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Halal stock market investments arrive. No alcohol, gambling, pork, pornography, tobacco and other non-Shariah compliant products are not included.
Standard & Poor’s said it launched a fully investable S&P Pan Asia Shariah Index, which draws stocks from nine Asian markets in the S&P Citigroup Global Equity Index. The new index will enable Islamic investors to benchmark their investment on a regional basis, and give product providers the opportunity to develop structured products tailored to the Islamic market, S&P said.
Source: S&P launches fully investable Pan Asia Shariah Index for Islamic investors – Forbes.com. More info on Yahoo Finance News and MSN MoneyCentral. We like the use of the term ‘Islamic investors’. How about Muslim investors?
QuranicHealing.com label their site as “SPIRITUAL HEALING and WELLNESS OF BODY, MIND AND SOUL”. A variety of ailments are listed with their cures and remedies. The ailments and curses are a definite mix of interesting. Some of the illnesses seem to be archaic in this modern age of 21st century technology (for example: rune readings, necromancy, Sumerian magic, Babylonian magic, Chaldean magic and more). Before your eyes glaze over, the site also claims to help you “cope with depression, anger, anxiety, insomnia, mental illnesses, cancer…” Wait, there’s more. QuranicHealing.com also claims to help you protect yourself against reincarnation (hold on, I want to be reincarnated as one of the saliheen, siddiqeen, mujahideen or other pious ranks on the Day of Judgment!), spiritualism and… tai chi!
Not much information is given about the site owner(s) and their background. It is stated on the home page that the content is “inspired by ideas in the Holy Qur’an. Spiritual Healing and Wellness is based on religious resources driven from Allah (God).”
Another aspect of the site caught our eye (no, not the evil eye). The clean design of the site and the vibrant logo were atypical of the usual Muslim forum, portal or directory. QuranicHealing.com is powered by erkPORTAL which is manufactured by ErkSoft, a company that was started by Bulent Arsalan in 2000. ErkSoft also developed MarketPlaceDigger.com – a search engine that helps “shoppers anywhere use the power of information to easily find, compare and buy anything online from marketplace Merchants – in less time and for the best price!”
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Web 2.0 activity is growing rapidly as consumers no longer visit the web to passively take in content; rather, they are actively creating content themselves, a survey conducted by global strategy and technology consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton shows. The survey shows 50 per cent of individuals who use the Internet report that they use social media sites resulting in more than 420 million Web 2.0 users globally, of which 19 million are in the Middle East. Penetration of Web 2.0 sites in the Middle East is not yet as prevalent, as only 15 per cent of users in Arab countries frequently visit Web 2.0 sites.
Public view
In the Middle East, a whopping 70 per cent of MySpace users allow the messages they send back and forth to their colleagues to be viewed by the public – essentially, carrying on instant messaging conversations that can be read by anyone, anywhere in the world. In the Middle East, 84 per cent reported gathering purchasing recommendations online. About 40 per cent of users worldwide, and 34 per cent of users in the Middle East are willing to use recommendations on purchases from unknown members of consumer platforms. In fact, over 80 per cent of Middle East users take recommendations on purchasing from other users, one-third of which come from unfamiliar individuals. “The survey suggests that companies may need to radically reshape their traditional marketing approaches in response to the transfer of marketing power from corporations to individuals,” Hasbani said.
