What appears to be the biggest exit in the Internet industry for this year, Dice Holdings, Inc.,a NYSE Listed specialized career websites for select professional communities has acquired United Arab Emirates (UAE) based Energy job sites WorldwideWorker.
In a press release Dice Holdings announced on May 10th that the purchase price consists ...


Aramex the leading regional delivery company is expanding its e-commerce presence with its recent partnership with United Arab Emirate e-commerce startup Nahel (launched at AC), providing complete end-to-end delivery service with plans for its own payment gateway.
We conducted a video Interview with Iyad Kamal COO of Aramex who discussed the d...
If you are a Twitter user, there is a high chance that there are a lot of people you care about who are not using Twitter yet, at least in my case mom and dad!
But, almost everyone uses email, if you wanted to to keep them updated with your tweets or some of them, Tweet To Email is the solution. launched last night, the app is very simple t...
Eric Schmidt CEO of Google (the only company than managed to compete with Microsoft in all fronts and lead) is now in Dubai for Abu Dhabi Media Summit an event ArabCcrunch was not invited to! ( I was invited a source confirmed seeing my badge at the event, and I just digged for the email invite and found it, i did not notice before, since I ge...
Some of the fruits of hosting multinational companies in the Arab world is being realized today, Ahmad Zaharan a Palestinian ex-Nokia and his ex- Nokia Australian college , David McKern, launched today their startup infinitec's first product today: Infinite USB Memory (IUM) Drive.
As you see in the pic IUM looks like any USB, but instea...
As I mentioned last year on this post , when I was young, I grow up reading an Arabic Magazine called “Majed” which is based on one of the most popular Arabic children’s comic book character.
Tomorrow, Majed will enter new chapter in his life, as he will enter the Augmented Reality (AR) world via a game. As in a press release we got from ...
The CERT (Centre of Excellence for Applied Research and Training) Group of Companies the largest private education provider in the Middle East, has launched in collaboration with the Wharton School in Pennsylvania, USA the CERT|Wharton Entrepreneurial Planning and Innovation Competition (EPIC) . CERT|Wharton EPIC is open to all students fr...
Few days ago Google announced its annual Zeitgeist, a look at 2009 through the collective data of the world on Google.
Google Zeitgeist tools also offer insight into which topics were of interest across the globe. Top search terms from over fifty countries appear on our Google Zeitgeist webpage - from political candidates in South Africa, to new...
Abraaj Capital Group announced today that it agreed to acquire all of Riyada Ventures the leading venture capital firm in the MENA region. The acquisition is at the core of a major new push by Abraaj into the small and medium enterprise (SME) space, which is aimed at stimulating and supporting entrepreneurial activity in this vital segment of t...
Update: The rumored price was for Maktoob Wslaat acquisition.
Launched last year, Mrrha which was founded by Mahmoud Elmasoudy and his brother from egypt right from there home, allows you to upload your files synchronously on the Internet and send (mirror) them to the most famous file uploading services, the site was acquired by the Emarati... 





