Wamda

Wamda's Mix N' Mentor is coming to Jeddah!

Fresh off the heels of a successful event in Beirut, the Mix N’ Mentor Roadshow 2013 next heads to Jeddah to continue our tour across the M...

Mix n Mentor Mentorship

Regional

MarkaVIP launches new platform, mobile apps, hints at new verticals to come

MarkaVIP, a leading regional flash sales site, has announced the launch of its new iOS and Android mobile applications, also debuting...

MarkaVIP E-commerce

What are the most popular mobile app categories worldwide?

AppAnnie, the app metric tracker, has released its quarterly market index to reveal how mobile app sales are evolving...

Trends Gaming

4 questions to ask while building your startup

Thomas Edison once said, “Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave u...

Tips Advice Failure

What it takes to build a billion dollar tech company, and what it means for startups in the Arab world

Yesterday, Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures took an honest look at what it takes to build a billion dollar company in Silicon...

Investment Trends

Online sports community Duplays launches new software platform, enters non-expat markets

If there's one thing Brian Sigafoos loves as much as sports, it's software. A 6'10" former professional basketball player, he's managed to...

abu dhabi playpass Dubai

Egypt's most famous female carpenter is breaking the mold to build a global brand

"I love the texture of wood, and the random patterns within the grain," says Maha Shoukry, a half-Egyptian, half-Italian entrepreneur who...

Artist Entrepreneurs Creativity Egypt

Whatsapp goes down worldwide; can it stay on top in mobile messaging?

As of an hour ago, app messenger Whatsapp went down around the world; at time of print, it had just started working again. The outage...

Mobile messaging Chat Mobile

Boris Johnson announces £100 million tech fund for Middle East startups

In a move designed to bring booming tech ecosystems in the UK and the Middle East closer together, London mayor Boris Johnson...

boris johnson innotech tech

Wamda Chairman Fadi Ghandour receives award at World Entrepreneurship Forum

Wamda Chairman Fadi Ghandour was honored yesterday at this year’s World Entrepreneurship Forum in Singapore with the Business Entrepreneur ...

CER Awards Fadi Ghandour

Weekly Wrap-Up: October 27-31

Sleep-deprived, failing fast, and pivoting smartly: Day 1 on StartupBus Europe Our very own French Editor Aline has joined StartupBus...

Weekly Wrap-Up

Women's portal HawaaWorld spins out new iPad recipe magazine

HawaaWorld is one of the oldest and most popular user-generated content portals targeting women in the Arab region. The platform,...

Food & Beverage

7 tips for launching a successful guerrilla marketing campaign

We all see tons of emails each week with subject lines like, “Top 10 Advertising Ideas for this Year” or “What Are Some of the Most Creat...

Advertising Marketing

Sleep-deprived, failing fast, and pivoting smartly: Day 1 on StartupBus Europe

They say travel makes you wiser, meeting people opens your mind, and succeding involve trying - and even failing. What happens when the...

hackathon Startupbus

5 graphs that explain the ICT sector in Jordan

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is often lauded as one of Jordan's most promising- and fastest growing- sectors. Last year,...

Report ict Data

Can media marketplaces disrupt traditional news outlets?

The statistics are by now familiar: newspaper and magazine subscriptions are in free fall, Facebook and Twitter are on the rise, and what...

marketplace news Media

What are Saudi consumers hungry for? A look at search trends in the Kingdom [Infographic]

The online ordering sector is heating up this year with Foodonclick, the Arab arm of Turkish online delivery giant Yemeksepeti, announcing e...

Food & Beverage

This young Jordanian entrepreneur bootstrapped a funky gadget e-commerce site from home

Global

Thought Leadership

Wamda's Mix N' Mentor is coming to Jeddah!

MarkaVIP launches new platform, mobile apps, hints at new verticals to come

What are the most popular mobile app categories worldwide?

4 questions to ask while building your startup

What it takes to build a billion dollar tech company, and what it means for startups in the Arab world

Online sports community Duplays launches new software platform, enters non-expat markets

Egypt's most famous female carpenter is breaking the mold to build a global brand

Whatsapp goes down worldwide; can it stay on top in mobile messaging?

Boris Johnson announces £100 million tech fund for Middle East startups

Wamda Chairman Fadi Ghandour receives award at World Entrepreneurship Forum

Weekly Wrap-Up: October 27-31

Women's portal HawaaWorld spins out new iPad recipe magazine

7 tips for launching a successful guerrilla marketing campaign

Sleep-deprived, failing fast, and pivoting smartly: Day 1 on StartupBus Europe

5 graphs that explain the ICT sector in Jordan

Can media marketplaces disrupt traditional news outlets?

What are Saudi consumers hungry for? A look at search trends in the Kingdom [Infographic]

This young Jordanian entrepreneur bootstrapped a funky gadget e-commerce site from home

Startup news ticker: MIT connecting Arab startups to Silicon Valley; Bitcoin launches its first ATM

4 reasons why game developers should consider crowdfunding

12 initiatives working to empower women in the Middle East

Why startups should focus on strong customer service [Infographic]

5 ways to compete with Amazon, and why its model isn't 'profitless'

Aliqtisadi launches in Palestine and London, in hopes of becoming the #1 Arabic business news site

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