Yahoo’s Head of Middle East and Africa Departs for New Social TV Startup Aimed at Emerging Markets

A new venture is aimed at the growing mobile viewership in the Middle East and Africa.
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Someone May Have Tweeted Warnings Ahead of Syrian Internet Outage

Also, 700 Syrian domain names were seized last month.
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Syrian Internet and Phone Blackout Enters Second Day

Faults in fiber optic cables, the government says.
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Syria Has Dropped Off the Internet, Again

A second countrywide outage in the war-torn country.
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Global Platform Head Carroll Departs Yahoo for Go Daddy, While Yahoo News Head Leaves for NBC

An internationalization exec and key news exec take their skills elsewhere.
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Egyptian Court Gives YouTube A Time Out Over Controversial Film

An Egyptian court orders YouTube blocked for a month.
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Google and Boston Consulting Group Partner for a Study of a Potential New Internet Economy

Two years after the Arab uprisings, the Internet is quietly and increasingly growing as a central platform of economic development around the globe.
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Baidu Builds a Mobile Browser for Emerging Markets, and Gets Orange to Pre-Install It

Baidu and Orange are announcing today a mobile browser partnership designed to address users in Africa and the Middle East.
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Syrian Internet Outage Raises Question “Could It Happen Here?”

Short Answer: It depends on where you live.
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Syria’s Throwing of the Internet Kill Switch Raises Lots of Questions

More answers concerning how it went down yield more questions about why.
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Syria Has Disappeared From the Internet