The IV Holdings Blog: IT Growth

Animated success for Jordan

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:36:00 GMT

The IV Team congratulates the team members of its parent company, Accelerator (ATH) (www.acceleratortech.com) on the market confidence that one of their portfolio companies, Rubicon, has achieved. Rubicon has announced that it has received a multimillion dollar investment from a regional private equity fund, a significant milestone for those that believe the Arab World can generate globally relevant... [read more]

MENA Broadband Subscribers To Reach 27 Million By 2014

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:42:53 GMT

MENA Broadband Subscribers To Reach 27 Million By 2014According toInforma Telecoms & Media’s newMiddle East & North Africa Broadband report, the MENA region will continue to experience some of the world’s highest growth rates in broadband subscriber numbers.The report states that the 66 percent growth that the region witnessed in 2008 will be leveling out at around 24.9 percent (compound annual... [read more]

Jeeran Story Is No Different Than The Story Of The Typical Silicon Valley Startup.

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:30:24 GMT

Jeeran Story Is No Different Than The Story Of The Typical Silicon Valley Startup.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,YahooandGoogleto name a few.)Jeeran was founded in 2000 by then two Jordanian students and entrepreneurs... [read more]

Jeeran Takes On Yahoo!, Launches Jeeran Research Along With Nazarti: A Reward Based Online Survey Community.

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:26:19 GMT

Jeeran Takes On Yahoo!, Launches Jeeran Research Along With Nazarti: A Reward Based Online Survey Community.Jeeran one of the popular social media communities in the Arab world has recentlylaunched a new subsidiary calledJeeran Researcha research agency tailored to the Arab world (they callit MENA !) that competes directly with Yahoo’sMatoob Research.The new company is using a new reward based Arabic/English... [read more]

Building Hope: Yahoo! Acquires Maktoob.com

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:47:13 GMT

TALK BACK: Building Hope: Yahoo! Acquires Maktoob.comThese are the views of Faisal Ghori, Principal at Middle East Ventures, a strategy consultancy focused on the greater Middle East and North Africa, on Yahoo buying Maktoob.com:Hope is often in short supply in the Middle East, but that may be quickly changing, at least for the region’s entrepreneurs. On Aug. 25, Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO), the Internet... [read more]

A "Mabrouk" to Maktoob and Yahoo!

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:23:00 GMT

A "Mabrouk" to Maktoob and Yahoo!With today's formal announcement of Yahoo!'s acquisition of Maktoob.com, we take this opportunity to congratulate the Maktoob founders and team as well as welcome Yahoo! as an active participant in shaping the Arabic speaking world's online and interactive experience. One gets the feeling that this is the beginning of a journey, and not an end, both for Yahoo! and... [read more]

Ad Revenue on the Web? No Sure Bet

Mon, 25 May 2009 08:54:00 GMT

May 25, 2009 Ad Revenue on the Web? No Sure Bet By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER SAN FRANCISCO — For anyone with a crazy idea for a Web business, the way to make it pay was once obvious: get a lot of visitors and sell ads. Since 2004, venture investors have put $5.1 billion into 828 Web start-up companies, and most of them are supported by ads, according to the National Venture Capital Association... [read more]

Intel Capital to invest in Jeeran and ShooFeeTV

Sun, 17 May 2009 11:08:00 GMT

Intel Capital to invest in two digital content companies in Jordan Investments in Jeeran and ShooFeeTV underline Intel’s commitment to extend region’s technological expertise World Economic Forum, Dead Sea, Jordan, May 17, 2009 – As part of its ongoing commitment to Jordan, Intel today announced that Intel Capital, its investment organization, will be investing in two digital... [read more]

Maddy Reddy: Content market in the Middle East is still in its ‘infancy’.

Mon, 11 May 2009 15:21:28 GMT

Maddy Reddy is Founder & CEO of Content Syndicate, an internet based platform that helps publishers and corporations commission, distribute, buy and sell previously published and/or tailor made content in more than 200 languages. Q. Kindly introduce yourself and your company. A. I'm a technology journalist by profession, or that's how I started my career more than ten years... [read more]

Venture capital the new hope for technology start-ups

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:27:00 GMT

Below is an article that was published in The National , a UAE newspaper.Featured on: April 10th, 2009. (Source: www.thenational.ae) -----------------------------------------Venture capital funds in the Middle East are emerging as alternatives to speculative investment in property and financial markets, internet industry professionals were told at the Submit conference in Dubai this week. The development... [read more]