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Books.com.eg Offers Worldwide Shipping & Facebook Integration

Books.com.eg, a Cairo-based e-commerce site which was one of the first startups to benefit from the Silicon Valley accelerator, Plug and Play, has now made its products available worldwide and…

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Hackers Attack Israeli Hospital Website

According to Monsters and Critics, despite pro-Israeli hacker Hannibal’s call for a ceasefire of sorts on January 21, yet another cyberattack has been launched on an Israeli website. This time, hackers…

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Egyptian Blogger Maikel Nabil Has Been Freed

Maikel Nabil, the first Egyptian blogger to be jailed after former Egyptian president Hosny Mubarak stepped down from power, has been released. Today, Maikel Nabil’s brother, Mark, announced via Twitter that Maikel…

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Wikipedia: No Data Charges for Orange Customers in AMEA

Mobile network Orange is teaming up with the Wikimedia Foundation to make Wikipedia available for free on mobile phones to more than 70 million Orange customers in Africa and the…

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Is Google Selectively Censoring Content on Blogger?

Today, Egyptian blogger and activist Ramy Raoof shared a post on his blog in which he called Google out for censoring one of his Blogger posts, based on what they…

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Pro-Israeli Hacker Posts 100,000 Facebook Account Details

While most of the attacks between Arab and Israeli hackers seem to have quietened down, a pro-Israeli hacker who goes by the name Hannibal has released log-in details of what…

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Storify Competitor GroupStream Launches 18DaysInEgypt

Back in July we told you about 18DaysInEgypt, an initiative coming out of Cairo, in which a four-man team was taking on the mammoth project of crowdsourcing the story of…

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Death Sentence Upheld for Iranian Programmer

Iran’s stranglehold on Internet use in the country is no secret. From monitoring its users to blocking sites quicker than you can say Ahmadinejad, Iranian authorities will stop at nothing to…

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Israeli and Saudi Arabian Hackers Cyber War: A Summary

The world has been watching as a cyberwar between Israeli and Saudi Arabian hackers has been escalating, with one blow dealt after the other. With more hacking groups and individuals…

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Israeli Hackers Take Down SA & UAE Stock Exchange Sites

In a continually escalating cyber struggle between Israeli and Saudi Arabian hackers, it’s hard to see how latest spate of attacks will come to an end, as retaliations on both sides…

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Israeli Computers Used in Attack on Official Websites

As the attacks on Israel’s cyberspace continue, including the most recent attack on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and airline El Al websites, security experts are hard at work to…

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Iraqi Startups: The Beginning of 'Silicon Baghdad'?

“Iraq is being built from scratch with better communication infrastructure than ever before,”  that was the message from Iraq’s Minister for Communications today at Plug and Play Tech Center in…

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Hackers Target Israeli Stock Exchange and Airline Websites

The websites of both the Israeli airline, El Al, and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange were taken down hours after a threat from what is reported to be a Saudi…

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MidEast Tunes: Discover Indie Bands on the Web and iOS

As the Middle Eastern underground music scene continues to gain ground, we’re beginning to see more apps and sites that are supporting and showcasing these musicians. We’ve already told you…

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Israeli Students Paid $2,000 to use Social Media

A couple of weeks ago an Israeli law firm made the headlines, threatening to sue Twitter for allowing “foreign terrorist organizations” to use the social network. Now, according to Al…