Teshkeel Media Group Equity Stake Acquired by Crescent Enterprises Crescent Enterprises, a subsidiary of the UAE-based Crescent Group, announced the acquisition of an equity stake in the Teshkeel Media... Glen Dalakian II • 07 September, 2012 Acquisitions
MIT TR35 Awards Top 5 Arab Innovators Under 35 Last night in Beirut, amid an excited crowd of peers, family, and friends, five young Arab innovators were announced as winners of TR35 Pan... Glen Dalakian II • 07 September, 2012 MIT Technology Woopra
Weekly Wrap-Up: September 02-06 It’s finally Thursday and time for our Weekly Wrap-Up! If you're game for taking your business to the next level, don't miss this week's to... Wamda • 06 September, 2012 Crowdsourcing Fadi Ghandour Gaming
Building Government-Startup Alliances [Pic of the Week] Entrepreneurs and governments are often at odds, leery of working with each other and afraid to reach out to build an uncommon alliance.... Glen Dalakian II • 06 September, 2012 Government Startup Communities Pic of the Week
Cairo's Cloud 11, Raising Cloud Services to New Heights Cloud 11 is a Cairo based cloud-computing services start-up that provides various Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions to their clients.... Omar Aysha • 06 September, 2012 Cloud Computing
Fadi Ghandour's Next Investment: Building a Future for Arab Social Entrepreneurship Fadi Ghandour's name has been synonymous with Arab entrepreneurship. In 1982 he established Aramex as an express operator for the Middle... Knowledge @Wharton • 06 September, 2012 Investment Social Entrepreneurship Wharton
Wizards Productions Continues to Go Global, Announcing Partnership with Tapjoy, Acceleration with YetiZen After announcing a pivot into mobile gaming and a deal with leading international publisher 6waves, Wizards Productions is continuing to... Nina Curley • 06 September, 2012 Gaming Mobile Mobile Gaming
Top 15 MENA Tech Startups That Are Going Global Today we highlight some of the region’s most innovative tech startups as they expand their businesses from MENA into global markets. Each o... Glen Dalakian II • 05 September, 2012 Technology Top Lists
Dubai's Aflamnah Offers MENA-focused Crowdfunding Crowdfunding is the latest buzzword making the rounds in the entrepreneurial world, and a UAE initiative is out to show there’s more to it t... Rania Habib • 05 September, 2012 Crowdfunding Investment
Cairo Workspace The District Celebrates Six Months of Success Six months is usually too soon to celebrate a birthday, but things had been going so well for The District recently that celebrations were... Omar Aysha • 04 September, 2012 Accelerators Coworking Spaces
RecycloBekia Transforms Egypt’s E-Waste into a Commodity Can recycling e-waste really be profitable? Twenty Tanta University students say yes, as they work to build an electronic waste... Glen Dalakian II • 04 September, 2012 Environment
Are You Ready for the Digital Revolution? [Infographic] Did you know that 37% of customers are influenced by word-of-mouth, and 10-25% use social media to help them make purchasing decisions? Or... Wamda • 03 September, 2012 Digital Marketing
Iraq to Be Reborn as Art & Science Hub Through Baghdad Hackerspace A young leader is bringing his passion for collaboration to create a hackerspace in Baghdad this October. Bilal Ghalib, an expat who... Glen Dalakian II • 03 September, 2012 Trends
Sawari, Union Capital Announce $1.2m Investment in Egyptian Financial Services Company Sawari Ventures and Union Capital have announced $1.2 million in investment in Financial Services Company (FSC), an Egyptian company that... Nina Curley • 03 September, 2012 Investment Loyalty Programs
How to Generate and Assess Good Entrepreneurial Ideas You may think that entrepreneurs have the ability to produce better and more efficient streams of ideas than ordinary people. While it’s b... Ayman Abou Hend • 02 September, 2012 Innovation Ideas
Looking For A Repairman? Mjarrab Launches to Crowdsource Home Repairs in Jordan Mjarrab is launching a new twist on a traditional service: household repairs. The concept makes sense; sourcing your own repairmen in ... Nina Curley • 02 September, 2012 Crowdsourcing Job Recruitment Ratings Sites
Weekly Wrap-Up: August 26-30 At Wamda, we've decided to bundle up some of our top content for you every week. So every Thursday, look out for our Weekly Wrap-Up if you... Wamda • 30 August, 2012 Weekly Wrap-Up Tips Competitions
Provide Structure and Freedom for Innovation [Pic of the Week] This week, activists participated in a blackout to protest ICT censorship in Jordan, a move aimed to prevent two amendments from... Glen Dalakian II • 30 August, 2012 Government Pic of the Week
A Growing E-Commerce Opportunity in MENA In a recent study, eMarketer estimates that while the Middle East and Africa is still the least developed region in e-commerce, sales in... Glen Dalakian II • 30 August, 2012 E-commerce
Palestine Palestinian Entrepreneur Leaves Medical Practice to Bring Health Advice to the Masses Update September 26, 2012: WebTeb announced the launch of its Symptom Checker, TebChecker. This tool includes extensive information... Nina Curley • 30 August, 2012 Medical
Drawing from Tunisia's Rich History, a Wind Energy Innovation Sets Sail At the TEDGlobal 2012 conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, Tunisian entrepreneur Hassine Labaied presented Saphon Energy, a wind energy... Knowledge @Wharton • 30 August, 2012 Technology Environment Wharton
Activists Plan Blackout to Protest ICT Censorship in Jordan In hopes of discouraging the government from passing amendments that enable censorship, digital activists in Jordan are staging a... Nina Curley • 29 August, 2012 Censorship
Semantic Tool From Lebanon Set to Transform Search Creating a report, article, or any other type of document is set to become a lot easier with CTRL, a new semantic tool being introduced as... Fernande van Tets • 29 August, 2012 Invention
Dubai E-Commerce Site JadoPado Seizes Growing Opportunity When we first started off, I kept asking "why hasn't anyone done an Amazon-style site in the region?" says Omar Kassim, founder of... Nina Curley • 29 August, 2012 E-commerce Technology