Arab Sovereign Funds are becoming more active investing in Media and IT companies around the world, on thursday Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) has made an investment in Pearson Publishing the owner of Financial Times. LIA bought 3.01% stake in Pearson for $324 Million, making it the 3rd largest share holder. Pearson is listed in the London and ...
The Internet changed how people shop. Now, Augmented reality is changing how people will shop online.
YOUReality along with Germany based Metaio are introducing Online Retail Visualization 3D tool, which makes it possible for consumers to see products in their own space before they purchase them by integrating Augmented Reality into a suite...
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...
We reported last month that Yahoo is shutting down around 27 sites, since then the NASDAQ listed company has been doing a number of cleanups and introducing further integration between Maktoob sites and Yahoo services and Yahoo's corporate look and feel.
The 27 sites that Yahoo Maktoob will shutdown were all in Arabic, but today while hit...
Yahoo made several steps today starting with de-emphasizing the Maktoob brand, giving the homepage of Maktoob a Yahoo look and feel and releasing single sign-in via Yahoo ID to Maktoob sites.
As there are only 25 days remains for the first world cup 2010 to take place in South Africa, Yahoo Maktoob team launched a new Arabic microsite for ...
UPDATE: Ahmed Nassef, VP and managing director of Yahoo! Middle East told ArabCrunch that there will be No dropping of brand name 'Maktoob'," hence the naming of the brand Yahoo! Maktoob. The new brand will be the integration of both."
Following Yahoo's announcement of shuting down around 26 Maktoob websites, Yahoo! Middle East has today ma...
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Following Obama's steps in using social media and using it to help in his campaign to change egypt and topple Egyptian President Hussni Mubarak, via elections, Former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency and Nobel Peace Laureate ElBaradei along with his supporters has been using social media extensively and the Inter...
Kareem Arafat and his friends at tootcorp, the mother company that launched around 2 years ago WatWet,Twitter's Arabic clone- has launched a new online project this time around Twitter it self.
The new project called Zoofs features an interface that contains the most popular Youtube videos on Twitter and represent them in a nice interface. Zoof...
Arab NBA fans can now get all the content about NBA from the official NBA site in Arabic. The new Arabic NBA site was launched few hours ago by Sarmady a major Internet player in Egypt which was acquired around a year ago by Vodafone.
NBA Arabic website is rich of content as it includes recent matches news, photos, videos, players and team...
Around 2 weeks ago Google Launched Google Tashkeel which adds missing diacritics to Arabic text. Yesterday Aljazeera Arabic asked ArabCrunch board members,CEO of nPairo and former Senior Vice President Yahoo! Bassel Ojjeh about Google's service at the 11:00 pm news hour.
Here is the interview recorded using Nokai N900:
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