Wamda

How can the Arab world break barriers to scale?

Editor’s note: Fadi Ghandour is the the Chairman of Wamda, the founder of Aramex, and board member of Endeavor, an international non...

Fadi Ghandour

'Internet Revolution' gains steam in Egypt; can it meaningfully challenge Big Internet?

In an attempt to defend citizens’ right to a decent internet connection at a reasonable price, a public campaign called Report an D...

Egypt

China's largest search engine takes on Google in Egypt

The digital media scene – especially that in the Arab region – seems to be an appealing market for competition between China and the U.S., ...

Baidu china Egypt

Fresh off Kickstarter glory, Integreight gears up for 1Sheeld due date

$85,210 USD. That’s how much funding the Egypt-based startup Integreight attracted for its award-winning product 1Sheeld during its 30-day ...

1sheeld arduino Hardware

Can lean e-commerce site ShuGeek bootstrap indefinitely?

One month was all it took to launch ShuGeek, the website for so-called geeky products in the UAE. The team, adopting a lean startup...

Technology E-commerce

KarTag enters the Cairo carpooling market with a user-generated 'pure carpooling' model

Egypt suffers from an astonishing amount of automobile-related pollution, traffic, and parking problems. Egyptian entrepreneurs have...

Car Service Coworking Sharing Economy

Social entrepreneurship incubator in Tunisia seeks to foster civic engagement

In Tunisia, the revolution has lead to a real revival of civic engagement. To help this movement bear fruit and be sustainable, a...

Incubator Social Entrepreneurship

Regional

What your ideal term-sheet should look like

As promised, in this post I will focus on the term-sheet. First let’s get some definitions straight. A term-sheet is the document that n...

seed investment term-sheet Investment

Yamsafer tackles region's payment challenge with cardless bookings

Faris Zaher, CEO and co-founder of hotel bookings site Yamsafer, thinks his team may have come up with a solution to the region’s payment r...

yamsafer payment solutions cardless bookings

Oasis500 launches Omraan, a funding competition for startups working to solve urban problems

As it intensifies its effort to spread entrepreneurial culture in the region, Jordanian tech-focused incubator Oasis500 launches its first...

Competitions

How can the Arab world’s startup ecosystem work against gender discrimination?

If the global financial system had had more women in decision-making positions, would history have taken a different course? Women at the...

discrimination equality gender

Regional

How to raise $18M in the Middle East? 5 tips from MarkaVIP founder Ahmed Alkhatib

How do you raise $18 million USD in the Middle East? It’s not easy. Last week I sat down with Ahmed Alkhatib, the man behind the...

MarkaVIP

Why registering as a startup in Dubai is getting easier

Lately, we often hear startups from Casablanca to Cairo asking us how they can get a foothold in Dubai, the market with the region’s ...

in5 Incubator

Can this Saudi initiative become the Wikipedia of Arabic infographics?

In light of many recent attempts to enhance online Arabic content, three Saudi entrepreneurs have launched Arinfographic.net to archive...

arabic infographic inforgraphic Arabic Content

Palestinian entrepreneur launches e-store and educational blog on sexual health for married couples

“It started one day when I was walking in Ramallah,” Ashraf Alkiswani says. “I was stuck behind these two guys in their late thirties, and ...

karaz sexual health ramallah

Egyptian app Swipe N Tap provides an interactive link between restaurants and their customers

Mobile app developers are increasingly seeking to address not only problems, but also mere inconveniences, in peoples’ daily lives. For e...

Tablets

Meet the airline pilot behind one of the biggest apps in Morocco and Algeria

Stéphane Lagouche is not your usual app developer. Ten years ago, this French engineer moved to Morocco to start a new career as an ...

morocco mobile advertising

Elance's Dubai hiring announcement signals increased regional focus

Nearly two years after hiring a Startup Mobilizer based in Cairo, multinational online staffing platform Elance has moved to hire a...

elance localization Freelancers

Challenges and opportunities abound in the Arabic digital content sector

Ninety percent of people in the Arab World want to read their internet in Arabic, say recent statistics from the Economic and Social...

ebooks content Arabic Content

Cairo Ashoka event seeks to empower communication between female social entrepreneurs and media

Women are playing an increasing role in helping to solve the growing social problems in the Arab world due to successive...

Media Investment Social Entrepreneurship

Palestinian software companies merge; set sights on changing U.S. healthcare market

iConnect-Tech and 2i Software, two software development companies with front offices in Chicago and programming teams based in Palestine,...

software development palestine Developers

Tips from 3 experts on building a successful co-working space in the Arab world

Co-working spaces are a new thing in the Arab world. We’re not used to working in the same place with strangers who aren’t colleagues or eve...

Coworking Advice Egypt

FbStart Dubai emphasizes mobile apps, gaming, and partnerships

Finally, Facebook has turned its entrepreneurship eye to the Arab region, hosting FbStart in Dubai on March 27 in an attempt to help...

Facebook Start FBStart

StartupYourLife meetup reflects growing vitality of the Moroccan startup scene

On the 7th of March, more than 150 entrepreneurs, investors, developers, designers, and members of the Moroccan startup community attended...

event startupyourlife

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