Feedoor, Jordan based Feed management service has moved its servers to Rack Space Cloud. Cloud Computing a set of pooled computing resources, delivered over the web, powered by software. The main benefit of cloud computing is that website owners do not have to spend a lot of money and resources in managing their own servers, in cloud computing they...
Jeeran is an interesting Arab internet company because its story resembles the stories you hear about in Silicon Valley (USA): A Tech startup that starts from the founders' garage or dorm and then makes it big (example: HP, Yahoo and Google to name a few.)
Jeeran was founded in 2000 by then two Jordanian students and entrepreneurs Omar Kouds...
Jeeran one of the popular social media communities in the Arab world has recently launched a new subsidiary called Jeeran Research a research agency tailored to the Arab world (they call it MENA !) that competes directly with Yahoo’s Matoob Research.
The new company is using a new reward based Arabic/English survey community called Nazra...
Jordan based Wizrads Productions was founded by serial entrepreneur and ex-maktoobian Sohaib Thiab along with Hussam Hammo, Afif Toukan and Omar Turk and was angel funded by 3 friends of Sohaib. The startup which specializes in Arabic online multiplayer games, started with the hit game Arabain Hitman in March 2009 that achieved today around 94,400...
Google had google Answers a questions and answers community site that was based on paying researchers , however that service was shutdown in 2006. In the Arab world Google just entered again the Q&A market with Google Egabat which is still in Beta. (Egabat means answers in Arabic)
Egabat differs than Google Answers mainly that anyone c...
The battle between Microsoft and Open Source is never ending. This video produced by Jordanians mimic how fanatics on both sides defend their turf.
Enjoy :) :
The video is produced by Mohammad Shobaki from Jordan and Amman Filmmakers Cooperative.
The short movie was JordanianFilms Official Selection in: - International Panor...
Yesterday, I discovered that the permalinks of ArabCrunch posts are not working and have changed to:
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I got panicked, and as ArabCrunch is ...
Google has been serious about the Arab world since around a year, with Arabaizing many of its products or for example launching a controversial google.ps domain for Palestine. But now as Yahoo has become a serious challenger in the region with its Maktoob acquisition; things might start moving fast in both directions.
Today Google launched an ...
D1g.com the Amman, Jordan based startup that is best known for its video and photo sharing services has announced the launch of 7asnaa.com a revamped version of the woman focused forum it has acquired almost a year ago.
7asnaa which means in Arabic "pretty woman" (7 is written in Arabizi which stands for the litter "Hha" in Arabic) has now vide...
E-commerce and online shopping did not take off in Jordan and the Arab region for many reasons. Payment processing and delivery solutions are not as efficient as they are in other parts of the world. As electronic and credit cards are not common in Jordan as it is in USA .
In this post I examine the different startups and companies that are off...
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