Sponsored by Yahoo! Maktoob and Choueiri Group, Mindshare will be presenting the Media Summit 2010, a one-day forum that will be held on October 13th, 2010 in Dubai. The forum intends to offer a deeper understanding in consumer communication across the world. The one-day forum will also embark upon the rise of new digital technologies and the transference of analogue media channels to digital formats, and providing advertisers with amazing opportunities and intriguing new business challenges.

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Gulf News has reported that the founder and chairman of the Choueiri Group, and one of the Middle East’s largest media brokers, Antoine Choueiri, has passed away after a long battle with cancer at the age of 70. Antoine was ranked the 50th most powerful businessman in 2009 according to Arabian Business. He is also known as the man behind the rise of the Beirut-based La Sagesse basketball team.

In a statement to Gulf News, Ramzi Raad, chairman and CEO of TBWA/Raad and a close friend of Choueiri's, said that March 9 is "a turning point in Middle East media history".

"His reconciling spirit and generosity touched the majority of players in the communications industry in this part of the world."

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