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We are a startup for startups who is seeking a bright, energetic, and dedicated team player to design and develop the UI for the first  and largest social platform that empowers startups and techies in the Arab world and the east in general: ArabCrunch.NET . And to design wp themes for the most p...

Startups and Tech Business ANSWERS:Since we launched last month in private beta we have been busy developing ArabCrunch.NET. Today we just launched, Startups & Tech Business Answers a place to help you start or grow your tech business through asking one question at a time to our growing comm...

The European Investment Bank pledged today to make a EUR 5m “anchor” investment in the first venture capital fund to target investments in export-oriented IT companies being launched in the Palestine. The EIB’s commitment was announced at a signature ceremony in Ramallah supported by the appointe...

Hichame Assi, an Arab Australian from Syrian origins, an e-marketing expert and an ArabCrunch Arabic contributor, has launched recently his first startup for the region: SyrianTenders.( ArabCrunch.NET Profile.)  in partnership with Mohanad Ghashim and Mohammed NourAllah from Syria.SyrianTenders...

According to a recent Arab Advisors Group Mobile Handsets Retail Tracking Reports, Pakistan is the largest mobile handsets market of the four countries (Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya).In terms of handset models, the research has also revealed that Nokia is the market leader in Iraq with vary...

The CERT (Centre of Excellence for Applied Research and Training) Group of Companies  the largest private education provider in the Middle East, has launched in collaboration with the Wharton School in Pennsylvania, USA the CERT|Wharton Entrepreneurial Planning and Innovation Competition (EPIC) ...

We launched ArabCrunch.NET around a month ago in private beta. The online Social Platform is the first of its type in the Arab World and beyond dedicated to create an environment that fosters innovation, entrepreneurship and mentorship for Arab and non Arab entrepreneurs and techies. But we did ...

Winners of Nokia’s Calling All Innovators “Bil3arabi” 2009 contest, a developer competition for Arabic-language mobile applications, have been announced by Nokia.The grand prize winner of $100,000 went to “Here I am” from Enpronomics in Egypt.  It is a geo-presence application with personal safet...

Transliteration is typing for example Arabic or Greek using the English keyboard , the user types in English “as you hear it” and the transliteration tool will convert the words into its native script.Since Google launched Ta3reeb its online Transliteration for Arabic, which changes...

Mapping, GPS and Navigation devices are a very useful tool for any person, while the west and USA in general has more advanced solutions in this area than what is available in the Arab world. There has been local and International attempts to solve this issue.On the web, google has done a good j...

Jordan based Feedoor, the feed management service, today announced that Real-Time feed updates such as RSS or ATOM updates can be enabled for any website or blog. By implementing Real-Time protocols within it’s technology and with the help of Superfeedr the Real-Time feed parsing service, ...

Few days ago Google announced its annual Zeitgeist, a look at 2009 through the collective data of the world on Google.Google Zeitgeist tools also offer insight into which topics were of interest across the globe. Top search terms from over fifty countries appear on our Google Zeitgeist webpage &#...

Leadership Formation, a Jordanian firm focused on strategy and transformation through consulting and training offerings, is organizing the first Organizational Success & Excellence Executive Forum to be held on December 9, 2009 at the Sheraton Hotel Amman, Jordan.The Forum in which ArabCrunch...

We broke the news back on the 19th of October about the launch of Kzalek the first Arabic desktop client for Twitter, but we did not update the post in a timely manner that Kzalek was launched under private beta and the download link was available only for a short period of time, because there ...

Google announced yesterday that it has added a new feature to its contextual online advertising platform Adwords, for advertisers targeting Egypt and Saudi Arabia.The new feature allows advertisers in both countries to target ads only to specific region, city or geographical location. Google is a...

As an estimated three million pilgrims have gathered yesterday on the plains of Arafat in Mecca for a key rite of Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage. Worldwide, around two billion Muslims are celebrating the holiday known as Eid Al Adha.In this occasion ArabCrunch greets every Muslims worldwide: ...

We broke the news back on the 19th of October about the launch of Kzalek the first Arabic desktop client for Twitter, but we did not update the post in a timely manner that Kzalek was launched under private beta and the download link was available only for a short period of time, because there ...

Google announced yesterday that it has added a new feature to its contextual online advertising platform Adwords, for advertisers targeting Egypt and Saudi Arabia.The new feature allows advertisers in both countries to target ads only to specific region, city or geographical location. Google is a...

As an estimated three million pilgrims have gathered yesterday on the plains of Arafat in Mecca for a key rite of Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage. Around 2 billion Muslims all over the world celebrates the Eid today.In this occasion ArabCrunch greets every Muslims worldwide: Eid Mubarak and m...

Do you love Arabs and the East? Do you want to help your nation excel in technology? Do you Tweet and use Facebook all the time? Are you passionate about startups, web apps, social media and mobile devices? Do you know Arabic Fus7a and English very well?If you answered yes to all the above questi...

Ciapple a Jordanian startup artificial intelligence software for customer relationship management startup funded by the European Commission-SRTD program represented by its Founder and General Manager Eng. Hussein Al-Natsheh, has recently won the 3rd place award in a regional business plan compet...

At ArabCrunch we publish guest posts from thought leaders every now and then. Today’s guest post writer is Ayman Alkhateeb. He works with Oracle as a senior enterprise 2.0 consultant. Ayman is passionate about social media and web 2.0 Technologies, he is also a mobile casual developer, his...

Updated.After Reaching the 1 million user mark, the Arab/Pakistani iPhones duo, who won the best User Interface award of 2009, has just launched a new great dead simple 2Do application for iPhone and iPod Touch.Earlier on, at AC I wrote Squeezer their (Update: Squeezer developed by  Naser AL Zahr...

Following Yahoo! acquisition of Maktoob and Noupe Acquisition by Smashing magazine, I was tipped from VC friend of mine of another good news for the Tech industry in Jordan and the Arab world in general. As 10 days ago, Bahrain based private Equity firm, GrowthCapital announced that has acqui...

In a move to integrate Opera Unite with Opera browser, Opera the leading web browser company announced that Opera Unite is now available in the new beta release of Opera 10.10.Opera Unite turns your PC into a server, allowing you to host websites locally and share files and photos directly from...

Aljazeera the popular Arab TV Network and the only English TV station that is based from the Arab world has officially launched its blog network called Aljazeera Blogs .Aljazeera English TV station remains blocked by US cable operators with no reasonable justifications rather than being racists.A...