- As we blogged last week, a Dubai-based telecom services company just scored a healthy injection of private equity cash and expertise, and hopes to use it to gain its share of the booming market for building and maintaining mobile networks in India. Check the story for a few interesting words from the company, Vox Spectrum, and the private equity guys, Delta Partners.
- For the entrepreneurs out there, a couple of good opportunities to turn your idea into something bigger. Jordan's Queen Rania Centre, one of the region's most active promoters of entrepreneurship, has launched the MENA 100 business plan competition, and Qualcomm have $500,000 worth of venture funding on the line in their QPrize business plan contest (via Wireless Duniya).
- Al Jazeera, which has some serious clues when it comes to new media, is now taking tweets from its audience, according to this post on Arabcrunch.
- On the other hand, the editorial chief of News Corporation in Australia dropped a major bah-humbug on Twitter in an interview. Along with saying he doesn't like his journalists using the service, he said the company was holding back on doing something formally via the platform, because "we don't want to spend a lot of time developing policies ... and in three months' time everyone's realised it's another way of having fairly boring conversations." (via Fake Plastic Souks)