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Its logo is a tomato, not an apple, but in just eight years Jordanian company Tamatem has already bitten a chunk out of the lucrative market for Arabic mobile games. "Less than one percent of internet content is in Arabic, even though there are 400 million Arab users," said the company's founder and CEO Hussam Hammo. Hamo founded Tamatem -- which means tomato -- in 2013 and it was the first Arab company to win investment from the "500 Startups" programme based in Silicon Valley, California. "Language was a barrier to mobile games growth" in the region, said Nour Khrais,...
