Dubai's Innovation Mirage
From a distance, Dubai seems to have all the ingredients needed to become the region’s innovation hub. It has more than enough capital, except during the economic crisis of 2008,…
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Iran Reportedly Blocks All SSL Websites
Not for the first time, Iran is reportedly stepping up its website-blocking efforts, on the eve of the anniversary of the revolution that overthrew the country’s monarchy and replaced it…
Samsung's Products May be Banned in Iran
An Israeli commercial may be on the verge of causing Samsung’s products to be banned entirely in Iran, as well as bringing an end to Iran’s trade ties with South…
Team Poison Publish Details of 26,000 Israeli Credit Card Holders
According to Haaretz, international hacking team known as Team Poison has launched a new round of cyber attacks, this time targeting Israeli sites. Launched under the banner, #OpFreePalestine, the hackers…
Google Announces 50 Finalists for its Startup Competition
Early last month, Google announced its 200 finalists for the Start with Google (Ebda2) initiative in which it will be giving one lucky Egyptian entrepreneur up to $200,000 in seed capital….
SeedStartup Graduates 3 Teams in its Pilot Program
Last May, we told you about SeedStartup, a Dubai-based incubator that has since gone on to become a member of the TechStars network, and has mentored 3 startups, after receiving over 70…
Egyptian Activists Plan Boycott of Mobile Operators
With exactly one year having passed since the uprising in Egypt began, unseating former president Hosny Mubarak, the streets of Cairo, and beyond, have seen a renewal of the movement’s…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
