Microsoft Corp. announced the promotion of Ali Faramawy to Corporate Vice President Microsoft Corporation and President – Microsoft Middle East & Africa. The promotion recognizes Faramawy’s strong leadership and his contributions to helping "to fuel growth across the region. " It also underlines the growing role of MEA (Arab world) as an ar...


National Security counsel of the united state of America is part of the whitehouse and is used as a forum for US national security and foreign policy issues. Its members include top US executives such as the President and US army chief.
Pradeep Ramamurthy is Senior Director for Global Engagement at the National Security Council and is in cha...
"Exposing War Crimes is not a Crime." this is the slogan of Supporters of US intelligence soldier Bradly manning, they have started since few weeks online and offline campaign to free the suspected Wikileaks whistle-blower.
Bradly is a suspect of leaking massive amount of Inelegance cash about the war in Iraq and US embassy communications i...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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 ...
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... 


