{"id":16934,"date":"2010-07-28T07:12:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T11:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16934"},"modified":"2010-07-28T07:12:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T11:12:02","slug":"obrien-silicon-valley-giving-boost-to-middle-east-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2010\/obrien-silicon-valley-giving-boost-to-middle-east-startups.html","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Brien: Silicon Valley giving boost to Middle East startups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercury News &#8211; When Yahoo bought Jordan-based Maktoob.com in August 2009 for a reported $85 million, it barely made a ripple in  U.S. technology circles. But the deal for the leading Arabic online  community had a seismic effect on the fledgling startup economy in the  Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The Zawya Private Equity  Monitor, reported that Arab private equity funds allocated only $72  million to venture capital funds. And according to Renaissance Capital,  the Middle East \u2014 excluding Israel \u2014 has accounted for only 3 percent of  the world&#8217;s 197 initial public offerings so far in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/business-headlines\/ci_15616145?nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercury News &#8211; When Yahoo bought Jordan-based Maktoob.com in August 2009 for a reported $85 million, it barely made a ripple in U.S. technology circles. But the deal for the leading Arabic online community had a seismic effect on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16936,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16934\/revisions\/16936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}