NOTE: Linkedin GoDaddy and Google are doing the Blocking NOT the Government of Sudan.)
Update: Linkedin GoDaddy and Google are doing the Blocking NOT the Government of Sudan. Both Linkedin and Google said before they have to be in compliance with US laws. Google confirmed that nothing has changed from their point. The sanction though do...
Again, I am sorry for not updating since a while part because I am preparing for the launch of ArabCrunch Arabic version and also for being busy with other projects. However this is an interesting post I hope you will enjoy it:
According to a recent research by SpotOnPR a leading regional PR agency, Twitter's growth rate in the Arab world, was 2...
Saleh Al Zaid the talented Saudi programmer, entrepreneur and founder of Untiny has just announced that he has acquired Twtbase a Twitter applications databases.
Just to give you a background information, Untiny is simple English/Arabic service that allows you to untiny -expand- URLs from around 140 URL shorting services, ranging from tinyurl to...
digg_url = 'http://arabcrunch.com/2009/07/breaking-google-friend-connect-now-supports-47-additional-languages-including-arabic.html';
Update: localize your current member gadget, at the end of the post.
Google Friend connect, which aims to bring the social world into all over the web, has just announced adding support to 47 additiona...
Twtri.com developed by Laith Yousi from Iraq, was announced few days ago at GIGAOM's Structure 09 event as one of 2 U.S. grand prize winners for Microsoft’s newCloudApp() - The Azure Services Platform Developer Challenge- . The contest winners were judged by 2 industry leaders Om Malik (founder of GIGAOM) and Michael Cote. ( Submission deadlin...
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Aljazeera Arabic the well known Qatar based TV network, has just added listeners tweets to its “ Minbar Aljazeera” talk show. This move makes Aljazeera the first Arab TV to integrate with twitter.
Minbara Aljazeera, (which mean Aljazeera Forum) is a weekly Arabic listeners live talk show, that tackles different issues and top...
Folowen the Jordanian startup which was previously reviewed by ArabCrunch here, has just gone out of private beta, which means people can start using folowen without an invitation code. Folowen is a search tool that uses Google AJAX Search API to help you find profiles of people and organizations in different social media sites (currently 20.)
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I am sorry for not posting much on AC during the last week because I was -and still- busy with multiple projects, however today’s post is about my recent interview with an interesting and successful Arab serial entrepreneur, Kamal Nasser, CEO of Dubai, UAE, based, Conservus International winner of the Red Herring 100 Europe in ...
The interest for learning Arabic is increasing recently with millions of Muslims and new coverts who live in the west wanting to learn Arabic to read the Quran and to dig deeper in to Islam or non Muslims who have an interest to learn the language and the culture. In USA that made many American universities to open Arabic classes. While in the Arab...
MIT Arab Business Plan Competition is one of the great initiatives that are helping entrepreneurial drive in the region. This year competition saw applicants from 17 Arab countries representing 1,200 teams.
The competition announced the 4 winners last week, who were chosen among the top 10 finalist, but who are the winners and what do they do?
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