Sukar a private shopping club that offers on a weekly bases from well known brands at discount rates up to 70% has started offering delivery to Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon. It was available before only in UAE. Sukar was launched end of last April.
Jabbar group is the majority owner of Sukar, the other e-commerce company that Jabbar owns is Souq....
It seems the growing success of Dubai based e-commerce group buying startup GoNabit has opened Jabbar group appetite to enter the market with a new startup called Cobone.
Jabbar group which emerged after Yahoo's acquisition of maktoob receiving an investment of 20 million USD from the owners of maktoob includes the following sites: souq (a...
Jabbar group company cashu is offering Moroccans now the option to buy its Internet e-payment prepaid card.
Cashu was originally launched by Maktoob group in 2002 to solve the problem of the low penetration rate for credit cards in the Arab world which is still an obstacle for e-commerce growth in the region. Cashu allows users to funded Cashu ...
Tahadi Games, Jabbar's group regional gaming arm has announced the partnership with Suzhou Snail Electronic Co., Ltd(Snail Game) to publish one of the top online games in the world: Heroes of Gaia. The game will be featured in both English and Arabic. The English version is scheduled to enter Closed Beta on mid of July and Arabic version is expect...
Today is the launch of SUKAR (Sukar profile on arabcrunch.net,) a new type of startup that Jabbar ( the company that emerged after Yahoo Maktoob deal) invested in with a close to 5 millions $ USD, according to sources.
Sukar which means sugar in Arabic is an e-commrece site that is different than any other as it is a private shopping club...
This is the first time a fully supported Yahoo! search engine has been available in Arabic and is currently in its first phase on Maktoob.com . And this is the first integration step between Maktoob and Yahoo after the acquisition!
Yahoo Arabic search is run on Yahoo!'s own search engine not Microsoft's bing. Yahoo Arabic search compet...
Update:
Souq.com is like eBay (online auction website) for the Arab world and one of Jabbar group of companies which used to be called Maktoob Group before Yahoo's acquisition of Maktoob which my sources say was 200 million USD.
Souq.com just launched yesterday its Egyptian version in both Arabic and English, tapping into more than 9 ...
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...
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...
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