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AppsArabia invests in the best app ideas from throughout the MENA region, helps get them to market and assists in promoting them to maximise revenues for their creators.

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media coverage

AppsArabia seeks to work closely with the media to:

  • attract app development talent and ideas
  • influence all the key stakeholders to work together
  • promote the MENA region as a centre of excellence for app development

Below are some links to media coverage we’ve received since launching in June 2010:

Pocket Videogames: Interview with David Ashford

Tbreak: The added tax of developing for WP7

Dubai Eye Radio: Tonight Show (part 1)

Dubai Eye Radio: Tonight Show (part 2)

The National: Being social can pay off

Gulf News: Keeping app to date during Ramadan

The National: Credit card payments are just a stopgap for apps

The National: Smartphone owners up their app rate

Tbreak.com: Interview with David Ashford from AppsArabia

The National: MENA smartphone owners intend to buy more apps

ITP.net: Apps developers look at new revenue models

PCWorldME: Mobile Podcast & Video

ITP.net: Arabic vs English in apps

ArabCrunch: Study Highlights The State of Mobile Apps in the Arab World

Al Watan Daily Kuwait: Research findings set to boost MENA region’s smart phone app industry

Tbreak.com: Smartphones & Apps stats across the Middle East

Zawya.com: Research findings set to boost MENA region’s smartphone app industry

Arabian Business.com: 70% of MENA smartphone users plan upgrade

AMEinfo.com: Research findings set to boost MENA region’s smartphone app industry

What’s On Abu Dhabi: How to build your own app

Al Watan Daily Kuwait: Research findings set to boost MENA region smartphone app industry

Jazarah.net: Research Findings Set To Boost Mena Region’s Smartphone App Industry

Tbreak.com: BlackBerry Bold 9900 to be available in UAE in August

MENAfn: Research findings to boost MENA’s smartphone app industry

Beirut-Online: Research findings to boost MENA’s smartphone app industry

Eye Of Riyadh: Research findings to boost MENA’s smartphone app industry

Dubai Eye Radio: Nightline Show

Gulf Business: Digital Ones to Watch

Khaleej Times: Smartphones & Apps Supplement – Apps provide value to consumers

Think Magazine: An Appy Medium

The National: Windows Phone looks like missed call

ITP.net: BlackBerry to launch app store in UAE in June

Wireless Federation: BlackBerry to introduce app store in UAE

PCWorldME: App dev 101 – why develop for iOS

PCWorldME: App dev 101 – why develop for Nokia

PCWorldME: App dev 101 – why develop for BlackBerry

PCWorldME: App dev 101 – this is only the beginning

PCWorldME: App dev 101 – it has to be a great experience

Alrroya.com: Mobile app market taking shape in Mena

PCWorld ME: First Blackberry Developer Day for Middle East in Dubai

Gulf News: Mideast awaits RIM’s App World

Interactive ME: Blackberry Developer Day Review

Sports Techy: Mideast awaits RIM’s App World

The National: AppsArabia lines up mystery “global” pop star for phone app

The National: Video games set for regional growth

The National: AppsArabia hopes for triple score in first effort

GMR Online: AppsArabia to release its first iPhone app

Khaleej Times: Arabic Apps

Baladna: Abu Dhabi fund to release first iPhone gaming app

AMEinfo: AppsArabia announces first app available on iPhone

twofour54 media centre: AppsArabia announces first app available on iPhone

French Trade Commission in UAE: The industry of Smart Phone Applications from the MENA region is taking shape

Abu Dhabi Week: AppsArabia creates muitiplayer game

Gulf News: eTech Design looks to create 3D content for growing local market

Tbreak.com: twofour54′s video game academy to open in 2011

Tbreak.com: AppsArabia launches Kalimat

The National: Abu Dhabi fund to release first iPhone gaming app

Tech 24 Hours: Arabic Letters app Kalimat – AppsArabia’s first app for iPhone launched

Kuwait Times: AppsArabia announces first app available on iPhone

Arab Ad: A New Community for MENA Apps Market

ArabianBusiness: Abu Dhabi media zone to close up to 10 new deals

The National: Number of mobile apps set to soar with support

StrategyEye: Interview with twofour54 COO on Arabic content

TheNextWeb.com: Egypt government launches MobileAppsAcademy for young mobile entrepreneurs

The National: Ambitious Abu Dhabi to shake the invisible hand

StartUpArabia: AppsArabia, an Arabic mobile applications development fund

IAA: twofour54 offers AppsArabia fund for start-ups

International Tech News: Fund aims to bolster Arabic apps industry

Digital Production Middle East: twofour54 unveils AppsArabia fund

Gulf News: AppsArabia means content can be created in Arabic

TheNextWeb.com: Idea economy gets a boost with AppsArabia

Kipp Report: Arabic content is making its presence felt

WorldNews: AppsArabia means content can be created in Arabic

MediaME.com: Arabic apps development fund launched at twofour54

Zawya: Arabic apps development fund launched at twofour54

Dubai Eye Radio: Business Breakfast Show

AMEinfo.com: twofour54 tadreeb named Apple Authorised Training Centre

ArabianBusiness.com: twofour54 launches fund for Arabic mobile apps

ITP.net: Fund aims to bolster Arabic apps industry

Gulf Jobs Market: Abu Dhabi launches seed fund for Arabic apps

Emirates Business 24/7: twofour54 establishes fund for Arabic apps

The National: Abu Dhabi seed fund to grow apps

For more information about AppsArabia, please email us.