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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>GameSlider.com: Social Gaming Platform For Browser-Based Games</title>
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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&#8217;re currently playing, rate and review [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/03/gameslider-com-social-gaming-platform-for-browser-based-games.html</link>
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		<title>Live Blogging From Global Technology Forum 2010 in Silicon Valley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
#This the first post by Amir Kabbara, he is an entrepreneur and ArabCrunch Ambassador in USA, Amir is originally from Lebanon and now working with Microsoft in Seattle. Amir tried to live stream on ArabCrunch the event but some technical problems prevented him, however some video are at the end of this post: (PS: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/03/live-blogging-from-global-technology-forum-2010-in-silicon-valley.html</link>
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		<title>Bassel Ojjeh and Former Yahoo &amp; SAS Data Executives Join Forces To Create nPario, a Startup That Helps Organizations Understand and Market Consumer Intent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 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 revenue by acting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/03/bassel-ojjeh-svp-yahoo-and-former-yahoo-sas-data-executives-join-forces-to-create-npario-a-startup-that-helps-organizations-understand-and-market-consumer-intent.html</link>
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		<title>Samsung Launches Monte S5620 in the Arab World at the Price of 261.12 USD</title>
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Samsung just announced the launch of its new device in the region, Monte S5620, a A 3-inch capacitive touchscreen  phone that packs UMTS/HSDPA (900/2100, 3.6Mbps) along with quadband GSM, WiFi, A-GPS and Bluetooth 2.1.  The Monte also has a 3.2-megapixel camera with smile-shot and face detection.
Monte includes GPS supported by Google Latitude™, helping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/03/samsung-launches-monte-s5620-in-the-arab-world-at-the-price-of-261-12-usd.html</link>
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		<title>Facebook Shows Respect to its Muslims Users and Deletes the Fake “God” Fan page!</title>
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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  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/03/facebook-shows-respect-to-its-muslims-users-and-deletes-the-fake-%e2%80%9cgod%e2%80%9d-fan-page.html</link>
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		<title>TwitLoader: a Light Desktop App For Uploading Images to Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
One of the reasons that made Twitter famous are its APIs and the third party desktop applications that made life easier for many of us to follow what people tweet and stay in touch with them.
And because of its APIs, third part websites such as TwitPic made sharing photos on Twitter possible, extending Twitter&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/03/twitloader-light-desktop-app-for-uploading-images-to-twitter.html</link>
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		<title>Just Launched: Watch Al Jazeera English Live on your iPhone Without Downloading any AJ Apps and for Free.</title>
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Aljazeera just launched a new free iPhone website version that enables users to watch Aljazeera English from live via m.aljazeera.net ( click on LIVE on the top menu bar or on the LIVE banner further down.)
Aljazeera plans to add Arabic mobile website  shortly with Live links. The only English news channel from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arabcrunch.com/2010/03/just-launched-watch-al-jazeera-english-live-on-your-iphone-without-downloading-any-aj-apps-and-for-free.html</link>
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		<title>Google CEO Eric Schmidt: Silicon Valley Companies Have big Interest in MENA as a Fast Growing Region #adms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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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