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Aljazeera Arabic the well known Qatar based TV network, has just added listeners tweets to its “ Minbar Aljazeera” talk show. This move makes Aljazeera the first Arab TV to integrate with twitter.
Minbara Aljazeera, (which mean Aljazeera Forum) is a weekly Arabic listeners live talk show, that tackles different issues and top...
During the second day of the 6th Media and Telecommunications Convergence Conference which was concluded yesterday in Amman-Jordan, We live streamed via my mobile few sessions, and we also held a mobile payment panel discussion between 3 involved parties from Jordan and UK: Janit Abdallah, Director of Business Development of PayNet a Jordanian ba...
This year is witnessing a growing array of people and companies entering the funding space for tech startups and companies in the Arab region, with Intilaq from Bayt.com and others who we will announce about them soon on ArabCrunch. And as of today Evolveplus based in Amman, Jordan has entered this space.
Evolveplus is a holding company that c...
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 ...
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...
So far, the Arab tech startups and innovation seen has been hard to spot, despite some events like GITEX, it is hard for the most promising Arab startups and for emerging technologies to be spotted in the Arab world, whether they are consumer or business applications.
GITEX is turning into an Enterprise IT exhibit, while other tech events ...
UPDATE: Google removed the ads on .jo .ae .com.sa
UPDATE 2 and 3: see end of the post.
UPDATE 4: response from Google.
It came to my attention today that when you search for Yamli on google.jo .ae or com.sa you get ads for google’s own Arabic transliteration editor called Ta3reeb (Arabization) that competes with Yamli.
To my understan...
UPDATE: see Editor's note bellow.
I have received from Delphine Eddé the founder of Wikeez an email answering my questions and giving more insight into Wikeez:
Who are we ?
An online community for fans !
As you said it in your article we're a social entertainment site, it defines it very well !
Wether your are fan of a movie, an actor,...
As The Kuwaiti cellular market awaits the launch of the third mobile operator Viva by the end of 2008. A new report from Arab Advisors Group titled "Kuwait Communications Projections Report ", projects cellular subscribers to grow at a CAGR of 9.4% from 2008 to 2012, reaching 4.37 million and a penetration rate of 97.2%. Kuwait’s telecom mark...
Yamli .com takes on major challenge to arabic content on the web
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Yamli.com one of my best Arab startups has released a free API that allows the easy integration of its award-winning Arabic transliteration technology into any website. Yamli’s Smart Arabic Keyboard allows users to type Arabic using Latin characters by conv...
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