MSN Arabia (arabia.msn.com) partners with AME Info

With 2.4 million Hotmail users currently in the Arab region and 250 million users per month accessing MSN portals in 34 markets worldwide, MSN is the first international portal player to serve the regional market with dedicated resources and content for local Arab consumers, offering users more easy to use services.

A jointly created and managed venture between Microsoft and LINKdotNET, MSN Arabia focuses on working with local content providers and partners to bring the most compelling content to consumers. "By partnering with AME Info we are sure that our users will get the best in business information," said Khaled Bichara, President and Chief Executive Officer of LINKdotNET. "We aim at partnering with leading content and e-Commerce providers in order to provide Arab users with the highest quality of localized, customized content and services," he stated.

AME Info is the Middle East's leading electronic publisher of business information. AME Info is divided into 3 main sections: The generic AME Info (www.ameinfo.com) offering a daily company news service with full press releases, comprehensive yellow pages, events calendar, and general data on the region. The financial website (www.ameinfo.com/fn) offering five independently written newswires covering the Middle East and Finally the Arabic website (www.ameinfo.com/arabic) offering AME Info five newswires in Arabic, plus the AME company news and a selection of financial features.

"Users of AME Info will now be able to pick up all the familiar AME Info business wires and database from a central point being MSN Arabia, and hence get everything from news, sports, leisure and more together with AME Info content from one single starting point." said Klaus Lovgreen, Chief Executive Officer, AME Info.

"We are pleased to enter into partnership with MSN Arabia as it will further increase the brand exposure of AME Info as the leading provider of business information in the Middle East and at the same time enable us to reach a larger audience in the region," he added. "By making our weekly newsletter available via MSN we expect to dramatically increase the subscriber base from its current level of 50,000 business people. Finally we see MSN Arabia as a strong revenue partner where many news concepts can develop over time."

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