Zain Jordan a branch of one of the largest mobile operators in the world has announced launching Ibda3 program; Ibda3 an incubator program for youth between 18 to 25 years old. Zain's website says that the program provides "highly combined business development processes, tools & specialists, teamed up to nurture and support the early s...

Tasree3 the Jordanian startup which enables users to find restaurants in a fast and easy way, has launched today its Arabic user interface. The Arabic version has the same functionality we mentioned before for its english version: "It has only one search bar where you enter the restaurant's name that you want to eat at, and in case you do not r...

Update: To apply as an ArabCrunch Ambassador please read the end of the post. At ArabCrunch we have a mission to drive entrepreneurship and innovation, something we started implementing around 2 years ago with this blog. Gradually we’ve been adding initiatives toward achieving our mission, the last one you know of is our mega projec...

I would like again to congratulate all Arab startups and readers: Since we started ArabCrunch around 2 years ago, we were struggling to find Arab startups or interesting arab tech news to write about, as part of our mission was to let you and the world know about them and inspire Arab geeks to go ahead and just start. Today, we feel there is...

Update 1: Aljazeera English has been added it is now #5 Update 2: from innowave. the company behind ArabTweeple  said that they "used a Twitter search engine that offer twitter search for people by location, and got the list by API calls, but right now, most of the informations is a bit outdated ( especially Followers count ) , from now on the...

Update: Zakaria Kaddari from innowave. the company behind ArabTweeple said that he "used a Twitter search engine that offer twitter search for people by location, and got the list by API calls, but right now, most of the informations is a bit outdated ( especially Followers count ) , from now on I will update those information directly from Twit...

Around 2 weeks ago Google Launched Google Tashkeel which adds missing diacritics to Arabic text. Yesterday Aljazeera Arabic asked ArabCrunch board members,CEO of nPairo and former Senior Vice President Yahoo! Bassel Ojjeh about Google's service at the 11:00 pm news hour. Here is the interview recorded using Nokai N900: ...

Contrary to the iPhone and iPod Touch, Apple didn't offer a weather application on the iPad. So geeks at Alexandria, Egypt based, Vimov, rushed in to fill the void and launched Weather HD even before the iPad was launched, around a month after they launched "iStumlate" support for the iPad. When iPad went on sales this week, breaking around ...

If you write in Arabic and need some translation help or if you stumbled in an English word that you wanted to translate into Arabic, there is a google talk bot that helps you translate english words to Arabic in realtime, right from your Gtalk. Just add: en2ar@bot.talk.google.com a and enjoy getting your translation in realtime....

No one can deny that Apple come back started with the iPod when it revolutionized the Music and MP3 player industries, and no body denies that Apple's iPhone has turned the Mobile handset industry upside down. In which a number of Arab entrepreneurs capitalized with a number of iPhone apps. Now with the iPad availability since Saturday, Appl...