I would to share today 10 tips in 140 characters or less I learned from my past work experience, my observations of other startups and from my own experience with ArabCrunch since it has been around 6 month when your startup ArabCrunch got funded and moved from a one man show to a team based venture:
1- Set priorities early: identify what are...
Yahoo! Middle East recently announced the appointment of Anas Abbar as Head of Product and Product Marketing Management for the organisation responsible for Yahoo! global and regional products in the region. This was announced while I was on ArabNet conference and Anas sets next to me.
Anas Abbar played a major role in enabling technologies ...
We reported yesterday Google Tashkeel, and if you are aware google has its own translation app and widget for websites.
This translation momentum by the giant is a strategy to tab into international markets and improve search, but now google is no longer alone, As few days ago at MIX10 Microsoft jumped to to the bandwagon with Translator w...
Over the past few months, we’ve been working in a new and streamlined design for ArabCrunch.NET that enables us to take the largest technology community in the Arab and emerging world into Public Beta. In order to do so, we have improved navigation, design and discovery and added several new features and applications that empowers our members.
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Arabic language is different than English, for example it is written from right to left and has Diacritics describe how arabic text is pronounced, they are called in Arabic Tashkeel for example in Arabic a (ـِ ) kasra (i) can make the whole meaning of a word different. In Arabic AL-Tashkeel is based on Arabic grammar.
As for Google to im...
Yamli the Boston based startup launched about 2 years ago with a transliteration tool, has extended its offerings recently with its new Dynamic Translator Project, which allows users to translate from Arabic, English, french, German, Spanish and visa versa.
The app which works in realtime is run via Google translate API.
According to Habib H...
If you are a Twitter user, there is a high chance that there are a lot of people you care about who are not using Twitter yet, at least in my case mom and dad!
But, almost everyone uses email, if you wanted to to keep them updated with your tweets or some of them, Tweet To Email is the solution. launched last night, the app is very simple t...
Do you play online games like Mafia wars? Khan wars? if you do, then Gameslider might become your online home when it opens to the public.
Gameslider is a new social platform geared for enthusiast gamers to discover online games to play, add them to a list of games they're currently playing, rate and review games, and share tips, hints, and ...
nPario Inc., a provider of data products and services that enable companies to understand and market consumer commercial intent, opened its business operations today. Led by former Yahoo executives Bassel Ojjeh and Krishna Uppala, and former SAS executive Basel Tutunji, nPario will deliver data solutions that allow companies to increase their reven...
Last week, the talk among many facebook Arabic users is the fake fanpage with the title “Allah” which means in Arabic “One God.”
The group creator/s was dispatching status updates claiming that he is God and asking people to ask him for forgiveness! Also the creator was publishing his own altered form of some Versus of the Quran ...
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