ArabCrunch World's only independent and most popular English tech news site focused on Arab tech, startups and social media has announced its selection of the person of the year 2011.
Starting 2010, each December, ArabCrunch selects Person of the Year featuring and profiling a person, group, idea, place, or machine that has done the most to in...


Many people have startup ideas but they never see the light. GoodorGreatIdea.com tries to change that. The site offers its users to submit startup ideas and rate and disuss it with others. The submitter of the idea earns points depending on his idea rating. As a result, both great ideas and people with great ideas bubble up over a period of time....
Preston & Walker Pte Ltd. singapore based investment firm is offering 1 Million USD for the most promising business plan with a global scope.
"Our aim really is to look for the next big thing - whether it is an idea to generate more jobs, to change the way the game is played in a specific industry, to create a more socially responsible world -...
Around 2 years ago Yahoo acquired maktoob the largest Arab portal for around 200 million USD. And people started speculating when an Arabic version of Yahoo Mail will go live.
Few days ago Yahoo! Maktoob announced launching the Arabic version of the already popular Yahoo! Mail. this is a very important step for Yahoo in the Arab world. As some...
Tech bloggers and the media in the recent weeks were busy pointing out the conflict of interest TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington and his the blog standing as he has founded a Venture Capital fund "Crunch Fund". As he would favor some startups and companies he funds over the others.
But that was not the only conflict of interest the site su...
US government keeps talking about its values of democracy, freedom in general and freedom of press. But when it comes to exposing their own crimes or publishing views of the "other side", freedom of press is not anymore free and one sided view should be the only one "beamed."
A confidential US cables from US embassy in Doha, Qatar where Aljazeer...
US based National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce (NUSACC) has opened registration to its Fifth Annual High Tech Road Show Las Vegas and Silicon Valley January 11-18, 2012 to both business leaders and high-level government officials from throughout the Arab world.
The trip will include attending International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) NUSAC...
Update: facebook responded by saying that the new translation button is powered by Bing translation engin, meaning it supports all the languages the bing supports (about 50) For now, the button is visible only to people who have installed the translations app. If a human translation is also available, they show that, instead. The way it works i...
Tomorrow is Eid Al Fitr in most Muslims countries. In this occasion I send my greetings (see my Video below) to All Muslims worldwide and specially AC's Muslim reader: Happy Eid, Eid Mubarak and May Allah accept from me and you. If you are not Muslim then I also wish you a happy Tuesday :).
What Is Eid Ul Fitr?
Muslims celebrate 'Eid ul F...
Hacktivists group Anonymous has organized a protest against USA San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART ) for shutting down cell phone service to four stations in downtown San Francisco in response to a planned protest. The protest was planned against killing an innocents man by BART police.
EFF called the action Pulling a Mubarak in ... 


