Tag: Jordan
Online Gaming Industry Emerges: Cricket Power, Tarneeb, Arabic Rappelz
Online gaming is a global phenomenon, with web-based games and Xbox, Wii and Playstation online networks connecting young and old to play games such as Halo3, Sim, Call of Duty etc. Given the OIC regions high youth demographic, which is increasingly online, it is no surprise that online gaming companies from Pakistan to Jordan are [...]
Oasis500: A Technology Startup Accelerator from Jordan
Forty CEOs, investors and experts attend the first Oasis500 Mentor Network meeting. “You are the new generation, this is your chance! So what are you waiting for, get out of the desert!” Dr. Usama Fayyad uses the above quote to graciously describe what his company does best. Oasis500, an entrepreneurial projects and investments company, operating [...]
Top 100 Companies of the Muslim World: 2010 DS100 Ranking
See the full DS100™ list. The 2010 DS100 ranking, which is based on companies’ fiscal year ended on or before June 2010, fully captures the impact of the 2008/2009 global financial crisis.
2010 DS100 Summary: Companies Absorb Financial Crisis Shock
The 7th Annual DS100 continues to benchmark the corporate environment of the 57 OIC (Organization of Islamic Conference) member countries.
Meet the Chief Yahoo! of the Arab World
Samih Toukan’s life motto, “It’s better to try and fail than to fail to try,” has made him the globe’s largest Arab entrepreneur success story. When the world’s major Internet portal, Yahoo! signed a multi-million dollar deal with the biggest Arab online community in the world called Maktoob.com on August 25, CEO Samih Toukan was [...]
Consumer Brands of the Top 100 Companies in the Muslim World (2007)
This report showcases a selection of the most prominent consumer facing brands of the 2007 Top 100 Companies in the Muslim World. (Please view the latest 2010 report here) A variety of prominent global brand value rankings have repeatedly shown the tremendous sustainable income brands deliver. For example, InterBrand, which evaluates brands much like analysts [...]
Hikma’s Innovation, R&D Leads to Global Expansion
“Innovation, said Steve Jobs, “distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” By that standard, Jordan-originated multinational company Hikma Pharmaceuticals falls in the category of a ‘leader.’ With a modest start from Jordan in 1978, Hikma has grown into a global pharmaceutical giant with 176 pharmaceutical products in 397 dosage strengths and forms in 40 different [...]
Promoting Scientific Innovation in the Muslim World
Scientific and technological research and innovation is not among the qualities that one may attribute to the countries in the Muslim World. Having missed the dawn of scientific age due to reasons beyond the scope of this article, the 50-odd countries of the Islamic world cut a sorry figure when stacked against the modern and [...]
Fadi Ghandour: A Rare New-Economy Entrepreneur
For Fadi Ghandour, CEO and Founder of ARAMEX, it all started out as a simple idea – create a FedEx for the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. Today that idea has not only been realized in the form of ARAMEX – now one of the most reputable express delivery and logistics brands in [...]
