Blog Archives for the tag cairo

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Mapping Google Arabia

Google Arabia announced that it was adding new mapping domains for 11 countries across the Middle East/North Africa region, including all six countries in the GCC. Users will be able…

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Egyptian Blogger Kareem Amer Freed

One of Egypt’s prominent bloggers, Kareem Amer, who went missing earlier this week, is finally freed according to a report by RWW. Right now, it is still unconfirmed who his…

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Egyptian Blogger Disappears in Cairo

‘Free Kareem!’ was the title of a website that kept one of Egypt’s prominent bloggers alive in everyone’s memory for the 1470 days (4 years) he spent in an Egyptian…

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Missing Protesters in Egypt Need Help

With the protests in Egypt now at full throttle, backed by an almost unified Egyptian opposition, the regime is sparing nothing to clamp down on protesters. Some of which have…

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Egypt Gets a Valley Startup Accelerator

Plug and Play venture is a business that gathers entrepreneurs from around the world, and has decided that since not everyone can go to Silicon Valley to start the next…

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Weather HD for the iPad Adds Features - Still No Arabic

Cairo based Vimov adds new features to their already popular ‘Weather HD’ iPad app  providing a graphically rich weather forecasting experience on the iPad, yet Arabic still not one of…