Middle East’s largest user generated content UGC community, Jeeran.com, announced the launch of a new marketing tool that allows bloggers and users to get insights about the traffic on their blogs and pages on Jeeran.com. The new tool, “Visitors” , features statistics and charts of the number of visitors each page/blog receives, with the ...

I have arrived yesterday and I started this visit to Egypt in meeting cool and innovative IT Egyptian startups .  Right now am posting this entry from the office of one of those startups. ArabCrunch is here to attend a tech workshop tomorrow, in which I will write about it later. I am staying here for around 10 days. Anyone who wants to cont...

This is a great news for us in Jordan, now iPhone is available in all Orange stores across Jordan, making Jordan the second Arab country to officially have iPhone 3G after Egypt.  ArabCrunch was first to publish the news about the iPhone introduction in Jordan , in which the price we mentioned were close to Orange announced prices and plans ...

OpenX Technologies, has announced that the company has experienced significant growth across its various product lines and in the size of its publisher community. As of December 2008, more than 300 billion ad impressions now run through OpenX’s open source software monthly. In addition, the company’s recently launched OpenX Hosted (Saas Version...

Mashable announced the winners of The 2nd Annual Open Web Awards, a multilingual, international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. Through an online nominating and voting process, the Open Web Awards recognizes and honors the top achievements of websites and services in 26 categories. Over 100 Blog Partner...

Funded by ex-googlers, yamli.com is first to introduce expanded search engine technology Yamli.com, a startup targeting the Arabic Web, unveiled its new search engine that allows users to easily search Arabic content in all its forms.  Transliterated Arabic content is ubiquitous among many Arab Internet users due to a large portion of Arabic ...

Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship (QRCE) is holding "Strategic Planning Process: A Must to Survive in Today's Global Environment" Seminar with Dr. Niren M. Vyas a Professor in the University of South Carolina Aiken, USA, Dr. The Seminar will take place on Wednesday, December 17 2008 from 3:00 - 5:00 PM, at the Friendship Auditorium - Prin...

I love to swim and so I would love to swim with my wife –When I find one :P - but the problem current swimsuits reveal so much of the woman's body, but I found a solution when an email hit my mail box from Amani from The Modest Swim Shop. The Modest Swim Shop is a great e-commerce website that offers swimsuits which offers the solution to ...

Ayna Corporation just launched a beta version of Ayna Events Service. The service is dedicated to covering the latest events and occasions happening in the Arab world. Ayna Events presents nice features where events are listed by date and geo-located on Ayna Maps, displaying detailed information with routine options as well as providing comprehe...

ArabCrunch DEMO (DEMOize) the launch pad event for emerging technology in the Arab world  that is being organized by ArabCrunch in cooperation with student entrepreneurship society "DART" at Princess Sumaya University for Technology PSUT (PSUT) -which is also part of Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship (QRCE)- , has been postponed till early F...