Going to the opening of the Global Entrepreneurship Week tonight was like going to group therapy. My partner Razan and I had just had an “afternoon from hell” dealing with extremely lame financial reporting issues at the office. It’s the stuff that makes one curse the day he or she decided to be entrepreneurial and [...]

Finally!

I’ve been covering developments in getting Amman and Jordan mapped electronically for a few years now, at one point even suggesting that we as users just do it ourselves!

This whole GPS maps and navigation business in Jordan was being held up for over a year by what seems to be [...]

This morning I woke up at 6 am Amman Time, be interviewed by Dubai Eye 103.8’s Business Breakfast show about Watwet .You can listen to the interview here. This comes hot on the heels of an interview that Emirates Business 24/7 did with Watwet CEO Kareem Arafat.

With the Twitter hype going mainstream in the region, [...]

UPDATED: I had a very friendly chat with the Jordan Times Editor in Chief (who was totally unhappy about what happened with me on Twitter). Obviously, The Jordan Times does not condone the blocking of users from their service nor the style of the communication that was used by the person working on their Twitter [...]

Faisal Ghori did an excellent story for the Huffington Post on the Maktoob-Yahoo deal. The story’s focus is on how this deal gives hope to entrepreneurs in the region where hope is in short supply.

The story also highlights Jordan as the region’s leading tech startup base. I am happy that this notion is becoming a [...]

Last night was the first time I drive in Amman with a GPS map in my car! Yipee!

In the end, it was Google who were first in providing this experience. As I mentioned in a previous post, Google Maps has, for the past few months, included a Amman map with main street names in Arabic [...]

After the euphoria of yesterday’s news about Yahoo buying Maktoob for an estimated US$ 85 million, and after seeing the name of this Jordan-made brand on the pages and screens of every major international news outlet, and after the topic “Maktoob” made it to the top 10 topics of Twitter.. I was expecting to see [...]