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Tech news from the Middle East: What you need to know from the past month

Apr04
by on April 4, 2014 at 11:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Middle East

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Here’s our roundup of some of the most important or interesting regional entrepreneurial news from the Middle East in March. As always, if you’d like to draw my attention to an important regional story, please contact me on Twitter (@startupegypt) or by e-mail at omar@talkinsense.com. Creative media One of the lesser known entrepreneurial gains of the stalled Arab Spring has been the uprising in creativity in media and the arts.  People are expressing themselves creatively and artistically in ways never seen before, especially in the independent sector.  In fact this creativity burst may currently be the best chance of cementing…

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Watch Flappy Bird being played on a mobile point-of-sale terminal

Apr04
by on April 4, 2014 at 11:17 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Shareables

Flappy Bird may have gone the way of the dodo, for now at least, but that hasn’t stopped the brand from being kept alive in all kinds of convoluted and quirky ways. The latest one? Well, how about a game of Flappy Bird on a mobile point-of-sale (MPOS) terminal? Chippy Pin is the handiwork of data security company MWR Labs, and is designed to demonstrate how an attacker could negotiate their way into a MPOS device. Demoed at the Syscan security conference earlier this week, the serious side showed that it can be infiltrated so the device is switched into…

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You can now search with emoji for businesses on Yelp

Apr04
by on April 4, 2014 at 9:51 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

If you find typing too much of a hassle, Yelp has the solution for you: emoji. The US-based business review site has just launched the ability to let you search for local businesses on its platform using emoji — the small, cartoon-like figures most often used when typing on a mobile device. Yelp’s move probably speaks to the fact that its users are increasingly accessing its site via mobile  – and it is seeking ways to make it more convenient for them. For proof of the popularity of emoji, Twitter has also just started showing emoji characters on its main Twitter.com website….

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Facebook’s Pages Manager for iOS now lets you create and edit events on iPad, pin posts to the top

Apr04
by on April 4, 2014 at 7:03 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

Facebook is making things easier for marketers by updating its Pages Manager app for iOS app with a few useful features. One of the biggest changes introduced is that you can finally create and edit events in the app on your iPad. Version 3.0 of the also app lets you pin and unpin posts to the top of your page’s Timeline, so admins can conveniently select which posts they want to highlight. They can also turn photos on their page’s timeline and photo albums into profile pictures with just a tap of the button. Interestingly enough, the changelog for the updated app…

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