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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

E-commerce Technology

Jordan's Internet Blackout

Wamda joins the internet blackout in Jordan today by encouraging you to read about the recents events that threaten web and mobile ...

Censorship

Abraaj Capital Art Prize Announces Winners for 2013

This week, the Abraaj Capital Art Prize announced the winning artists for its fifth addition, including winners from Lebanon, Egypt,...

Meet New Beirut Workspace and Social Venture Hub AltCity

Entrepreneurs looking for a good casual workspace in Beirut can now turn to AltCity, which is opening its doors this August to become the...

Coworking Spaces Crowdfunding

9 Secrets for Replicating Silicon Valley's Success

July’s Global Innovation Summit (GIS) in Silicon Valley brought together 400 people to share ideas and on what makes a good s...

Ecosystem Innovation

RoundMenu Announces $730K Round of Funding to Expand into New Markets

After launching just over a month ago, RoundMenu has closed its first round of investment, for US $730,000, led by HoneyBee Tech Ventures,...

Food & Beverage Mobile Apps Technology

Seeqnce Launches 8 Web Startups at 2012 Accelerator Program Finale

LivingSocial's recent exit made for good small talk, but hardly daunted budding web entrepreneurs in Lebanon this past Saturday night, as a...

Accelerators Competitions Investment

UPDATED: Rocket Internet Exits Turkey, Mizado, Expands Amazon Clone in Egypt and Morocco

[UPDATED: We have received confirmation that Rocket is launching Jumia, an Amazon clone, in Egypt, extending a site initially launched in...

Rocket Internet Trends E-commerce

Looking Back to LivingSocial's Exit from MENA: What Went Right, What Went Wrong?

In the aftermath of the news that LivingSocial is leaving the MENA region, many have reflected this weekend on what this means for...

Daily Deals Exits and Sales

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