Yesterday, the second day after the biggest news in the Arab Internet world since ever -Yahoo! Acquisition of Maktoob- I had the chance to record a video Interview with Keith Nillsson Senior Vice President International Emerging Markets Yahoo and Samih Toukan Co-Founder of Maktoob, now Director of Jabbar. The 15 minutes interview covers topic r...

ArabCrunch broke the news at the global level, that Yahoo has acquired Maktoob and I updated the acquisition post and wrote with the completion of the deal, the remaining Maktoob Group companies – including Souq.com an e-commerce and auction website, cashU.com online payment card , Araby.com an Arabic search engine, and Tahadi.com an MMO ga...

Update: Video Interview here. More Updates here: Jabbar acquired e-Marketing MENA. Update: Yahoo press release is at the end of this post, Financial terms were not disclosed, but my sources say the deal is over than 100 million. Update: As we said other Maktoob websites that are not branded under Maktoob name will be called "Jabbar"...

Yesterday was the first day of the holy month of Ramadan in some Muslims countries, and today it is the first day of Ramadan for the rest of the world. In this month all Muslims are obliged to fast from eating, drinking and having sex , from dawn to sun set. In this occasion we send our greetings to All Muslims worldwide and specially AC's ...

Update: below Since yesterday,  several people in Jordan were not able to access facebook. Some people thought that Orange the main ISP in Jordan, the second mobile operator and the only landline service provider in the country, is behind the blocking. A senior executive in Orange confirmed to ArabCrunch that accessing facebook is a pro...

The annual results of Arab Advisors Group’s Total Country Connectivity Measure (TCCM) reveal substantial –mostly cellular service driven- improvements in overall scores. The Arab broadband Internet markets also registered very positive growth. The United Arab Emirates is the most connected country in the Arab World according to the Arab Adviso...

ShooFeeTV, the Internet startup from Jordan that provides Satellite TV-related entertainment in the Arab World, has launched today in a party held in Amman Jordan, its free-to-air satellite channel. The channel brings viewers programming schedules of over 120 free-to-air and paid satellite channels; programming and celebrity information; video c...

Last Monday, Telecom regulatory commission (TRC) has awarded the first and only 3G license in Jordan to Orange the second largest mobile operator in Jordan. TRC refused the bid offer from Zain, the most popular mobile operator in Jordan in terms of the number of users. Philippe Vogeleer, Chief Strategy Office Secretary General of Orange, declin...

I do not understand why some people clone something famous, well this is somehow the case of WeziWezi, the new twitter like microblogging, 1 to 1 and group messaging project that was just launched in Beta stage from Amman, Jordan. Right now, WeziWezi has the same features you already find on Twitter and its other regional clone WatWet but wi...

After deleting  the fanpage of Esmail Haneea the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority from The Islamic Resistances Movement (HAMAS.)  (Haneea is now the acting prime minister of the government in besieged Gaza strip only, as the occupied West bank territories are under the Palestinian President Abbas’ own government) Now facebook de...