Breaking: Google Launches a Palestinian Domain, Google.PS
Updates: at the end of the post. Over the years google has been adding many of the world’s local domains…
Archives: August 2009
Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Libya Are The Top 3 Arab Countries Using Opera Mini, The Mobile Web Browser.
Opera Mini is one of the world’s most popular Mobile Web browsers with over 20 million users. It comes with…
Total Country Connectivity Measure For The Arab World
The annual results of Arab Advisors Group’s Total Country Connectivity Measure (TCCM) reveal substantial –mostly cellular service driven- improvements in…
Active Facebook Users In Middle East & North Africa
A newly released study by O’Reilly Research, focusing on the numbers of active Facebook users around the world by country…
TweetShell, A Web Based Shell Interface For Twitter
TweetShell is a fun, in a geeky kind of way, new Twitter web application that provides a command line interface for users who…
Google Launches Google.ps Domain Name For Palestine
Google just announced the addition of a new domain to their list of international domain names google.ps for Palestine. The new…
Bedaya Angel Network’s First Pitching Session For Startups
A group of 10 Angel investors gathered in Jordan to attend the first match-making event for the newly created Bedaya…
BberryApp.com Releases Free “Forward, Reply & Edit” BlackBerry Application
BberryApp.com is a new Jordanian startup, that specializes in Blackberry application development, both as a service for clients with specific…
Arabic Language Domains & Internet Growth In The Arab World
A lot of talk has been going on these past couple of days about Arabic language domain names which should…
Tweepi, A Set Of Tools To Help Manage Your Twitter Account
Tweepi is another project that has popped up from the Arab world to cater to the ever-growing group of Twitter…
UAE Tweets, A Twitter Lens On The UAE
Among the Arab countries, the UAE has to be the top country in Twitter usage so far, with more and…
What do Arab startups need the most? [Poll Results]
In the latest poll on StartUpArabia, the question to the readers was: What do Arab startups need the most? The…
Smack-Down Starts Today between Retweet & Tweetmeme
Retweet business is get more vigorous, Mesiab Labs has just announced to launch today at around 9:00 p.m. or 10:00…
Global Twitter-Based Charity Event Returns with Local Twist to Abu Dhabi
Following the success of the first global Twestival on February 12th 2009, in which 202 cities participated, Twestival returns in…
Ayna.com Announces Ramdan Competition on Future TV
Ayna.com, which means “where” in Arabic, is home to the first and most visited Arabic search engine serving the Arabic…
If You Are Using Tr.im or Developing Similar, Forget It
There are plenty of people in the Middle East who use Tr.im as URL shortener. Regretfully, they have decided to…
Publicis Groupe to Acquire Mircosoft Digital Agency – Razorfish
Publicis Groupe SA and Microsoft Corporation jointly announced yesterday that they have signed an agreement under which Publicis Groupe will…
ICANN Introduces Arabic Internet Domains at Meeting in Abu Dhabi
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, unveiled to Arab audiences that Internet address system will soon be…
Bedaya: Young Entrepreneurs Pitch for Angel Investors
10 angel investors have attended the pitching presentations of preselected start ups as part of the first match-making event for…
Google to Acquire On2 Technologies
Google just released to press a shaking news related to video -technology and -market on the Internet. Google will acquire…