Finally the US$50 million Intel Capital Fund in Middle East and Turkey is moving, after several years with money setting in the bank with no investments. Intel Capital, Intel Corporation’s global investment organization, has announced an investment in three UAE-based technology companies: Conservus International FZ-LLC, Pulse Technologies F...

2 days ago Facebook announced on the homepage (once logged in) that face book in English UK is available. The drop down menu offered an array of  international languages including Arabic as beta. Before Arabic was only available in the facebook’s translation app. Now it is an option for any user to add it without installing the app. The in...

Watch now the live broadcast: The Twestival or Twitter Festival according to its website “ does have similarities to a Tweet-up in the sense that people from Twitter connect offline to network and catch up socially. There are three key reasons to explain what is special about Twestival. 1) It is a much larger event in scope which involves...

My take is short this event was inspired by TechCrunch 50 and DEMO events and Mashable meetups, it is bringing a mix of both of them to the Arab World. Bellow is the press release pleas repost in your blog/website, and do not forget to embed the badges found here  in your blog too, to spread the word about this event and the great Arab startups wh...

eSpace was founded in the year 2000 at the hands of eight fresh graduates from the Computer Science Department, Alexandria University, Egypt. They started the company with a mere investment of 200$, using initially a shared apartment. During its 9 years, eSpace has undergone a series of changes and today it is seen as a leader in Open Source s...

  Interactive Ventures Holding Company (“IV Holdings”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Accelerator Technology Holdings (“ATH”), that  invests in Internet and Interactive companies serving the global Arab audience, has become a strategic financial investor in MediaScope Ltd, a pioneering digital marketing and publishing company based in ...

  We made the news again, this time a complete post about ArabCrunch was featured on CenterNetoworks and HYPED.NL, you can find the CN post here.  Hany was the person who tipped CenterNetworks about us. CenterNetworks CenterNetworks NYC-based blog that “was relaunched in September 2006 to focus on the "new" Internet. The mission is to ...

  Cisco announced that it will be hosting Cisco® Expo Saudi 2009 on Feb. 9 and 10 at King Fahad Cultural Center in Riyadh at the same time the event will be streamed live online for Free. With the theme “Experience Today the Network of Tomorrow,” this year’s event  is expected to bring together more than 2,500 business decision make...

Gmail has added a much need feature move messages to a folder or label, before messages could be only labeled but stayed under inbox, which sometimes creates clutter, the only way was a complicated way:  to move an email out of your inbox and into a label you first had to apply the label using the "More actions" menu and then click "Archive. ...

  The Arab Advisors Group analyzed the ownership structure and revenues of all fixed PSTN line and cellular operators in sixteen Arab countries. The analysis aimed at examining the "actual" level of privatization and state ownership in each country measured by the proportionate share of each operator of total market revenues. The analysis also ...