cashU, the regions first online prepaid payment gateway launched in 203 and part of Jabbar Internet Group, has forged an alliance with Abu Dhabi Media Company (ADMC), the owner of ADMC Sport online portal, where ADMC Sport is naming cashU the official online payment service for ADMC Sport customers.
ADMC Sport is a multi-media sports porta...


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...
Update 6: game ended 1:1 stay tuned for ArabCrunch Guide to Follow world cup online and on your mobile...
Update2: 5 PM GMT first half ended....
Again with world cup 2010 one of the most exciting events in the world and I am very excited, here is the live video streaming of the first match, in case one stream close down we will do our best ...
Update: here is the live stream of Mexico VS. South Africa.
Worldcup opening has started in case you can not watch it on TV here is a couple of video streams:
Video chat rooms at Ustream
Watch live video from FでやるGame on Justin.tvThis stream on justin works too.
And here is a link to BBC live coverage, if you know another pla...
As FIFA worldcup is about to start shortly, Twitter launched interesting new features: a mini site for World cup 2010, the site displays matches results, Top Tweets and tweets related to each team. You can follow the first match between south Africa and Mexico here.
Now any Tweet that has #worldcup hash tag will have a soccer icon and twee...
Jordan based BlackBerry (BB) apps developer bberryapp.com has launched around 2 days ago their new BB app in partnership with Football social network startup Shawweet.
The new app which is called Shawweet (BETA) is geared towards soccer fans as it helps you get live football (soccer) scores for world leagues, track live event matches, sta...
Yahoo made several steps today starting with de-emphasizing the Maktoob brand, giving the homepage of Maktoob a Yahoo look and feel and releasing single sign-in via Yahoo ID to Maktoob sites.
As there are only 25 days remains for the first world cup 2010 to take place in South Africa, Yahoo Maktoob team launched a new Arabic microsite for ...
Arab NBA fans can now get all the content about NBA from the official NBA site in Arabic. The new Arabic NBA site was launched few hours ago by Sarmady a major Internet player in Egypt which was acquired around a year ago by Vodafone.
NBA Arabic website is rich of content as it includes recent matches news, photos, videos, players and team...
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,...
Update: Bellow
Saudi telecom (ST) new internet brand is called M3com (with you) (Arabic link) was developed by Maktoob Group out sourcing unit.
M3com is fully in Arabic and has a custom startpage, a social network called As7ab ( friends), and a bunch of other channels: News, Islam, sports, Saudi succor, yellow pages, photo sharing, v... 


