Group-buying is one of the web’s fastest-growing retail platforms, and UAE based GoNabit is the first to bring it to the Arab world. CEO and Co-Founder Dan Stuart answered some questions we had about GoNabit and its quest to bring value to consumers and businesses in the Arab world.
[Rock Sfeir]: What is GoNabit and what value does it bri...


After Yahoo acquired Maktoob last year, many of Maktoob group companies were merged under one independent brand called Jabbar. Somehow similar precedence happened with Orascom Telecom's LinkDotNet 150 million USD buyout to Mobinil, but at a larger scale.
Orascom Telecom which is one of the largest tech and telecom groups in the Arab world, ha...
H2O New Media the UAE company that offers social media software and services announced 2 days ago that it has bought out Public Relations firm MILK from Olive Communications FZC in a cash deal. The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
With this acquisition, MILK becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of H2O and will be known as H2O MILK. In the ...
Facebook used its translation tool to crowed source its International site wide translation efforts. Where users submit translations and they are voted up or down or others can suggest better translations.
Dakwak a Jordanian startup founded by Waheed Al-Braghouthi former ROR developers with Arabic micro blogging site WatWet, was launched today...
Saudi based, restaurants social review site or "Yelp for the Arab world" Qaym has launched a new design for its Arabic site that includes a number of features: new cities page design that now includes restraints guide, badges for active members, improved search that now comes with suggestions among other additions.
In the blog post (Arabic lin...
TwitVid the leading Twitter video sharing platform founded by University of Waterloo students Mohammad Al Adham from Jordan and Adil Lalani from Pakistan, just launched SocialAds a self-service an "AdWords" and "AdSense" like for Twitter. Social Ads is the first and only video advertising network that offers advertisers a direct way to gain ...
Facebook everywhere.
In its push to make Facebook available to everyone anywhere at anytime, Facebook launched back on May 2010 ZERO Facebook or 0.facebvook.com an optimized mobile version of Facebook that includes all of key features of Facebook: update status, view news feeds, like or comment on a post, reply to messages but comes with ...
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ArabCrunch is not a political blog, in fact we hate politics and do not like to make anyone angry, but we also cover social media and its impact.
KhaledSaid the Egyptian 28 years old man has become a web icon for egyptians and many Arabs. His family said that he was tortured to death by 2 Egyptian police offic...
Octavia Nassar CNN's Sr. Editor of Mideast Affairs Tweeted few days ago about the passing of Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah who is considered one of the most important Lebanon's Shia Muslim leader. She Tweeted:
"Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah... One of Hezbollah's giants I respect a lot."
She deleted her Tweet and ...
Tahadi Games, Jabbar's group regional gaming arm has announced the partnership with Suzhou Snail Electronic Co., Ltd(Snail Game) to publish one of the top online games in the world: Heroes of Gaia. The game will be featured in both English and Arabic. The English version is scheduled to enter Closed Beta on mid of July and Arabic version is expect... 


