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• Jawaker, Online Multiplayer Card Games For The Arab World

  Jawaker is a new online multiplayer card games website that was launched recently for the Arab world, by the same team that is behind the online career network Akhtaboot. The service is focused on delivering... Posted Nov 18 2008, 07:03 AM by StartUpArabia Filed under: Jordan, games, Startups, Multiplayer Games, Fouad Mardini, Jawaker, Mohamed Haj Hasan, Card Games

• Onkosh.com Yamli’s Competitor, Distributed Prizes to Sudoko Competition Winners

  Last week, search engine Onkosh distributed prizes to the winners of the Soduko competition held during Ramadan on www.onkosh.com. Sudoko Winners: Soduko relies on logical mathematical analysis and has... Posted Nov 17 2008, 07:59 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, middle east, yahoo, Web 2.0, Startups, Press Release, Orascom Telecom, Ayna, Search Engines, maktoob, isp, Araby, Yamli, MSN Arabia, Transliteration, Online Games, Vortals, MSN, Ta3reeb, Sudoko, Onkush, causal games, Live.com, search engin

• Mrrha: Pass Your Files to Multiple Uploading Sites at the Same Time

  Do you upload your files to many file uploading websites? If so this manual process takes allot of your time and your effort, in uploading each file to each website alone. Well, you do not have to do that... Posted Nov 06 2008, 06:20 PM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Egypt, Arab World, Arabic, Web 2.0, Startups, forums, Mrrha, File uploading, Mohammad Elmasoudy, Mirroring

• 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

• Mrrha, A New Arabic File Mirroring Service

  Mrrha is a new simple Arabic service that was just launched a few minutes ago from Egypt, and that aims to make the process of uploading files to the internet for sharing purposes and mirroring them on... Posted Nov 04 2008, 02:17 PM by StartUpArabia Filed under: Egypt, tool, Startups, Tools, Mrrha, File mirroring, File uploading

• 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

• Yamli Launches iGoogle Gadget

  Yamli ’s the Arabic transliteration technology now available on iGoogle custom homepage .Yamli’s gadget now allows users to type in English and get Arabic letters right from their Google homepage... Posted Oct 31 2008, 08:58 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, Arabic, Web 2.0, Startups, Translation, iGoogle, Yamli, Transliteration, iGoogle Gadget

• 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

• Intel and Dubai Silicon Oasis Invests in Dubai Based Software Developer Sphere Networks

  Joining forces with Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO) , Intel announced its investment in Dubai-based Sphere Networks , an emerging Arab based software development firm specialized in enterprise management. Intel... Posted Oct 29 2008, 06:50 PM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, international, UAE, 2007, Dubai, USA, 2008, Networking, Startups, Press Release, Telecom, Orascom Telecom, WiMAX, VC & Capital, investment, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Intel Capital, Sphere Networks, funding, Inetl, DSO, Capital, 2005, enterprise network management, Joint Venture, Arena

• Arista Networks

  Every now and then, some companies grab bloggers attentions. Sometimes it is because they are offering new technologies or setting new standards, but some other times it's because people behind them... Posted Oct 25 2008, 02:16 PM by Green Data Filed under: Gr33n Data, Networking, Startups, Cisco, HP ProCurve, Switches, Junipe, LAN, Foundry Networks, Arista Networks

• 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

• Yooyaland - Education & Entertainment For Arab Children

  Yooyaland is a Palestinian startup that aims to fill the need for creative educational resources for 3-9 year old children in the Arab world; providing resources that blend technology with an enlightening... Posted Oct 12 2008, 11:47 AM by StartUpArabia Filed under: Palestine, education, Entertainment, Children, Knowledge, Startups, Hadara, Paltel Group, PICTI, Yooyaland

• Artwitter.com; An Arabic Interface For Twitter

  Even though there is an Arabic micro-blogging service called Watwet that is very similar to Twitter in functionality, a lot of Arab users have chosen to use Twitter instead, maybe because it has mostly... Posted Oct 11 2008, 02:30 PM by StartUpArabia Filed under: Blogging, Saudi Arabia, Startups, watwet, Micro-Blogging, Arabic Twitter, Mohamed Al Rehaili, artwitter.com

• 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

• Berberus, The Semantic Maghreb Blog Aggregator

  Berberus is a new blog aggregator that was recently launched to cover blogs from the Maghreb region. The name is an obvious reference to the region and its roots. The site also says it references the existence... Posted Oct 02 2008, 07:28 AM by StartUpArabia Filed under: Blogging, Tunisia, Startups, Berberus, Semantic Web, maghreb, Blog Aggregator

• Intel and Arab Science & Technology Foundation launch the 4th Technology Business Plan Competition

  The Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF), a regional and international non-profit NGO, in collaboration with Intel announced the launch of the 4th Arab Technology Business Plan Competition, and... Posted Sep 26 2008, 09:15 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Egypt, Jordan, Arab World, Arab, UAE, Startups, KSA, business plan, ASTF, Intel, business plan competition, Accelerators, Intel Middle East, Arab Science and Technology Foundation, VC & Capital, compititon

• Untiny, A Tool To Expand Shortened URLs

  A bunch of URL shortening services have been popping up everywhere recently, made popular by the advent of micro-blogging, each offering users the base functionality to take long urls and shorten them... Posted Sep 25 2008, 02:20 AM by StartUpArabia Filed under: Saudi Arabia, Startups, Tools, URL Expansion, Saleh Al-Zaid, Untiny

• Tools4Com OIS, A Simple Online Invoicing System

  By now it’s basically no secret to anyone that the future of software is through the browser and ever more specialized web applications, and this is confirmed by the different new web applications... Posted Sep 23 2008, 03:05 AM by StartUpArabia Filed under: Tunisia, Startups, Tools, Tools4Com, Quotation Management, Tools4Com OIS, Invoice Management, Online Invoicing, Mohamed Aymen Ben Abdallah, Pro Forma Invoice Management

• 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 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

• ShooFeeTV Free Arab TV Guide Service Officially Launched

  ShooFeeTV, a free online Arabic television guide, has officially been launched as a useful resource for TV fans, allowing them access to the program grids for the 120 most popular channels, carried by... Posted Sep 09 2008, 05:30 AM by StartUpArabia Filed under: Jordan, media, Startups, Portals, Content, ATH, Arab TV Guide, IV Holdings, Arab TV, Arab Television, ShooFeeTV, Amjad Tadros, Arab TV Listings, Accelerator Technology Holdings

• Whizle, Simple Tool To Create & Share Guides, Tutorials & Plans

  Whizle is a new Dubai-based service, which has been in stealth mode for a while now, ironing out the little details here and there. It is a simple tool that aims to make creating guides and plans and then... Posted Sep 08 2008, 04:22 AM by StartUpArabia Filed under: Startups, United Arab Emirates, Tools, Sharing, Tutorials, Whizle, Plans, Guides

• Dia Diwan, Your Gateway To Middle East Chic

  Dia Diwan is an online portal that offers the latest news on lifestyle and entertainment in the region; bringing the world of modern, chic, and cool to an audience of Middle Eastern women; also providing... Posted Sep 01 2008, 08:53 AM by StartUpArabia Filed under: middle east, Lebanon, fashion, Startups, e-commerce, Chic, Lifestyle, Dia Diwan

• Yemen’s vibrant cellular market will reach 10.5 million subscribers by end of 2012, a cellular penetration rate of 42.4%

  Press Release from Arab Advisors Group Edited by AC. The entrance of a fourth cellular operator in December 2007 has enhanced growth and competition in the Yemeni cellular market. A new report from Arab... Posted Aug 28 2008, 04:20 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, Yemen, mobile, Startups, Research, Press Release, Telecom, Arab Advisors Group, report, TeleYemen, MTN Yemen, reseach, Yemen’s cellular lines, Sabafon, Yemen Mobile, Y

• Talfazat: Online Streaming Of Live And On-Demand Arabic TV Content

  JumpTV and NeuLion, two leading providers of live and on-demand international and sports programming over the Internet, whose merger is pending apporval, just announced the launch of a new online service... Posted Aug 25 2008, 10:54 AM by StartUpArabia Filed under: Video, Startups, Content, Online Arabic TV, Talfazat,