Data virtualization company Primary Data has announced that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak will serve as chief scientist of the Israeli-American data virtualization company. Wozniak, who is fondly known as ‘Woz’, will counsel Primary Data on technology vision and architecture, and advocate the company’s story with technology innovators around the globe....

The Obama administration’s former special adviser on Iran, Dennis Ross, said Tuesday that the United States backed down on key demands in its nuclear negotiations with the regime, according to a report in The Times of Israel. A day after nuclear talks with Iran were extended until July 2015 after...

Following the decision yesterday to extend nuclear talks between the P5+1 nations and Iran, Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator and foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif boasted of what his nation accomplished in the talks. In remarks reported by Buzzfeed, Zarif made the dubious claim that Iran had a right to enrichment...

The P5+1 powers on Monday failed to reach an agreement with Iran over its nuclear program following a year of negotiations, and announced instead that talks would be extended through June 2015. Buzzfeed Politics noted that the parties had “not even produced a framework agreement,” which Iranian officials had floated as likely...

Arab-language news reports and social media indicate an increasing presence of supporters of the terrorist organization ISIS within the Gaza Strip. Hamas, the terrorist organization that runs Gaza, has denied (Arabic link) any ISIS presence in the Gaza Strip itself, and rejects that it has any possible connection to the other organization. But Arab...

Media outlets in the Arab world are reporting today extensively on the nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 powers, and largely denouncing the Western willingness to extend the deadline for achieving a nuclear agreement. According to certain commentators in Arabic language outlets, Iran held the upper hand in the last round of...

Reports emerged Friday morning that at least 30 Hamas members had been arrested in the West Bank in recent weeks for planning a series of terror attacks against Israeli targets. Senior Palestinian officials told veteran Arab affairs correspondent Avi Issacharoff that the expansive West Bank network was both funded and...

Israeli content-discovery platform Outbrain has entered into a multi-year partnership with Time, expected to generate more than $100 million in revenue sharing for the global publishing powerhouse over the course of the agreement, whose length was not disclosed. According to the deal, made public on November 18, Time will deploy...

The ultra-conservative Salafist Front, an Islamist political organization, has called for a “Muslim revolution” (Arabic link) across Egypt on Friday, November 28 in order to “impose Islamic identity without disguise” and to “impose Islamic sharia” law. The Salafist Front, formed after the 2011 uprising against President Hosni Mubarak, also demands...

Recent commentary in Gulf-based Arab media expresses concern that the nuclear negotiations between the West and Iran will weaken the standing of the Arab states. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) published a sampling of reaction across the region on Sunday. MEMRI summarized some of the themes it detected...