UPDATE: 3 Q&A with STEVEN VAILE, CEO of H2O New Media, bellow.
UPDATE 2: full interview here.
H2O New Media , the technology company focused on white label Social Media applications in Dubai, UAE has confirmed its first round of funding from Equinox International. An undisclosed yet “significant investment” has been sanctioned ...
2 days ago Facebook announced on the homepage (once logged in) that face book in English UK is available. The drop down menu offered an array of international languages including Arabic as beta.
Before Arabic was only available in the facebook’s translation app. Now it is an option for any user to add it without installing the app.
The in...
eSpace was founded in the year 2000 at the hands of eight fresh graduates from the Computer Science Department, Alexandria University, Egypt. They started the company with a mere investment of 200$, using initially a shared apartment. During its 9 years, eSpace has undergone a series of changes and today it is seen as a leader in Open Source s...
Fadi Francis Dababneh the founder and CEO SouqElArab.com ( a social shopping e-commerce website) was a smart and motivated entrepreneur. I met him once before I started ArabCrunch and told him about my plans for it, we discussed different plans to take SouqElArab to the next level, but he told me he lacked funding to do that.
I have suggest...
The Arab techies gathering was 4 days workshop held in Cairo, Egypt - from 23-26 December 2008. ArabCrunch was present and demonstrated itself there.
This post is to sum up the workshop. written by Zeinab Samir a guest writer to ArabCrunch, Zeinab is an Egyptian Web designer who creates designs and themes for Drupal CMS. She also has a personal...
Middle East’s largest user generated content UGC community, Jeeran.com, announced the launch of a new marketing tool that allows bloggers and users to get insights about the traffic on their blogs and pages on Jeeran.com.
The new tool, “Visitors” , features statistics and charts of the number of visitors each page/blog receives, with the ...
Mashable announced the winners of The 2nd Annual Open Web Awards, a multilingual, international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. Through an online nominating and voting process, the Open Web Awards recognizes and honors the top achievements of websites and services in 26 categories.
Over 100 Blog Partner...
ArabCrunch DEMO (DEMOize) the launch pad event for emerging technology in the Arab world that is being organized by ArabCrunch in cooperation with student entrepreneurship society "DART" at Princess Sumaya University for Technology PSUT (PSUT) -which is also part of Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship (QRCE)- , has been postponed till early F...
The Social Networking World Forum will showcase leading global brands analysing how to successfully implement a social media marketing and PR strategy.
Brands such as GM, Coca-Cola, Cadburys and P&G have been invited to discuss incorporating social media into existing and traditional marketing plans, analysing new methods of measuring ...
So far, the Arab tech startups and innovation seen has been hard to spot, despite some events like GITEX, it is hard for the most promising Arab startups and for emerging technologies to be spotted in the Arab world, whether they are consumer or business applications.
GITEX is turning into an Enterprise IT exhibit, while other tech events ...
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