It is not a jock Obama's administration plan for "entrepreneurship" in the Muslim and Arab world, as the U.S. government Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) approved recently a total of $455 million in financing to support the establishment of five private equity investment funds.
We have gathered data about the U.S. federal ...
Until recently Google presence in the region was with a small office in Dubai, Cairo and Saudi Arabia, with a small team whose focus was in Google Ad words, marketing, PR and Arabizing some of its products, excluding the fully Arabic Google's Ejabat. While all the development work for Google has been carried out from its center in Switzerland.
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As the trend of foreign capital continues to rise in the Arab region, some major players start to appear, shedding light on what the online Startup scene in has the potential to be. Today we introduce you, to Diwanee.
Diwanee Group in the words of its founders: "is a group of various companies dedicated to digital business". It has come and brou...
Few days ago Google announced its annual Zeitgeist, a look at 2009 through the collective data of the world on Google.
Google Zeitgeist tools also offer insight into which topics were of interest across the globe. Top search terms from over fifty countries appear on our Google Zeitgeist webpage - from political candidates in South Africa, to new...
No one can deny that Arabic is one of the best looking written languages out there, it’s considered a highly sophisticated art form in addition of it being a communication medium.
Yet the amount of Arabic fonts that are available on Windows, Mac, Linux and the Web is very few. This problem was a discussion topic about between some of the p...
Update: Kzalek was on private beta, the download link has expired, sorry for late update it was a miss communication with its founder.
Last month, I nagged and was wondering why the current Twitter AIR based Desktop apps such as TweetDeck and Seesmic do not support Arabic text on Mac or Linux? But now I can breathe the sigh of relief. ( Arabi...
Thanks to God, after a long wait, with an excuse or no excuse and in compliance with the popular demand, your blog AC announces today the launch of "ArabCrunch Arabic Edition which will be the first Arabic blog that focus on tech startups, entrepreneurship, social media and mobile news and views and is based on citizen journalism. Citizen Journalis...
Update: Video Interview here.
More Updates here: Jabbar acquired e-Marketing MENA.
Update: Yahoo press release is at the end of this post, Financial terms were not disclosed, but my sources say the deal is over than 100 million.
Update: As we said other Maktoob websites that are not branded under Maktoob name will be called "Jabbar"...
The annual results of Arab Advisors Group’s Total Country Connectivity Measure (TCCM) reveal substantial –mostly cellular service driven- improvements in overall scores. The Arab broadband Internet markets also registered very positive growth.
The United Arab Emirates is the most connected country in the Arab World according to the Arab Adviso...
Again, I am sorry for not updating since a while part because I am preparing for the launch of ArabCrunch Arabic version and also for being busy with other projects. However this is an interesting post I hope you will enjoy it:
According to a recent research by SpotOnPR a leading regional PR agency, Twitter's growth rate in the Arab world, was 2...
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