If you are not familiar with AdobeAir it is a cross platform runtime environment developed by adobe for building and running rich Internet applications using Adobe flash, Flex, HTMl and Ajax and can run as desktop applications.
The platform fame started with debut of Twitter desktop app such as Tweetdeck and Seesmic, both allow you to manag...
eHow is an online guide with more than 1 million articles and videos about how to do things. The site is owned by Demand Media a US company that is set to hit NASDAQ, as it filled for an IPO early this month.
Critics of eHow label the site as a content farm which pushes together an inventory of low quality articles and videos produced by lo...
Sukar a private shopping club that offers on a weekly bases from well known brands at discount rates up to 70% has started offering delivery to Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon. It was available before only in UAE. Sukar was launched end of last April.
Jabbar group is the majority owner of Sukar, the other e-commerce company that Jabbar owns is Souq....
Around 10 days ago ArabCrunch had a meeting with Barig Seraj the CEO of ICT Ventures a Saudi based Venture capital firm.
Barig Seraj informed us about his company and his recent investments, ICT Ventures is a growth based VC that focus in the IT sector. The VC firm made 3 investments so far. First in Mobidiv an Egyptian mobile app develope...
After Yahoo acquired Maktoob last year, many of Maktoob group companies were merged under one independent brand called Jabbar. Somehow similar precedence happened with Orascom Telecom's LinkDotNet 150 million USD buyout to Mobinil, but at a larger scale.
Orascom Telecom which is one of the largest tech and telecom groups in the Arab world, ha...
While Aqara Estate a Jordanian startup founded by ex-Jeeran female employee Hanan Khader offers real estate agents in the Arab world and sellers the ability to list land, buildings or apartments for sales or rent. Aqaramap a Yamni startup that was launched last April came with emphasis on location by pin pointing the real estate address to the m...
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ArabCrunch is not a political blog, in fact we hate politics and do not like to make anyone angry, but we also cover social media and its impact.
KhaledSaid the Egyptian 28 years old man has become a web icon for egyptians and many Arabs. His family said that he was tortured to death by 2 Egyptian police offic...
PS: ArabCrunch reports also social media and sometimes its political impact, ArabCrunch has no political affiliations, I hope this wont cause us problems with anyone.
In the late 90s Aljazeera set the stage of political debates that was never seen before since the inception of modern media in the Arab world . As Arab leaders and governments ar...
Yahoo! announced today that it will start running its customer base operation for 9 languages via IBM service delivery center in Cairo, Egypt.
These languages are: Arabic Spanish, German, French, Italian, Turkish, Polish, Romanian, and Russian.
After Yahoo’s acquisition of Maktoob late last year there was fear many employees would be laid ...
Saudi Arabia based N2V, the holding company of successful Arab Internet brands such as OneCard an e-paymant method that comepetes with Jabbar's CashU, Net Advantage one of the largest online advertising network in the Arab world and JEEL a web hosting company Saudi Arabia, Mubasher.info a financial portal, Hawaaworld.com women online community and...
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