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Screenshot After we posted about Hillary Clinton's and the U.S Department of State plans to enter into competition with ArabCrunch with a new project under the U.S department website. As part of the US government engagement plans for entrepreneurship in the Muslim world ,  as a new pillar to fight "extremism" or "terrorism" as the U.S administration say...
Screenshot 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...
Screenshot Today Jordanian startup Aqar Estate a real estate web listing site has organized a party at Bristol hotel in Amman, Jordan where they showcased to the real estate and web industry their upcoming version of the site. The new site which is set to be launched the 1st day of the Islamic Month of Ramadan -around 20th of this month- will have a co...
Screenshot Update: end of the post. Motorola has been a Mobile handset icon in the Arab world for a long time, but in the past few years the star has diminished to rivals such as Nokia and now iPhone and BlackBerry. That case was not specific to the Arab world, its has been a problem that Motorola faced in its mother land: USA, but with the launchin...
Screenshot 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...
Screenshot Former regional marketing manager for Google in MENA Nagi Salloum who launched yesterday dead simple sharing tool loomn.it is launching today his new startup loomni. Lo0mni is trying to solve the problem of education and knowledge. As after university most people tend not to learn and take new courses as most traning courses are geared towards ...
Screenshot We launched ArabCrunch.NET in public beta around 2 months ago in order to drive innovation and startups infusion in the Arab and emerging markets. The problems we face is not just an entrepreneur who needs funding, number one problem is shortage of skilled engineers and developers. To that end at ArabCrunch we look at the problem from an eco...
Screenshot Nobel Peace Prize Winner ElBaradei and Former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency is taking another step in social media to engage more Egyptians in his bid to over take the presidential seat form the current Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. http://ask.elbarad3i.com/ a domain which redirects to Google Moderator site in A...
Screenshot Updated. Following Obama's steps in using social media and using it to help in his campaign to change egypt and topple Egyptian President Hussni Mubarak, via elections, Former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency and Nobel Peace Laureate ElBaradei along with his supporters has been using social media extensively and the Inter...
Screenshot Following the news of Dice  holdings -which owns the well known tech jobs websites Dice- acquisition of Dubai based, Wordlwideworker for 6 million USD, we made a followup Interview with Worldwideworker CEO Frederik Rengers, to tell us more about his company and the acquisition. Thanks Fredreik for your time and I hope it will be a benefit for ...
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