What major obstacle did you face while looking to fund your project? [Poll]
A new poll has gone live on StartUpArabia, you can find it on the sidebar on the right or vote
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Twtlens: An Easy Way To Create Your Own Twitter Aggregator
Twtlens is a new service that allows you to create your own twitter aggregator (or lens as they call it)
Continue readingNaqaTube: A “Purified” Collection Of YouTube Videos
NaqaTube is a service that was launched a couple of months ago from Saudi Arabia, and that aims to offer
Continue readingNokia’s Ramadan Applications Available On Ovi Store
A couple of weeks ago, and in the lead up to the Muslim Holy Month of Ramadan this year, Nokia
Continue readingJeeran Launches French Version Targeting Maghreb
Jeeran, one of the Arab world’s leading user-generated content portals, have just launched a new French version of their portal.
Continue readingJabbar Internet Group: The New Group & Its Companies
In the previous post about Yahoo! acquiring Maktoob, there was a brief paragraph about what will happen to the rest
Continue readingYahoo! Maktoob: It’s Official, Yahoo! Acquiring Largest Arab Community Maktoob
After months of rumors and speculation by many in the Arab internet industry, today the news is confirmed and made
Continue readingGrowing Internet Usage In The Middle East & North Africa
Access to the Internet has been expanding dramatically in the Middle East and North Africa over the past years. A
Continue readingBezaat, A New Classifieds Portal For The Arab World
Bezaat is a new free Arabic classifieds portal that was just launched out of Dubai in its beta version, and
Continue readingWheels Express, Another Take At E-Commerce In Jordan
Wheels Express is a newly launched Jordanian e-commerce portal, taking another hit at cracking the e-commerce nut in the Arab
Continue readingTotal 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
Continue readingActive 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
Continue readingTweetShell, 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
Continue readingGoogle 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
Continue readingBedaya 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
Continue readingBberryApp.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
Continue readingArabic 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
Continue readingTweepi, 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
Continue readingUAE 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
Continue readingWhat 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
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