- Mabrouk to Talasim, who were among the six winners of Seedcamp in London last week. I had a chat to co-founder Zeid Koudsi yesterday, the story is in The National today. Also in the paper today, the chief of Abu Dhabi-owned Globalfoundries lays the smack down on Intel.

- But while we're on the topic of Jordanian dotcoms, apparently Yahoo's acquisition of Maktoob last month has some sort of broader importance for the Middle Eastern internet sector. I never really would have imagined, but apparently it is a big deal. Thankfully, after five weeks of detailed analysis of the deal, AT Kearney have put out a report explaining it all. Did you know, for instance, that "the presence of the world's biggest display advertising company will certainly help to stimulate increased online spend by advertisers"? A scoop of insight, to be sure. Click here to download the report

- A few bits and pieces: Business 24-7 covers a scientific breakthrough of global importance in Al Ain, Startup Arabia has a good summary of a study on Algerian internet users, and LG is searching for the owners of five of its Chocolate handsets - if your serial number matches one of these five, you've won $10,000.