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Screenshot This 25th of January, the day Egyptian activists rallied Egyptians to demonstrate across Egypt against the rule of Egypt's President Hussni Mubarak and harsh economic conditions. 10s Thousands of rallied across Egypt in a bid to emulate the Tunisian revolution that toppled its dictator Zien Al Abden Ben Ali. Egyptians were creative in usi...
Screenshot Updated. There is no doubt that here at ArabCrunch we were big fans of Twitter since the day it was launched. We favored it over its Arab clone WaWet, for many reasons on top of them international adoption rate and a large applications ecosystem. We were happy that Twitter opened a new platform for the world to communicate on 1 to 1 and ...
Screenshot Following the steps by many politicians from around the world  and the region like Obama, Queen Rania, El Baradi or Hamas, "Israeli" Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu has joined Twitter, facebook and Youtube in what it seems a bid to open conversion with Israleis and thew world. "Social media channels are today vital to Israeli public relatio...
Screenshot Inside Facebook released few days ago its Inside Facebook Gold report, with data about membership and usage across the number 1 social networking site in the world Facebook. The report reveals the shift of Facebook population of more than 500 million users, from being dominated by US citizens and English speaking people to more of an internation...
Screenshot The time was around 10:00-11:00 pm, the day Thursday April 19th 2010, the first ArabCrunchStart meetup has just concluded in Amman, Jordan. The meetup was planned as a starting point for a series local meetups in Jordan  as a preparation to launch ArabCrunchStart as monthly event in Jordan. I went to check ArabCrunch.com's current visits, it...
Screenshot H2O New Media the UAE company that offers social media software and services announced 2 days ago that it has bought out Public Relations firm MILK from Olive Communications FZC in a cash deal. The amount of the deal was not disclosed. With this acquisition, MILK becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of H2O and will be known as H2O MILK. In the ...
Screenshot Octavia Nassar CNN's Sr. Editor of Mideast Affairs Tweeted few days ago about the passing of Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah who is considered one of the most important Lebanon's Shia Muslim leader. She Tweeted: "Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah... One of Hezbollah's giants I respect a lot." She deleted her Tweet and ...
Screenshot PS: ArabCrunch reports also social media and sometimes its political impact, ArabCrunch has no political affiliations, I hope this wont cause us problems with anyone. In the late 90s Aljazeera set the stage of political debates that was never seen before since the inception of modern media in the Arab world . As Arab leaders and governments ar...
Screenshot Some dude who started around 2 weeks ago a fan page competition for Drawing Prophet Mohammad peace be upon him has sparked anger among Muslims and managed to have Pakistan to block Facebook, youtube and other 450 Web links for carrying objectionable material. But today a Pakistani court ordered the government to left a ban on Facebook,after ...
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...
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