Microsoft Announces Initiative to Empower African Tech Ecosystem This week, Microsoft announced a new initiative to support development and global competitiveness in Africa.The Microsoft 4Afrika... Nina Curley • 06 February, 2013 Advice Education Mobile
Founder of GoNabit Joins MarkaVIP as COO After the close of daily deals site LivingSocial, Sohrab Jahanbani is now joining MarkaVIP. After first founding daily deals site GoNabit,... Nina Curley • 06 February, 2013 Daily Deals E-commerce Team
Exclusive Sneak Peek: Ma2too3a! Pivots Towards Crowdsourced Traffic Updates Last June, during Lebanon’s latest electricity crisis, AUB-trained computer engineer and software developer Mohammed Taha received a f... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 06 February, 2013 Google Mobile Mobile Apps
Gate2Play Releases New APIs for E-Commerce Sites This week, Gate2Play has rolled out new support for various e-commerce platforms, to help online merchants connect to its list of regional... Nina Curley • 06 February, 2013 E-commerce Payment Gateways PayPal
Yemeni Entrepreneurs Relocate to Cairo to Build GoEjaza Nearly 50% of Arab tourists rely on the web to plan for their trips and search for any relevant information, and 67% of them ask their... Ahmed Gabr • 06 February, 2013 Arabic Content Travel
How to Prevent Abandoned Shopping Carts in E-Commerce "Abandoned shopping cart" is a term used when a customer who intends to make an online purchase does not complete the checkout process.... Yasmeen Alani • 05 February, 2013 Accelerators Demystifying E-Commerce E-commerce
7 Reasons Why You Should Not Be An Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is suddenly the coolest thing around. Even children who once wanted to grow up to be engineers, doctors, pilots and... Khurram Zafar • 05 February, 2013 Advice
Can a Hackerspace in Beirut Spread Do-ocracy? A Look at Lamba Labs “I reject thinking like that,” Bilal Ghalib said to me when I first met him. I had just arrived in Beirut and was visiting Lamba Lab... Glen Dalakian II • 05 February, 2013 Art Coworking Spaces Crowdfunding
Video-on-Demand Portal Istikana Announces Deal with Umniah in Jordan Istikana, one of the region’s major video-on-demand portals, has just announced a partnership with Jordanian telecom company Umniah. Inked t... Nina Curley • 04 February, 2013 Digital Marketing Mobile Video On Demand
Oasis500 Launches New Investment Track for Growing Companies Oasis500, the region’s biggest startup accelerator, is now targeting growth stage companies with a new investment vehicle. Oasis500 is k... Nina Curley • 04 February, 2013 Accelerators Investment
5 Innovative Ways to Crowdsource Better Governance Whenever I hear people in the Arab region complain about the traffic, I tend to laugh. With the exception of Cairo, which has been bestowed... Jonathan Kalan • 04 February, 2013 Advice Crowdsourcing Government
Mobile Apps Win the Day at the Second Startup Weekend Nablus Mobile seemed to be the theme of last month's Startup Weekend Nablus, evidenced by the top five startup teams selected by the panel of... Glen Dalakian II • 04 February, 2013 Conferences Mobile Mobile Apps
Useful Applications for Bloggers and Online Activists in the Arab World Today, our internet is built upon constructive sharing; users are no longer acting as passive receivers, but rather are actively... Ahmed Gabr • 03 February, 2013 Advice Arabic Content Mobile
SeedStartup Takes Applications for its Third Round: Deadline Feb 15th Tech startups around the globe have two more weeks to apply to the next round at Dubai-based accelerator SeedStartup. The tech-focused... Nina Curley • 03 February, 2013 Accelerators
9 Ways to Increase your Chances at Getting a Job As the demands of the job market become more and more specialized, it's becoming harder to get a job. Unemployment on the whole in the... Maya Rahal • 03 February, 2013 Advice Programme Job Recruitment
Mobile App Nabd Offers Personalized News in Arabic With the abundance of news websites and a constant stream of article and video shares coming various social networks, online users can... Maya Rahal • 03 February, 2013 Arabic Content Digital Advertising Digital Media
Weekly Wrap-Up: January 27-31 We focused this week on the importance of building a founding team in leading your startup to success. Are you looking for the right... Wamda • 01 February, 2013 Weekly Wrap-Up
Look for Co-Entrepreneurs that Will Complement Your Skillset [Pic of the Week] "Without talented employees I’ll never make it." I hear this sentiment expressed often by new entrepreneurs struggling to build their s... Maya Rahal • 31 January, 2013 Advice CoE Cards Pic of the Week
Exclusive Sneak Peek at the Middle East’s Newest Crowdfunding Platform: Zoomaal For entrepreneurs in the Middle East seeking investment, a new platform is launching in February to offer crowdfunding for creative... Nina Curley • 31 January, 2013 Crowdfunding Investment
10 Tips of the Month from Entrepreneurs on Wamda As they revealed their successes, challenges, and failures, the entrepreneurs we chatted with on Wamda this month had great advice for... Glen Dalakian II • 31 January, 2013 Advice Tips Top Lists
Mideast Tunes, the Indie MySpace of the Middle East, Announces Partnership with Shazam In 2010, when MySpace-style music platforms were just launching in the Middle East, opinionated blogger Ahmad Al-Shagra took a stand,... Nina Curley • 30 January, 2013 Digital Marketing Mobile Music
How the Middle East Can Reclaim its Creative Work Culture “8-5 shifts”, “lunch breaks”, “weekends”, and “vacations” are part of the not-so-wonderful jargon we have inherited from the Industrial Revo... Oubai Elkerdi • 30 January, 2013 Advice Ecosystem Education
Tutorial Platform Facebook Studio Edge Launches in Dubai After unveiling the platform last spring, Facebook today announced the Dubai launch of Facebook Studio Edge, a tutorial platform designed... Glen Dalakian II • 29 January, 2013 Facebook Marketing Social Media
11 Lessons I Learned After 4 Years at Wizards Productions As we mentioned recently, Jordan is seeing a slew of gaming companies close lately, Wizards Productions among them. Co-founder and... Sohaib Thiab • 29 January, 2013 Top Lists Tips Advice