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Hadafi competition offers Saudi women the chance to fund business ideas

Last week, Dubai-based social enterprise Potential launched Hadafi, a women’s entrepreneurship program designed to empower women in Saudi A...

Women Hadafi Saudi Arabia

How does the Arab world's mobile market compare to the rest of the world? [Infographic]

Smartphones are undoubtedly the future of the internet. Around the globe, smartphone penetration has been increasing by 10% each year since...

Mobile Penetration mobile advertising Mobile

Why technology is not always the solution for better education

Until quite recently, I was a keen advocate of transforming education through technology. Over the years I was inspired by the ideas and...

E-Learning Technology Education

How to identify a startup opportunity

In light of the exponential growth that the Arab world has witnessed over the last few years – the startup ecosystem grew from $10 million ...

Advice

Egyptians discuss technology and social development at Social Good Summit

CAIRO, Egypt The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) hosted last week the Social Good Summit: a discussion about new media and...

Social Change Egypt Social Entrepreneurship

Put global recruiting trends to work in your job search

New LinkedIn data may spell good news for the ever-increasing number of job seekers in the Middle East. A recently released study...

Weekly Wrap-Up: October 06-10

Coming up: Mix N' Mentor Beirut Get ready to Mix N' Mentor, Beirut! This Saturday, October 12th, we'll be launching the new format of Mix...

Startup news ticker: apps2you launches new app; Khalifa Fund organizes an SME event; new training program for women entrepreneurs

Welcome to Wamda's weekly startup news ticker, which will offer quick announcements and stories relevant to the region. If you have a quick...

ticker

Not another cupcake shop: Bahrain's women entrepreneurs debate what local startups need

If there’s one place in the Arab world one can go to understand the complex relationship between women, government, and entrepreneurship i...

Ecosystem

Can internet giants bring down the cost of connectivity?

Update: Egypt's internet penetration rate is currently around 44%. Today, nearly two thirds of the world’s population does not have access ...

Internet growth Telecommunication Trends

Interact Egypt offers affordable social media marketing courses for entrepreneurs

Egyptian entrepreneurs can finally attend professional training courses on key topics related to the marketing of their own startups at...

Egypt Workshops Digital Media

Visualizing Palestine unites activism and entrepreneurship

In 2009, Ramzi Jaber quit his job as a civil engineer in Jerusalem to organize TEDxRamallah. Upon moving to Ramallah to begin work on the...

indiegogo palestine Crowdfunding

LinkedIn goes Orientalist with new Middle East infographic

LinkedIn's new infographic doesn't tell you much you won't know already, if you've read their recent data on the Middle East, but it does...

LinkedIn Social Networks

Moms love mobile ads more than you do [Report]

It has become somewhat of a cliche to say that the future of the internet is mobile. And even though smartphone users say that mobile ads...

mobile advertising Mobile Women

Pioneers of Egypt Award, promoting social entrepreneurship, enters second round

After the 2011 start of the Egyptian revolution and the subsequent unrest, social entrepreneurship organizations exploded onto the...

Global

WhatsApp hacked by Palestinian group via another DNS hijack

After a group of four hackers took down Google Palestine last month by redirecting visitors to a different website, AVG and WhatsApp were...

Hackers

Guy Kawasaki’s top 11 mistakes made by entrepreneurs [Video]

As one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing the Macintosh computer in 1984, Guy Kawasaki has since started his own...

Venture Capital Expert Advice Tips

Bahraini antique furniture startup eyes regional expansion

Two years ago, childhood friends Sara Sayyar and Mariam Fathi started a business based on their passion for “all things old and broken... y...

manama riyadat mall furniture

Can the Arab region keep up with the rise of the social media profession? [Infographic]

Social media use has exploded over the past few years, so much so that today, a "social media manager" is taken for granted as a job...

LinkedIn Infographic Social Networks

Edgy streetwear brand challenges sedate Egyptian fashion market

Young Egyptian streetwear brand Krak Baby has successfully brought 1990s-revival trucker hats and graphic t-shirts to the local fashion...

Aramex, Google, PayPal, and ShopGo launch EZStore.me to help offline retailers go online

With 30 million people shopping online today in the Middle East and North Africa, in a market expected to reach $15 billion by 2015,...

E-commerce

Jumia celebrates its first year, announces Mobinil partnership

Jumia Egypt celebrated its first anniversary with a full-on fashion show and party atop the luxurious Fairmont hotel in central Cairo last...

Rocket Internet Jumia

Egyptian event platform Eventtus goes premium after investment from Vodafone, Cairo Angels

After meeting at Startup Weekend Cairo in 2011, the founders of event organizing platform Eventtus launched their startup in...

Funding Venture Capital Angel Investment

11 ways to be unremarkably average [Cartoon]

Lately, startup lingo has compared social media managers to gurus, developers to ninjas, and entrepreneurs to superheroes. This can be an...

Graphic Cartoon

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