Wamda

Weekly Wrap-Up: July 7-11

Wamda launches in French! This week, we were especially thrilled to announce taking the French version of the platform live. In addition to...

Weekly Wrap-Up

Egyptian startups stranded by HSBC account closures

As if Egypt’s current political situation hasn’t done enough to disrupt business as usual for the country’s growing Small and Medium Enter...

Banks Financial systems Egypt

Wamda asks: could a sudden ban on unlimited 3G in Morocco actually help entrepreneurs?

This month has been surprising for the subscribers of Maroc Telecom, the leading Moroccan mobile phone carrier. After a few weeks of...

3G Internet growth

How the Arab world uses Facebook and Twitter during Ramadan [Infographic]

During Ramadan, netizens tend to spend more time surfing the web, especially on social media channels. Engagement with regional brands in...

Digital Advertising Social Networks Social Media

5 Arabic health platforms that help users stay healthy during Ramadan

Do you have plans to maintain a healthy lifestyle during Ramadan? Those who are can find advice on a variety of Arabic online portals and...

Arabic Content Mobile

Car service Careem expands to Doha, Riyadh, discusses Uber

UPDATE: After hinting that this would be the case, Careem is also now live in Riyadh. Its initial fleet consists of SUVs, and...

Scaling Expansion

6 tips from a French entrepreneur for launching in the Arab world

This piece is part of a new series on expat entrepreneurs. We've recently discussed how some European entrepreneurs have moved...

Retail Expatriate entrepreneurs

Cairo's Startup Cup put on hold; what's next for its semifinalists?

Where can you find a team of 20-year-old Space Studies graduates working on an organic waste processing plant to improve a...

Egypt Competitions

Turkish startups CloudArena, HemenKiralik and Evim.net set to expand after securing millions in investment

Turkish startups CloudArena, HemenKiralik, and Evim.net recently secured millions in investment from Istanbul-based 212 Ltd. Ventures and...

Venture Capital Expansion Investment

Can Wrapp’s success be replicated in the Middle East? Just Gift It expands social gifting

If you’re hoping to launch a startup that will grow quickly, Sweden’s Wrapp is one to look to. After launching in Sweden in November 2011, ...

Social Gifting E-commerce

Egyptian author finds a new solution with digital publishing

Gone are the days when an author’s hard work goes unpublished or unnoticed because a large publishing house seals their fate with a ‘no.’ N...

Translation

Can this Facebook clone become the biggest social network in Yemen?

Could the Arab world's next social network come from... Yemen? Why invent the wheel, the cofounders argue. “We created a design very s...

Social Networks Facebook Social Media

Why we need better arts education in the Arab world

“If the Arab world continues to under-value arts education, it risks falling even further behind developed countries in preparing students ...

Art Design Education

How the founder of Dubai's propertyfinder.ae wrestled his company back from NewsCorp

Last week, propertyfinder.ae solidified its position as a startup to watch, closing a round of series A funding led by BECO Capital...

BECO Capital Venture Capital Real Estate

Wamda launches in French!

Wamda has been bilingual, in Arabic and English, from the very beginning, but this weekend we crossed a threshold that we’ve been...

Wamda News

Wamda announces the Karim Jazouani Prize for entrepreneurship advocates in Morocco

At Mix n’ Mentor Casablanca this past Saturday, Wamda announced the Karim Jazouani Prize, in honor of one of Morocco’s pioneering advocates ...

Prizes Leadership Mix n Mentor

Lebanon

Beirut's new Co-Working +961 space hosts first startup pitch event

Last week, at the newly launched Co-working +961 space in Beirut, entrepreneurs, investors, and startup enthusiasts gathered to...

Pitching MIT Coworking Spaces

5 predictions about the future of digital, from Arabnet Dubai

Arabnet’s first Digital Summit in Dubai brought together the startup community and the digital media and marketing industries to hash out ...

Digital Advertising Arabnet Innovation

Regional

How to make investment more attractive for VCs in emerging markets [Opinion]

Cross-posted and adapted from the original version published on Techies.pk on June 19, 2013. If you ask prospective...

Venture Capital Advice Technology

Why we moved our startup to Dubai

Two months ago I moved our startup from Kuwait to Dubai (we also have another office in Malaga, Spain which is still running). But making...

Relocating Dubai Scaling

Weekly Wrap-Up: June 30 - July 4

If there's a main lesson to extract from this week's content, it's how important it is to always be ready- always have a clear way to...

Weekly Wrap-Up

Lebanon

Zoomaal launches first crowdfunding platform for the Arab world

The Middle East’s newest crowdfunding platform, Zoomaal, launched today, offering entrepreneurs, artists, and socially-minded doers the c...

abdallah absi Crowdfunding zoomal

Why Ahmed Nassef left Yahoo: A look at Telfez, his new social TV startup

Ahmed Nassef, one of the Middle East’s early internet pioneers, announced last month that he has left his role as Yahoo! VP and managing d...

Social TV Departures SmartTV

Global

Is it better to host a big launch or have a soft roll out for your product? [poll results]

Among the many reasons why startups fail, perhaps the most important is launching a product that doesn’t really fit the...

Lean Methodology Facebook Investment

Thought Leadership

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