News tagged with arabic language

Saudi prince buys $300 million stake in Twitter

Saudi billionaire Prince Walid bin Talal and his Kingdom Holding Company announced a combined investment of $300 million in the social networking site Twitter, in a statement Monday.

Technology / Business

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Iran successfully launches satellite into space: Al-Alam TV

Iran successfully launched its Rassad-1 satellite into space on Wednesday, the country's Arabic-language television channel Al-Alam said.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

State Department begins Tweeting in Arabic

(AP) -- Hoping to widen the audience for its mini-pronouncements of U.S. policy amid growing unrest in the Middle East, the State Department has begun sending Twitter messages in Arabic.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 09, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Unearthed 400-year-old document shows how Peruvian natives used numbers

In the early 1600s in northern Peru, a curious Spaniard jotted down some notes on the back of a letter. Four hundred years later, archaeologists dug up and studied the paper, revealing what appear to be the ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (19) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

What is unique in the brain of an Arabic speaker?

Literary Arabic is expressed in the brain of an Arabic speaker as a second language and not as a native language. This has been shown in a new study by Dr. Raphiq Ibrahim of the Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Google launches user-led Q&A service in Arabic

(AP) -- Google Inc. launched an online tool Tuesday that allows Arab users to answer each other's questions, a move designed to boost the amount of Web content available in Arabic.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0