Wamda

Fekrety, the AUC's Business Idea Competition, Approaches Final Round

Fekrety, the national business idea competition organized by The American University in Cairo’s School of Business – Ent...

Accelerators Competitions

You Have to Take Risks [Pic of the Week]

With the announcement of the exit of LivingSocial and talks about the entrance of LinkedIn into the MENA space, we see a great example of...

CoE Cards Pic of the Week

LinkedIn to Enter Middle East Market in September

On the heels of news that LivingSocial is leaving the region, an email circulating the region reveals that LinkedIn is priming to open an...

Social Networks Technology Trends

Growing Pains for Jordan's Tech Entrepreneurs

Jordan has managed to avoid the violence and political upheaval its neighboring countries have experienced with the Arab Spring...

Technology Wharton

LivingSocial Confirms Closure of Middle East Operations [Exclusive]

Early this morning, LivingSocial has confirmed its rumored exit from the Middle East and North Africa to Wamda. In a statement, the...

Exits and Sales Daily Deals

Algeria

Algerian Team Takes Microsoft's Global Stage to Fight Diabetes

This July, three Algerian college students became the first team from the Middle East and North Africa to place as finalists in the cloud...

Competitions Health Mobile Apps

i360 Hub Launches Traveling Accelerator for Idea Stage Entrepreneurs in MENA

Continuing the accelerator boom in the region, i360 Hub has launched a new seed funding program that pledges to take entrepreneurs from...

Accelerators Innovation Investment

How Arab Startups Turned a Slow Ramadan into Quick Success

Although Ramadan can be a slow month for consumption, some startups have found ways to make the most of it throughout the past month....

Digital Media E-commerce Ramadan

What the Samurai Can Teach the Startup

What can the Samurai teach us about successful business? Over a dozen enterprising people attended The District recently to find out,...

Education Gaming Programme

Moroccan Social Ad Startup Buzzeff Raises $1.2M for International Expansion

In the Moroccan digital space today, startup Buzzeff is becoming a strong and influential player with a fresh approach to advertising....

Advertising Digital Advertising Digital Marketing

Moroccan Game Based on Palestinian Cartoon Wins in Saudi Arabia

Today, GameTako has announced the winning teams from its second Game Zanga competition, which brought over 240 game developers together...

Competitions Gaming

Revolutionizing Egypt's Oldest Bank with Cloud Computing

This week, OMS won an award for their role in a different kind of Egyptian revolution, one that took place in its oldest commercial bank....

Technology Software Cloud Computing

Internet Censorship Called A Black Eye for Jordan's Tech Sector

As Ramadan comes to an end, controversy is building in Jordan over potential internet censorship. After Jordan's Ministry of...

Censorship Jordan

SeedStartup Demo Day in Dubai

SeedStartup, Dubai-based international startup accelerator and seed fund, announced details of the Startup Demo Day event to be held at...

Investment

What's the Secret to Building an Innovation Ecosystem?

To build an innovation ecosystem out of nothing, it’s commonly believed there’s an unwritten recipe which goes something like this: first ta...

Ecosystem Innovation

LivingSocial Rumored to Pull Out of the Middle East: Comment From Competitor On Regulation

The National has reported today that global daily deals company LivingSocial is priming to sell its assets in the Middle East and shut down...

Trends

3 Lessons for Building a Popular Arabic Content Portal

There’s no shortage of demand for Arabic content online today, but building a niche site that will captivate and consistently entertain a l...

Arabic Content Digital Media

Pursuing the Extraordinary: Curiosity Key to Innovation and Bold Leadership

At first glance, the five men on the stage of the Al Ain Men's College auditorium had little in common: Former astronauts and soldiers,...

Wharton

Moving On from Oil: Asia's Lessons in Adaptation and Innovation for the Middle East

Gulf governments have put millions into cultivating innovation and trying to develop future economies not dependent on fossil fuels. In...

Wharton

Can Facebook Spice Up Place Reviews? Jeeran Launches Social Update

Today, Jeeran is making location reviews in the Arab World a more social experience, by launching an updated iPhone app and website that...

Ratings Sites Endeavor

Announcing Wamda's Ramadan Daily Video Series [Wamda TV]

Beginning this Ramadan, Wamda will be launching a video series, offering daily videos of our footage from this year's Arabnet...

Mowgli Welcomes New CEO, Signs Agreement with PICTI in Palestine

After spending the past couple of years setting up in the region, the Mowgli Foundation is blossoming in 2012. This month, the UK-based...

Mentorship

Protecting Your Data from a New Generation of Hackers

Cybercrime is a rapidly growing threat, and one that businesses and consumers don't seem to fully appreciate. As more and more business is...

Wharton

Facing the Legal Challenges of an Art Startup: Draw Me a Song

When Lebanese entrepreneur Nour Tohme started posting musical illustrations of songs for fun on her blog, she had no idea that she was...

Competitions Design MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition

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