ikoo, the integrated digital marketing solution provider with the largest reach in the Middle East and North Africa [MENA], announced a major partnership with STC Ventures, which has invested US$3 million in the company.
The investment will be used to start new initiatives and future growth including its video network, performance network, au...
Cobone.com, the largest daily deal company in the Middle East, has been acquired by international investment firm Tiger Global Management, leaving the startup firm with additional capital to further its long-term commitments in the Middle East.
Amount of the deal where not disclosed. But TechCrunch says the figure of would be around $40 ...
Tahadi Games, a leading Arabic free to play online games publisher, has announced the launch of Stylista, its first Fashion Social Game on Facebook today.
With client based MMOs like Runes of Might, Arabic Ragnarok Online and Point of Blank, Tahadi Games is taking a new direction with Stylista focusing on the Arabic female audience in particula...
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...
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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Twofour54 ibtikar, twofour54’s financing and support arm, has today announced new venture capital investment deals with two of the region’s Arabic online games companies, Tahadi Games and Jawaker.
Established in 2008 and part of Jabbar who is founded by the previous owners of Maktoob.com, the region’s biggest Arabic lang...
Daily deals, group buying web site Cobone.com has raised an undisclosed amount of second-round funding from Jabbar Internet Group. Jabbar, who are backed by Tiger Global, now take complete ownership of the company by buying out the minority shareholder, Group Buying Global (GBG), which is run by Klaus Hommels, a European Angel Investor.
Lau...
Jabbar's group buying site Cobone has expanded to Cairo, Now offering special offers to the resident of the city.
Like Groupon and Livingsocial Cobone works by offering special deal with deep discounts on restaurants health club and so on, users commit to the deal and if enough people buy the deal it goes live.
With this move Cobone compete...
Jabbar group is expanding the companies it invest in to include now Joob.
Joob is like Expedia but with focus in the Arab world, it enables you to search for flights from one destination with the option in filtering them by price, number of stops, airlines, time of the day.
The site also allows you to search hotels and filter them by hot...
The group buying startups spree are everywhere now a days in the Arab world, we have Cobone based in UAE from Jabbar group now operates in Amman, Jordan, Dubai, Sharija and Abu Dhabi in UAE, Beirut in Lebanon, cobone plans to expand to Cairo and other cities in GCC region. GoNanbit funded by Bayt and based also in UAE also operates in the cit...
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