Posts Tagged ‘Saudi Arabia’


Screenshot Updated: ArabCrunch sources who are close to the 3 telecom operators in Saudi Arabia confirmed just now the deal has been made between RIM and Saudi Arabia, BlackBerry service to continue in the kingdom. Official Announcement most likely tomorrow, UAE to follow. Yesterday, Saudi Arabia's BlackBerry (BB) ban went into effect, but users report...
Screenshot Saudi Arabia Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) asked  the 3 operators in Saudi Arabia: Saudi Telecom Co, Mobily and Zain Saudi Arabia to immediately stop the BlackBerry (BB) service in the country starting this Friday. This comes 3 days after news went out of the kingdom decision in blocking BB messenger and in UAE's...
Screenshot 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...
Screenshot Saudi based, restaurants social review site or "Yelp for the Arab world" Qaym has launched a new design for its Arabic site that includes a number of features: new cities page design that now includes restraints guide, badges for active members, improved search that now comes with suggestions among other additions. In the blog post (Arabic lin...
Screenshot Facebook everywhere. In its push to make Facebook available to everyone anywhere at anytime, Facebook launched back on May 2010 ZERO Facebook or 0.facebvook.com  an optimized mobile version of Facebook that includes all of key features of Facebook: update status, view news feeds, like or comment on a post, reply to messages but comes with ...
Screenshot 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...
Screenshot Update: the site's homepage is up again. Saudi bank Riyad Bank has been hacked by a group of hackers who posted a message demanding to end the service of the Mayor of Al Madina province in Saudi Arabia. Al Madina is the second holiest city in Islam, and the burial place of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and it is the capital o...
Screenshot As AC broke yesterday the heavy rains that stormed the Saudi capital Riyadh flooded many parts of the city, causing damage and putting human life in danger. Many were trapped and some unverified reports suggest incidents of death. As we reported Twitter was instrumental in almost everything related to this sad event. Since ArabCrunch also ...
Screenshot Update: A new post: #riyadhrain Catastrophe SocialMedia Guide to Save Lives, Ask for Aid & View Traffic.. A massive flood has just stormed the Saudi Capital Riyahd and Twitter was the first and only platform until now that broke the event before any other media. Saudi Arabia twitter users are tweeting live from flooded streets wit...
Screenshot Google announced yesterday that it has added a new feature to its contextual online advertising platform Adwords, for advertisers targeting Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The new feature allows advertisers in both countries to target ads only to specific region, city or geographical location. Google is able to deliver regional targeting because it knows...
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