Update: Zaid Tillawi from Jeeran Marketing told AC that Jeeran is not planning to shut down its blogging platform and that you can create a new blog when you sign up on Jeeran Places.
Amman, Jordan based Jeeran is in route to shut down its blogging platform, it has ended new registration ( registration did not work at our end, Update, you c...
Again we come to the area of location based services, Foursquare and Gowalla offers users to check-in at locations, add tips and so on. There are some differences between both in terms of the game playing elements and other features at Gowala where users can share pics and so on about a certain venue.
Yallawain from Kuwait revolves around th...
The launch of facebook locations has taken lots of buzz, the service allows users to check in using their touch phones into different location, know where their friends are and get information about places and discover new ones. Facebook places competes head to head with startups such as NY based Foursquare, texas based Gowalla and Face2face...
It is not a jock Obama's administration plan for "entrepreneurship" in the Muslim and Arab world, as the U.S. government Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) approved recently a total of $455 million in financing to support the establishment of five private equity investment funds.
We have gathered data about the U.S. federal ...
While Aqara Estate a Jordanian startup founded by ex-Jeeran female employee Hanan Khader offers real estate agents in the Arab world and sellers the ability to list land, buildings or apartments for sales or rent. Aqaramap a Yamni startup that was launched last April came with emphasis on location by pin pointing the real estate address to the m...
iKbis, Jordan based video and photo sharing site is going ahead with a plans to differentiate it self from its main competitor Google's Youtube as executives of the leading telecom and ISP companies said during a conference lats year that youtube represent around 40% of Internet traffic in the region.
iKbis will be launching a number of special...
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With this launch, Jeeran CC c...
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...
Yesterday Gorden Grayish, Vice President EMEA Intel Corp, told ArabCrunch in a video interview (find it at the end of the post) that Intel Capital the venture capital arm of Intel, will announce an investment tomorrow in Amman, but he did not mention much more information. This morning they announced that the investment is in two Jordan-ba...
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