Google opens its first office in Middle East
June 11th, 2007 Zeid Nasser (Admin)
First for the big news, it’s not in Dubai!
Well, maybe it’s time something major happened elsewhere. Google has opened its first office in the region in Cairo, Egypt.
The branch has been set-up in to support and promote recently launched Arabic language versions of Google News, Gmail and Google Earth.
However, we at AdBlogArabia believe that the main aim is to increase revenues from Arab clients for Google’s advertising solutions, and maybe even launch an Arabic-language AdSense service.
Here’s a quote we got from ITP.net about the launch:
The president of Google’s operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), Nikesh Arora, said: “MENA is a region with 300 million people, speaking the same language. We hope our products, and the Internet as a whole, will bring useful and beneficial tools to our Arabic users. We can see potential for industries like tourism and travel which are important to Egypt’s economy.”
According to the Madar research cited by Google, internet use is growing rapidly in the MENA region, with 12.4 million users expected online in Egypt alone by the year 2010.
Via [ mediaME ]
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1. ilanka | June 13th, 2007 at 1:48 am
R U Sure?!
I think the Israeli branch opened earlier….
2. Zeid Nasser (Admin) | June 13th, 2007 at 10:03 am
The generally agreed business defintion of ‘The Middle East region’ only includes Arab countries+Iran. Especially for companies operating in an Arab country.
Although, georgraphically, the area does encompass other countries furthur to the East and West … including Pakistan and India for example according to most Atlas books.
3. Point studios&hellip | June 17th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Google Middle East office in Egypt…
Wow this looks like it’s an old news but I never knew it before that Google Middle East office has opened in Egypt, I found it through this article with the date June 23rd, 2006 then I googled the topic……
4. Rami | August 6th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Just to drop a note…
Google has open its office in Israel long time ago.
I guess it is the first in the region.
5. ArabiaFinder | July 2nd, 2008 at 7:48 pm
This will be a boost for the region
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