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Intel invests in Jordanian digital content
EXTENDING THE LONG ARM of investment deep into the Middle East, Intel has announced Intel Capital has splashed out on two Jordanian digital content companies, Jeeran and ShooFeeTV.
Intel saw fit to dip into its $50 million Middle East and Turkey Fund to help Jeeran - an Arab user generated online community - and ShooFeeTV - an aggregator of Arab satellite channel listings as well as a content provider - to help both firms grow, develop and extend their product offerings.
Jeeran, launched in 2000, is purportedly the largest user-generated content site in the Arab world with 1.3 million registered members and seven million unique visitors a month, whilst ShooFeeTV boasts 200,000 entries of programming information, celebrity news, pictures and video clips a day.
The Jordanian Minister of Information & Communications Technology, Basem Al-Rousan, said the investment underscored the importance of increasing the penetration of local and Arabic content in the region.
No details were given about the amounts invested in either company. It is Intel's seventh investment in the region since this time last year.
Intel also blew its blue trumpet to announce the training of 60,000 teachers in how to apply technology in the classroom under the Intel Teach programme. Jordan was one of the first countries to sign up for the initiative in 2003, with Chipzilla boasting it has now trained over six million teachers worldwide. µ
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Yes. Give us your money and technology you stupid infidels.
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