Wamda

Regional

Sultan al-Qassemi on MIT Media Lab: imagination realized

When I was first invited to join the MIT Media Lab as a Director’s Fellow I took it at face value and assumed it was somehow connected to t...

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Saudi Arabia

Salamz: the casual dating app for Arab youth serious about marriage

Young people comprise the largest section of MENA society, which is for the most part conservative. They face many social and financial...

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Lebanon

15 funding and team building tips from Mix N' Mentor Beirut

The Lebanese tech scene has evolved a lot since Wamda organized its first Mix N’ Mentor here back in 2012. It’s now more structured and mat...

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Global

This season, fall into MOOCs

Summer may be over, but the kids aren’t the only ones going back to school. A new year is starting, and it’s a perfect time to make some goo...

MOOCs

Egypt

Egyptian function beats Chinese fashion in scanner app battle

Abdelhalim presenting Smart Document Scanner at CES in Las Vegas. It’s plain old function over fashion, but that’s why...

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Regional

Californian launches gaming startup focused on Arab and Islamic history

Gaming is a far cry from finance and the military, but not only is American Thomas Tellner now creating games from his base in California,...

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Global

DEMO Africa: Why Arab startups should be looking to Africa for support

Last week, entrepreneurs, VCs, and press from all over the world flew to Lagos, Nigeria, to learn about trending African startups during...

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U.A.E

7awi's lessons from launching 5 Arabic sites in 2 years

The virtual world suffers a severe shortage of Arabic content; sites in Arabic account for only 3% of all online content. In recent years,...

Maghreb

Could Jumia be the Alibaba of Africa?

Alibaba’s successful IPO fixed everyone’s attention firmly on e-commerce in fast-growing markets, and especially on marketplaces, like eBa...

Jumia marketplace Rocket Internet

Global

Could Google's Quality Score make or break your startup?

Yesterday I wrote about what a Quality Score was and how it was measured; today I’m going to tell you about how you can improve it and let y...

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Regional

Why is the Arab region attractive for expats? [Infographic]

The Middle East Internet Group (MEIG), a joint venture of Rocket Internet and MTN, released this week its latest infographic, depicting...

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Jordan

Touch screen is out and voice commands are in for new Jordanian mobile game

Victory might be cause for some people to take a break and rest on their laurels for a while, but not the team at Jordan’s Bee...

Jordan

Global

A quick, current, and crucial guide to Google’s Quality Score

Whether you’re brand new to pay-per-click marketing with AdWords, or you’ve been at it for ages, you’ve probably heard others harp on the im...

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Egypt

Cairo's streets get a makeover, beginning with sponsored kiosks

While the Egyptian government might be spending the most effort (and EGP) to beautify the streets of Cairo, private entities are also...

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Regional

The Middle Eastern startup blind spot: an obsession with money

This article was co-authored by Melltoo founders Sharene Lee and Morad Irsane “How do you make money?” is a question everyone asks about Mel...

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Lebanon

Diaspora mentorship can unlock Lebanon's potential, says LIFE chairman Marc Malek

Marc Malek, Chairman of the Board of the Lebanese International Finance Executives (LIFE) network, believes that the reach, influence, and...

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Regional

Dubai's listings site Melltoo on the hunt for investors

The world of classified ads has moved a long way from one having to trawl through the back sections of local newspapers looking for...

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Regional

7 coolest office spaces in the Arab world

For a few years now, famous American startups like Google and Foursquare have been using their office as a communication and marketing...

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Egypt

Offline P2P messenger hacks Apple technology to win Startup Weekend Cairo

Startup Weekend novices Voiceless have won the latest competition in Cairo with a potentially game-changing app, based on peer-to-peer...

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Saudi Arabia

In Medina, public and private sectors join forces to boost small business

Lately, we’ve been hearing of many new Saudi initiatives that are supporting entrepreneurship in the Kingdom; the most recent of...

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U.A.E

Sleek smoke alarm chirps its way to Dubai (and funding)

An elderly woman using a gas stove to heat her home right after Hurricane Katrina sounds like a recipe for disaster. But in the aftermath...

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Maghreb

Students swarm Tunisia's first major tech event

Over two days last week, Tunisian IT and engineering students, investors, developers and software designers, and representatives of...

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U.A.E

TechForum Dubai: how will wearables impact our daily lives?

Organizers of the 16th TechForum, held on September 16 at Dubai Silicon Oasis in partnership with the Emirati telecom Etisalat,...

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Saudi Arabia

4 ways to tackle Saudi ecommerce, from an Oasis500 mentor

Sometimes, you can talk to people for hours and not understand how the time passed so quickly. And then there are those times when a half...

Saudi Arabia Social Media Marketing

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