Germany based language portal bab.la launched its Arabic version today. bab.la has free dictionaries for 28 languages, where users can use via the web and mobile but what is more interesting you can get any word translated by sending a tweet to @babladict.
To do that just enter the language abbreviation ( ex: En) space the abbreviation of th...


In social media and online marketing monitoring your brand, your competition and your industry is one of the important pillars to carry out a successful social media and online marketing strategy.
Google alert has been here for some times now enabling you to enter a keyword and get alerts to your email inbox whenever that keyword is mentioned o...
Former regional marketing manager for Google in MENA Nagi Salloum who launched yesterday dead simple sharing tool loomn.it is launching today his new startup loomni.
Lo0mni is trying to solve the problem of education and knowledge. As after university most people tend not to learn and take new courses as most traning courses are geared towards ...
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 ...
We launched ArabCrunch.NET in public beta around 2 months ago in order to drive innovation and startups infusion in the Arab and emerging markets.
The problems we face is not just an entrepreneur who needs funding, number one problem is shortage of skilled engineers and developers. To that end at ArabCrunch we look at the problem from an eco...
Update: Google spokesman said "Yes, filtering is up to 11 categories (limit of 5 doesn't apply anymore)."
AdSense is the advertising platform from Google that any website publisher can use to monitaize part of his traffic via ads coming from Google's self service online ad solution for advertisers: adwords.
However, publishers did n...
Google announced 2 days ago the launch of it's Arabic and other 35 language search tool, which allows users to type queries in Arabic on any keyboard by providing a virtual Arabic keyboard. Google decided to introduce this feature:
“Many users are more comfortable formulating questions for search in their own language. Though English transli...
Launched at GITEX 2007, Onkosh.com was one of the few Arabic search engines that poped out from the region. The project is part of Orascom Telecom subsidiary. A telecom, mobile, ISP, web hosting and online media and emarketing giant in the Arab world. Where they have a number of online properties including LinkOnLine which operates MSN Arabia...
There is no doubt that the general public in the Arab world, just like all over the world including USA is ignorant about many things with the Internet, this widely evident that the major browser used by users of mainstream websites in the Arab region is the ugly 10 years old IE 6.0 and in many cases IE 5.5!!!
Many users in the arab world do... 


