing will be locally produced content, which is relevant for the people of the United Arab Emirates and beyond.

As Omran Al-Owais, Founder and Creative Director of Centimetercube explains, ‘It’s important for us to be locally based in that we produce the work we publish here and it’s targeted at the local and regional market.’

For Centimetercube this is a great opportunity to complement the activities already established in architecture, design, concepts, etc. as well as branching out into related fields.

Supporting the activities of all branches of Centimetercube, the Publishing Division will provide marketing and communications services, as well as publishing in various areas including the web, print, and more.

Omran Al-Owais said about the new venture, ‘We produce a lot of exciting designs in many areas such as architecture, and having a publishing division will allow us to promote our work and get it out to the market. Having this function in-house is critical for us, and establishing a Publishing Department will make us more flexible and ultimately more competitive in the region.’

Centimetercube, run by Emirati architect Omran Al-Owais, is a Dubai-based architecture and design company, which combines the best of traditional architecture and design with the latest, contemporary trends.

This exciting fusion of old and new, results in more valuable, appealing, and environmentally sustainable buildings and developments in the United Arab Emirates as well as other areas of the Middle East.

Combining architecture with design means Centimetercube is in a unique position to create projects that are financially feasible as well as exciting in terms of their appearance.

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