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Screenshot Yesterday, the second day after the biggest news in the Arab Internet world since ever -Yahoo! Acquisition of Maktoob- I had the chance to record a video Interview with Keith Nillsson Senior Vice President International Emerging Markets Yahoo and Samih Toukan Co-Founder of Maktoob, now Director of Jabbar. The 15 minutes interview covers topic r...
Screenshot Updates: at the end of the post. Over the years google has been adding many of the world’s local domains like google.co.uk and google.jo in which case they provides localized search results. Today Google added google.ps.  yourname.PS is where domains in occupied Palestine are registered like .com or .co.uk. And according to Google Ara...
Screenshot 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...
Screenshot 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...
Screenshot UPDATE: More details of the deal at the end of the post. WebProNews reports that Google and the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology have signed a $10 million contract regarding business and workforce development in Egypt.  According to the site the deal was signed in Washington D.C during the Egyptian Minister of...
Screenshot 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.) T...
Screenshot Updated. Google's new product” Translator Toolkit” is an awesome product for anyone involved in translating from English to any of the 43 languages it currently supports, including Arabic. Because it is a smart and a faster translation SaaS based suite that is free for anyone to use, and I've never seen something like it elsewhere. Unlike...
Screenshot  Yamli which started as an Arabic transliteration service that changes Latin characters into Arabic text, and later went into opening its API to any developer and then launched an innovative search engine, it has just launched a FireFox toolbar in beta ( All ArabCrunch past coverage related to Yamli can be found here .) The Firefox toolbar i...
Screenshot Continuing our series of video interview I did during World Economic Forum, Dead Sea, Jordan. I present to you today a video interview with Jordanian angel Investor Karim Kawar. Karim a person with a smiley face,  has made investments in wide array of sectors, in the tech sector he is an investor in Iris Guard a Jordanian startup special...
Screenshot (Welcome StumbleUpon visitor feel Free to subscribe to our RSS Feed) Updates: 1,2 and 3 at the end of the post. Google has local domains for almost every country in the world. And Morocco is one of them http://google.co.ma/ . However it appears that it is hacked, as of now. Once you try to access the domain, you get a message that says...
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