Islamic clerics seek to regulate Facebook

Gulf News
Surbaya: Muslim clerics are seeking regulation for online behaviour in Indonesia, saying the exploding popularity of social networking sites like Facebook could encourage illicit sex.
A spokesman says a meeting of 700 imams in the world’s most populous Muslim nation on Thursday was considering forbidding followers from online flirting they believe encourages extramarital affairs.
Nabil Haroen [...]

Intel Capital Invests in Two Jordanian Companies, Jeeran and ShooFeeTV

In a joint press conference today in Amman, Jordan, Intel Capital’s latest investments in the Arab internet scene were announced.
These new investments from Intel Capital are in Jordanian internet companies Jeeran, one of the leading user generated content portals in the Arab world, and ShooFeeTV, a free online Arabic television guide. Both companies are also IV Holdings [...]

Microsoft working on technology to promote Arabic online

by Arabian Business
Global software giant Microsoft is working on translation technology that would make the Arabic language more accessible to Internet users, according to Qatar’s daily The Peninsula.

“We’re deeply investing into that,” the newspaper quotes Anoop Gupta, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Unlimited Potential Group, as saying. He said Microsoft was developing translation technology that [...]