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Archive for April, 2009

Twitter in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. [The National]

I’m in National again!. Jen Gerson tweeted me for an article in The National on Twitter usage in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

Differentiating Dubai’s Debt.

Is the $3.5 billion Nakheel Sukuk a buy?

Motown is 50.

What’s with the sudden press love? 7 Days have a silly quote from me on the seminal Motown label turning 50. Satyen Choksi and Neil DJ Solo are far more eloquent.

AlJazeera’s Inside Story on Online Media.

Joi Ito was interviewed on AlJazeerah English recently alongside Lawrence Pintak of the AUC’s Kamal Adham Center and Global Voices’ Marwa Rakha.

Fred Wilson talks to MBAs.

Fred Wilson talks to NYU and Columbia MBA students about the VC industry for InSITE. Watch all 9 segments.

Luxury Retail Gulf.

The Gulf luxury retail market is set for a painful slowdown after years of impressive growth but it remains one of the industry’s few relatively bright spots.

Capturing Culture in Dubai.

Cool! I have a short quote in Kaelen Wilson-Goldie’s recent review of the massive Sharjah / Dubai art week that recently wrapped in The National.