Apple Acquires Burstly, A Daher Capital Company

Apple has acquired Burstly, a software company that helps developers create smartphone and tablet applications. Burstly currently owns TestFlight, an iOS service that allows programmers to release and manage beta software to a limited audience, and an ad management platform called SkyRocket. Burstly is a Daher Capital company, which is a Beirut-based family business founded and led by Michel Daher. You can read more about the acquisition on , and . For those of you…

The Selfiest Cities in the World: Beirut Ranked 210

According to Time, Makati City known as the financial center of the Philippines is the Selfie Capital of the World, or the capital where people take the most selfies. Manhattan came in second spot followed by Miami. As far as Arabic cities are concerned, Doha came first , followed by Dubai . Beirut is in the 5th spot regionally and 210th worldwide. Here are the Arabic cities that made it to the top 100 list:…

Zouk Power Plant Emissions Reduced by 80%

Taken by Avedis The Minitry of Energy and Water announced back in July that emissions were reduced by 80 percent at the Zouk Mosbeh power plant. I wonder how bad the emissions were given that the above picture was taken today. The Ministry of Energy and Water announced the completion of the first phase of a project to cut down air pollution at the Zouk power plant. The project consists of equipping production groups at…
Critiques

Lebanese Cameraman Samir Kassab Still Missing In Syria

11 years ago
I don’t know why Samir’s story is not over the news like the Maaloula nuns, but he’s a Lebanese who’s gone missing along with Sky News Arabia Mauritanian correspondent Ishak Moctar back in October 2013 ...
Humor

Easy Catch For The Lebanese Police

11 years ago
Out of the law. ...
Beirut

Ethical Terrorists: لبنان بلد العجايب Indeed

11 years ago
Some Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist group in Lebanon has issued an apology for targeting orphans in the last suicide bombing attack to hit Beirut’s suburbs. The Abdullah Azzam Brigades said that a “technical fault” occurred and ...
Photography

Check Out The EyeEm Market!

11 years ago
Follow me on EyeEm Najib For those of you who don’t know about EyeEm yet, it’s a photo sharing app that’s not just focused on photo sharing, but tries to connect like-minded users through the ...
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