Wamda

What tools do developers prefer when building a mobile app? [Infographic]

A recent study by VisionMobile revealed that 67% of mobile developers are below the “app poverty line” of $500 per app per...

Developers Infographic

U.A.E

Do consultants make good entrepreneurs? Advice from a founder in Dubai

Lately, it seems that more and more entrepreneurs have made the leap into starting businesses after a few years in consulting. Bana Shomali...

Consulting E-commerce

What it's like to be a woman entrepreneur in Saudi Arabia

[The Wamda media team with Diana Rayyan of Trochet at our W4Women Riyadh roundtable] What most of the world knows about Saudi Arabia is...

W4Women Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs Women

Global

Three steps to a great elevator pitch

A while back, I was standing at an entrepreneurship conference chatting with my former boss Ihsan Jawad, founder of Zawya.com, when...

Expert Advice Pitching Advice

How to track your website's progress on Google Analytics

In a world where nearly everything is trackable, finding data to inform important business decisions is simple. Shaping that data into a...

Tips Analytics Google

Arab Entrepreneurs Spread the 'Power of Yalla'

This piece was originally published on the Harvard Business Review Blog on June 25, 2013. In 2003, after two years in Texas, Moe...

Lean Methodology ShopGo Sustainability

Twitter now offers free account analytics. How does it benefit users?

With 6.5 million users in the Arab world, Twitter is easily the second most popular social network in the region, and the world,...

Networking Social Social Networks

How will Project Loon handle governments? Google answers our questions

In the Arab world, where internet censorship is the norm, Google’s Project Loon, which aims to provide “balloon-powered internet for...

Internet growth Internet Freedom Technology

Egypt's famous not-so-good girl Amy Mowafi explains why women can't have it all

The four Mowafi siblings are nothing if not savvy about creating buzz. After moving back to Cairo in 2002, the four siblings, Amy, Tamim,...

Women

Weekly Wrap-Up: June 23-27

Next week, we're heading to Casablanca for Mix N' Mentor: On July 6th, we'll be in Morocco for Mix N' Mentor Casablanca. The event is...

Weekly Wrap-Up

Personal finance app Wally announces $400K in investment from Napkin

Wally, the personal finance application that officially launched at Arabnet Beirut this year, announced $400,000 in investment at the...

Financial management

Lebanon

Organic juice startup targets Beirut's high society

Swaying palm trees, sun-dappled sidewalks, image-conscious ladies who lunch; sometimes, at certain angles, especially during traffic jams,...

Food & Beverage

Saudi entrepreneur showcases Silicon Valley startups in Arabic web series

“It’s important for Arab entrepreneurs to be familiar with the details on how giants like Facebook, Google and Twitter originally started o...

silicon valley YouTube Digital Media

Egyptian 'Social Mirror' lets users analyze their personal Twitter and Facebook accounts

Egyptian social media analytics startup 25trends just launched a new “Social Mirror” service, allowing individuals to get a detailed rea...

Social Networks Social Media Analytics

It's not easy being the Amazon of Morocco

With Livremoi (a play on words between “books & I” and “ship me”), Caroline Dalimier and Mathieu Malan want to be the Amazon of Morocco...

E-commerce

What to do when your best employee quits

In an ideal world, your top employees would stay on board for years and years, and you would never have to worry about finding...

Team management Team Programme

Kick-start your mobile app by developing on these alternative platforms

As of last April, the number of smartphones and tablets sold in the Middle East reached 22 million and continues to grow. The...

Developers Mobile Gaming Competitions

How to create the perfect Pinterest, Google+, Facebook and Twitter post [Infographic]

Does the perfect social media post really exist? As social media platforms have evolved over the years, so have their uses and functions...

Social Networks Social Media

It's not about the money: why isn't there more startup investment in emerging markets?

Cross-posted and adapted from the original version published on Techies.pk on March 20, 2013. There is no doubt that the...

Venture Capital Angel Investment Investment

Is the Nile river the solution to Cairo's traffic problems?

If you’re currently visiting Egypt, you may be a bit overwhelmed by the heat and congested traffic. But there’s a new was to tra...

Transportation Egypt

8 sharing economy services that could make it in the Arab world

Books, houses, cars, washing machine, food, knowledge… it seems that you can lend, rent, or share anything these days thanks to the number ...

Sharing Economy

Coworking space iceaddis gives a home to Ethiopia's startups

When one thinks or reads about technology startups in Africa, there are a few places that crop up quite often: Nairobi, Kenya; Lagos,...

East Africa Innovation Coworking Spaces

Is Venture Capital the right investment model for startups in the Arab world?

We all know that venture capital (VC) works well in Silicon Valley; most of the biggest tech companies, including Intel, Google, Yahoo,...

Venture Capital Investment

A tablet cafe launched in Senegal; could the trend transform North Africa?

Does the future of the internet lie in tablets? That’s what Médoune Seck believes. With the help of Google, he turned his internet café in ...

Internet growth Tablets Ecosystem

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