The Social Networking World Forum will showcase leading global brands analysing how to successfully implement a social media marketing and PR strategy.  Brands such as GM, Coca-Cola, Cadburys and P&G have been invited to discuss incorporating social media into existing and traditional marketing plans, analysing new methods of measuring ...

According to a new report from Arab Advisors Group, STC’s Al Jawwal, Egypt’s Mobinil and Vodafone Egypt are the largest Arab cellular operators in terms of subscribers. With the advent of new operators and increased competition in 2008, cellular subscribers in 19 examined Arab countries reached 194.533 million. ALJAWAL and MobiNil sustained ...

Over 29,000 households share ADSL subscriptions in Jordan. The new Arab Advisors’ survey of Jordan's Internet users also revealed that WiMAX operators had an 8.3% share of residential broadband Internet accounts in the country. Retail e-commerce in Jordan reached an estimated US$ 181 million the 12 months between November 2007 and November 2008....

  So far, the Arab tech startups and innovation seen has been hard to spot, despite some events like GITEX, it is hard for the most promising Arab startups and for emerging technologies to be spotted in the Arab world, whether they are consumer or business applications. GITEX is turning into an Enterprise IT exhibit, while other tech events ...

Citizen journalism takes more uptime on hot news, remember London bombings? The first images were shot by mobile camera, and today the first reports of Mumbai bombing came from citizen journalism via twitter and images on flickr. So Aljazeera launching of Sharek (an Arabic word which means participate) is smart way to get breaking news an...

      It is official iPhone 3G is now available in Egypt via Vodafone and mobinil, making Egypt the first Arab country to have a  iPhone 3G officially. Vodafone Egypt's website announced the availability of iPhone 3G,  so does mobinil's website . I also saw an ad for Vodafone announcing the availability on MBC TV.  I do ...

  Mashbale 2nd Annual Open Web Awards ( ArabCrunch is the only Arab orginated blog Partner) is a unique opportunity for the most accomplished websites and services to receive international recognition for their achievements. During the nominations round, Mashable, received over 43,000 verified nominations. They narrowed down this huge po...

We are witnessing more efforts in the Arab world to help entrepreneurs, with different business plan competitions and incubation programmers. We have ASTF, QRNEC,  and now we have the MIT Arab Business Plan Competition 08. (Look at 12 ways to help you kick start your startup.) Though we need at least dozens more to help flourish entrepreneur...

A new study from Juniper Research has found that Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) will need to fundamentally change their mobile content business models by emphasizing ‘shared value creation’ in order to avoid becoming ‘dumb pipes’ in the future. Only if they can transform their businesses into ‘smart pipe’ service providers, can they si...

From now on ArabCrunch will host a weekly poll to get the feeling from our tech savvy readers about issues related to tech startups, and the web and mobile in industry in the region. This week poll is about online advertising in the Arab world, will it increase or decrease? In light of the current global economic meltdown that has affected the r...