Tarek Elhousseiny - General Manager for North and West Africa, Visa

Visa, FIFA's exclusive Financial Services Partner, today announced a "Go Fans" promotion offering Visa cardholders the chance to win the trip of a lifetime to experience the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

From January 15 to February 28, Visa cardholders will enter into a prize draw every time they make a purchase using their Visa card to stand a chance of winning a trip to the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ in South Africa. At least one lucky Visa cardholder in Egypt will not only win return flights for two to South Africa, 4 star hotel accommodation, spending money and tickets to watch a match but they will also gain privileged access to a choice of exclusive backstage experiences - including a stadium and pitch tour before the match, watch the players warm up from the sideline or have your photo taken on the pitch.

"As an Official FIFA Partner, Visa is eager to provide our cardholders with the FIFA experience up-close and in person. Every football fan is anxiously waiting for the FIFA World Cup to kick off this summer: to see some of the world's best footballers battling it out on an international stage. We have a unique opportunity to offer one of the most sought after rewards of any promotion to date. With convenience and security inherent to every Visa payment card, everyday spending is the best way to increase your chances of scoring a seat in the stands during the FIFA World Cup in South Africa," said Tarek Elhousseiny, Visa General Manager for North and West Africa.

Visa's latest FIFA campaign is part of a pan-regional promotion, where Visa cardholders from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, and Morocco will have a chance to win tickets to the highly anticipated FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

Envent, a leading public relations, events management and marketing communications consultancy and organisers of the Women in Business conference, is to add web design and online marketing solutions to its portfolio of services since signing a strategic partnership agreement with Grafdom, a Dubai-based technology consultancy, on 23 January 2010.

Grafdom is a global team of business consultants, brand management specialists and innovative developers with diverse cultural and professional backgrounds. It has designed numerous award winning websites in the Middle East and worked with businesses to empower their online brand presence throughout the social networking, search engine and web 2.0 spectrum.

Farid Gasim, Director of Operations, Grafdom said, “This synergy with Envent will reap great mutual benefits for both companies.  Envent’s acclaimed reputation in the PR & Events field is a profoundly value-added advantage that will enable them to proactively expand their service offering to clients with web development and online branding solutions.”

Salma Al Hashmi, Founder and President of Envent said, “We really welcome this agreement.  Envent is always looking for ways to cater to the diverse range of requirements of our clients.  With the increasing use of digital marketing and the importance of having an eye-catching and informative website, we hope that all our clients will soon be taking advantage of this partnership.”

Founded in 2006, Envent was originally established as Event Management Company, one of the pre-eminent designers and builders of the Women In Business Conference. In October 2007, the company was re-engineered into Envent, a full-service event management and public relations organization.  The company is based in Madinat Qaboos in Muscat.

Shufflegazine, Apple lifestyle magazine for the Middle East, today announced the im-mediate availability of an application for iPhone and iPod touch that gives readers full access to the magazine on their favorite mobile device.

With the app, readers can download individual issues of the magazine, including back issues, or subscribe to automatically receive future issues when they're published. The magazine will be available for iPhone on the same day the print issue comes out each month.

The app is available in the UAE and US iTunes AppStores for $0.99. Individual issues are $2.99 and a 12-month subscription is $19.99. Both the price for an individual issue and the subscription represent a discount compared to the print issue.

Magnus Nystedt, Managing Editor of Shufflegazine said "We're excited to be among the first, if not the first, in the Middle East to provide this service to our readers. This app is a great compliment to what we already do and represents yet one more way that readers can enjoy our unique content."