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Social media usage in the Middle East [Infographic]

Facebook is far and away the most popular social network in the Middle East, with 58 million users, around 18% of the total population of...

Social Infographic Social Networks

Weekly Wrap-Up: June 9-13

Throughout your entrepreneurial journey, you will notice that the strength of your business lies in its people. Your co-founder, partner,...

Weekly Wrap-Up

Scaling a lean startup in Iraq: how Easy Bites took Erbil by storm

Restaurants and fast food outlets are booming in Kurdistan. According to one official in Erbil, Kurdistan’s capital now boasts close to 5...

Addressing Online delivery Scaling

Why the Arab world needs more women in the workforce

When female participation in the workforce in the Arab world still ranges between 17% and 27% of the female population, something has to...

W4Women Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs Women

American Express launches banking app in Saudi Arabia; will it take off?

Global credit card giant American Express just launched an Arabic and English iPhone app for Saudi Arabia, offering...

After Mix n’ Mentor Riyadh, Astrolabs is traveling the region to help startups scale

On the heels of their first “Scaling Online Startups” weekend in Dubai and their workshop at Mix N’ Mentor Riyadh last month, Astro...

Mix n Mentor Advice Mentorship

What women want at work in Qatar: conclusions from W4Women Doha

Photos by Bilal Khalifeh of Silatech. May was a busy month at Wamda; we powered through 4 Mix N' Mentor events in one month, in Bahrain,...

W4Women Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs Women

Will this Egyptian startup be the next Pinterest of the Middle East?

With women making up 70% of worldwide Pinterest users, and 97% of Pinterest’s Facebook fans, one image-sharing social network s...

Social Networks Social Media Fashion

A global startup stock exchange platform just launched. Is it a good bet for Arab startups?

A new stock exchange focused on startups went live yesterday, to help small companies go public and sell shares to investors from around...

IPOs Investment

Wysada announces investment from MENA Venture Investments; here's how it plans to build loyalty

Wysada, a flash sales site based in Amman, Jordan, has announced investment from MENA Venture Investments (MVI), a Jordan-based angel...

Flash Sales Scaling Marketing

You left us so soon! To Karim Jazouani, Champion of Moroccan entrepreneurship

I was getting so excited to finally see you again at Mix N' Mentor Casablanca after the time we met in 2009. At the time, I was working on...

Goodbyes Leadership

Qordoba launches social media translation service as Arabic web use grows [Infographic]

Arabic is the fastest-growing language on the internet. Not only are the majority of users (22 million out of 44 million) in the Arab world...

Qordoba Translation

A look at Mediaquest’s acquisition of AME Info: is advertising alone a viable model?

As various sites have reported, UAE news portal AME Info, along with sister site SME Info, have been acquired by Dubai-based media...

Acquisitions Digital Media

Global

How to run a crowdfunding campaign: 10 Tips from entrepreneurs who succeeded and failed

Any entrepreneur who doubts the power of crowdfunding can simply look to the example of Hind Hobeika, a Lebanese engineer who recently...

Crowdfunding Investment

Google Reader is almost dead. Here are some alternatives from the Arab World

Google recently announced that they are discontinuing their news feed service Google Reader as of July 1st , citing...

Google

Who's investing in Egypt? A look at economic trends following the revolution [Report]

While Egypt's economy has struggled ever since the revolution, its technological revolution is proceeding, according to a recent...

Telecommunication Egypt Government

Would your kids play in an online world? Dubai design agency RBBi launches Worldoo

“Nobody talks about what happens after the first click,” says Amol Kadam, cofounder of UX/UI design agency RBBi (Red Blue Blur ideas) in D...

kids Social Networks Design

Casablanca gets a new co-working space: New Work Lab launches to support Morocco's entrepreneurs

The idea of having co-working spaces where independent workers can work and socialize has already spread like wildifire...

Coworking Spaces

Weekly Wrap-Up: June 2-6

In light of the recent events in Turkey and the censorship in Jordan, we're taking a look this week at the role of government in supporting...

Weekly Wrap-Up

How Welfare Association is supporting entrepreneurs in Palestine

In 1983, four Palestinian businessmen who were living in the Gulf came up with the idea for a support organization for those living in the...

Incubator Support Organizations Accelerators

Movement builds in Jordan to reverse media censorship

Yesterday, just three days after the Jordanian government moved to block around 300 websites, leaders of media sites met with members of...

Internet Freedom Censorship

Can Jordanian flash sales site Harir crack the Saudi market?

The hour of daily deals may be fading in the Arab world, but flash sales is quick on its heels as the model of the moment. Since...

Saudi Arabia E-commerce

Women's content publisher Diwanee raises $3.25 million in investment, facilitated by MedSecurities

Arabic content for women is quickly becoming a very popular sector in the Middle East. Now, a large investment has validated the sector,...

Investment Women Arabic Content

Spelling mistakes on social media: who's making them? [Infographic]

It's no secret that spelling mistakes can cost your company millions. But unfortunately, they are a common phenonmenom on social media, ...

Social Networks Social Media

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