Berytech the Lebanese NGO incubator, is launching Berytech Entrepreneurs Forum with the support of Mohammad Bin Rashid el Maktoum Foundation (MBRF), taking place on May 21, 22, 2009 at the Pavillon Royal of the Beirut International Exhibition & Leisure Center (BIEL). This premier event is specifically designed to help existing or a...

Last month I reported on ArabCrunch that facebook launched Arabic beta, but as of today yeserday its officially launched along with Hebrew according to Ghassan Haddad, ‎Director of Internationalization‎ at facebook. As with all other Facebook international languages translation, facebook Arabic and Hebrew was translated by the communit...

I had few questions for H20 New Media in light with their first funding round, Steve Vaile - Founder & CEO of H20 New Media answered me, then I followed with some more via email. So I thought to put them all here. Many thanks to Steve for answering them. AC: who is your competition in the region in each of your product and service? We ...

  As you can tell I did not post updates for the past few days, well because I was in Lebanon for OpenSesame BarCamp- event there. OpenSesame BarCamp-Lebanon was initiated by RootSpace and Naharnet   and Co-Organizered by Youth Shadow Government (IT/Telecom emphasis) and Creative Commons. According to the organizers the event was h...

  A new report from Arab Advisors Group analyzes the cellular tariffs for 46 cellular operators in 19 Arab countries. Operators in Lebanon have the highest average cost of prepaid cellular minutes in the Arab World while those in Morocco have the highest average cost of postpaid cellular minutes. Egypt and Yemen offer the lowest average cellula...

UPDATE:  3 Q&A with STEVEN VAILE, CEO of H2O New Media, bellow. UPDATE 2: full interview here. H2O New Media , the technology company focused on white label Social Media applications in Dubai, UAE has confirmed its first round of funding from Equinox International. An undisclosed yet “significant investment” has been sanctioned ...

Arab tech startup companies got their chance at ARABCRUNCH DEMO to showcase new products on stage before an audience of press, investors, IT professionals and IT students. ARABCRUNCH DEMO 09 EVENT was organized by ArabCrunch - a blog dedicated to profiling Arab originated startups and established companies, and DART- the student entrepreneurship...

UPDATE: Sorry guys the live streaming did not work, we will have the event’s videos online soon. Our big event is here ...

  We talked before about solutions that let you get out bound Twitter SMS  back after Twitter ended its SMS service in most of world, but most of the solutions offered  are paid.  Though there are other MicroBlogging platforms which offer SMS updates, regionally WatWet and Location-Based BrighKite . Now with Twe2 you can get Twitter SMS ...

  Advertising online in the Arab world was very marginal and hard thing to do; advertisers did not know much about online advertising, while websites struggled to get ads, until E-Marketing MENA was born in 2005.  Khaled Jabasini founded E-Marketing MENA using only$15,000 of investment.  He came up with a simple idea, instead of each publi...