Google has its ways to greet Muslims during Ramadan, it has announced that it is launching Makkah Live a channel that is video live streaming from Al-Masjid al-Haram in Mecca during Ramadan. The live streaming is done in collaboration with Saudi culture and media ministry....


Today Gate2Play, an end-to-end payment and value-added services platform based in Amman, Jordan, announced a first-time partnership with social games developer Zynga to distribute Zynga Game Cards in 16 countries throughout the Middle East and Africa. As a result of the partnership, Zynga Game Cards will be available for purchase soon in thousands...
Folks at Yahoo are raising the white banner and surrendering their social networking site in the Arab world "As7ab".
In an email sent to Yahoo Maktoob’s Arabic social network Asa7b members, Yahoo is saying that they will shut down the service as of 18/9/2011 and deleting everything, the email urges members to download their voice and video...
Wonder why the U.S Government attacked Wikileaks? they claimed it is national security, but the truth is that they did not want the world to know about their crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries, whether it is the number of civilians including children and women the US army and the CIA killed, or to know about illegal torture and rap...
Saudi based National Net Ventures or (N2V) is one of the largest Internet holding companies in the Arab world, it invests “venture funds” in Arab Internet and mobile startups and owns and develops its own ventures. The Company owns a number of popular websites including: HawaaWorld an Arab women destination site, N2V Development House a so...
Scapehouse is a new social media site that might a little bet late to the Google+ game. the startup comes with a new vision for online discussion,
On facebook people share stuff with their friends only, on Twitter the game is different, people share with their followers who do not have to be their friends.
Scapehouse brings both: users c...
The “Israeli” army is banning its soldiers from using social media and networking sites such as Twitter and facebook for what it calls fears on national security leaks.
In justifying the move the Israeli army noted that soldiers post secret photos of bases and compounds and would post future battle plans on social media sites which can ...
Humans do make mistakes. and the media is not an excpetion, even NY Times was once misinformed about a story.
This might be the first time we post wrong information. We posted that Aranim which is founded by the son of Jordan's current prime minster "Suleiman Bakhit" has launched the Arabic FarmVille Clone "the happy farm.". But Aranim...
3 years old Jordan based Arabic microblogging platform Watwet has closed down, in a massage posted on the site the site admins says that they are pulling the plug on WATWET and All your information on WATWET will be deleted permanently. However they are offering microblogging service to organizations.
Why did WatWet fail and close? I wrote ...
Update: the deal is confirmed.
Looks like group buying giant has acquired UAE daily deals startup startup GoNabit that has presence in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Lebanon, Jordan and Kuwait. and indonesian startup DealKeren.
The news comes from Indonesian tech startup blog Daily Social. according to the blog the logo on DealKeren’s website today ... 


