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<item><title>Yemen’s vibrant cellular market will reach 10.5 million subscribers by end of 2012, a cellular penetration rate of 42.4%</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/08/yemen%e2%80%99s-vibrant-cellular-market-will-reach-105-million-subscribers-by-end-of-2012-a-cellular-penetration-rate-of-424.html</link><description><![CDATA[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 Advisors Group  analyzes the Yemeni communications markets.

عرض خريطة بحجم أكبر

Yemen’s Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology (MTIT) regulates the country’s telecommunications [...]]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:20:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=176</guid></item><item><title>TechCrunch Gets a Cool Interface Redesign</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/08/techcrunch-get-cool-interface-redesign.html</link><description><![CDATA[
UPDATE BELLOW:
Here at ArabCurnch we are big fans of TechCrunch, it is a must read for anyone involved with the internet industry specially web 2.0 ( Disclosure ArabCrunch is not affiliated with TechCrunch it is just we both have cool names   )
I love this new design it is more streamlined and cuts the clutter. [...]]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:10:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=172</guid></item><item><title>Twitter unblocked by UAE ‘s Telco Etisalat.</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/08/twitter-unblocked-by-uae-%e2%80%98s-telco-etisalat.html</link><description><![CDATA[
Today is the Twitter day, as this is the second Twitter related news post.
Baher Al Hakim aka DrBaher, is a twitter daily user who is located in UAE , has tweeted today that Etisalat has unblocked twitter for its subscribers in UAE. Etisalat provides Land line, Mobile and Internet access in UAE and other countries.
According [...]]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:56:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=169</guid></item><item><title>TweetSMS Launched Today Enabling Twitter SMS in 190 Countries Including Many Arab States</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/08/tweetsms-launched-today-enabling-twitter-sms-in-190-countries-including-many-arab-states.html</link><description><![CDATA[
TweetSMS has been launched today after around a week of internal testing, the launch was scheduled yesterday, but apparently they had some hiccups which lead to delaying the launch to today.
As reported by ArabCrunch last week, TweetSMS enables Twitter’s users who no longer can get SMS notifications from Twitter in countries outside USA, Canada, and [...]]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:31:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=166</guid></item><item><title>Tunisia’s Internet users spent over US$ 132.7 million in B2C e-commerce during the past 12 months.</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/08/tunisia%e2%80%99s-internet-users-spent-over-us-1327-million-in-b2c-e-commerce-during-the-past-12-months.html</link><description><![CDATA[A new Arab Advisors Group major survey of Internet users in Tunisia revealed that 36.4% of Internet users in Tunisia use e-commerce. Based on the survey results, the Arab Advisors Group estimates that Tunisia’s Internet users spent US$ 132.7 million during the past 12 months in e-commerce transactions.
The survey report, Tunisia Internet users and e-commerce [...]]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:42:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=165</guid></item><item><title>Crunching The Culture of Google Lecture in Jordan</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/08/crunching-the-culture-of-google-lecture-in-jordan.html</link><description><![CDATA[
Speaking during &#8220;Culture of Google Life Inside, and How to Apply?&#8221; Lecture which was held in Amman, Jordan last week, Husni Khuffash  Google Country Business Development Manager, UAE,  said that Google&#8217;s official  answer  to whether they will open an engineering office in Amman or not, is that Google  does not comment on rumors and when [...]]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:51:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=160</guid></item><item><title>3alarasi In-House Professional Cartoon Animation, and User Generated MultiMedia Content Social Network.</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/08/3alarasi-in-house-professional-cartoon-animation-and-user-generated-multimedia-content-social-network.html</link><description><![CDATA[3alarasi is an interesting Jordanian startup, which is an entertainment portal that mix its in-house produced unique animated cartoons, caricature, audio productions, and articles, with users generated &#38; sharing of content:Games, videos, audios and photos, with many social networking features.
3alarasi means in local Jordanian dialect: I accept with great pleasure or I appreciate greatly.
3alarasi uniqueness [...]]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:07:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://3alarasi.com/files/music/006f52e9102a8d3.mp3" length="6883181" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=158</guid></item><item><title>Google Wins Gold in the Future Mobile Awards for their Contribution to Mobile Search</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/08/google-wins-gold-in-the-future-mobile-awards-for-their-contribution-to-mobile-search.html</link><description><![CDATA[Press Release From Juniper Research.
HAMPSHIRE, UK: August 20th, 2008 – Mobile Search innovators, Google, have been selected by Juniper Research as the top award winner in the Future Mobile Awards - mobile search category.
The Future Mobile Awards are given to companies that have made a significant contribution to their sector and are poised to make [...]]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:42:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=157</guid></item><item><title>Mashable Mentions ArabCrunch in a Post</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/08/mashable-mentions-arabcrunch-in-a-post.html</link><description><![CDATA[
A couple of days ago I wrote a breaking news story about the upcoming TweetSMS an SMS solution to the end of Twitter UK outbound SMS , and I sent @tweets to few people one of them was Mashable.
Adamo Strow Editor-in-Chief of Mashable replayed in few minutes, telling me nice scoop and that he linked [...]]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:09:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=155</guid></item><item><title>Google Opening an Office in Jordan, Do not Miss this Event: “Culture of Google Life Inside, and How to Apply?”</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/08/google-opening-an-office-in-jordan-do-not-miss-this-event-culture-of-google-life-inside-and-how-to-apply.html</link><description><![CDATA[
UPDATE:  Husni Khuffash Google Country Business Development Manager, UAE, said that Google officially  has not made final decision regarding the location of its upcoming engineering center in the Arab world. But I have other sources who say Jordan will be the place.
Google is being active lately organizing seminars and lectures in Amman/Jordan, and [...]]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:51:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=150</guid></item><item><title>Online Advertising in the Arab World: Impacts and Opportunities Seminar-Amman/Jordan</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/08/online-advertising-in-the-arab-world-impacts-and-opportunities-seminar-ammanjordan.html</link><description><![CDATA[
The Seminar is organized by Google and Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship  (QRCE). The speaker will be Husni Khuffash Google Country Business Development Manager, UAE. Where he will give an insight into Online Advertising in the Arab World.
The seminar will be held on Thursday, August  21th 2008, from 5:30-6:30 PM at the Friendship Auditorium- Prince [...]]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:26:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=148</guid></item><item><title>Breaking: TweetSMS to enable SMS for Twitter in UK and worldwide soon</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/08/breaking-tweetsms-to-enable-sms-for-twitter-in-uk-and-worldwide-soon.html</link><description><![CDATA[
UPDATES Look at the end of this post.
I wrote few hours a post about Twitter ending its UK SMS receiving service thus blocking most of the world. On Twitter every one not in USA, Canada, and India is complaining
Few minutes after publishing my last post I was followed by TweetSMS which aims to solve the [...]]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:59:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=143</guid></item><item><title>Twitter SMS ends for Arabia and rest of the world, excluding USA, India and Canada</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/08/twitter-sms-ends-for-arabia-and-rest-of-the-world-excluding-usa-india-and-canada.html</link><description><![CDATA[
International Twitter users received a message from stating that Twitter is no longer delivering outbound SMS over our UK number, which is the number used for UK and the rest of the world to receive and updates tweets.
By this move most of the world including the Arab world won’t get Free SMS updates from their [...]]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:02:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=141</guid></item><item><title>Juniper Research forecasts Mobile Money Transfers Opportunity for Service Providers to exceed $5bn by 2013</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/08/juniper-research-forecasts-mobile-money-transfers-opportunity-for-service-providers-to-exceed-5bn-by-2013.html</link><description><![CDATA[New analysis by Juniper Research forecasts that Service Provider revenues, derived from mobile money transfer services and remittances, will exceed $5bn globally by 2013 - based on the commissions and charges that they will acquire from the gross value of money transactions made, both domestically within countries and internationally.
In the third report in its Mobile [...]]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:20:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=139</guid></item><item><title>Javi Mobile Social Networking from Javna</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/08/javi-mobile-social-networking-form-javna.html</link><description><![CDATA[
 Javi is a free mobile social networking service, developed by the Jordanian wireless   applications and software solutions company Javna. 
Javi V.1.0 lets you send and receive free messages with your friends locally and around the world. Also it allows you to receive your facebook notifications on your mobile handset at no charge. ( I [...]]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:07:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=134</guid></item><item><title>eMapia location based marketplace</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/08/emapia-location-based-marketplace.html</link><description><![CDATA[
eMapia is a new startup from the people behind the delivery services marketplace  Darrb.  eMapia still in beta,  is an enhanced Do-IT-your-self e-commerce site but with GoogleMaps, It enables  individual or business  sellers to list items for sale in according to their location, while shoppers can find items for sale  [...]]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:38:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=129</guid></item><item><title>Online Job Survey: Potential opportunities for growth and advancement is #1 element for woman in Middle East Women in the Middle East Workplace</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/08/online-job-survey-potential-opportunities-for-growth-and-advancement-is-1-element-for-woman-in-middle-east-women-in-the-middle-east-workplace.html</link><description><![CDATA[# Source Bayt Blog. 
The results of a series of online polls conducted by the Middle East’s number one job site – Bayt.com - into the region’s jobseekers, has shown that the most important element for women in finding a new job is the potential opportunities for growth and advancement. Of the respondents, 36% put [...]]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:52:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=126</guid></item><item><title>12 Arab countries host 19 operators offering 3G cellular services in the Arab World</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/08/12-arab-countries-host-19-operators-offering-3g-cellular-services-in-the-arab-world.html</link><description><![CDATA[Press Release from  ArabAdvisor Group.
A new Arab Advisors Group analysis of 19 Arab countries reveals that 3G cellular networks are available in 12 countries. The most common 3G services offered by the 3G operators are Mobile Internet, followed by video calling and mobile TV.
Twelve countries in the Arab World have commercial 3G services.  The third [...]]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:05:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=121</guid></item><item><title>Feedoor Burns FeedBurner in a Number of New Features?</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/08/feedoor-burns-feedburner-in-a-number-of-new-features.html</link><description><![CDATA[ 
If you used feeds before like RSS or ATOM, whether for reading or for burning your feed, you most probably used FeedBurner , well Feedoor wants to change that.
Feedoor (Which AC reviewed before ) is not just another FeedBurner, though both are Free to use, Feedoor  differentiate it self with many features, mainly merging [...]]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:45:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=116</guid></item><item><title>Akhtaboot Launched CV Writing Service.</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/07/akhtaboot-launched-cv-writing-service.html</link><description><![CDATA[

Akhtaboot the online career network, has launched CV writing service,  offering anyone to have a professional CV writer from Akhtaboot to write professional  CVs ,  with the promise of  CV writing professionalism and perfect English to help career seekers  get a higher job closing opportunities

Akhtaboot&#8217;s CV writing fees range from $50 to $200 depending on [...]]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:28:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=113</guid></item><item><title>Crunching TechCONNECT</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/07/crunching-techconnect.html</link><description><![CDATA[TechCONNECT is a yearly networking event  orginazed by Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship (QRCE ). The Event  brings together entrepreneurs, leaders in the technology industry, and those with a demonstrable interest in technology, with the aim of increasing Tech entrepreneurship.
This year event commenced last Monday with around 40 attendees. At the Green Garden in [...]]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:01:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=112</guid></item><item><title>No current plans to add demographic targeting to Google Adwords.</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/07/no-current-plans-to-add-demographic-targeting-to-google-adwords.html</link><description><![CDATA[


In an answer to my question whether Google will add demographic targeting to Google Adwords, Elias Darwish Google&#8217;s Account Manager MENA ( Middle East and North Africa) region, said  that there are no current plans, but he said that in YouTube, google identifies demographic info, for example age groups of certain types of videos, [...]]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:19:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=111</guid></item><item><title>Next a simple to-do-list web app developed in 2 days is launched.</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/07/next-a-simple-to-do-list-web-app-developed-in-2-days-is-launched.html</link><description><![CDATA[

Next  the first experiment project of Zero2Beta  which aims to develop and launch web apps in a matter of days has just been launched  after developing it in 2 days, with a team of  7 people. ArabCrunch  previously covered Next  here.
I just had tested of the application; it is a very simple and limited to-do-list [...]]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:30:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=99</guid></item><item><title>Internet City to be built in Jordan</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/07/internet-city-to-be-built-in-jordan.html</link><description><![CDATA[Bassem Al Rusan Jordan&#8217;s Minister of ICT told the Jordanian Arabic news paper Addustour, that the company which will build the Internet City in Amman ( The Capital of Jordan) has started preparations to start its operations, but it is still waiting for Greater Amman  Municipality (GAM) to a allocate the location in Amman for [...]]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:06:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=97</guid></item><item><title>Next a to-do-list management web app developed in 2 days to be launched tomorrow</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/07/next-webapp-in-3-days.html</link><description><![CDATA[
Update: The app was developed in 2 days not 3 sorry for the error, here is the launch post.
Next is the First project of Zero2Beta, which is an experiment on intense design and development of  web application from concept to launch in a couple of days.

According to Zero2Beta Next codenamed (App1) will be a new [...]]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:06:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=96</guid></item><item><title>SouqElArab launches  Islamic Clothing &amp; Accessories with eJilbab.com</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/07/souqelarab-launches-islamic-clothing-accessories-with-ejilbabcom.html</link><description><![CDATA[Press Release from SouqElArab.

The Arab social Web shopping portal, SouqElArab.com has partnered with eJilbab.com, which offers a wide variety of Islamic and Middle Eastern Apparel, to launch the new category of Islamic Clothing on SouqElArab.com.
The new category comprises of modest clothing like Jilbab, Abaya, Dishdash, Thoub, tops, pants and skirts based on Islamic principles.
These product [...]]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:58:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=91</guid></item><item><title>Groosh@t PayPal for the Arab world.</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/07/groosht-paypal-for-the-arab-world.html</link><description><![CDATA[
E-commerce has not taken off in the Arab world mainly for two major factors: There is no merchant service that allows Arab-based e-commerce merchants to accept and process payments, and shoppers in the region are hesitant to trust any and reveal their financial information to any online shop, especially if it is not well known.
In [...]]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:28:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=89</guid></item><item><title>Darrb Shipping 2.0</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/07/darrb-shipping-20.html</link><description><![CDATA[
You know UPS, DHL, ARAMEX, well meet Darrb which means &#8220;way&#8221; in Arabic. It is a crowd based shipping online community, or shipping 2.0  which was beta launched recently.
Unlike conventional shippers who have paid staff to deliver items, and charge a predefined charge. Darrb shippers can be any one (including you !) who is welling [...]]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:41:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=82</guid></item><item><title>Driven by data service growth, the annual Africa &amp; Middle East mobile revenues to reach $107 billion by 2013</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/07/driven-by-data-service-growth-the-annual-africa-middle-east-mobile-revenues-to-reach-107-billion-by-2013.html</link><description><![CDATA[Operator-billed service revenues across the Africa &#38; Middle East region are expected to rise to more than $107 billion in 2013, according to a new report from Juniper Research.
The report found that growth would be driven by mobile data services, fuelled by the greater availability and wider variety of rich-media content coupled with lower browsing [...]]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:48:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=80</guid></item><item><title>MOSecure Launched mobile marketing solutions</title><link>http://arabcrunch.com/2008/07/mosecure-launched-mobile-marketing-solutions.html</link><description><![CDATA[
MOSecure has launched mobile marketing solutions with its MAP- Mobile Access Pack. MAP allows advertisers to push bar-coded vouchers and tickets to mobile consumers via SMS.
MOSecure is entering a lucrative market, mobile ad spending will reach $5 billion this year alone, according to eMarketer. A big jump from the nearly $4.1 billion in 2007 -, [...]]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:33:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://arabcrunch.com/?p=79</guid></item></channel>
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