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• 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

• Dubai Islamic Bank launched Online Toll Payment: Salik Recharge Facility.

  Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB) announced the launch of its SalikRecharge Facility via the bank’s Al Islami onlinebanking service. Launched in cooperation with the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) this... Posted Nov 16 2008, 06:44 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: UAE, Web 2.0, Duabi, Roads and Transport Authority, Salik Recharge Facility, RFID, IVR, RTA, Dubai Islamic Bank, DIB

• A bridge to Egypt

  A Bridge to Egypt   is one of the old websites about Egypt in English, it is full of info about Egypt in English for visitors and foreigners mainly who don’t know much about Egypt. I highly recommend... Posted Nov 13 2008, 11:26 PM by Egyptian chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, english, Internet, history, National, Geek, Websites, Web 2.0, Egyptian Life, A bridge to Egypt

• Flickr censors Arabawy photos for no good reason

  Dear Arabawy was one of the people who used to promote Flickr in the Egyptian blogsphere. His account in Flickr is like a photographical archive for the political activism movement in Egypt also in Palestine... Posted Nov 07 2008, 04:17 AM by Egyptian chronicles Filed under: Egypt, media, citizen Journalism, Blogging, Photos, Democracy, Geek, flickr, Web 2.0, Letter from the editor, Egyptian Faces, Hossam El-Hamalawy

• 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

• Google Launches Google Calendar in Arabic

  Google Launch of its Arabic version of its SaaS calendar is part of its plan to continue serve the Arabic market, by Arabaizing all its products, and launch other apps that caters to the Arabic speakers... Posted Nov 05 2008, 11:52 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, UAE, Google, Google Calendar, Web 2.0, Husni Khuffash, Gmail, SaaS

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Google Launches an Inaccurate Arabic Transliteration (Ta3reeb), Leverage its Monoply with Ads.

  It came to my attention today that when you search for Yamli on google.jo , or ..ae. you get ads for google’s own Arabic transliteration editor called Ta3reeb (Arabization) that competes with Yamli. To... Posted Oct 24 2008, 03:35 PM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Jordan, Arab, Arabic, Google, microsoft, Web 2.0, Yamli, Monoploy, Transliteration, Adwords

• 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

• Juniper Research Forecasts in Excess of 400m Mobile Ticketing Users by 2013

  Hampshire, UK. New research has forecast that over 400 million mobile subscribers worldwide will use their mobile phones for ticketing by 2013. However, the study concluded that trials and pilots are not... Posted Oct 21 2008, 12:15 PM by ArabCrunch Filed under: UK, mobile, Web 2.0, Mobile 2.0, Research, Press Release, Juniper Research, Juniper, M-commerce, Mobile Ticketing

• 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

• 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

• Bayt.com to Host the First Virtual Job Fair in Jordan

  Bayt.com has announced that it will host the first virtual job fair in Jordan starting on 19th of this month for 5 days tell 23 of Octobar 2008. Job seekers can attend this virtual job fair anywhere they... Posted Oct 11 2008, 08:57 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Jordan, Web 2.0, Jobs, Bayt, virtual job fair, 3D

• REAL-TIME TRANSLITERATION OF ARABIC LANGUAGE NOW AVAILABLE FOR ANY WEBSITE

  Yamli .com takes on major challenge to arabic content on the web CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Yamli.com one of my best Arab startups has released a free API that allows the easy integration of its award-winning... Posted Oct 08 2008, 03:46 PM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab, Arabic, USA, Web 2.0, Ikbis, arabcrunch, maktoob, Yamli, 3alarasi, MA, Cambridge

• Araby Adds New Arabic Search Features

  Araby (Arabic Link) the Arabic search engine from Jordan based Maktoob Group- which attracts more than 13 million unique users- has added new features. The first new feature is categorized search, where... Posted Oct 07 2008, 08:46 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Jordan, Arab World, Arabic, Google, search, Web 2.0, Portals, Ayna, Search Engines, maktoob, Araby, Maktoob Groop

• Aspen Institute Nominates ArabCrunch as One of the Most Popular and Influential Blogs About the Arab World Today.

  ArabCrunch nomination by Aspen Institute was part of the institute issued paper titled “Dead Sea Scrolling”, the paper features reports and articles about new media in the Arab world. Headquartered... Posted Sep 25 2008, 09:25 PM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, Blogging, Arab, Arabic, Blogs, Awards, Web 2.0, arabcrunch, maktoob, Washington, Nominated, Samih Toukan, Aspen Institute, jeeran, ArabCrunch News, Aspen, Albawaba, D.C, Aggregators, Islam Online

• 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

• 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

• MoSecure & DAEM Interactive Launches Breakthrough Non-Intrusive Mobile Advertising

  The Mobile ad solution will enable people to retrieve information instantly on their mobile phone simple by taking a photo of a SmartCode™. SmartCode™, is a colourful, high-tech advance over the familiar... Posted Sep 11 2008, 12:08 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, UAE, Europe, Web 2.0, Mobile 2.0, Mosecure, Non-Intrusive Mobile Advertising, Duabi, mobile ads, SmartCode, Non-Intrusive Advertising, DAEM, Mobile advertising

• Not the only Arabic web startpage player: Google launched Ramadan Gadgets for iGoogle, Does Google understand Islam?

  Note: Dear AC readers, Sorry I have not updated AC for few days, as I was busy with some business and private matters. iGoogle, is an Internet startpage that lets and customize your web experience, you... Posted Sep 10 2008, 06:04 PM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Islam, Arabic, Google, Web 2.0, ramadan, Tools, Google MENA, Culture of Google, netvibes, maktoob, m3com, Saudi Telecom, ST, Google Arabic, Zakah, Islamic tools, Seamler, iGoogle, startpages, startpage

• 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,