E-commerce is hot in the Arab world and now it is taking off after several years. Last year group buying site GoNabit which was founded in UAE was acquired by LivingSocial for a price around $10 million.
Today brings a news of another milestone for e-commerce in the Arab world, MarkaVIP Amman, Jordan based flash shopping site has secured investm...


Syrian Electronic Army a hacker group affiliated with Bashar Al Asad regime has claimed responsibility for taking down Linkedin Blog http://blog.linkedin.com/.
As of writing this post Linkedin in blog is down.
This is the zone-h info of the hack....
In Blog post announcing that google has added Jerusalem old city to Google maps street view Google has recognized Jerusalem as an Israeli city the post reads “
Every year, 3.5 million people come to Israel to visit ancient sites that are holy to billions of people, to walk among the unique stone of Jerusalem, or to relax on the beaches of t...
A New Arab Advisors Group's survey conducted on February 2012 of cellular users in Kuwait reveals some details on smartphones and tablets adoption and usage patterns. The survey probed general cellular usage habits, smartphones awareness in addition to tablets availability among cellular users in Kuwait.
The survey revealed that iPad is the ...
MonsterGulf.com, one of Middle East’s leading online career and recruitment solutions providers, today launched Monster application for mobile devices on Windows Phone platform, the app gives job seekers and career minded professionals the to search for jobs and explore new career opportunities. The new application can be downloaded through ...
Egyptian hacking group Team Hacker Egyp took over Barack Obama http://barack-obama.co.il/ Israeli site in retaliation for the conspiracy against Islamic Egyptian presidential candidate Hazim Salah Abu Ismael.
Salah Salah Abu Ismael are talking about a US government conspiracy in partnership with the rolling military council to dismiss him from...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on facebook that his company is acquiring iPhone and Android popular photo sharing startup Instagram.
Mark did not say how much was the price, Update: the price is $1 billion in a combination of cash and shares of Facebook according to facebook announcement. but he said unlike other facebook acquisitions...
A report has surfaced on UAE's English newspaper The National that Arab business portal Zawya! will be sold next month for several tens of millions of dollars.
The National is reporting that several international and regional companies are involved in bidding process to buy the site. Among them Thomson Reuters, Emap whose Middle Eastern sub...
Anonymous has taken down the UK interior ministry website which is called in the UK Home Office @AnonymouSpoo has claimed responsibility with tweet and called it #OpTrialAtHome:
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TANGO DOWN - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/ (via @AnonymouSpoon) For your draconian surveillance proposals! Told you to #ExpectUs! #ANONYMOUS #AnonUK
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The Twitte...
Tahrir2 the startup accelerator that is based in eAlexandria Egypt and is Head cofounded by Mohamead Gawdat Google's Emerging Markets ! got its 2 startups launched.
The 2 startups are:
1. opendayz.com : www.opendayz.com, an e=commerce portal for home and small businesses to market their products while offering buyers high quality pro... 


