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A Look at Social Media Consumption in the Arab World [Infographic]

Discover Digital Arabia (DDA), in partnership with EffectiveMeasure and supported by N2V, published yesterday its latest infographic on...

Infographic Social Media

Building a Game Review Site for the Arab World: A Look at DvLZGaME and Gamabox

Despite a huge increase in game production in the Middle East and North Africa over the last year, the region is still lacking a major,...

Arabic Content Gaming Mobile Gaming

Egypt's Bkam Boosts E-Commerce with Comparison Shopping Site and Mobile App

UPDATE: Bkam won 3rd place in the Vodafone Appstar competition today. With the explosion of e-commerce websites in the past year, it...

E-commerce

Can a Sharing Economy Take Root in the Middle East and Turkey? (Can AirBnB Clones Find Success?)

Increasingly competitive economic conditions and growing social concerns force us to search for new ways of living and connecting with one...

Scaling Crowdsourcing

How a 17-Year-Old Launched a Profitable Web Design Company in Lebanon

Andy Abi Haidar is not your average 17-year old. In addition to doing his daily homework, he runs his own award-winning web design ...

Design Developers

Jordan's Dakwak Launches Localization Platform to Help Startups Go Global

Dakwak has been in the making for over a year, but it has now finally launched its solution for helping websites localize or go global. For...

Arabic Content Scaling

Tenmou Gathers and Trains Arab and European Angel Investors in Bahrain

Tenmou, Bahrain's first business angels company, is quickly establishing itself as a leading player in Bahrain's entrepreneurship scene, as...

Accelerators Angel Investment Arabic Content

Meet the Winners of the Harvard Arab Startup Pitch Contest

On November 8-11, the 6thHarvard Arab Weekend brought Arabs from around the world together to network, collaborate, and discuss the future o...

Conferences Competitions

European Game Developer Looks to Enter the Arab World, Seeks Publisher

As gaming studios worldwide eye the Arab market, German game developer and distributor GoodGame Studios is the latest to...

Developers Gaming

Weekly Wrap-Up: November 18-22

This week was all about looking outside to identify and adapt solutions to problems within local ecosystems. What are your thoughts about...

Advice CoE Cards Conferences

Look for International Perspectives [Pic of the Week]

It can be pretty easy to get caught up in the challenges and opportunities in your local surroundings, never taking a moment to look...

CoE Cards Ecosystem Pic of the Week

Nabbesh Wins du's The Entrepreneur, Looks to Expand Regionally

After two months of tense competition, we now know who took home the 1 million AED cash prize after winning reality TV competition...

Competitions du Investment

Dubai's SwipeZoom Offers Global E-Commerce Payment and Shipment Solution

Amer Qavi was a biomedical engineer designing artificial internal organs before he set up his own medical distribution business. After...

E-commerce Payment Gateways

Planting an Eco-Friendly Coworking Space in Cairo

New coworking space icecairo launched this month as the third installation of icehubs, an international coworking space brand...

Coworking Spaces Egypt Environment

Why Jordan Looks More Like Kenya than Silicon Valley

Sitting at a lively roundtable discussion between young technology entrepreneurs during Amman's MixNMentor at Oasis500, a leading...

Ecosystem Startup Communities

54 Hours Inside Bahrain’s Emerging Tech Startup Scene

Having already touched 200 cities worldwide, the global grassroots Startup Weekend movement recently came to Bahrain’s burgeoning tech s...

Competitions Innovation Startup Weekend

Arabic Web Days Launches to Boost Arabic Web, Supported by Wamda and Partners

Arabic Web Days, a new initiative to support Arabic content creation online, launched today with support from global and regional players...

Arabic Content Digital Media

How a 25-year-old Saudi Entrepreneur is Rethinking the Hijab

Fashion entrepreneurship is one of the fastest growing segments in the world of startups. The clothing industry is estimated to equal more...

E-commerce Fashion

Top 10 Tips from Wamda’s Mix n’ Mentor Events in Amman, Beirut & Dubai

During this month’s Wamda Mix N’ Mentor (MnM) across the Arab world, our team traveled to Amman, Beirut, and Dubai to bring stellar men...

Conferences Ecosystem Fadi Ghandour

Jordan's Snax Revolutionizes the Convenience Store

As protesters in Jordan take to the streets to demonstrate against rising gas prices, one convenience store in Jordan is catering to...

Food & Beverage Music Security

Can Startappz Disrupt the Mobile Space in the Arab World?

The idea of being more committed to learning than to a given product seems appropriate for the wave of young entrepreneurs entering the...

Arabic Content Investment Mobile

Can Kuwait Learn from Ghana? Lessons from the Second Startup Q8 Event

The startup scene in Kuwait is gaining momentum. On the 7th of November we had the 2nd StartupQ8 event and it was a lot of fun. Over 50...

Accelerators Advice Ecosystem

Heated Debates and Fresh Startups: What Stood Out at the Arabic Digital Content Conference in Amman

Two weeks ago more than 43 internet and business geeks spoke to a large audience of Arabic content enthusiasts in the Jordanian capital of...

Arabic Content Digital Media Ecosystem

Training the Next Generation of Leaders in Jordan with Photography

While entrepreneurship is one tool for helping young people in Jordan find new opportunities, empowering a generation can begin with...

Social Entrepreneurship

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