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	<description>ArabCrunch is one of the first Arabian originated Blogs, that is dedicated to profiling and reviewing Arab originated startups and existing Internet and Mobile companies and their products and services.</description>
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		<title>Google CEO Eric Schmidt: Silicon Valley Companies Have big Interest in MENA as a Fast Growing Region #adms</title>
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Eric Schmidt CEO of Google (the only company than managed to compete with Microsoft in all fronts and lead)  is now in Dubai for Abu Dhabi Media Summit an event ArabCcrunch was not invited to! ( I was invited a source confirmed seeing my badge at the event, and I just digged for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/03/google-ceo-eric-schmidt-silicon-valley-companies-have-big-interest-in-mena-as-a-fast-growing-region-adms.html</link>
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		<title>Confirmed: Google Gmail Free SMS Chat is Also Enabled to Ghana and &#8220;Israel&#8221;</title>
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As we update the news about Google offering Palestine free SMS chat via gmail with info from a trusted source that Google also offers this feature to the African country Ghana and &#8220;Israel&#8221;, Google spokesman just confirmed officially that update, here is the list of mobile operators list of operators Google Free SMS chat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/03/confirmed-google-gmail-free-sms-chat-is-also-enabled-to-ghana-and-israel.html</link>
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		<title>Updated: Google: Special Treatment to Palestine The Only Country in the World that has Free Gmail SMS After US!?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Update: as per our suspicion it turned out that &#8220;Israel&#8221; and Ghana have the service too.

Google has a neat gmail feature that lets user to send free text messages (SMS) to their friends directly from your Gmail account that works the same way gtalk works. Gmail SMS service was originally launched only for US [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/03/google%e2%80%98s-special-treatment-to-palestine-the-only-country-in-the-world-that-has-free-gmail-sms-after-usa.html</link>
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		<title>Junaio 2.0 First Indoor Social Augmented Reality App at SXSW With Developers API</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Call it web 3.0 or Augmented reality (AR), the technology that overlays digital content such as text, graphics, or 3D models on real objects through any video output.  A Technology that is changing the face of life because of the way it makes life easier.
In the last months of 20009 we saw a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/03/junaio-2-0-first-indoor-social-augmented-reality-app-at-sxsw-with-developers-api.html</link>
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		<title>Juniper: Mobile &#8220;Retail&#8221; Market to Exceed $12 Billion by 2014</title>
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Mobile devices are being used in many ways and every day they are getting smarter, as a result there  are new markets being opened by the abilities of smart phones. Today, Juniper Research published a report that estimate a &#8220;mobile retail market&#8221; to exceed $12 billion by 2014.
The mobile marketing and retail strategies report [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/03/juniper-mobile-retail-market-to-exceed-12-billion-by-2014.html</link>
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		<title>Google to Push for a Larger Expansion in the Arab Region</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Until recently Google presence in the region was with a small office in Dubai, Cairo and Saudi Arabia, with a small team whose focus was in Google Ad words, marketing, PR and Arabizing some of its products, excluding the fully Arabic Google&#8217;s Ejabat. While all the development work for Google has been carried out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/03/google-to-push-for-a-larger-expansion-in-the-arab-region.html</link>
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		<title>Online Photo Printing and Delivery Service PhotoJONET Re-Emerge as Snap2Shop, Get 10 Free Prints</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ We wrote last August 2009 about a 3 different  e-commerce approaches in Jordan mentioning PhotoJONET, A photo storage and printing website service. But PhotoJONET did not live long due to disagreement between its founders.
Today PhotoJonet cofounder Issam Hijaz is brining his startup again but under a new name: Snap2Shop  and a new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/03/online-photo-printing-and-delivery-service-photojonet-re-emerge-as-snap2shop-get-10-free-prints.html</link>
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		<title>Get Bargain Deals With BunndleBuy&#8217;s Patent Pending Group/Social Buying Approach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ With US recessions not yet over and jobs market still tight, every penny you have can adds up to your bottom-line. With bunndlebuy you can save hard-earned currency in buying music, outdoor, Sunglasses and DVD items by leveraging your social circle or similar buyers to get bargain deals.

The way bundlebuy works according to Amad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/03/get-bargain-deals-with-bunndlebuys-patent-pending-groupsocial-buying-approach.html</link>
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		<title>After Launching iPhone 3Gs, Finally Orange Launches 3.5G (HSDPA) in Jordan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
It took about one month since our last speculation about Orange Jordan launch date of the first 3G network in Jordan. But, today Orange 3.5G up and running and covering initially  west Amman, Irbid and Zarqa. Mobile 3Gs comes inline with Orange late launch of iPhone 3Gs around 2 weeks ago.
To me and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/03/after-its-launch-of-iphone-3gs-finally-orange-launches-3-5g-hsdpa-in-jordan.html</link>
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		<title>AlJazeera Launches Its Arabic Live Streaming iPhone App for Free, Makes its Symbian/WinMobile App Free</title>
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The number one TV news station in the Arab world, Al Jazeera, has just launched its Arabic channel Live streaming iPhone app for free. It also made its apps on Symbian and Windows Mobile also free removing the subscription fees ( you can get  the Symbian and Windows Mobile  from here,  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/03/aljazeera-launches-its-arabic-live-streaming-iphone-app-for-free-makes-its-symbianwinmobile-app-free.html</link>
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		<title>Dubai-Based Infinitec Launches The Infinite USB Memory (IUM) Drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Some of the fruits of  hosting multinational companies in the Arab world is being realized today, Ahmad Zaharan a Palestinian ex-Nokia and his ex- Nokia Australian college , David McKern, launched  today their startup infinitec&#8217;s first product today:  Infinite USB Memory (IUM) Drive.

As you see in the pic IUM looks like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/03/dubai-based-infinitec-launched-the-infinite-usb-memory-ium-drive-today.html</link>
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		<title>TwitHorus: Real-Time Tweet Updates and Analytics of Tech Companies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ If you work in the tech industry, it is business 101 to know what your competition is up to. And there is no place better than Twitter to know what your competition are up to, you can create a list and follow the tech companies you want to follow.  Or use TwitHorus ( [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/03/twithorus-real-time-tweet-updates-and-analytics-of-tech-companies.html</link>
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		<title>Global Technology Forum 2010, March 18th: Arab and American Venture Capitalist &amp; Investors Converge in Silicon Valley -Discounts to ArabCrunch Readers.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Since around 2 years ArabCrunch has been fighting through this blog to help Arab startups and the technology industry in this region. Before us, Arab American technology professionals came together to create TechWadi, as a non profit networking organization with a similar vision to ours.
Reaching Achieving that vision was not yet fully reached,  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/02/march-18-arab-and-american-venture-capitalist-investors-converge-at-the-global-technology-forum-2010-in-silicon-valley-discounts-to-arabcrunch-reader.html</link>
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		<title>“Majed”, The Most Famous Arabic Cartoon Character to Enter the Augmented Reality  World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ As I mentioned last year on this post , when I was young, I grow up reading an Arabic Magazine called “Majed” which is based on one of the most popular Arabic children’s comic book character.
Tomorrow, Majed will enter  new chapter in his life, as he will enter the  Augmented Reality (AR) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/02/%e2%80%9cmajed%e2%80%9d-the-most-famous-arabic-cartoon-character-to-enter-the-augmented-reality-world.html</link>
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		<title>Breaking: Facebook’s First Acquisition in a Muslim Country- Octazen Solutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Around a week ago, the most popular social network in the world Facebook acquired a 2 employee Malaysian startup, called Octazen Solutions , which  develops contact importer software that facebook was reported using  for some time now, according to GigaOM today&#8217;s story by Liz Gannes  .

Facebook spokesmen told GigaOM that this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/02/breaking-facebook%e2%80%99s-first-acquisition-in-a-muslim-country-octazen-solutions.html</link>
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		<title>iPad Geeks: Vimov Enables Developers to Develop Multi Touch Apps Before the iPad is Even Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
It is still 6 weeks till you can an iPad, but as developers rush to develop an iPad app it would be great -if you are one of them- to have the full features of the iPad up and running in your app and fully tested.
iPad SDK has multi touch up to 5  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/02/ipad-geeks-vimov-enables-developers-to-develop-multi-touch-apps-before-the-ipad-is-even-released.html</link>
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		<title>With the Launch of the 1st Arabic Social Media Monitoring Service, Will Regional Marketers Turn into Social Media?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Social media marketing is the most effective marketing approach because it is viral and much cheaper than other forms of marketing, as social media or PR 2.0 can provide brands explosive growth that would require  millions of USD spending in other forms of marketing.
The process of socialmedia marketing starts with identifying your target [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/02/with-the-launch-of-socialeyez-the-1st-arabic-social-media-monitoring-service-will-regional-marketers-turn-into-social-media.html</link>
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		<title>Auto Post Your Blog/Website Feed to Google Buzz in Real-Time Via Feedoor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
If you have a blog or a website with feeds it would be smart to integrate it with the new Buzz in town: Google Buzz.
In case you missed the news, Google Buzz is the new social status update service from google that is integrated with Gmail, google maps, Google Reader and all other Google [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/02/auto-post-your-blogwebsite-feed-to-google-buzz-in-real-time-via-feedoor.html</link>
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		<title>An Intelligent Way to Kill Time: Tarneeb.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Tarneeb.com is a place you go to play cards (aka Bridge or Contract Bridge), for those of you who aren&#8217;t familiar with the game, its basically played by four players who form two partnerships; the partners sit opposite each other at a table. The game consists of the auction (often called bidding) and play, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/02/intelligent-way-to-kill-time-tarneeb.html</link>
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		<title>ArabNet Conference (Beirut-March 25-26, 2010 ) to Bring Key Speakers in the Arab Internet Industry and Startups Together</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Smilier to our last year ArabCrunch DEMO 09 event, International Business Alliance Group is organizing ArabNet in Beirut, Lebanon-March 25-26, 2010. The Conference will be bringing together people from the Arab Internet community to network and help startups from across the region.
Top investors, Internet executives and leaders from Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, AdMob and Intel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/02/arabnet-conference-beirut-march-25-26-2010-to-bring-key-speakers-in-the-arab-internet-industry-and-startups-together.html</link>
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		<title>Nokia Launches Its Arab World Music Store: Comes with Music With Free 4 Million Songs on Nokia X6</title>
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Few hours ago we live streamed Nokia’s major regional press conference where they announced the launch of ‘Comes with Music, ’which offers people a year of unlimited access to the entire Ovi Music catalog with the ability to keep all downloaded tracks even after the year is over.

The Arab world launch covers 11 markets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/02/nokia-launches-its-arab-world-music-store-comes-with-music-with-free-4-million-songs-on-nokia-x6.html</link>
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		<title>Live Video Streaming From Nokia Press Conference In Beirut, Lebanon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Update: The event&#8217;s video is below to read the text details go here.
We are here live in Beirut Lebanon for a major announcement  from Nokia, here is the live streaming:
updates:
Nokia launched Music store, it comes with with  free  unlimited  Music for 12 months.
Nokia to bring unlimited Music to 12 Arab [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/02/live-video-streaming-from-nokia-press-conference-in-beirut-lebanon.html</link>
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		<title>SourceForge Simi Unblocks Syria, Sudan,Iran, N.Korea &amp; Cuba- Freedom Loving Admins: Unblock Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
We waited for few days and nobody wrote about  it, so we moved on and broke the news with a guest post from Abdulrahman Idlbi as we were upset when SourceForge the world’s largest open source software hosting website, blocked around 171 million people from Syria, Sudan, Iran, N. Korea &#38; Cuba:  from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/02/sourceforge-simi-unblocks-syria-sudaniran-n-korea-cuba-freedom-loving-admins-unblock-now.html</link>
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		<title>Apple iTunes Store Soon in Jordan, Tunisia, Armenia, Bulgaria, Niger and 8 other Counties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Apple recently posted an updated Terms of Agreement for publishing applications to the App Store, and among the changes are newly added countries in which Apple&#8217;s iTunes Store is set to expand, these countries are: Jordan,  Tunisia, Armenia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Kenya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal and Uganda.   
In the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/02/apple-itunes-store-soon-in-jordan-tunisia-armenia-bulgaria-niger-and-8-other-counties.html</link>
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		<title>The Winner The First ArabCrunch Twitter 100 $ Contest- #ArabCrunch24.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
As a thank you to our loyal readers we launched  our first twitter contest, celebrating the #24 worldwide blog rank ArabCrunch achieved in 2009 under the hashtag label of #ArabCrunch24.
And today I am glad to announce the winner of first ArabCrunch Twitter contest  is Nouha Mahmoud (ArabCrunch.NET profile  @nohaMahmoud, who was selected randomly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/02/the-winner-the-first-arabcrunch-twitter-100-contest-arabcrunch24.html</link>
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