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Gallery AlSharq, an affiliate of Oasis 500, has just launched its website. Gallery AlSharq specializes in stock photography and sound effects of Arab and Middle Eastern identity, with material contributed by expert photographers and creative artists. The site will be catering to advertising & communication agencies, television stations, production houses, and websites across the region. It is Jordan's first website for oriental stock photography and unique audio-visual content.

Facebook has just launched its own app store, a platform for users to find apps available on Facebook. The launch, which was announced on the company's official blog, comes ahead of its highly anticipated IPO, forecast for the 18th of this month and predicted to value Facebook between $70-90 billion.

Zee TV, the India-based satellite television channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises the first South Asian Entertainment Network of its kind, today announced the launch of two HD channels for its viewers in the UAE through its strategic partnership with E-Vision.

After launching its first Middle East online panel in Saudi Arabia earlier this year and later on in Egypt, the MENA division of Ipsos Interactive Services (IIS) is glad to announce the launch of a new panel in UAE, as a continuation of the panel roll-out throughout the region.

Sky News Arabia is set to launch on May 6th, 2012. The 24-hour Arabic language multi-platform breaking news service, will be available via Transponder 14 on Arabsat Badr 4, Transponder 15 on Nilesat 201, on du IPTV and e-Life platforms plus in high definition on OSN. "Sky News Arabia will offer the MENA region a fresh approach to television news with an independent editorial mandate at the heart of everything we do," said Nart Bouran, head of Sky News Arabia.

AudienceME, a digital media advertising firm, announced the launch of a new performance based initiative to augment its current offering. Starting April 1st, AudienceME will offer performance based advertising across thousands of websites to regional Middle East marketers through the use of Real Time Bidding (RTB) technology.

Abu Dhabi TV Network announced today the launch of a new value Family Package, offering viewers HD channels from MBC and FOX in addition to Abu Dhabi Sport 7 and 8. The new package gives viewers access to HD content featuring sports, movies, series, documentaries and news.
Four young women will be starting their own digital production company this year with funds they won in QITCOM’s innovation competition in early March. The 30,000 QR that came with second place will help the documentarians, all students at Northwestern University in Qatar, to produce multimedia projects on current events in the Arab world for foreign audiences.

Al-Jazeera Sport is preparing for the summer launch of its pay-TV sport channels 'beIN Sport 1' and 'beIN Sport 2' in France. The Qatar group, managed by Nasser Al-Khelafi, has launched a call for bids to find the advertising unit that will sell the channels’ ad space over the next three years. According to Stratégies trade magazine, the ad services of France Télévisions, Lagardère, TF1 and Amaury are competing for the budget.

OSN has announced the launch of OSN Play, the region's first online TV platform, allowing its customers to watch the latest movies and series over the Internet on a variety of devices, anywhere, anytime at no extra charge to OSN subscribers.