A US diplomatic cable sent from US embassy in Amman and published on Wikileaks this week discussed Jordan’s IT sector status and plans after Yahoo acquisition of Jordanian portal Maktoob.
The cables dates in 10/15/2009 said that Yahoo maktoob acquisition has generated excitement in the country about Jordan's future as a regional IT hub. The Em...


Two Jordanian startup who were incubated in Jordan based startup accelerator Oasis 500 have secured investment rounds.
Masmoo3 turns Arabic books into Arabic Audio formate available through several channels such as Apple’s App store, Google Android, Windows Mobile 7, web and others, while Dakwak reviewd by AC in July 2010 offers websites crow...
eMerchantPay, a European-based provider of online payment processing solutions to merchants worldwide, has partnered with cashU, a prepaid card payment gateway in the Arab world, with this partnership eMerchantPay will be able to offer a cash payment method for its clients to better serve customers in geographies where non card payment use is dom...
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A US diplomatic Cabal classified as "C O N F I D E N T I A L" and sent from the American embassy in Tunis published on Wikileaks this week, disclose some details of the agreement between Microsoft and ousted regime of Zain Al Abdin Bin Ali which was signed in July 2006, Microsoft did not disclose the full details of the agrement but the cable...
E-commerce confidence among UAE shoppers is on the rise, according to new research commissioned by Arab group buying site GoNabit, a LivingSocial company. The company partnered with independent research consultancy YouGov Siraj to measure e-commerce sentiment among its registered users in the UAE. The research also shows users prefer to shop ...
Lisa Kawar a Jordanian mom was looking for a certain product and had to visit so many stores and waste a lot of time, checking around where to find it. that's when she thought "why dont we have a website, on which we can search for products in the different stores in town" and Menwayn was born.
Menwayn launched about a week ago in beta mood cove...
Update: facebook responded by saying that the new translation button is powered by Bing translation engin, meaning it supports all the languages the bing supports (about 50) For now, the button is visible only to people who have installed the translations app. If a human translation is also available, they show that, instead. The way it works i...
Update: English version fo the sites is back, Arabic site Tawhed.ws is still not accessible in Jordan. Update 2: one commenter is claming he is in Jordan and the site is accesible, however he is only one claiming so, if you are in Jordan please let us know if tawhed.ws opens with you.
After testing in several IPs from Jordan we found that ta...
Tomorrow is Eid Al Fitr in most Muslims countries. In this occasion I send my greetings (see my Video below) to All Muslims worldwide and specially AC's Muslim reader: Happy Eid, Eid Mubarak and May Allah accept from me and you. If you are not Muslim then I also wish you a happy Tuesday :).
What Is Eid Ul Fitr?
Muslims celebrate 'Eid ul F... 


