Bayt.com, the Middle East’s number one job site, has announced that it received more than 14,000 unique visitors to its pan-regional Virtual Job Fair (VJF), which ran on the Bayt.com website between March 22nd and 26th, for employers and job seekers in the Middle East to interact in a convenient, hassle free and stress free forum.  The Virtual J...

Growth in user spend on mobile entertainment services will slow dramatically over the next two years unless key markets emerge from recession, according to a new report from Juniper Research. In addition, the report argued that slower deployment of content services meant that revenues were likely to be lower than previously forecast even after mark...

WaTweT is a micro blogging, group messaging & social networking platform for Arabia (like Twitter). The Jordanian startup was initially reviewed on AC here and here. ArabCrunch channel is now featured among few handpicked channels available on WaTweT to the public, where if you subscribe, you can receive the channels updates to your WaT...

Salam Business Club (SALAMBC ) the professional social network that targets business people from in the Arab, Asian, and Muslim world, is now in Arabic. The website is also available in English, German, Urdu, French and Turkish. SALAMBC is the result of the rebranding Muslim Businesses Club, the company's cofounder Rias A. Sherzad  was feature...

Update: Initial feedback for the new desktop version, look below. Many Arab startups just duplicate International websites especially American based and add few things such as local feel and an Arabic Interface. However there are a number of Arab entrepreneurs and startups who are thinking outside the box and going Global, and some of them...

ZAAD  is a Palestinian Arabic/English user generated Local search engine. Currently maintains a database for Palestinian private sector and NGOs. ZAAD allows users to enter their information directly to the site and update it frequently. According to Ibrahim Jabour from ZAAD, the website aims to build national databases for several sectors in P...

When I published the last news about Google’s suspected acquisition talks with a Jordanian startup, I was pressured by many to reveal the name of the company or the source/s name. Look there is a thin line between journalism and blogging, however they share many aspects, when a source/s say: keep me anonymous he stays anonymous, no one outside...

Updated.   Coinciding with Google’s executive trip to Jordan and across the region, I’ve been hearing rumors that Google is in acquisition talks with a Jordanian internet startup, the deal is rumored to be in millions of dollars. I have the name of the startup but I won’t mention it, if these rumors were true it will mark the 1st Goo...

The Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship (QRCE) has recently announced that it has been selected to join the Microsoft BizSpark Program as a Network Partner.  The BizSpark Program is a new global program launched by Microsoft in many countries of the world. The program is Microsoft’s answer to the growing use of free open source te...

You pass into many websites, webpages, blogs, blog posts, videos and pics everyday. Many of them might have important information to you that you want to save for later retrieval. Browser built in bookmarking option provides this wanted feature, while Delicious provides it on the cloud and as a FireFox extension, with the option of adding notes...