February 2007 Just as the young blazing entrepreneurs of the Web 2.0 online destinations such as YouTube, MySpace, Flickr, Wikipedia etc., have built global brands in a matter of years, Mohamed ...

At the time, the main character of the film, Mohamed "Mo" El Fatatry was in the middle of whirlwind excitement with Muxlim.com – a social media site for Muslims he started in 2006. The super-confident ...

A Muslim equivalent of Yahoo, Facebook and Youtube has been recognised as one of Europe's best tech start-ups by an American technology magazine. Muxlim.com has been selected as one of Europe's most ...

At the International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM), in the country's capital Kuala Lumpur, Russian student Jeyhun Jaafar posts a video on a social network. A comment pops up in Turkish - a ...

The new network aims to unite Muslims around the world At the International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM), in the country's capital Kuala Lumpur, Russian student Jeyhun Jaafar posts a video on ...

A BOOK I wrote is causing controversy, and it has not even been released yet. Mohamed 2.0 tells the story of Mohamed El-Fatatry and Muxlim, the company he founded. Muxlim ended up failing, and some ...

THE AWARD-WINNING Finland-based Muslim social networking site Muxlim.com has shut down, Kauppalehti reported last weekend. The site’s founder Mohammed El-Fatatry, who moved to Finland in 2004, refused ...

Sites like IkhwanBook and Muxlim fulfil a desire for a more conservative forum but are regional and limited in scope The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's IkhwanBook states that it is "an Islamic social ...

The rise of Facebook has been well documented, with most recent reports showing that the average 22-year-old Briton has more than 1,000 "friends" on the popular site. Twitter is another high profile ...

They’re young, ambitious and worth at least $2 trillion globally. A new Muslim consumer called “the futurist” is set to change the face of business. The futurists are crucial to marketers because they ...

Having spent the past couple of days in Finland visiting some of the country’s most interesting startups, the omnipresent Nokia and attending the great MindTrek conference, I’m starting to get some ...

El-Fatatry’s eyes shine with excitement as he recounts a stroke of serendipity that injected some much-needed interest into his company. His recent business trip to the United States coincided with US ...