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George Akra: Video advertising provides more brand exposure, more engagement and better results

Mon, 2012-01-16 09:16 - By

Advertising Business, Digital Media, Interview & Opinion, Media Business, Electronics & Technology, Media, AdSense, Arab Spring, Click Through Rate (CTR), egypt, Flash Player, George Akra, HTML5, JORDAN, KSA, Toot Corp., UAE, youtube

mediaME spoke to George Akra, co- founder of Toot Corp., a company that has several online properties including ikbis.com, a regional video sharing site. George discusses the growth of online video in the region, the effects of the current political climate on video content, and the future of online video advertising in the Middle East and more.

Steve Jobs responsible for Adobe Flash Player demise?

Sat, 2011-11-12 14:38 - By

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Digital Media, Media Business, Media, Adobe, apple, cnn.com, Flash Player, Mac, photoshop, Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson

Since Adobe announced it would no longer develop Flash Player for mobile devices on Wednesday, many have been wondering if Steve Jobs' objection to its use had something to do with its demise. According to Jobs' biographer Walter Isaacson, Jobs said Flash was "a spaghetti-ball piece of technology that has lousy performance and really bad security problems".