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How Big Hass sold hip hop to Saudi Arabia

Brash hip hop and conservative Saudi Arabia are two things that wouldn’t seem to be a natural fit. But Hassane Dennaoui, blogger at ReVolt ...

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The secret sauce for running a successful crowd investment campaign

Will 2014 be the year of crowd investment? Yes, if startups like SearchinMENA have anything to say about it. The B2B marketplace, founded...

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Weekly Wrap-Up: January 12-16

Yes, we can (code)! Girls in Tech wants to build a girls tech community in Egypt Today, many all-women coding groups exist as a result of...

Weekly Wrap-Up

Two new online payment options emerge in Morocco as telecom monopoly ends

[Update: this article has been edited to add corrections concerning Fast Payment and the FNEM following a discussion with El Amine...

Payment Gateways E-commerce

U.A.E

Souqalmal.com secures $1.2M from Hummingbird to expand content, mobile site

Souqalmal.com, the Dubai-based financial comparison site led by Ambareen Musa, is set for a quantum leap, after securing $1.2 million...

Souqalmal.com Investment

Lebanon's Game Cooks launches new game, makes global top 50 list

Drawing on previous themes and skills they’ve built since their launch in 2012, Lebanese game developer Game Cooks has demonstrated a new m...

Mobile Gaming Gaming

Why the Uber attack in France is just the beginning

This Monday, during a strike day organized by the French taxi drivers to protest the “unfair competition” they say Uber and its ilk r...

Uber

Lebanon's touch launches an app store; can it succeed where others have failed?

Yesterday, touch, one of Lebanon's two major telecom companies, announced the launch of its Android-compatible app store, aimed at serving...

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Ashoka Changemakers and GE reveal winners of the Women Powering Work competition

Ashoka Changemakers and General Electric have announced winners of their Women Powering Work: Innovations for Economic Equality in ...

Social Entrepreneurship Women

Meet the Moroccan startup that hopes to build a LinkedIn with customer relationship management

This piece is part of New Work Lab's startup series. This past December, New Work Lab, Casablanca's new co-working space, hosted...

Pitch Networking

Europe

European accelerator Rockstart targets entrepreneurs from the Arab world

As startup accelerators boom on a global scale, the Middle East is seeing a fair amount of the action. In 2013, several new...

Accelerators

Egyptian app starts acceleration at Y Combinator in Silicon Valley

In 2014, it seems that startups from the Arab world will begin to break out onto an international stage. Following the buzz...

Accélérateur

Yes, we can (code)! Girls in Tech wants to build a girls tech community in Egypt

Many don’t believe that women can be as successful as men in fields related to math and science. Coding and computer programming have p...

Egypt Women

Bahrain's Blossom Events to expand, founder Rasha Khunji says

Rasha Khunji, founder of Bahrain’s Blossom Events, trains entrepreneurs on how best to plan their companies, in an attempt to help stem t...

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Entrepreneurship in the Middle East and the fallacy of online isolation

If you haven't seen Shimi Cohen's video, "The Innovation of Loneliness," from this summer, it's even more relevant today, as movies like...

Trends in mobile advertising in the Middle East

It's no secret that mobile advertising is expected to grow globally in years to come, as smartphone use increases and the ability to...

4 ways to benefit from your competitors

Entrepreneurs tend to feel more enthusiastic and motivated about executing their idea when they believe they were the first to think of...

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Designer Reem Buqais on what it takes to succeed in fashion

“Anyone can design,” says Reem Buqais during an interview after the 2nd Annual Leading Women in Business Forum at The Capital Club Bahra...

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Weekly Wrap-Up: January 05-09

Running your startup In the last two weeks, there's been a lot of buzz around job titles and hierarchy within companies. With Medium and...