The concept of car polling or ride sharing is not new, but it is new to the region. Kartag has developed an iOS and Android app that enables car drivers in Cairo Egypt to share their ride with friends and friends of friends.
The concept is simple. If you are looking for people to join you in your ride you post a request and people who want to ...


Semantic search engine Kngine has relaunched its web site after focusing on mobile application for android and iOS.
Kngine is funded by Sawari Ventures and is based in Egypt and Silicon Valley.
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Egyptian company behind eKayf an Arabic how-to website also owns BookBake an ebook creation software supporting both English and Arabic, giving users the the ability to create rich interactive ebooks flavored with their own design and layout.
It can be an electronic magazine (ezine), a newspaper, an annual report, a product brochure, and so on...
PayPal will finally launch in Lebanon and Egypt in 2013, the general manager of the online payment gateway, Elias Ghanem, announced Thursday at the ArabNet conference.
Paypal is fully enabled – meaning buyers and sellers with locally issued bank accounts can do complete transactions – in the GCC and Jordan. In Yemen, Morocco, Tunisia and...
Intel with the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC) hosted for the first time Intel’s global entrepreneurship program “Intel youth Enterprise Program” in Egypt starting from today Feb. 14th to Feb 16th. “Intel youth Enterprise Program” ideation camp main objective is to improve ideation, innovation and entrepreneur...
Cairo Transport App Challenge (Cairo TApp) is coming on 16th of February after the participants' submitted projects to address Cairo traffic problems.
The Even is hosted The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) together with the Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) and will be held at 1:30 pm in the...
A Cairo court on Saturday ordered the government to block access to the video-sharing website YouTube for 30 days for carrying an anti-Islam film that caused deadly riots across the world.
An Egyptian judge ordered YouTube to be blocked carrying the film, which he described as “offensive to Islam and the Prophet (Muhammad).” Update: the...
A number of Egyptian developers has launched sphinUX which is the first 100% Egyptian and Arab open source OS.
The OS used to be based on Linux distribution Debian, but they developed an enhanced Kernel (LS Kernel) and launched in on the release RC2-Build21.
A powerful mix of 40% Debian kernel, 40% Hurd kernel and 20% our own Lightning Spe...
Zoboon is an Egyptian mobile startups that offer something beyond gamification. It allows you to shop then you get points and then you can redeem these points at a collection of shops with real items or donate them to a charity.
On the app you can also Follow & connect with the brands and places that you care about, and be the first to lear...
Google released its 2012 Zeitgeist running for the 12th annual Year-End. On 2012 Zeitgeist website, you can explore the most popular and hottest trending search terms from around the world. This year’s site is our most global to date, with a total of 838 lists from 55 countries.
At ArabCrunch we looked at Arab countries mentioned in Google's... 


