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• Mecca.com Releases More Features And New Design

  Mecca.com, the Muslim community portal, that also integrates a social networking and user generated content platform, has just rolled out a new look, unveiling a new logo and a re-design for their whole... Posted Nov 17 2008, 03:51 AM by StartUpArabia Filed under: Jordan, Islam, community, muslim, Portals, Startup News, Social Networking, Sharing, Mecca.com

• SMELink.ae, Business Community Portal For UAE SMEs

  The Mohammed bin Rashid Establishment for Young Business Leaders (SME) and Tejari, the leading online B2B marketplace for global emerging markets, has announced the launch of SMELink.ae, a new online portal... Posted Nov 07 2008, 02:26 AM by StartUpArabia Filed under: News, United Arab Emirates, Portals, Social Networking, Mohammed bin Rashid Establishment for Young Business Le, Tejari, SMELink, SMELink.ae, Business Networking, Adbul Baset Al Janahi, SME, Omar Hijazi

• Wikeez, A New Social Entertainment Platform

  Wikeez, is a new Lebanon-based startup, focusing on user generated content around entertainment topics, which was founded by Kuv Capital with a seed investment of US$250,000. Wikeez aims to allow people... Posted Nov 06 2008, 04:00 AM by StartUpArabia Filed under: News, Blogging, Lebanon, Entertainment, Startups, Social Networking, Sharing, Content, Wikeez, Kuv Capital

• 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

• Muxlim Pal To Be First Online Muslim Virtual World

  Muxlim, the online Muslim social media community service, plans to launch “Muxlim Pal”, a Muslim-oriented virtual world pretty similar in principle to Second Life, complete with its own currency... Posted Nov 03 2008, 03:47 AM by StartUpArabia Filed under: Islam, Startup News, Social Networking, Muxlim, Virtual World, Muxlim Pal, Muslim Virtual World

• 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

• SouqElArab.com Partners with LebanonPath.com, to Serve the Arab communities Across the Globe, Directly from the Heart of Lebanon

  Press Release: The Arab social Web shopping portal, SouqElArab.com , partners with LebanonPath.com to better serve Arab communities across the globe with the finest Lebanese and Arab products. LebanonPath... Posted Oct 25 2008, 06:34 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, Lebanon, Shopping, Beirut, Web 2.0, Startups, e-commerce, e-marketing, Social Networking, Press Release, social shopping, Partnership, Socialnetworking, SouqElArab.com SouqElArab e-commerce

• More Details About Wikeez

  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... Posted Oct 23 2008, 05:38 PM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, Blogging, Arab, Lebanon, Arabic, people, Facebook, Social Media, Web 2.0, Startups, Social Networking, beta, digg, VC & Capital, Wikeez, Kuv Capital, Socialmedia, Luanch, alpha, Business Model, Socail Networking

• 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

• Muxlim Plans The World’s First Virtual World for Muslims.

  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... Posted Oct 21 2008, 05:12 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Islam, UAE, startup, Web 2.0, muslim, Social Networking, video sharing, Quran, WSA, Virtual World, PalTalk, TechCrunch UK, SecondLife, Filand

• Muxlim Wins World Summit Awards Nomination

  At the Mindtrek conference in Tampere, Muxlim, an online Muslim social media community service, was awarded the World Summit Awards Finland nomination in the “e-Inclusion & Participation” category... Posted Oct 20 2008, 01:12 PM by StartUpArabia Filed under: Islam, Social Media, Startup News, Social Networking, Pietari Päivänen, World Summit Award, Muxlim, WSA, Mohamed El-Fatatry

• 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

• 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

• UAE Second Most Socially Networked Country In The World

  A recent worldwide survey by market intelligence firm, Synovate, revealed that 58% of people don’t know what social networking is, plus over one third of social networkers are losing interest. Over... Posted Sep 30 2008, 01:38 AM by StartUpArabia Filed under: News, Social Media, Reports, United Arab Emirates, Survey, Social Networking, Synovate

• HydePark Social Networking + Digg Group Blogging Platform

  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... Posted Sep 21 2008, 08:48 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, Blogging, Blog, Google, startup, Social Media, Web 2.0, Blogger, Startups, Social Networking, Morocco, digg, Wordpress.com, Maktoob Blogs, Jeeran Blogs, HydePark, Albawaba Blogs, SaaS

• Hyde Park, Group Blog With Social Networking Features

  Hyde Park is a new interesting Arabic project, currently under development, and which has been wrapped in a veil of secrecy up to now. We at StartUpArabia have been able to get our hands on some information... Posted Sep 21 2008, 06:56 AM by StartUpArabia Filed under: Blogging, Blog, Startups, Social Networking, Morocco, Hyde Park, Group Blog, Collective Blog, Mohammed Said Hjiouij

• Watwet Launches New Version With New Cool Design

  Watwet, the Arab social networking and micro-blogging platform, launched in December 2007 by TootCorp, has just gone live with a really cool new design. The new design reflects the maturing of the service... Posted Sep 16 2008, 06:48 AM by StartUpArabia Filed under: Jordan, Blogging, watwet, Startup News, Social Networking, Mobily, Micro-Blogging, Mini-Blogging

• 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

• Watwet Redesigns, Now Supports Mobliy the Second KSA’s Mobile Operator.

  Watwet the micro blogging & social networking Arabian clone of Twitter has launched a new design today with some new features. ( I have reviewed watwet in the past here) What is new: The new design... Posted Sep 16 2008, 05:01 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Jordan, Arab World, Blogging, Amman, Saudi Arabia, mobile, Social Media, sms, Zain, Ikbis, Startups, Mobile 2.0, watwet, twitter, e-marketing, Social Networking, Telecom, KSA, MMS, Mobily, theme, Where 2.0, iToot

• Maktoob Develops a Startup Page, Social Network and a Portal for Saudi Telecom (ST)

  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 startup page, a social network... Posted Aug 31 2008, 12:17 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: News, Arab World, Arab, Arabic, education, Sports, Social Media, Web 2.0, Portals, Social Networking, Telecom, KSA, video sharing, photo sharing, profit, Suadi arabia, Arabic web site, USD, netvibes, Q&A, travel and tourism, maktoob, social network, m3com, jocks, Saudi Telecom, messaging, Maktoob Group, ST, as7ab, profit margin, Saudi succor, revenue. revenues, startup page, yellow pages, forums, custom

• 3alarasi In-House Professional Cartoon Animation, and User Generated MultiMedia Content Social Network.

  3alarasi is an interesting Jordanian startup, iwhich is an entertainment portal that mixes its in-house produced unique animated cartoons, caricature, audio productions, and articles, with users generated... Posted Aug 22 2008, 07:07 PM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Jordan, Arab World, Arab, startup, Cartoon, mobile, Social Media, Web 2.0, Zain, bbc, Startups, Portals, Mobile 2.0, e-marketing, Social Networking, KSA, online gaming, Future TV, user generated, gaming, video sharing, GCC, animation, Falsh, creative, photo sharing, MMS

• Mashable Mentions ArabCrunch in a Post

  A couple of days ago I wrote a breaking news story about the upcoming TweetSMS an SMS solution to the end of Twitter UK outbound SMS , and I sent @tweets to few people one of them was Mashable. Adamo Strow... Posted Aug 18 2008, 06:09 PM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, Blogging, international, Europe, Blogs, USA, Social Media, Web 2.0, twitter, TweetSMS, Social Networking, AC, arabcrunch, Mashable, socialentwork, socilamedia, Pete Cashmore

• Google Opening an Office in Jordan, Do not Miss this Event: “Culture of Google Life Inside, and How to Apply?”

  Google is being active lately organizing seminars and lectures in Amman/Jordan, and posting Job vacancies on different regional job recruitment websites. First it was “The Art of online Advertising (covered... Posted Aug 15 2008, 05:51 PM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Jordan, Arab World, Amman, Events, Google, lecture, event, Web 2.0, QRCE, Social Networking, IEEE, Jobs, work at google, networking event