The IV Holdings Blog: Content

Jeeran Launches a Dedicated Creative Commons Channel

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:01:13 GMT

Jeeran's co-Founder Laith has just returned from Rome with some lovely news for the Arab online content industry. Jeeran has partnered with Creative Commons to spread awareness on the potential of Arab users to create content. For those not familiar with Creative Commons, it is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share content in a manner consistent with... [read more]

Talasim Wins at Seedcamp 2009

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:19:43 GMT

The IV Holdings team offers a huge congratulations to Talasim's founders, Zeid Koudsi and Sabri Hakim, and their exceptional team on their being selected as a winning startup at Seedcamp in London. The week has been moving at lightspeed for them at Seedcamp, and it has certainly paid off, with their achieving a phenomenal feat, going into the heart of Europe and walking away as one of this year's... [read more]

Talasim Gets Special Recognition at SeedCamp Week

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:56:42 GMT

Participating at SeedCamp Week, Talasim got special recognition, including this wonderful quote from James Bilefield, one of the mentors at the event who is now the current president of Condé Nast International's new media division and former executive for Skype and Yahoo. Bilefield thought the startup with the biggest potential to change the world was Talasim, a comedy community for... [read more]

Our Friends at Quirkat Launch a New Game

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:53:00 GMT

Quirkat playing to an Arabic tuneOur friends at Quirkat have released a new game, very worthy of mention. Here's the press release which explains all. Congrats from us here to Mahmoud, Candide, and the Quirkat team on another milestone achievement.______________________________________Al-Moosiqar game released exclusively on Fuzztak Jebel Ali – Dubai, UAE - 6th September, 2009: Leading... [read more]

Maddy Reddy: Content market in the Middle East is still in its ‘infancy’

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:03:53 GMT

Maddy Reddy is Founder & CEO of Content Syndicate, an internet based platform that helps publishers and corporations commission, distribute, buy and sell previously published and/or tailor made content in more than 200 languages.Q. Kindly introduce yourself and your company.A.I'm a technology journalist by profession, or that's how I started my career more than ten years ago.Content Syndicate was... [read more]

Arabic poetry tradition gets digital platform

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:44:36 GMT

Arabic poetry tradition gets digital platformTom GaraOne of the most popular websites in the Middle East hopes to reinvent the great Arab tradition of impromptu poetry, bringing it to a new audience over a digital platform.Seejal, an Arabic word describing improvised verbal duels between poets, was recently launched by Jeeran.com, a website that lets users create and share their content online.“Poetry... [read more]

Maddy Reddy: Content market in the Middle East is still in its ‘infancy’.

Mon, 11 May 2009 15:21:28 GMT

Maddy Reddy is Founder & CEO of Content Syndicate, an internet based platform that helps publishers and corporations commission, distribute, buy and sell previously published and/or tailor made content in more than 200 languages. Q. Kindly introduce yourself and your company. A. I'm a technology journalist by profession, or that's how I started my career more than ten years... [read more]

Content Syndicate Ramps Up Senior Management

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:44:00 GMT

Content Syndicate® announced the addition of senior management across technology, business divisions in the first phase of its expansion plans. Dubai, United Arab Emirates: 7 April 2009 Venkat Amirisetty is the new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) overseeing the development of Content Syndicate’s online platform strategy. Prior to the new position, Venkat was based in Silicon ... [read more]

Consumers spend most of online time with content

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:48:00 GMT

Interesting report from http://www.bizreport.comContent is king online, according to the Online Publishers Association's Internet Activity Index. The OPA announced this week that almost half of consumers' online time in October was spent viewing content as opposed to communications, commerce, community or search. by Helen LeggattSince early 2006, content has led across all five of the OPA's Internet... [read more]