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Updated.After Reaching the 1 million user mark, the Arab/Pakistani iPhones duo, who won the best User Interface award of 2009, has just launched a new great dead simple 2Do application for iPhone and iPod Touch.Earlier on, at AC I wrote Squeezer their (Update: Squeezer developed by  Naser AL Zahr...

Following Yahoo! acquisition of Maktoob and Noupe Acquisition by Smashing magazine, I was tipped from VC friend of mine of another good news for the Tech industry in Jordan and the Arab world in general. As 10 days ago, Bahrain based private Equity firm, GrowthCapital announced that has acqui...

In a move to integrate Opera Unite with Opera browser, Opera the leading web browser company announced that Opera Unite is now available in the new beta release of Opera 10.10.Opera Unite turns your PC into a server, allowing you to host websites locally and share files and photos directly from...

Aljazeera the popular Arab TV Network and the only English TV station that is based from the Arab world has officially launched its blog network called Aljazeera Blogs .Aljazeera English TV station remains blocked by US cable operators with no reasonable justifications rather than being racists.A...

Updated.Few days ago Smashing Magazine, the popular design and web development website with over 4 million visits per month has acquired the popular Egyptian blog Noupe that also specializes in Design and web development.Noupe was founded in egypt 2007 by Noura Yehia, and has grown significantly...

Thanks to God, after a long wait, with an excuse or no excuse and in compliance of popular demand your blog AC announces today the launch of “ArabCrunch Arabic Edition which will be the first Arabic blog that focus on tech startups, entrepreneurship, social media and mobile news and views a...

Last June, AC exclusively published the full profiles of MIT Arab Business Plan Competition 2008-2009 winners, back then we said that it is one of the great initiatives that are helping entrepreneurial drive in the region.The competition which is the equivalent of MIT 100K Entrepreneurship Compe...

Following the launch of Pixon12, Samsung officially announced the launch of the world’s first 12-megapixel camera phone with a 3X optical zoom Samsung AMOLED 12M (SCH-W880). The device will be in the Arab region post Gitex Technology week in Dubai. The device price has not been announced ye...

Etisala LogoMohammad Al Zaki, Marketing Director of Etisalat, told the Emarati newspaper Emarrat Alyoum, that Etisalat the largest triple play operator in United Arab Emirates (UAE) will launch iPhone 3GS before the end of this month and that the company is planning to launch its own branded mobi...

iPhoneIslam the pioneering iPhone applications startups from Egypt that is best known for Arabizing the iPhone and developing Yahoo!Maktoob’s iPhone Dictionary app, has launched today a stunning free Quran app called ” Al Mus’haf” available on iTunes Store.Al Mushaf makes ...

NDrive a Portuguese based company has launched NDrive’s navigation applications for the iPhone, providing mapping solutions for a number of countries around the world with plans for more maps in the future. For the Arab World NDrive has launched 3 iPhone Arabic/English navigations apps for...

The launch Apple’s biggest innovations in years, the iPhone and its app marketplace was the biggest earthquake that shacked all mobile manufactures and forced them to rethink their strategies. Though, in the Arab world, Apple has shown little or no care to the market even though Steve Jobs ...

Among what we do at ArabCrunch is profile Arab startups and tech companies and review them, as we said before ArabCrunch mission is to help entrepreneurs and help drive technology innovation and entrepreneurship in the Arab region while maintaining an objective coverage. Though most of the start...

After closing down since April 2009, PC Magazine Middle East is back, but this time from a new publisher Atlus Publishing Group.The Magazine was in the market for around 16 years old and was previously published by DIT Group, a company belonging to the Saudi conglomerate Dabbagh Group. It was clo...

Update: Look at the end of the post.Yahoo’s acquired Maktoob has launched its first application for the iPhone called “Maktoob Dictionary.”Maktoob Dictionary is a text translation app from English to Arabic and vice versa, it has around 160,000 Arabic and English words and phras...

Google’s recently launched Arabic Q&A service has undergo a small change, now its domain name has changed from http://egabat.google.com to http://ejabat.google.com meaning the “G” has changed into “J”. As Google has said it is doing so because of the popular dem...

imHalal the a new search engine for Muslims that went live on September 1s.t during the Islamic month of Ramadan has achieved popularity in very short time with around 800,000 visits since its launch.The new search Engine was which developed by ZSMedia Group a Dutch based startup founded by Reza ...

Samsung Electronics unveiled to the Middle Eastern market today,Pixon12, the world’s first 12-megapixel camera phone with full-touch screen. Along with its Mega Camera, the Pixon12 comes with a number of functions that helps consumers capture, browse and share their images on the move along with ...

After achieving a hit with its free “Forward, Reply and Edit” BlackBerry (BB) app. BberryApp.com the Jordanian startup that is focused on Blackberry application development, just released “SMS Contact” , its second application for BB Mobiles.The app which has a simple but usefu...

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) opening now. KAUST opening is very significant because it is the biggest R&D and university Center in the Arab world and is supported by a multi-billion dollar endowment (Islamic Waqeef), thanks to the great support of King Abdull...

Update 1: see at the end, before the video.Sakhr one of the oldest Arabic software companies that was founded in 1982, has officially launched today one of its  break-through technologies, the Arabic Language Buddy™ for iPhone. This speech-activated translator enables Real-Time, interactive Engli...

The realtime Web tracking and analytics startup Woopra that was founded by 2 Lebanese off their homes (and reviewed by ArabCrunch here and here) announced that in the coming weeks it will remove the beta label and introduce paid accounts.Soon, Woopra will be open to anyone to register for paid ...

Today is Eid Al Fitr in most Muslims countries. In this occasion I send my greetings (see my Video below) to All Muslims worldwide and specially AC’s Muslim reader: Happy Eid, Eid Mubarak and May Allah accept from me and you. If you are not Muslim then I also wish you a happy Sunday .What ...

Saleh Al Zaid the founder of Untiny the Saudi based short url untiny service provider (reviewed by AC here.), just told AC that his site is under DoS Attack since yesterday. Though the site and its services is still up and running. While Filaty a file and image sharing startup from Egypt has bee...

Feedoor, Jordan based Feed management service has moved its servers to Rack Space Cloud. Cloud Computing a set of pooled computing resources, delivered over the web, powered by software. The main benefit of cloud computing is that website owners do not have to spend a lot of money and resources i...

Jeeran is an interesting Arab internet company because its story resembles the stories you hear about in  Silicon Valley (USA): A Tech startup that starts from the founders’ garage or dorm and then makes it big (example: HP, Yahoo and Google to name a few.)Jeeran was founded in 2000 by then...