Update:
Oasis told us via Twitter that non jordanian "should work and establish their company inside Jordan!"
In June Former Chief Data Officer of Yahoo Dr. Usama Fayyad and current Chairman of Arab portal d1g told AC that Oasis 500 a technology startup accelerator in Jordan will launch in August this year. But now Oasis 500 website has ...
E-commerce is an old school in USA, but in the Arab world it did not really take off for many reasons starting with credit cards are not common to borders and customs between Arab countries that complicate issues further.
And because of that, solving a problem in this sector might get you funded as Gate2Play has officially received the first rou...
Yahoo! Middle East has today announced the official opening of its new offices in Dubai, UAE and Amman, Jordan. Rich Riley, who joined 1999 when Yahoo! acquired the start up company he co-founded and serve as the Senior Vice President & Managing Director, Yahoo! in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) has travelled to the region in or...
As a followup to our last post about Zain's Jordan launching Ibda3 a startup incubator Dr. Abdul Malik Al Jaber CEO of Zain Levant Region along with Reem also from Zain were kind to answer via email our questions and provide more information about the program:
AC: What type of support you provide the startups? funding? resources what type?...
We wrote last August 2009 about a 3 different e-commerce approaches in Jordan mentioning PhotoJONET, A photo storage and printing website service. But PhotoJONET did not live long due to disagreement between its founders.
Today PhotoJonet cofounder Issam Hijaz is brining his startup again but under a new name: Snap2Shop and a new partner with ...
Leadership Formation, a Jordanian firm focused on strategy and transformation through consulting and training offerings, is organizing the first Organizational Success & Excellence Executive Forum to be held on December 9, 2009 at the Sheraton Hotel Amman, Jordan.
The Forum in which ArabCrunch is a media partner in, will be a unique opportun...
Abraaj Capital Group announced today that it agreed to acquire all of Riyada Ventures the leading venture capital firm in the MENA region. The acquisition is at the core of a major new push by Abraaj into the small and medium enterprise (SME) space, which is aimed at stimulating and supporting entrepreneurial activity in this vital segment of t...
Creative Commons (CC) the equivalent body to open source software foundations but for content has finally launched its Amman chapter.
The launch was part of CC first Salon in Jordan and in the Arab world which took place Talal Abu Ghazaleh business Forum.
The forum also focused on how CC could be applied to business, artistic, entrepreneurial a...
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"...
Last March we reported that CIApple, the startup that works in the field of computational intelligence, won the first place in ASTF ‘s technology business plan competition -seed category-, yesterday I recorded a video interview using my mobile with its founder and general manager, Hussein Al-Natsheh to track the startup progress since then.
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