PayPal partners with Cairo Amman Bank to boost regional e-commerce PayPal, as part its continued expansion throughout the Middle East, announced a new partnership with Cairo Amman Bank yesterday at the... Hayden Pirkle • 23 April, 2014 cairo amman bank banking PayPal
Egyptian InstaPush adopted by international app integration platform Zapier, a popular online platform that simplifies the process of connecting web apps and APIs, based on triggers and actions, has just a... Ahmed Gabr • 23 April, 2014 instapush pushbots Technology
How this Bahraini woman uprooted her successful London creative agency and moved home I first met Wafa Obaidat at a TEDxYouth event in Bahrain. I was floored by how — at 23 years old — Obaidat was running operations for her S... Leena AlOlaimy • 23 April, 2014 Fashion
Egypt 2 lessons from last year's Dare'n'Deal shutdown Ever since Dare’n’Deal shut down last May, many have wondered why Egypt’s most popular daily deals site... Hanan Solayman • 22 April, 2014 Daily Deals E-commerce
TAG-Org expands its support services to startups with new program Joining a growing group of organizations providing support to entrepreneurs in the region, the Jordan-based international business ... Maya Rahal • 22 April, 2014 Talal Abou Ghazaleh Innovation
Halal P2P lending site Liwwa partners with e-commerce site Feesheh Liwwa, the halal crowdinvestment site launched last November in Jordan, is adding a new facet to its business model: a partnership with... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 21 April, 2014 halal arts crowdinvestment
UniVenture, Tunisian incubator launched by business angels, seeks applicants UniVenture's first graduating class In May 2010, ten Tunisians entrepreneurs created the Carthage Business Angel association to... Aline Mayard • 21 April, 2014 Business Angels Incubator
Mix n' Mentor Cairo mentors seek to remedy challenges faced by a growing, but fraught, community The world of entrepreneurship is full of obstacles, especially in the Arab world. These can be legal procedures, development, employment,... Eman Mostafa • 20 April, 2014
Recently launched Egyptian app aims to help eliminate fake media reports During a heated political debate that took place in Cairo after the events of June 30th 2013, three Egyptians, freshly graduated from... Ahmed Gabr • 20 April, 2014 news Mobile
What it will take to maximize business success in the Middle East How can business choices yield high profits and high social impact in a rapidly changing consumer culture? What are the... Blair Winter • 17 April, 2014 Wharton
A radical solution to the region's payment challenges, from serial ecommerce entrepreneur At this point, it wouldn’t come as a surprise to learn that Moustafa Mahmoud eats, drinks, and sleeps e-commerce, in addition to having l... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 17 April, 2014 payment solutions uae cash-on-delivery
7 Palestinian startups vie for Arabreneur investment at recent pitch event “These startups are as good as any in Toronto, Barcelona, or London,” said Palestinian entrepreneur extraordinaire Dr. Abdulmalek Al-Jaber ... Robert Carroll • 16 April, 2014 pitch event arabreneur palestine
Intel Egypt denies rumors blaming partial shutdown on political woes In the midst of a not-so-pleasant economic situation in Egypt, Intel made headlines last week. A number of online news sources reported... Ahmed Gabr • 16 April, 2014 Intel Egypt
Jordan MXD raises $1M to launch 3D printing tool for the masses “This year, 3D printing will be going mainstream in the U.S. and Europe, and we hope to become one of the big fish and set standards in the ... Maya Rahal • 16 April, 2014 3d printer 3D Investment
Having successfully crowdfunded, Moroccan-American smart doorbell Chui plots next steps The story of Chui, a new generation of intercom, isn’t one you hear every day. Its trajectory has involved the city of Dallas, t... Aline Mayard • 15 April, 2014 Gadget morocco
Palestinian startup AidBits aims to streamline the aid sector NGOs aren’t known for being the most efficient organizations. The amount of bureaucratic navel gazing, however important, it takes to get d... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 15 April, 2014 aidbits arabreneur palestine
Iraq Iraqi startup Miswag.net helps merchants transition to the internet Miswag.net, Baghdad’s first internet-based startup with real potential to grow, launched less than a month ago to help local merchants in B... Ali M. Ismail • 14 April, 2014 PAYMENT iraq Delivery
Endeavor Jordan selects 3 startups to advance to International Selection Panel Four of Jordan’s most promising entrepreneurs gathered recently for Endeavor Jordan’s Local Selection Panel (LSP), where they pitched the... Hayden Pirkle • 14 April, 2014 Jordan Endeavor Competitions
How can the Arab world break barriers to scale? Editor’s note: Fadi Ghandour is the the Chairman of Wamda, the founder of Aramex, and board member of Endeavor, an international non... Fadi Ghandour • 13 April, 2014 Fadi Ghandour
'Internet Revolution' gains steam in Egypt; can it meaningfully challenge Big Internet? In an attempt to defend citizens’ right to a decent internet connection at a reasonable price, a public campaign called Report an D... Hanan Solayman • 13 April, 2014 Egypt
China's largest search engine takes on Google in Egypt The digital media scene – especially that in the Arab region – seems to be an appealing market for competition between China and the U.S., ... Eman Mostafa • 10 April, 2014 Baidu china Egypt
Fresh off Kickstarter glory, Integreight gears up for 1Sheeld due date $85,210 USD. That’s how much funding the Egypt-based startup Integreight attracted for its award-winning product 1Sheeld during its 30-day ... Hayden Pirkle • 10 April, 2014 1sheeld arduino Hardware
Can lean e-commerce site ShuGeek bootstrap indefinitely? One month was all it took to launch ShuGeek, the website for so-called geeky products in the UAE. The team, adopting a lean startup... Pamela Kesrouani • 10 April, 2014 Technology E-commerce
KarTag enters the Cairo carpooling market with a user-generated 'pure carpooling' model Egypt suffers from an astonishing amount of automobile-related pollution, traffic, and parking problems. Egyptian entrepreneurs have... Ahmed Gabr • 09 April, 2014 Car Service Coworking Sharing Economy