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Wamda Asks: What would a UAE Skype ban mean for startups?

Two days ago, media sites in the UAE reported that using some of Skype's services, such as making phone calls, could land users in jail...

Skype VOIP Quick Comment

Maghreb

Is the Arab World ready for a collaborative economy? This Syrian student says yes.

Would you be ready to carpool? Lend your house or your hammer to someone you don’t know? Give a few hours of your time to teach someone? C...

Sharing Economy Hacker Culture Crowdsourcing

Dubai startups bond at Astrolabs' first Scaling Online Startups workshop

New platform Astrolabs isn’t just another mentorship network. Sprung from the minds of ex-Namshi founders Louis Lebbos and Muhammed Mekki, ...

Dubai Astrolabs Namshi

Eureeca, the first global crowdinvesting platform, exits beta, focuses on the Middle East

Following the general success of crowdfunding platfoms around the globe, several crowdinvesting platforms are now launching to offer a new...

collaborative economy crowdinvesting Funding models

Egypt's Eduudle makes it easier to find the right Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

Bassem Fayek is a man on a mission to "make MOOCs more popular.” A former consultant in the process of getting his MBA, Fayek launched E...

MOOC Education

Namshi raises $13m, its third round in 8 months. Is it burning cash or stockpiling?

Namshi, the Dubai-based fashion retail company launched by Germany’s Rocket Internet, has announced another $13 million in investment f...

Summit Partners Namshi Rocket Internet

Lebanese Government and Intel overhaul education by putting tablets in the hands of students

Intel and the Lebanese Ministries of Telecom and Education are hoping to make students' backpacks lighter this year, by offering them new...

Public-Private Partnerships Government Education

FOO launches the first mobile matchmaking app for Facebook in the Middle East

It might not surprise you that one of Lebanon's earliest mobile app development companies was built by two AUB graduates. It's almost...

Social Networks Facebook Mobile

Wamda for Women Launches Roundtable in Doha May 20th: Register Now!

Wamda for Women is now launching in Doha! Click here to register.Next Monday, May 20th, from 10am to 12pm at the Grand Hyatt Doha, we'll...

Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs W4WE Women

Entertaining and educating Palestine's children: Anoud Games

After the First Intifada in Palestine, there weren't that many educational games for kids in Arabic. At least that's Palestinian...

Education Gaming

What are MOOCs, and how can you benefit from them?

One of the hallmarks of an established education system is its glacial pace of change. For all of the recent advances in technology, we...

MOOC Education

How two companies innovated to resuscitate tourism in Tunisia and Morocco

Over the past few decades, tourism has been an increasingly important source of revenue for both Morocco and Tunisia. Both countries are...

Tourism

Weekly Wrap-Up: May 5-9

This week, we'll be heading to Bahrain for Mix N' Mentor Manama. Make sure to tune in to live.wamda.com as we'll be broadcasting opening...

Weekly Wrap-Up

MarkaVIP Announces Deal with PayPal; Will Consumers Warm to Online Payment?

E-commerce may be one of the fastest-growing and most promising startup sectors in the Middle East, but it still poses several challenges....

Flash Sales MarkaVIP PayPal

Can This Arabic App Recommender Escape the Fate of AppGratis?

Last month, AppGratis made the news after it was pulled from the Apple Store, just a few months after raising a $13.5 million...

Students Imagine Crazy Tech Ideas at Minya's Second Innovation Day in Egypt

Despite a train conductor strike that paralyzed Egypt’s railways in mid-April, the engineering Faculty at Minya University pushed ahead w...

Egypt Competitions

How to Build Your Startup: Fly or Die, from the 6th StartupQ8

Building on the success of our last 5 monthly events in Kuwait, the 6th StartupQ8 took place on March 25th with the topic: “how t...

Startup Q8

Developing Low Cost, High Quality Education in Egypt

Every year, Egyptian parents face the dilemma of choosing a school to enroll their children in, often debating between a range of...

Egypt Education

Bnooki Offers a One-Stop Shop for Bank Products in Lebanon: Can it Expand?

Figuring out what banks offer in Lebanon is notoriously difficult, says Elie Bou Jaoude. “There are more than 600,000 searches on G...

Financial management

Meet the Jordanian College Graduate Who Rose to Startup Success by Reporting the Weather

Jordanian entrepreneur Mohamed Al-Shaker is very, very passionate about the weather. “I’ve had an interest in weather since I was 4 years o...

Science Jordan Competitions

WamdaCard Out of Private Beta, Now Accepting Applications

Fresh out of private beta, Wamda's newest program, WamdaCard, offers entrepreneurs discounts and benefits on a range of products and ...

WamdaCard

Which Countries Have the Lowest Costs for Startups? [Infographic]

Entrepreneurs in the Arab world who may be self-funding, are bootstrapping, or are just looking for an inexpensive place to start their...

Jordan Egypt Ecosystem

What Do Saudi Entrepreneurs Think about Entrepreneurship in the Kingdom?

As entrepreneurship awareness builds lately in the Arab World, Saudi Arabia, with its abundance of free capital and interest among the...

Saudi Arabia

STC Ventures Invests $3 Million in Jabbar's Ad Network ikoo

Regional advertising network ikoo has secured $3 million in investment from STC Ventures, a venture capital fund backed by Saudi Telecom...

Jabbar Digital Advertising Digital Marketing

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