Archive for the ‘Startups’ Category


Screenshot 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 ...
Screenshot Arab tech startup companies got their chance at ARABCRUNCH DEMO to showcase new products on stage before an audience of press, investors, IT professionals and IT students. ARABCRUNCH DEMO 09 EVENT was organized by ArabCrunch - a blog dedicated to profiling Arab originated startups and established companies, and DART- the student entrepreneurship...
Screenshot   We talked before about solutions that let you get out bound Twitter SMS  back after Twitter ended its SMS service in most of world, but most of the solutions offered  are paid.  Though there are other MicroBlogging platforms which offer SMS updates, regionally WatWet and Location-Based BrighKite . Now with Twe2 you can get Twitter SMS ...
Screenshot   Advertising online in the Arab world was very marginal and hard thing to do; advertisers did not know much about online advertising, while websites struggled to get ads, until E-Marketing MENA was born in 2005.  Khaled Jabasini founded E-Marketing MENA using only$15,000 of investment.  He came up with a simple idea, instead of each publi...
Screenshot   Finally the US$50 million Intel Capital Fund in Middle East and Turkey is moving, after several years with money setting in the bank with no investments. Intel Capital, Intel Corporation’s global investment organization, has announced an investment in three UAE-based technology companies: Conservus International FZ-LLC, Pulse Technologies F...
Screenshot   Interactive Ventures Holding Company (“IV Holdings”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Accelerator Technology Holdings (“ATH”), that  invests in Internet and Interactive companies serving the global Arab audience, has become a strategic financial investor in MediaScope Ltd, a pioneering digital marketing and publishing company based in ...
Screenshot   We made the news again, this time a complete post about ArabCrunch was featured on CenterNetoworks and HYPED.NL, you can find the CN post here.  Hany was the person who tipped CenterNetworks about us. CenterNetworks CenterNetworks NYC-based blog that “was relaunched in September 2006 to focus on the "new" Internet. The mission is to ...
Screenshot 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...
Screenshot Update: Osfoor website has been deactived and will be launched soon. we will let you know once it is. Osfoor an Arabic word which mean Bird,  is exactly like what Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop is today: A news aggregator but in Arabic. Like Alltop the people behind Osfoor select websites and blogs and add them each to its selected category.  Once y...
Screenshot In another incremental development, Yamli has recenlty launched News Search . The news search is powered by google and works the same way to their recently launched search. Where Yamli automatically expands Arabic keyword searches to include all of their transliterated variations and returns news results for both Arabic and transliterated co...
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