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Can the Arab region keep up with the rise of the social media profession? [Infographic]

Social media use has exploded over the past few years, so much so that today, a "social media manager" is taken for granted as a job...

LinkedIn Infographic Social Networks

Edgy streetwear brand challenges sedate Egyptian fashion market

Young Egyptian streetwear brand Krak Baby has successfully brought 1990s-revival trucker hats and graphic t-shirts to the local fashion...

Aramex, Google, PayPal, and ShopGo launch EZStore.me to help offline retailers go online

With 30 million people shopping online today in the Middle East and North Africa, in a market expected to reach $15 billion by 2015,...

E-commerce

Jumia celebrates its first year, announces Mobinil partnership

Jumia Egypt celebrated its first anniversary with a full-on fashion show and party atop the luxurious Fairmont hotel in central Cairo last...

Rocket Internet Jumia

Egyptian event platform Eventtus goes premium after investment from Vodafone, Cairo Angels

After meeting at Startup Weekend Cairo in 2011, the founders of event organizing platform Eventtus launched their startup in...

Funding Venture Capital Angel Investment

11 ways to be unremarkably average [Cartoon]

Lately, startup lingo has compared social media managers to gurus, developers to ninjas, and entrepreneurs to superheroes. This can be an...

Graphic Cartoon

3 ways to build a better city

Developing a world-class city often involves creating a healthy entrepreneurial ecosystem. New studies from McKinsey and the National...

Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility Government

Jordan

Can Jordan's Voga Closet scale its e-commerce store without offering cash-on-delivery?

[Update: Voga Closet is now offering Cash on Delivery] Needless to say, online payment is a serious issue for e-commerce websites in...

cash-on-delivery Shipping Payment Gateways

5 MOOCs that can help you become a successful entrepreneur

There’s no miracle solution for success as an entrepreneur: you have to go for it, try, fail, learn, and go back in the ring. B...

MOOC

Shekra and Injaz Al-Arab partner to support crowdfunding with mentorship

Fundraising is crucial for startups, but entrepreneurs also need knowledge and experience to realize success. That's why Shekra,...

Weekly Wrap-Up: Sept 29 - Oct 03

Announcing our newest WamdaCard partner: Amazon Web services Keeping operation cost down at your startup is a survival tactic for most...

Weekly Wrap-Up

Egyptian entrepreneur Amira Azzouz fights back against content theft

Last week, Amira Azzouz, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Fustany.com, the fashion and lifestyle site for Arab women, was doing some...

theft content scraping

New Egyptian conference will support science R&D; applications open Saturday

Linking universities to local industry is becoming increasingly important for transforming scientific research into projects that can...

Research R&D Egypt

Healthcare portal WebTeb closes Series B round from Siraj Palestine Fund

On top of reaching over 3.5 million unique visitors per month, Arabic medical content portal WebTeb just announced new investment from...

Healthcare Content Portals Health & Beauty

AUC launches its first spinoff startup, healthcare tech pioneer D-Kimia

Even though there is a law in Egypt that allows universities to build companies and invest in projects, many important academic inventions...

Egypt

Avoid these 10 mistakes that could ruin your company's reputation

For small businesses, reputation is everything. A report recently published by O2 shows that 72% of consumers will not forgive a small...

reputation Social Networks

Meet 3 tech companies leading innovation in Pakistan

Pakistan is gradually emerging as a hub of technological innovation. Every day, I come across more companies that are...

Hardware Technology

Offline textile company goes online in Morocco: can new e-commerce site Shoppeos beat out Jumia?

In Morocco, e-commerce is booming; online sales increased by 45% in 2012. This boom can partly be explain by the launch, in June 2012, of...

A look at Just Falafel's recipe as it (potentially) readies for an IPO

Fadi Malas of Just Falafel is working overtime lately. “We’re finishing work these days quite late, I think around midnight,” he expla...

IPOs Franchising Scaling

4 incubators and accelerators that can help startups set up in Dubai

This is the third and final post in this mini-series about moving your startup to Dubai. Below, I explore the incubators and accelerators...

Incubator Advice Accelerators

New TV show ‘Generation Entrepreneur’ to launch tomorrow night on OSN

Those interested in meeting the Arab world’s next generation of entrepreneurs will want to catch a new TV show tomorrow night that will c...

Layalina TV Entrepreneurship shows Reality TV

i360 offers mentorship for pay at new coworking space The Cribb

In the past year, Dubai has seen several coworking spaces open to enable entrepreneurs, freelancers and traveling professionals to work...

Coworking Spaces

Can a Turkish game developer win over Saudi Arabia with a localized city-building game?

Turkish game developer Gamester has turned its sights to the Arab market, with new city-building game Baldaty, and they've already...

Social Media Mobile Gaming Gaming

Startup news ticker: Frootapps launches Islamic app; Oasis500 brings startups to the US; ArabNet Developer Tournament in Lebanon; eBay acquires Braintree

Welcome to Wamda's weekly startup news ticker, which will offer quick announcements and stories relevant to the region. If you have a quick...

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