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Amidst Daily Deals Market Shuffle, Are Major Changes on the Horizon?

After news of changes at Cobone and Groupon UAE yesterday, more is shifting in the daily deals space globally, with eBay's launch...

Daily Deals E-commerce Expansion

How Two Turkish Entrepreneurs Built a Successful Real Estate Data Service in Dubai

It was the crash heard around the world: when the American real estate bubble finally burst in 2008, its repercussions echoed...

Analytics Data Real Estate

Dubai's YaDig Focuses on Customer Interaction to Boost the Power of Reviews

UAE-based YaDig has launched a hip new business review website to redefine the business-consumer relationship in MENA. Founded in 2010 by...

Arabic Content Ratings Sites

Expotech 2012 Features 6 Leading Palestinian Tech Startups

On Tuesday in Ramallah, Expotech 2012 opened its doors marking the ninth year for the annual event, a weeklong celebration of Palestinian...

Conferences Ecosystem Technology

Rocket Tackles Africa: Jumia, Zando Announce Investment from J.P. Morgan

J.P. Morgan is continuing its trend of investing in Rocket Internet clones, today announcing investment in Jumia, Rocket's Amazon-style...

Investment Rocket Internet Jumia

Cobone Co-Founder Steps Down, Groupon Announces Expansion: What's Really Going on in Daily Deals?

Arabian Business confirmed today that Cobone's Regional Sales Head and co-founder, Henri Hazoughi, has stepped down, while sources...

Daily Deals

The State of the Internet in 2012 [Presentation]

Henry Blodget and Alex Cocotas from Business Insider’s BI Intelligence team have assembled a detailed overview of the U.S. and global digita...

Advertising Digital Advertising Digital Marketing

Animation Studio Curl Stone Launches Jordanian Superhero Show, with Regional Support

Curl Stone Studios is gaining momentum after launching new superhero series Nashmi Man, and participating in...

Accelerators Endeavor

Why It Only Takes One Billion Dollar Company to Build an Ecosystem

Fred Wilson (the most famous VC in the world) wrote last May about the Darwinian Evolution of Startup Hubs: "If you study Silicon...

Ecosystem Investment

10 Ways to Improve Your Chance of Being Incubated

Hans Christensen has worked to help entrepreneurs throughout the MENA region launch business, in his role as the director of Silicon Oasis...

Accelerators Investment Pitching

Maghreb Startup Initiative Announces Winners of Intel Global Challenge

The Maghreb Startup Initiative has now announced the winners from a regional competition who will go on to represent the Maghreb region at t...

Competitions

Microsoft Finally Targets Egyptian Developers with BizSpark, Mobile App Competition

“Developers developers developers developers,” a sweaty Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, famously chanted during a Microsoft conference a few y...

Accelerators Cloud Computing Ecosystem

8 Infographics Illustrating Facebook Benchmarks In The Arab World

TOP, a startup out of Endeavor Jordan, and in collaboration with Social Watchlist, identifies and analyzes eight core industries to e...

Technology Social Media Facebook

Five Tips for Startups: How to Successfully Pitch to Journalists

Nicholas Holmes co-founded startup MediaGraph to help startups pitch to make public relations accessible and affordable to...

Advertising Digital Media Media

Dubai's MediaGraph Helps Startups Get Press Coverage

David Batey and Nicholas Holmes came to Dubai in the searing heat of June to get away from their daily grind and focus solely on getting...

Digital Media Media Pitching

iWedPress.com Returns from U.S. to Lebanon to Serve Local Brides

With over 20,000 weddings held in Lebanon every year, young Lebanese entrepreneurs Bashir Gemayel and Naji Abou Ghosn decided to expand...

Wedding Industry

Silicon Valley Design Company Targets MENA Web Developers with New RTL Platform

Developers in the Middle East now have more tools for their front-end web design, namely a useful Right-to-Left (RTL) design...

Design Mobile Apps

5 Tips for Success in Egypt and MENA, from a Self-Made Innovator

Redg Snodgrass is an uncommon name for an out of the ordinary serial entrepreneur, or “funtrepreneur”, as he likes to call him...

Angel Investment Ecosystem Egypt

Weekly Wrap-Up: September 30 - October 04

This week, we've highlighted a number of startups that keep on setting the bar higher for themselves. What drives you to go further? Pic of ...

Acquisitions Animation Competitions

Competitiveness Is About You [Pic Of The Week]

It is becoming harder and harder to stand out as a startup in many markets today. Many young startups are channeling their efforts into a...

CoE Cards Competitions

Why MENA Needs Startup Weekend: A Look at SW Sharjah

The Startup Weekend bug continues to expand throughout the UAE. With two events in Dubai and one in Abu Dhabi, Sharjah Startup Weekend this...

Ecosystem Education Startup Communities

Can an Egyptian Mobile App Make Daily Deals Smarter? AlZwad Launches Dealazion

As the region witnesses the departure of LivingSocial and rumors that Jabbar is looking to sell Cobone, one startup in Egypt is pushing...

Daily Deals Mobile Mobile Apps

SeedStartup's First Demo Day Reveals Global Products

There was a stark sartorial contrast between investors in suits and the more casually-clad entrepreneurs at the Make Business Hub last week...

Accelerators Angel Investment

Start Up Weekend Alexandria: Still the Best Entrepreneurship Event in Egypt

The second Start Up Weekend Alexandria (SWA) was held on the 27th to 29th September 2012, and while it’s always nearly impossible to r...

Ecosystem Mentorship Startup Communities

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