The website has been developed to directly connect the UAE’s Arabic speaking population to the portal’s property listings and will cater to one third of the website’s visitors who are Arabic speaking.

The move represents propertyfinder.ae’s commitment to the region and the increase demand for relevant up to date information for local and regional investors which represent a significant percentage of property investors in the UAE.

‘The UAE property market has attracted investment from across the region in particular from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and the need for reliable and up to date information in Arabic is greater than ever before. Any portal or website claiming a leading position in the Middle East must be available in Arabic as well as English to meet the needs of all consumers in the region. This website will help attract Arabic speaking investors and end users, as well as to create brand loyalty,’ said Michael Lahyani, CEO of propertyfinder.ae.

The new Arabic website is a user friendly research tool for potential investors and with a dedicated in house translator on hand to ensure up to date information is listed on the website daily, the website will meet the growing needs of Middle East property investors.

Seen as one of the most cost effective directive advertising mediums in the world, Egyptian business owners can now count on the power of the Yellow Pages brand to connect with even more buyers than ever.

What is arguably the most comprehensive bilingual database of Egypt based businesses; Egypt Yellow Pages offers the Egyptian market and the rest of the world a much easier and faster free access to business listing information throughout Egypt through its print directories – covering Cairo, Alex and other major cities and Sinai & Red Sea directory – and Mobile Yellow Pages.

‘We are very excited about our new canvass into the Egyptian market’, stated Lars Mourey, Director of Sales & Marketing, Egypt Yellow Pages, ‘Our online and mobile sales strategy is a tried, tested and proven model that delivers impressive return on investment for our clients all over the world.’

‘The world’s search engines have taught everyone how to search online. Relevant search results are essential in finding what you are looking for, and if that is a business listing you are looking for, no business does it better than Yellow Pages.’ Stated Mr. Trevor Nadeau, Regional Director of Information & Internet Services. ‘Yellow Pages has been connecting buyers and sellers around the world for more than 100 years.’

In the often complicated online advertising world of Pay Per Click and Cost Per Impression, Yellow Pages have always kept their advertising offering simple. Yellow Pages clients buy keywords, directory services and flash advertising banners at a fixed yearly rate. Yellow Pages has quite successfully eliminated the Pay Per Click and Cost Per Thousand Impression model from their sales strategy.

The digital service will help Middle East, North Africa and Central/South Asia focused publishers generate revenues directly from their news, features, photo and video content to supplement newsstand, subscriptions and advertising sales.

Syndigate is an electronic content syndication service for newspapers, news and photo agencies, magazines, online news sources and blogs in any language. Syndigate will also enable publishers to increase the distribution of their content into new international markets; increase brand exposure; and if applicable, drive traffic back to their website.

Mark Gatty Saunt, Content Sales Director at Al Bawaba commented: ‘There is an ever increasing demand from Al Bawaba’s international customers for content from the Middle East, North Africa and surrounding region. And with nothing to lose and only multiple benefits to gain, publishers should consider licensing their original content to Al Bawaba for distribution.’

Nicholas Coates, Associate Editor at Gulf News commented: ‘As the leading Arab-based English language newspaper in the region, Gulf News is pleased to be associated with Al Bawaba and the launch of their new service Syndigate.’

David Westley, Editorial Director at ITP Digital Publishing commented: ‘We are hugely pleased to partner with Al Bawaba to offer ArabianBusiness.com’s unique mix of in-depth analysis stories and up to the minute news, for those wishing to understand the dynamics of the booming economies of the GCC and wider Middle East. ArabianBusiness.com, the home of over 40 B2B and B2C weekly and monthly magazines, is staffed by over 100 journalists and analysts, all experts within their field, who provide unparalleled insight and access to the region’s decision makers.’

Sajjad Valadi, Foreign Service Manager at Moj News Agency in Iran commented: ‘Being the first and sole Iranian economic online news source, we are very excited about working with Al Bawaba on the Syndigate project and providing them with our up-to-date news and reports in both Persian and English language.’

Karin Borchert, Vice President, global content and customer operations at Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group, commented on the new agreement with Al Bawaba: ‘Our customers look to us to provide highly relevant business news from around the world, and the addition of Al Bawaba’s collection of local content from the Middle East, North Africa and Central/South Asia will provide expanded insight into these regions. The combination of this content with Dow Jones Factiva’s global collection of business and news sources will provide our customers with a more comprehensive view of local and global business issues.’

Alison Parker, Director of Content Syndication at the Financial Times in London commented: ‘We are finding that the Middle East region continues to be of growing interest to our clients. Being able to provide relevant content from that region, via our relationship with Al Bawaba, enables us to fulfill that need.’

Chip Brian, Comtex President and CEO of Comtex News Network, Inc. (OTC BB: CMTX), a leading provider of economically useful electronic real-time news, stated, ‘Al Bawaba has significant experience and a strong market presence in content from the Middle East and North Africa. Comtex is always looking for innovative expansion opportunities – through partnerships and new products – and this partnership with Al Bawaba brings our users important content and the reliability they find with all our news, content and market alert products.’

Rich Sawyer, Manager of Publisher Partnerships for EBSCO Publishing commented: ‘We are very pleased to provide access to the full text of key Middle East and North Africa titles provided by Al Bawaba via our growing collection of online databases. Our partnership with Al Bawaba will help to expand overall readership of this collection of titles while simultaneously enhancing the full-text content available to our existing customers.’