Sakhr one of the oldest Arabic software companies, founded in 1982 has acquired Silicon Valley based startup, Dial Directions , a voice-activated phone service for driving directions.
I remember the first PC I used in my life was from Sakhr back in the late 80s, running its own property Arabic Operating system, where I used to play games. But du...
MENA 100 Business Plan Competition, is organized by the MENA-OECD Enterprise Financing Network, in cooperation with the Islamic Development Bank and the MENA Center for Investment. and in partnership of MENA 100 regional Partners including QRCE.
The MENA 100 Competition addresses innovative entrepreneurs, from the 18 Arab countries participating...
UPDATE: More details of the deal at the end of the post.
WebProNews reports that Google and the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology have signed a $10 million contract regarding business and workforce development in Egypt. According to the site the deal was signed in Washington D.C during the Egyptian Minister of...
Last March we reported that CIApple, the startup that works in the field of computational intelligence, won the first place in ASTF ‘s technology business plan competition -seed category-, yesterday I recorded a video interview using my mobile with its founder and general manager, Hussein Al-Natsheh to track the startup progress since then.
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MIT Arab Business Plan Competition is one of the great initiatives that are helping entrepreneurial drive in the region. This year competition saw applicants from 17 Arab countries representing 1,200 teams.
The competition announced the 4 winners last week, who were chosen among the top 10 finalist, but who are the winners and what do they do?
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Social Networking and video portal site d1g.com, which allows users to share, discuss, and distribute rich online content, has tapped into the knowledge and expertise of online data mining and data strategist, Dr. Usama Fayyad, appintement is a big win for D1g.com.
Dr. Usama Fayyad served as Yahoo!’s Chief Data Officer and Executive Vice Pr...
OpenX Technologies, Inc. , the world’s largest open-source ad server for web publishers, today announced it has completed a $10 million Series C funding round that brings the total investment in OpenX to more than $30.8 million. DAG Ventures led the round and existing investors Accel Partners, Index Ventures, Mangrove Capital, First Round Capita...
Continuing our series of video interview I did during World Economic Forum (WEF), Dead Sea, Jordan. I present to you today a video interview with Serial Entrepreneur from Syria: Abdulsalam Haykal.
Abdulsalam is the only WEF selected Young Global Leader from Syria, he is the founder of CEO of Transtek Information Systems an ERP vendor based in S...
Continuing our series of video interview I did during World Economic Forum, Dead Sea, Jordan. I present to you today a video interview with Jordanian angel Investor Karim Kawar.
Karim a person with a smiley face, has made investments in wide array of sectors, in the tech sector he is an investor in Iris Guard a Jordanian startup special...
The MIT Arab Business Plan Competition, which we covered earlier its launch this year here, has announced the qualified 10 teams for the Final Round of the competition.
The 10 teams will be invited to Dubai to present their business plans on Thursday, June 11, 2009, where The 3 winning teams will be announced in a ceremony in Dubai on Friday, ...
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