Last month I reported on ArabCrunch that facebook launched Arabic beta, but as of today yeserday its officially launched along with Hebrew according to Ghassan Haddad, Director of Internationalization at facebook.
As with all other Facebook international languages translation, facebook Arabic and Hebrew was translated by the communit...
UPDATE: 3 Q&A with STEVEN VAILE, CEO of H2O New Media, bellow.
UPDATE 2: full interview here.
H2O New Media , the technology company focused on white label Social Media applications in Dubai, UAE has confirmed its first round of funding from Equinox International. An undisclosed yet “significant investment” has been sanctioned ...
eSpace was founded in the year 2000 at the hands of eight fresh graduates from the Computer Science Department, Alexandria University, Egypt. They started the company with a mere investment of 200$, using initially a shared apartment. During its 9 years, eSpace has undergone a series of changes and today it is seen as a leader in Open Source s...
Fadi Francis Dababneh the founder and CEO SouqElArab.com ( a social shopping e-commerce website) was a smart and motivated entrepreneur. I met him once before I started ArabCrunch and told him about my plans for it, we discussed different plans to take SouqElArab to the next level, but he told me he lacked funding to do that.
I have suggest...
The Social Networking World Forum will showcase leading global brands analysing how to successfully implement a social media marketing and PR strategy.
Brands such as GM, Coca-Cola, Cadburys and P&G have been invited to discuss incorporating social media into existing and traditional marketing plans, analysing new methods of measuring ...
Wikeez a Lebanon based new social entertainment web site has received USD $250,000 from Kuv Capital, the funding will be used for development and attracting market adoption.
Wikeez allow people to publish and exchange on their favorite subjects centered on entertainment topics (TV shows, movies, celebrities, music and sports).
In wikeez...
Muslim.com the Muslims social network which was launched late 2006, is planning to launch a virtual world like SecondLife but for Muslims.
Unlike second life TechCrunchUK reports that this idea will be more tailored to the Muslim world. The service which will be launched in 4-6 weeks will allow things such as Muslim women to ware hijab, and ...
Founded in 1996 as a subsidiary of the Egyptian company LINKdotNET, LINK Development‘s Facebook Dynamics CRM Connector, is a new application to enable companies to communicate with and handle queries from customers through Facebook.
As facebook has reached more than 100 million members worldwide including millions in the Arab world, now...
Current Arabic based SaaS blogging platforms are even homegrown such as Maktoob Blogs , Jeeran Blogs , and Albawaba Blogs. Or International platforms like Wordpress.com and Blogger (from Google) . While they all offer similar features -AC will review them later-, HydePark has a different approach, in which it wants to take Arabic blogging to a...
Once mobile Location based Social networks from startups such as Brightkite, weNear, Plazes, and others, become mainstream, or even Facebook, Myspace and Linkedin entering the mobile location based marketplace.Then advertisers from big corps to mom and pop shops can target in real-time consumers based on their locations and profiles, opening new ef...
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