Meet Super Geek, The Symbol of The Lebanese Digital Lobby
Yesterday, Caretaker Telecommunications Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui introduced us to Super Geek on his Instagram account: “I introduce to you Super Geek. A young Lebanese Geek turned Super Hero He’s into high tech gadgets and would pick Star Wars over Politics any day His Mission is to lead the Young Lebanese Digital Lobby to instill change in Lebanon and the [...]
Spotlight: Maya Zankoul Brings Us Wezank
This week we happily bring you an interview with Maya Zankoul, co-creator of the new digital service Wezank. To those of you who still don’t know what Wezank is, here’s a neat little explanation video straight from the creating team’s collective mouths. Maya was nice enough to answer a couple of questions about Wezank and [...]
“People of Leb” Application Review and Interview
Quickly, what can you tell me about Mr. Naoum Labaki? How about Mrs. Elizabeth Sarkissian? What about if I ask you to provide me with an updated list of pharmacists and engineers in Lebanon? That would take you some time to do for sure. Well, as per Apple’s ubiquitous catchphrase, “There’s an app for that”, [...]
Artist Spotlight: An Interview With Omar Al Fil
We turn the spotlight on young Lebanese illustrator Omar Al Fil as he talks about his passion for comic book culture and his own local contribution to the art. 1. How did you get into comics and the world of illustration? I’ve been drawing ever since I was a child, it’s always been a part [...]
Touch Cloud PitchFest Pre-Event
Whether you’ve heard of it before or not, the news of Lebanese telecom company, touch, breaking through the virtual world of “the cloud” never ceases to amaze. Described perfectly on their website, touch Cloud is described as: “A set of scalable, on demand web services that allow developers to build web and mobile apps in a [...]
LG Launches its 84” Ultra HD 3D TV in Lebanon
Last Wednesday marked the launch of LG’s 84” Ultra HD 3D TV in Lebanon. At an event hosted by The Hangout – Gemmayze, the regional marketing manager of LG introduced LG’s first Ultra HD 3D Smart TV, which features an elegant 84” display in stunning 4K, the next generation of TV resolution. Display The announcement featured [...]
DevAppLB Mobile App Hackathon
Have you ever heard of the term “hackathon”? As the name implies, the Hackathon is an event in which computer programmers and other professionals in the field of software development, like graphic designers,interface designers and project managers, collaborate intensively on software projects for an extensive period of time (between one day to a full week). Sounds interesting, right? Well if so, then now you have [...]
Tree of Life: An Interview With Flaming Toast
Sneaking up on me on my Facebook newsfeed earlier this week, I saw something that directly caught my eye amidst the sea of duckfaces and ‘food porn’ pictures. It was a picture of concept art from an upcoming game, Tree of Life, that my friend had shared. I automatically clicked on the page’s link, found [...]
Lebanese Bloggers Reinvent the World
The Ministry of Telecommunications of Lebanon is launching a new initiative in the form of a competition where people will be asked to submit a blog entry about an idea of an invention that they believe will change the world and have a great impact. This post will eventually be reviewed by a jury of prominent Lebanese in [...]
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