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Tenmou’s Entrelab nurtures startups ranging from Bahraini Instagram to popcorn delivery

Tenmou, Bahrain's first business angels company, and the U.S. Embassy recently concluded Entrelab: the region’s first entrepreneurship l...

Support Organizations

#Let #The #Hypers #Hype, The Doers Will Do

Today, I had an interesting exchange on Twitter with the founder of one of the most promising consumer startups in the Middle East. He...

Hype

Weekly Wrap-Up: September 08-12

Last week, we ran a quick poll to understand when and under what circumstances some of our readers would agree to step down from their...

Weekly Wrap-Up

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What’s next for Glowork after its $16 million acquisition by SAS Holding

Glowork, the Saudi platform designed to connect women to jobs, has been acquired by SAS Holding, which invested 60 million SAR (US $16...

Acquisitions Job Recruitment Women

StartupBahrain inspires entrepreneurs: here is a look inside its seventh issue

When we first met Ahmed Sawafiri during our Mix N’ Mentor event in Manama in May of this year, he was preparing content for the l...

Tablets Technology Digital Media

This is the state of Twitter in 2013, while on the verge of a potential IPO [Infographic]

Seven years after its launch, Twitter is on the verge of an IPO. Even though both CEO Dick Costolo and cofounder Jack Dorsey have denied...

twitter Infographic Social Networks

How to teach the Arts: The Discipline of a Free Mind

In the first part of this series we challenged the popular image of the tormented artist and offered an alternative perspective—that of t...

Art Advice Education

Startup news ticker: Google partners with edX; Apple releases iOS 7 Golden Master; Globe Express Services expands in Turkey;

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

news Investment

Why two Moroccan entrepreneurs chose to go global from day one

Some Moroccan entrepreneurs consider their market simply too small to focus on. For a few popular websites such as Bikhir.com or...

Scaling Advertising Marketing

Meet the Bahraini computer engineer launching a seafood delivery service

Two Bahrainis, Mohammed Toraif and Sayed Jaffer, are set to launch Fish Transporter in the last quarter of 2013. As suggested by the...

Delivery

Beirut's SMEX launches an aggregator to support Arabic content online

You've often heard the statistic: while Arabic is the fifth most spoken language in the world, with 360 million Arabic speakers, only...

Aggregation Arabic Content

iMENA invests $8m in HelloFood; why it is and isn't like Rocket Internet

iMENA Holdings made headlines yesterday with the news that it invested US $8 million in HelloFood, Rocket’s online food ordering platform ...

Scaling Rocket Internet Investment

Stars of Science launches fifth season with more women: 'innovation knows no gender'

Stars of Science, the hit pan-Arab science and technology reality-TV competition, returns this Friday, Sept 13 on MBC 4 (8pm KSA), for its...

Science Stars of Science Competitions

The challenges of bootstrapping a mobile app as a single female founder in Lebanon

This piece is part of a new series on the challenges of young entrepreneurs who are bootstrapping their startups. If you know someone who's...

Incubator Competitions Mobile

What the new Lebanese Army mobile app is really designed to do

Lebanon

Thought Leadership

Tenmou’s Entrelab nurtures startups ranging from Bahraini Instagram to popcorn delivery

#Let #The #Hypers #Hype, The Doers Will Do

Weekly Wrap-Up: September 08-12

What’s next for Glowork after its $16 million acquisition by SAS Holding

StartupBahrain inspires entrepreneurs: here is a look inside its seventh issue

This is the state of Twitter in 2013, while on the verge of a potential IPO [Infographic]

How to teach the Arts: The Discipline of a Free Mind

Startup news ticker: Google partners with edX; Apple releases iOS 7 Golden Master; Globe Express Services expands in Turkey;

Why two Moroccan entrepreneurs chose to go global from day one

Meet the Bahraini computer engineer launching a seafood delivery service

Beirut's SMEX launches an aggregator to support Arabic content online

iMENA invests $8m in HelloFood; why it is and isn't like Rocket Internet

Stars of Science launches fifth season with more women: 'innovation knows no gender'

The challenges of bootstrapping a mobile app as a single female founder in Lebanon

What the new Lebanese Army mobile app is really designed to do

Startup funding: How to fuel your car [Infographic]

Qatar's EduTechnoz makes learning Arabic fun for kids, with gamification

Five very simple tips for building a successful company page on Facebook

Stunning Kuwaiti marketplace for designers blends print magazine with e-commerce

Mobile app MummyChitChats helps mothers in Egypt, UAE, and Saudi

Weekly Wrap-Up: September 01-05

Startup news ticker: SearchinMENA.com launches on Eureeca; Fotosoora goes live in Egypt; Brate releases new version

LinkedIn reaches 1 million users in Saudi Arabia, bets on mobile growth

6 crazy HTML5 websites that will blow your mind

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