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Screenshot 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...
Screenshot It is hard to find an online expert who denies the power of social media in helping anyone with creativity to reach the masses virally and via low cost efforts. Social media has been one of the main reason behind Obama's presidential campaign success, and now social media is used by both Israelis, Arabs and Muslims with their varied message...
Screenshot Sitting here waiting for President Obama to come on stage, room is completely full of delegates, press, and secret service.. Obama is here, welcoming the Delegates to the US. Obama says: "too often, the relationship between the US and muslim countries has been one of mistrust...that is why I went to Cairo almost one year ago...to start a ...
Screenshot Update:  Editor: in his speech Jerry Yang founder of Yahoo praised ArabCrunch.NET the first and largest social platform that empowers and connects Arab entrepreneurs  and geeks. As many of you know, on April 26-27 President Obama is hosting the first ever "Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship". I arrived in Washington DC this morning and ...
Screenshot Today is the launch of SUKAR (Sukar profile  on arabcrunch.net,) a new type of startup that Jabbar ( the company that emerged after Yahoo Maktoob deal) invested in with a  close to 5 millions $ USD, according to sources. Sukar which means sugar in Arabic  is an e-commrece site that is different than any other as it is a private shopping club...
Screenshot When mergers or acquisitions happen companies tend to close down unsuccessful products or those that overlap with each other. The other effect is downsizing the acquired companies' staff in which Yahoo fired around 60 employees of Maktoob recently. For Yahoo the mother company in USA, acquiring or launching sites and services and then shutt...
Screenshot Twitter is picking up in the Arab world, as more users are joining and more developers developing Arabic and english application on top of it. TwitSot is a new Arabic Twitter app that joins Twitter Arabic apps, it allows users to signup via their Twitter account and pots polls about anything so other users can cast their votes and add t...
Screenshot Google is pushing further  to support  Arabic and  other 41 International languages in its quest to further increase its Internationalization revenues. In the Arabic front we reported recently about Google's Tashkeel,  yesterday Google announced a new step to support Arabic online with an announcement to added Google automatic translation ...
Screenshot We have a noble mission at ArabCrunch which is to help enable a technology revoluation in the Arab, Muslim and emerging world. But it seems some people do not like us to the level that made them launch a brutal DDoS attack since last thursday night on this blog, forcing us to shut down for around 4 days. DDoS attacks are attempts to make a...
Screenshot Tasree3 the Jordanian startup which enables users to find restaurants in a fast and easy way, has launched today its Arabic user interface. The Arabic version has the same functionality we mentioned before for its english version: "It has only one search bar where you enter the restaurant's name that you want to eat at, and in case you do not r...
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