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• No dear it is not about the old good memories

  President Mubarak visited India for the first time since 26 years of his rule, he has never visited it before as far as I know as a President. The biggest democracy in world gave him the Nehru award !... Posted Nov 20 2008, 01:19 AM by Egyptian chronicles Filed under: Egypt, media, citizen Journalism, Photos, history, politics, Democracy, international, Economy, India, Mubarak, Asia, Nasser, Nehru

• Acid Attack on Afghan Schoolgirls

  In a bid to meet my paper deadline this Friday, I instructed myself sternly not to blog until my word count struck the requisite 8,000. However, I must renege on my deal to share this story, as it makes... Posted Nov 12 2008, 10:28 AM by Caledoniyya Filed under: Human Rights, Women, Asia, Conflict Zones, Afghanistan, South Asia

• ONE | Join celebrities in making poverty history

  One by One Here is an interesting MySpace video clip that promotes ONE initiative, celebrities like Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz, and many others join forces in this... Posted Nov 10 2008, 02:33 AM by jazarah! Filed under: international, Interesting, africa, USA, Asia, Arabia, Public Interest, Clips

• ArabCrunch Partners with Mashable’s 2nd Annual Open Web Awards: NOMINATIONS OPEN!

  ArabCrunch is proud to announce its partnership with Mashable , in its 2nd Annual Open Web Awards. Mashable is one of the top visited blogs worldwide, its choice to include ArabCrunch as one of the 100... Posted Nov 05 2008, 10:48 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, Blogging, international, Events, Europe, Blogs, USA, Social Media, Web 2.0, Asia, Startups, Mobile 2.0, e-commerce, e-marketing, Social Networking, arabcrunch, Mashable, Telecom, Search Engines, Where 2.0, SaaS, ArabCrunch News, VC & Capital, Nomination, 2nd Annual Web Awards, Vortals, Web Awards, Voting

• Muslim Business Club to Rebrands to SALAMBC–Screenshots

  muslimbc whose CEO Rias A. Sherzad I interviewed back in April 08, is in few days time –next Tuesday- to rebrand to SALAMBC short for Salam Business Club. (Screen shots at the end of this post.) MuslimBC... Posted Oct 31 2008, 06:24 PM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, Islam, international, Europe, Web 2.0, muslim, Asia, Startups, Social Networking, Germany, Business social networking, Salam Business Club, xing, linkedin, SALAMBC, Muslimbc, islamcrunch

• OpenX Launches a SaaS Version of the Popular Open Source Ad Server

  If you are a blogger or a med size website who wants to monetize your website and manage your ads at easily with less hassle, the free open source company OpenX today’s announced OpenX Hosted is... Posted Oct 30 2008, 01:34 PM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, Blogging, international, Arabic, Europe, USA, Web 2.0, Asia, Startups, online advertising, e-marketing, emarketing, Adsense, Arabic version, OpenX, OpenX Hosted

• Friends of the Earth | Pollution is closer than you think

  Brilliant! Advertising Agency: JWT, Hong Kong Creative Directors: Steven Lee, Kwong Chi Kit, Barbara Fu Art Directors: Fei Leung, Arthur Tse Copywriters: Babara Fu, Jesse Wong Other additional credits... Posted Oct 30 2008, 02:22 AM by jazarah! Filed under: Interesting, cool, Ambient/BTL, Amazing, Asia, Public Interest

• U.S. Election, Economic Crisis and the War: An Event

  This year has been perhaps the most tumultuous economically and politically in a long while, and as the United States election edges closer, there has been no better time to tackle those triple mega-issues... Posted Oct 24 2008, 08:05 AM by Caledoniyya Filed under: middle east, politics, Europe, Iraq, Asia, Conflict Zones, Britain, conflict, US elections, Afghanistan, Stop the War

• Wikeez Received Seed Funding of USD $250,000 from Kuv Capital.

  Wikeez a Lebanon based new social entertainment web site has received USD $250,000 from Kuv Capita l, the funding will be used for development and attracting market adoption. Wikeez allow people to publish... Posted Oct 22 2008, 06:54 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, Blogging, international, Lebanon, Europe, Dubai, startup, USA, Social Media, Beirut, Web 2.0, Asia, Startups, Portals, Social Networking, France, VC & Capital, Venture Capital, Paris, Entertainmen

• Linked Development Enables Social Media CRM: Connects Microsoft Dynamics CRM to Facebook

  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... Posted Oct 15 2008, 09:10 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Egypt, Arab World, international, Europe, USA, microsoft, CRM, Facebook, Social Media, Web 2.0, Asia, Social Networking, Telecom, Orascom Telecom, SaaS, Linked Development, SAP CRM, Oracle CRM, MSN Arabia, Enterprise 2.0, SugerCRM, Business social networking, LINKdotNET

• Global Handwashing Day… Clean Hands Save Lives!

  Clean Hands Save Lives! Today marks the first-ever Global Handwashing Day, an initiative by Health in Your Hands, UNICEF, Unilever, and many others, the campaign aims to transform handwashing with soap... Posted Oct 14 2008, 02:01 PM by jazarah! Filed under: media, international, Interesting, africa, Asia, Public Interest

• No more Twitter SMS! BrightKite has Free International In-Bound SMS and, It Also Redesigned and Added New Features -30 Invites-

  If you are outside USA, Canada and UK, you no longer can get your twitter friends update via SMS, yhough a number of starups came along to offer you twitter SMS but with hefty charge per SM S . Well that... Posted Oct 11 2008, 01:31 PM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, international, Europe, startup, USA, Social Media, Web 2.0, sms, Asia, Startups, twitter, Social Networking, API, social network, beta, Where 2.0, LBS, Brightkite, Internationla SMS, BK, Denvor, Location Based Socialnetwork

• Consumer spending on mobile broadcast TV to reach $2.7 billion by 2013, but revenues to be hit by free to air services, according to Juniper Research

  HAMPSHIRE, UK — The increasing availability of mobile handsets capable of receiving free-to-air analogue and digital terrestrial TV signals will adversely impact the prospects for dedicated mobile... Posted Oct 07 2008, 01:27 PM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, international, Europe, Us, UK, USA, china, mobile, tv, Asia, Mobile 2.0, Japan, Research, Press Release, Juniper Research, Germany, 3G, 2013, South Korea, mobile TV, streamed video-on-demand, DVB-T, mobile users, DVB-H

• Living to Al–Kindi’s Heritage, KindiSoft : Securing Your Rich Internet Application & Protecting Your IP

  Do you Al-Kindi (also known as Alkindus) (Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب إبن إسحاق الكندي )? most probably not. He was a 9th century pioneer in cryptanalysis and cryptology, he also devised new methods of breaking... Posted Oct 06 2008, 07:48 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Jordan, Arab World, Amman, Arab, international, Europe, startup, USA, Air, PSUT, Asia, Telecom, ASTF, Intel, KindiSoft, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, JCipher, kindi, SWF, Flash, Al-Kindi, Adobe, Cipher, RIA

• Sponsor | Tired of starting defeated?

  Tired of starting defeated? Support Turkish Sports to eliminate the financial difficulties. Advertising Agency: Concept Istanbul, Turkey Creative Director: Niyal Akmanalp Art Director: Deniz Demirbas Copywriter... Posted Oct 06 2008, 01:55 AM by jazarah! Filed under: Ads, Interesting, cool, Asia, Public Interest

• On the holy night

  On this holy night in this holy month Please Pray to God to save the country Please Pray to God to save us Please Pray to God to give us hope again. Please Pray to God to make the hostages return safe... Posted Sep 26 2008, 02:17 PM by Egyptian chronicles Filed under: Islam, Arab, Democracy, Religion, africa, Asia, Salam 98, ramadan, Just Opinion, Opinons, Region, El-Kadr Night

• Eveready | Avoid Darkness Traps with Eveready Torches

  Advertising Agency: Rediffusion DY&R India Art Director: Piyash Ghosh Creative Director / Copywriter: Anandaroop Ghosh Read More... Posted Sep 24 2008, 06:42 AM by jazarah! Filed under: Ads, Interesting, cool, Amazing, Asia

• The Child Soldiers of Lebanon

  Earlier this week the London daily newspaper, Al-Hayat, revealed that a number of factions in Lebanon are recruiting and training child soldiers. While the factions and youth movements deny providing the... Posted Sep 24 2008, 03:03 AM by Caledoniyya Filed under: Human Rights, middle east, Lebanon, africa, war, Asia, Conflict Zones, Americas

• Furious dismissed Indian employees beat CEO to death

  This is got to be the worst decision in the lifetime of the 44-year-old Lalit Kishore Chaudhary, the CEO of the India unit of the Italian group Graziano Trasmissioni, 200 furious mob of dismissed workers... Posted Sep 22 2008, 11:31 PM by jazarah! Filed under: Stuff, Asia, Jazar

• A Cairo University Graduate could be the first Woman PM in Japan

  Yuriko Koike , the famous Japanese Politician and former minister is very close to be the first Women Prime Minister in Japan after being the first Woman defense Minister. Yuriko for those who do not know... Posted Sep 21 2008, 04:10 AM by Egyptian chronicles Filed under: News, Egypt, middle east, Women, politics, international, mideast, education, africa, Asia, Egyptian Life, Japan, Prime minister, Cairo University, PM, Yuriko Koike

• Greenpeace | Switch off when you don’t need it

  Smart idea for an outdoor advertisement! Advertising Agency: Firstell Communications Shanghai, China Creative Director / Copywriter: Murphy Chou Art Directors: Murphy Chou, Zoe Zhao Photographer: Walker... Posted Sep 17 2008, 05:05 AM by jazarah! Filed under: Interesting, Amazing, Asia, Public Interest, Outdoor

• Advertising to Fuel Mobile Social Networking Growth as User Generated Content Revenues Reach $7.3bn by 2013

  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... Posted Sep 16 2008, 06:42 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, international, Europe, USA, china, mobile, Social Media, Web 2.0, Asia, Mobile 2.0, e-marketing, Social Networking, Research, Press Release, Juniper Research, Telecom, report, mobile ads, Where 2.0, m-marketing, users, Juniper, mobile content, mobile social networking, user-generated content, Far East, LBS, Indian Sub Continen, Brightkite, 2013

• The heroes of Egypt are still honoring us at Beijing

  We got two more gold medals in Powerlifting at Beijing Paralympics added to our medals records Heba Ahmed Said got a Gold medal in Powerlifting Women 82.5 kg where Metwaly Mathna Ibrahim got another Gold... Posted Sep 14 2008, 08:21 AM by Egyptian chronicles Filed under: News, Egypt, Life, international, Sports, china, Asia, Beijing 2008, Egyptian Life, Paralympic games, Powerlifitng

• A Salute to our heroes in Beijing

  A big salute to our heroes in Beijing Paralympics who raised our heads high with their great performance. Thanks to our heroes we received till now 6 medals : 5 in Powerlifting and one in ahtelics . We... Posted Sep 11 2008, 08:45 AM by Egyptian chronicles Filed under: News, Egypt, Women, Photos, international, Sports, china, Asia, Egyptian Faces, Egyptians, Egyptian Life, Paralympic games, internaitonal, Sherif Othman, Fatma Omar, Powerlifitng

• Next there will be a little China Town.

  It is not about the Olympics they amazed the world with and made the British doubt if they can represent an opening ceremony like the one they saw in the Bird’s Nest. They are not coming because they are... Posted Sep 10 2008, 02:34 AM by Egyptian chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, middle east, citizen Journalism, Life, Culture, mideast, education, africa, china, Cairo, Schools, Asia, Egyptian Life, chinese, Minorities, China town, Little China, communities, 6th of October Governorate

• TechCrunch Gets a Cool Interface Redesign

  Here at ArabCurnch we are big fans of TechCrunch, it is a must read for anyone involved with the internet industry specially web 2.0 ( Disclosure ArabCrunch is not affiliated with TechCrunch it is just... Posted Aug 27 2008, 03:10 PM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Blogging, international, Europe, Blogs, Blog, USA, Social Media, Web 2.0, Asia, arabcrunch, API, UI, Redesign, TC, Michael Arrington, widget, AideRss, TechCrunch, top blogs, interface, Advice &Tips

• TweetSMS Launched Today Enabling Twitter SMS in 190 Countries Including Many Arab States

  TweetSMS has been launched today after around a week of internal testing, the launch was scheduled yesterday, but apparently they had some hiccups which lead to delaying the launch to today. As reported... Posted Aug 27 2008, 10:31 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Egypt, Jordan, Arab World, international, Syria, UAE, Europe, Kuwait, UK, USA, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Bahrain, Qatar, Yemen, Tunisia, mobile, Web 2.0, sms, Zain, Asia, Mobile 2.0, twitter, Twitter SMS, TweetSMS, Japan, Italy, Australia, Oman, Algeria, Libya Arab Jamahiriya, and Lebanon, ZygoTweet, twitMobile, Sudan, France, wtwet, Norway, Morocco, 2 way SMS, Denmark

• Judge Ezz and Salem in the same way

  I do not defend in a way or another Naguib Sawiris , he is just a rich man who thinks just because his family name was in Forbes and Arabian business ,he can say what ever he wants in his mind with no... Posted Aug 22 2008, 01:27 PM by Egyptian chronicles