Around 10 days ago ArabCrunch had a meeting with Barig Seraj the CEO of ICT Ventures a Saudi based Venture capital firm.
Barig Seraj informed us about his company and his recent investments, ICT Ventures is a growth based VC that focus in the IT sector. The VC firm made 3 investments so far. First in Mobidiv an Egyptian mobile app develope...


Opera the oldest independent Mobile browser company today published it's State of the Mobile Web Report World Cup Edition, a report that offers deeper inside into major mobile web browsing trends, this time the report focus is worldcup and Africa. In Africa Mobile phonepenetration is higher than PC penetration.
In june 2010 Opera Mini had over 5...
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...
There are no shortage in location based services, the leader is foursquare followed by Gowalla, But Face2face takes another approach.
After you download the app in your mobile device (iPhone, Android or BlackBerry) you do not need a to signup with a new user name, use your existing Facebook, linked, Twitter or Myspace accounts to connect and u...
Number 1 social network in the world facebook has finally updated its iPhone app making it compatibale with iPhone iOS 4 features , the new apps comes with the ability to do fast application switching. according to facxebook "While viewing the Facebook application, just click the "Home" button twice on your iPhone to quickly switch to another...
The world is not the same it used to be 4 years ago, today with world-cup 2010 the Internet has advanced and became an essential part of our life, we have smart phones that can run useful apps WIFI and 3G access that brings the Internet to wherever we go and we have the iPad devices & thousands of applications.
The above advancements of...
MBC group on of the largest media companies in the Arab world ( its site is down as of 3GMT) has launched a new Arabic version of its Mobile games call of duty "Call of Duty Modern Warfare Force Recon." selling at an Average of 10 SAR. (2.66645 U.S. dollars.)
Since the first Call of Duty mobile release in 2007, the series has sold a c...
Germany based language portal bab.la launched its Arabic version today. bab.la has free dictionaries for 28 languages, where users can use via the web and mobile but what is more interesting you can get any word translated by sending a tweet to @babladict.
To do that just enter the language abbreviation ( ex: En) space the abbreviation of th...
At the Begging this month Sarmady the digital arm of Vodfone Egypt released thier first Arabic iPhone, iPod and iPad app FilGoal South Africa offering interesting features for FIFA Worldcup 2010 fans:
Latest news from the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa
Annalyses of games and exciting features and interviews
information about the pa...
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The price is $199 in the US for the 16GB model, and 299 for the 32GB model. Available in two colors, black and white.
Pre-order start a week from tomorrow with shipping in five countries, US, France, Germany, UK, Japan — in July, 18 more countries."
With 100 new features, Steve Jobs covered 8 new features of the iPhon... 


