Egyptian National Competitiveness Council Disappoints: Where Were the Entrepreneurs? I like to challenge my prejudices every now and then, so I decided to accept an invitation to the eighth annual conference of The Egyptian... Omar Aysha • 26 September, 2012 Conferences Ecosystem Egypt
Ever Dreamt of a Private Jet Trip? Dubai's iFlyPrivate Capitalizes on Empty Seats For all of those travelers who have fantasized about flying on a private jet, iFlyPrivate is now making private travel more... Glen Dalakian II • 26 September, 2012 Airlines
Namshi Raises $20m Round from JP Morgan, Blakeney Management Christmas is coming early this year to several of Rocket Internet's clones. The latest in a slew of investments by J.P. Morgan, Namshi, the... Nina Curley • 26 September, 2012 Rocket Internet Investment E-commerce
Can Saving a Few Dollars Make Society More Stable? Cashy.me Launches UAE Saves Week Can saving a few dollars a day build a more stable society? Nima Abu Wardeh of Cashy.me thinks so. But when she first came up with the idea... Nina Curley • 25 September, 2012 Digital Media Investment
Can Coffeehouses Boost Creativity in the Arab World? Since their inception in Istanbul in the 16th century, coffeehouses have been centers of free-wheeling and off-hand discussions, venues... Oubai Elkerdi • 25 September, 2012 Food & Beverage
Mashroo3i Business Plan Competition Reveals Bahrain's Top Young Entrepreneurs For those curious about up and coming startups in the Bahraini entrepreneurship community, new business plan competition Mashroo3i,... Leena AlOlaimy • 24 September, 2012 Competitions
Egyptian Accelerator Flat6Labs Hits Its Stride in Cycle 2 Demo Day Flat6Labs, the Cairo-based accelerator, held its third demo day event on the 17th September, dubbed the “Cycle 2 Demo Day”. Not only did the... Omar Aysha • 24 September, 2012 Accelerators Acquisitions Egypt
Top 20 Most-Watched TED Talks Of All Time Today we highlight the most popular TED Talks to date, announced by TED in late August. Whether you think watching TED Talks during the... Glen Dalakian II • 24 September, 2012 Advice Conferences Ecosystem
Marketing a Book on Arabic Culture with an iPad App: The Finjan Daveeda Shaheen lived in many places while she was growing up, among them the United States, Switzerland, and England. But wherever she was... Rania Habib • 23 September, 2012 Media
UAE’s Tahadi Launches MMO Age of Titans At first glance, the login screen feels like a familiar U.S.-developed game with stunning visuals, bold graphics, and a dark ethereal... Glen Dalakian II • 23 September, 2012 Gaming
TellUs the New Way For Customer Service in MENA “I was talking with a friend when he suggested there should be some sort of solution to solve the [bad] customer service quality in Egypt, a... Omar Aysha • 23 September, 2012 Egypt Mobile Apps User Experience Design
Weekly Wrap-Up: September 16-20 If you were to learn one thing from our posts this week, it's that making that one decision to roll up your sleeves goes a long way.... Wamda • 20 September, 2012 Booz & Company E-commerce Fashion
Startup Tob Turba Wins Fikrati Competition in Egypt Tob Turba Madghout (Madghout stands for compressed) won the first prize in the 'Fikrati' (my idea) competition organized by the... Hanan Solayman • 20 September, 2012 Competitions
Does “Class” Matter in Entrepreneurial Success? A Call to Eric Ries In a recent article on racism and meritocracy, Eric Ries calls for Silicon Valley investors to pay more attention to diversity... Gulay Ozkan • 20 September, 2012 Trends
Game Cooks Hits #1 Around the Globe with New Mobile Game Deja Vu Lebanese-based gaming startup Game Cooks recently launched Deja Vu, a new mobile game designed to test a gamer’s memory and reaction t... Glen Dalakian II • 20 September, 2012 Mobile Gaming
Every Big Company Starts Small [Pic of the Week] Every big company starts small. It seems obvious and even cliché, but often young startups lose sight of this reality. It’s easy to get ca... Glen Dalakian II • 20 September, 2012 Advice CoE Cards Ecosystem
HCT Vice Chancellor Tayeb Kamali on Innovating Education for the Emirates In less than half a century, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has gone through extraordinary change. Today, work progresses on world-class... Knowledge @Wharton • 20 September, 2012 Education Innovation
Dubai-Based Gaming Studio Piranha Byte Launches Its Brainchild: Peek! Piranha Byte, a game development studio based in Dubai, just released its first title Peek!, inspired by the most successful photo sharing... Maya Rahal • 19 September, 2012 Gaming
MarkaVIP Hits 2 Million Registered Users, Continues to Solve E-Commerce Issues in MENA Less than two years after its launch in 2010, MarkaVIP has announced today that it has now hit two million registered users. It’s a big mi... Nina Curley • 18 September, 2012 E-commerce
A*Apps Launches Crowdsourced Mobile App-Testing at Flat6Labs Demo Day In Egypt, A*Apps (“A Star Apps”) is developing a unique platform that allows mobile app developers to test their apps through cro... Glen Dalakian II • 18 September, 2012 Crowdsourcing Mobile Apps
Yemeksepeti to Enter MENA Region After $44M Investment from General Atlantic As Webrazzi reported today, Yemeksepeti, a leading Turkish food ordering site, has announced a US $44 million round of funding from New... Nina Curley • 17 September, 2012 Food & Beverage Investment
Summer School Takes Controversial Decision to Exclude Lebanese Entrepreneur Controversy struck Lebanon’s entrepreneurship community this past week, as prominent young Lebanese entrepreneur Abdallah Absi was expelled ... Nina Curley • 17 September, 2012 Competitions Education
Egyptian Social Gaming Startup FunWave Delivers Football Fun Egypt is full of football fanatics, and the region is as well. So it made perfect sense that Egyptian social games start-up FunWave’s ... Omar Aysha • 16 September, 2012 Accelerators Angel Investment Egypt
Is Social Media important for Social Good in Arabia? 5 Examples from Jordan It’s been three years since we launched Nakhweh (@nakhweh) to match volunteers in Jordan with local opportunities. As it evolved i... Kamel Al-Asmar • 16 September, 2012 Social Entrepreneurship Social Media