Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund has bought minority stakes in major American companies including Boeing (NYSE:BA), Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) and Citigroup (NYSE:C), a regulatory filing showed, giving it a portfolio of nearly $10 billion in U.S.-listed [ More … ]
The controversy over the videos posted on Facebook by the Egyptian actor and contractor Mohamed Ali, who worked for 15 years with the army, turned into an electronic war between regime opponents and supporters of [ More … ]
A UAE court jailed a Jordanian journalist for three years over Facebook comments deemed insulting to the United Arab Emirates, Emirati state media and a Jordanian press union said. An Abu Dhabi court jailed Wednesday [ More … ]
Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Saturday slammed Facebook’s administration after the social media giant blocked dozens of accounts and pages in support of the movement following the launch of a social media campaign by [ More … ]
The boycott campaign against Facebook on Sunday received a widespread response from social media users in parallel with active participation on the Twitter hashtag page #fbcensorspalestine, according to the Palestinian media. Although the campaign was [ More … ]
Israeli authorities ordered on Monday the release 25-year-old Palestinian journalist Samah Ala al-Din Dweik after she completes a six-month prison sentence. Dweik was detained on April 10 in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras [ More … ]
Israel is planning to deport foreign activists involved in promoting an international boycott of Israeli goods, a government minister said Sunday night, Anadolu Agency reported. The Israeli government announced that it was launching a task [ More … ]
The Criminal Court in Zagazig, Sharqia, has sent Ghada Abdel Hamid to rigorous imprisonment for 15 years. Ghada Abdel Hamid (26-years) was charged of administrating a Facebook page, the page is called “Women against the [ More … ]
Al-Ahram, a state-owned newspaper, reported that Egypt’s police used tear gas to disperse hundreds of high school students who protested in downtown Cairo against the education ministry’s decision to cancel and postpone the end-of-year standardized [ More … ]
Israel’s Justice Ministry is drafting legislation that would enable it to order Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other social media to remove online postings it deems to be inciting terrorism. “We are working on a draft [ More … ]
Egyptian right organizations have called on the parliament to reject a cyber-crime bill which imposes heavy penalties on online crimes committed via the internet. In a report titled, ‘Anti-technology’, the Association for Freedom of Thought [ More … ]
The Israeli police arrested last week a Palestinian young man from occupied East Jerusalem in his 20s at the pretext of incitement against Israel on social media, and for allegedly “supporting Hamas through social media [ More … ]
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