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Twitter's Security Startup Acquisition Increases Danger For Egyptian Activists

BY Neal Ungerleider | 11-30-2011 | 2:08 PM | ETHONOMICS

Twitter has purchased Android encryption software RedPhone--and made it temporarily unavailable to Egyptians. The move comes after one popular Twitter personality was jailed on terrorism and murder charges, and another was sexually assaulted and had her wrists broken while in custody.READ MORE›

Could iTunes Be Used To Spy On You?

BY Neal Ungerleider | 11-22-2011 | 12:27 PM | INNOVATION

British firm Gamma International was found hawking spyware to foreign intelligence services that installed onto users' computers via an iTunes security hole. The breach has been fixed, but documents indicate that the exploit was used to snoop on the email, Skype, and social media activities of users worldwide.READ MORE›

In A Market The Internet Forgot, Souktel Helps People Find Jobs Via SMS

BY Neal Ungerleider | 09-08-2011 | 7:42 AM | INNOVATION

Souktel is the Monster.com of Morocco, Somalia, and Palestine--and now it's coming to jobseekers in Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. READ MORE›

Let Them Eat ... What? High Food Commodity Prices Could Cause A Global Revolution

BY Greg Lindsay | 08-30-2011 | 9:24 AM | ETHONOMICS

New evidence suggests the Arab Spring wasn't caused by the slow boiling of political grievances, but by a sudden rise in food prices. Next year, prices will soar even higher.READ MORE›

Against Geopolitical And Engineering Odds, Plans Emerge To Build A Red Sea Bridge

BY Neal Ungerleider | 07-19-2011 | 10:17 AM | INNOVATION

Meet the next great gonzo engineering project: A 20-mile Red Sea-spanning bridge connecting Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The bridge has been spoken about for years and multiple attempts to begin work on it have fallen through; overcoming the odds now will be a feat of both political finesse and engineering. READ MORE›

LivingSocial Invades The Middle East

BY Neal Ungerleider | 06-27-2011 | 12:39 PM | TECHNOLOGY

LivingSocial has acquired popular pan-Arab coupon site GoNabit for an undisclosed sum, which is good news for local startups and quite bad news for Groupon's struggling Middle East operations.READ MORE›

Facebook VP: "We Get Too Much Credit For The Arab Spring"

BY Neal Ungerleider | 06-24-2011 | 1:01 PM | TECHNOLOGY

Facebook VP David Fischer explicitly downplayed the social network's role in Middle Eastern revolutions to an Israeli conference which included a tech industry who's-who.READ MORE›

Crowdsourcing The Documentary: Egyptian Filmmaker Uses Twitter To Gather 300 GB of Activist Video

BY Tim Carmody | 06-13-2011 | 12:12 PM | ETHONOMICS

Flimmaker Amr Salama is working on a movie about the Egyptian Revolution. Where better to turn for footage than the people who were there?READ MORE›

Unpacking The Secret $2 Million Internet In A Suitcase

BY Kit Eaton | 06-13-2011 | 7:45 AM | INNOVATION

The U.S. government's newest tool for global information sharing could have big implications in Libya, Egypt, Syria, and beyond. So how exactly does this technology work?READ MORE›

Spanish Police Arrest Sony PSN Hacktivists, But It Won't Stop The Attacks: Expert

BY Kit Eaton | 06-10-2011 | 12:12 PM | INNOVATION

Spain has pulled off a Net security coup and arrested three men suspected of the attacks on Sony's PlayStation Network among others. The thing is, those arrested are local Anonymous hacktivists, which is equivalent to whacking a hornet's nest.READ MORE›

Vodafone Egypt Riles Revolutionaries With Ads That Turn Protests Into Pitches

BY Neal Ungerleider | 06-06-2011 | 5:18 AM | VIDEO

A three-minute video implying multinational mobile giant Vodafone was one of the primary forces behind the Egyptian Revolution has gone viral, and Egyptians are not happy about the implications.READ MORE›

Hackers For Egypt Advocate For A Better Democracy Through Technology

BY Neal Ungerleider | 05-26-2011 | 1:02 PM | INNOVATION

Post-revolution Egypt is in a state of flux overlooked by outsiders. New political parties are forming while various factions hustle for power. As Egypt gears up for free elections, tech-savvy geeks are working together and betting that their projects will have a major impact on how people will vote.READ MORE›

Web Anonymizers And The Arab Spring

BY Neal Ungerleider | 05-20-2011 | 3:05 PM | INNOVATION

A short discussion with the man behind Hotspot Shield about web anonymizers, the Arab Spring, and why expats in Dubai aren't happy with firewalls.READ MORE›

Infographic Of The Day: Unrolling The History Of The Arab Uprisings

BY Cliff Kuang | 05-09-2011 | 11:00 AM | MIDDLE EAST UPRISINGS

The Arab uprisings of the last several months, which have swept through Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and several other countries through the Middle East, have posed a tremendous challenge to anyone trying to get a grasp of what's going on ... READ MORE›

Inside The Egyptian Rebellion Launched On Facebook

BY Tyler Gray | 05-04-2011 | 11:58 AM | INNOVATION

In a new story for tablet app The Atavist, writer David Wolman explores just how important social media really was to the Egyptian uprising. Here's an early look.READ MORE›

How VPNs Helped "Twitter Revolutionaries" Sidestep Censorship

BY Saabira Chaudhuri | 04-20-2011 | 3:23 PM | INNOVATION

Out of 2 billion people online today, a third live in regions that censor the Internet. AnchorFree, a virtual private network that offers unlimited, private access to the web, is trying to unfetter them--and is seeing explosive growth in countries like Libya, Egypt, and China. READ MORE›

Hidden iPhone Gestures, Winklevii Lose Again, Ashton Kutcher Tackles Sex Slavery, and More...

BY Gregory Ferenstein | 04-11-2011 | 11:58 AM | ETHONOMICS

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day.READ MORE›

How American-Made Tech Helped Middle Eastern Governments Censor the Internet

BY Neal Ungerleider | 03-31-2011 | 11:58 AM | ETHONOMICS

A new study details how American and Canadian companies provided Internet filtering and monitoring software to the Iranian government, Mubarak's Egypt and other repressive states. It's still going on.READ MORE›

Intel Bets on Egyptian Mobile Tech

BY Neal Ungerleider | 03-18-2011 | 3:47 PM | TECHNOLOGY

Intel's purchase of Egyptian mobile software firm SySDSoft isn't just a massive cash infusion in a post-revolution economy: It's also Intel's savvy way of getting in on the LTE fanfare.READ MORE›

Egyptian Protesters Raid State Security, Post Government Secrets to Facebook

BY Neal Ungerleider | 03-07-2011 | 10:19 AM | LEADERSHIP

Egyptian rebels stormed the headquarters of the feared State Security Intelligence Directorate this weekend. They stole files indicated that secret policemen spied on Facebook accounts, harassed Coptic Christians and had advance knowledge of terrorist attacks. Then they posted the secret files--to a WikiLeaks-like Facebook group.READ MORE›