Abraaj Capital Group announced today that it agreed to acquire all of Riyada Ventures the leading venture capital firm in the MENA region. The acquisition is at the core of a major new push by Abraaj into the small and medium enterprise (SME) space, which is aimed at stimulating and supporting entrepreneurial activity in this vital segment of t...
Update: The rumored price was for Maktoob Wslaat acquisition.
Launched last year, Mrrha which was founded by Mahmoud Elmasoudy and his brother from egypt right from there home, allows you to upload your files synchronously on the Internet and send (mirror) them to the most famous file uploading services, the site was acquired by the Emarati...
Creative Commons (CC) the equivalent body to open source software foundations but for content has finally launched its Amman chapter.
The launch was part of CC first Salon in Jordan and in the Arab world which took place Talal Abu Ghazaleh business Forum.
The forum also focused on how CC could be applied to business, artistic, entrepreneurial a...
ArabCrunch Broke at the global level that Yahoo Acquired Maktoob, today it was announced that the deal was completed on Thursday noon.
Yahoo's acquisition of Jordan based Maktoob is the first major investment by a US tech company in the Arab region.
As we said before this is a game changer to the startups and the tech scene in the region, a...
After many days of hard work, after over a year of full time dedication to help startups and techies like you, today AC reached a major milestone: ArabCrunch.NET First Online Social Platform in the Arab World focused on Startups & The Technology Industry. With this announcement, the social platform, was what you the passionate startup and tec...
Google makes most of its money via Adwords, but not much on Mobile ads, AdMob that was founded by Syrian Entrepreneur Omar Hamoui, was the king.
This a one of the biggest success for Arab entrepreneurs with an excite at $750 Millions AdMob total funding was around $47 millions.
To know more about the deal read our friends post at TechCru...
As7ab which means Friends in Arabic is one of first Arabic social networks owned now by Yahoo! Maktoob, the social network was launched around 2 years ago by Maktoob, since then it has been adding features gradually.
The new features As7ab has added is alerting users of people who work at the same company or study at the same school.
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No one can deny that Arabic is one of the best looking written languages out there, it’s considered a highly sophisticated art form in addition of it being a communication medium.
Yet the amount of Arabic fonts that are available on Windows, Mac, Linux and the Web is very few. This problem was a discussion topic about between some of the p...
Etisalats ,the Emarati Telecom company has launched today its own kids phone, the device is geared for families to monitor and stay in touch with their kids.
KidsPhone is a simple device that comes only with a 4 programmed numbers, GPS and SMS. The device will alert parents via SMS and email if their kids leave a predefined zone such as school, ...
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Hyzonia is a new startup from Dubai, UAE that aims to simplify Game based banner advertising.
The startup offers “Adver-gaming As A Service” , a new concept that enables advertisers to use video games to advertise a product and run their ads in adver-gaming network without the need to have special platforms, devices or compli...
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