Wamda

Dealmakers' Weekend: a benchmark for Jordanian entrepreneurship

Dealmaking was the name of the game on Saturday and Sunday at the Four Seasons Hotel in Amman as an impressive list of investors...

Venture Capital Investment Oasis500

Startup Weekend NEXT Baghdad shows what's possible

As a co-organizer of the first and second installments of Baghdad Startup Weekend, I’ve learned first-hand how challenging it can be to c...

startup weekend next iraq Startup Weekend

Revolutionizing job training from Nairobi to Amman with SMS

The trouble with skill trainings in Kenya is that the workers who need it the most don’t have time to attend, Evanna Hu tells me o...

SMS Mobile

Regional

Most workers in the Middle East would prefer to launch a business

Due to high unemployment rates in the Arab region, more people than ever are launching their own businesses, hoping to create their own...

bayt.com entrepreneurship Report

3 reasons to develop a strategic partnership

Entrepreneurs tend to insist on doing everything related to their startup themselves, often without realizing that there are solutions that...

strategic partnership

Mobile app generator wins the day at Startup Weekend Amman

Hoards of aspiring entrepreneurs gathered at the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Building in Amman this past weekend for Startup Weekend – a 5...

Algerian entrepreneurs imagine a new future at Fikra Conference

One could be tempted to compare Fikra to an Algerian TEDx, yet the event, which draws it name from the word idea in Arabic, debuted a u...

West Bank and Gaza startups pitch together for the very first time in Amman

Until this past Thursday, startups in the West Bank and Gaza had not met under the same roof to pitch to investors. At Oasis500 in...

gaza sky geeks Oasis500

Weekly Wrap-Up: February 09-13

This week on Wamda was marked by mobile applications news from around the Arab World; starting with Turkey where Gram Games got $600,000...

Weekly Wrap-Up

Morocco's two largest classified sites announce a merger

Nestled in the Schibsted Media Group’s Q4 financial statement is some very interesting news for the online classified ads market ...

morocco

Arabic weather portal outshines Yahoo in Jordan, reigns in Saudi Arabia

ArabiaWeather.com is not the company that it was even just nine months ago. Since its early days as JordanWeather.jo, the company been a...

ArabiaWeather

Lebanon's Re-H2O team tackles water scarcity in the Arab world

At Intel and Injaz al-Arab's Sci-preneurship Innovation Camp this past July, six young Lebanese students found an innovative, inexpensive...

Intel Injaz al Arab competition

Can this Bahraini couple's startup help fight childhood obesity in the Gulf?

Yoga, Team Awesome, Muay Thai, Zumba, and Parkour all sound like classes you can take at a gym that combines fun with fitness. This is...

child obesity obesity children

Zee3 Enta provides a forum for expression for Egyptians of every persuasion

Egypt’s revolution, beginning January 25, 2011, revolutionized citizen journalism. Since then, several initiatives have launched that seek ...

Citizen Journalism Egypt

Global

Jordan's Bitcoin Meetup Group weighs in on the cryptocurrency's recent crash

In the world of the internet, a bug is not something to take lightly. So Monday, when MTGox, the first Bitcoin exchange site...

Bitcoin

Iranian developers gamify a 1,000 year-old poem

The story of how Amir-Esmaeil Bozorgzadeh first met Hossein Jalali, his partner at their new startup, GameGuise, is “a MAKE Business ...

Gaming

4 lessons from Fishfishme's successful investment round

Some of you may already know that we just closed a $200,000 USD financing round from some angel investors Sim Whatley, Saif Alzarouni,...

Angel Investment Investment

Why Hanan Abdel-Meguid stepped down at OTVentures

Hanan Abdel-Meguid will step down from her position as CEO at OTVentures to personally focus more on supporting the startup scene in...

OTVentures

Another Turkish Venture Capital fund looks to enter the Middle East

As a result of the country’s bruised economy, Turkish startups are struggling, just one year after The Economist anointed t...

Venture Capital

Meet 8 Palestinian startups this Thursday in Amman!

Join Endeavor, Gaza Sky Geeks, Fast Forward, Oasis500, and PALinnO this Thursday to get a taste of history in the making. For the first t...

gaza sky geeks palinno Endeavor

Na3m Games' latest (accidental) release tops Saudi game charts

An accidental release has been a serious success for Saudi game developer Na3m Games. Harwil Ya Wahsh!, the company’s free-to-play iOS g...

na3m games Saudi Arabia Mobile Gaming

4 ways to use Twitter lists to develop your business

Regionally, Twitter is the second popular social media site after Facebook with almost 4 million users in the Middle East...

twitter

3 lessons in startup culture from Beirut's sudden success, Jai Kitchen

This is the first in a series on the business of starting a food & beverage company in the Middle East. Check back periodically for...

jai kitchen f&b beirut

Egyptian pharmacist creates Dawaa, a digital pharmaceutical drug index

Designed to bridge the gap between the conventional hard copy drug reference manual and the digital lives of today's physicians, Dawaa is...

Healthcare Health Mobile

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