Another Investemnt round made recently in the tech sector in Arabia as Intel Capital, Intel Corporation's global investment subsidiary, announced yesterday an investment in NeuString, a UAE-based telecommunications analyst software company. With this investment Intel Capital total investment in Arab based companies this year, totals to six, fro...
ArabCrunch Broke at the global level that Yahoo Acquired Maktoob, today it was announced that the deal was completed on Thursday noon.
Yahoo's acquisition of Jordan based Maktoob is the first major investment by a US tech company in the Arab region.
As we said before this is a game changer to the startups and the tech scene in the region, a...
twofour54 an Abu Dhabi government supported organization that aims to help turn Abu Dhabi into a media production hub has announced few days ago that its arm ibtikar, the media industry funding and support pillar of twofour54 has launched twofour54 ibtikar: creative lab, a grant funding scheme aimed at helping young Arabs get their ideas off the gr...
Following Yahoo! acquisition of?Maktoob?and Noupe Acquisition by Smashing magazine, I was tipped from a VC friend of mine of another good news for the Tech industry in Jordan and the Arab world in general. As of 10 days ago, Bahrain based private Equity firm, GrowthCapital announced that it acquired 30% of? Amman, Jordan based?Rubicon.
Rubic...
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Few days ago Smashing Magazine, the popular design and web development website with over 4 million visits per month has acquired the popular Egyptian blog Noupe which also specializes in website design and development.
Noupe was founded in Egypt 2007 by Noura Yehia, and has grown significantly with great posts tutorials and ho...
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...
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"...
10 angel investors have attended the pitching presentations of preselected startups last week as part of the first match-making event for the newly launched investors’ network in Jordan “Bedaya”.
The entrepreneurs were given 20 minutes to present their project and explain why they were willing to welcome external investors in their company...
Occasionally at ArabCrunch English we publish guest posts by experts and Industry leaders, who would share their experience with our reader, today’s guest post is by Laila Kassis who has many years of experience with venture capitalists in the states. (if you want to be a guest writer use the contact page.)
Laila is currently pursuing an MBA a...
MENA 100 Business Plan Competition, is organized by the MENA-OECD Enterprise Financing Network, in cooperation with the Islamic Development Bank and the MENA Center for Investment. and in partnership of MENA 100 regional Partners including QRCE.
The MENA 100 Competition addresses innovative entrepreneurs, from the 18 Arab countries participating...
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