Wamda

Diary of a Google Finalist: Do Arab Entrepreneur Tournaments Help Startups?

Sarah Wali left the U.S. media scene and returned to Egypt to pursue an idea for a citizen journalism platform for the Middle East. With...

Digital Media Google Media

What Stood Out at Startup Weekend Beirut

This past Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, entrepreneurs gathered at Berytech in Mansourieh, Lebanon, overlooking a scenic view of Beirut as...

Startup Weekend

How to Track Social Media Traffic Using Google Analytics' New Features

If you want to know more about how social media networks play a role in sending traffic to your website, Google Analytics has some...

Analytics

The Wamda Media Effect: Why Media is Central to the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem

It's always good to reflect on whether we're having any impact on the startups we profile- after all, we are obsessed with writing about...

Media

Less Talk, More Action Needed at Rio+20 Summit

Twenty years after the original Earth Summit, world leaders gathered once again to discuss humanity's sustainable development. This...

Ecosystem Environment

Moroccan Startup Taxi Counter Wins Global Competition BeMyApp

Last week was an exciting time for all mobile Moroccan entrepreneurs and developers as it happened to be the BeMYApp WeekEnd...

Competitions Mobile Mobile Apps

How Brate Hopes to Revolutionize Product Rating in Lebanon

Local search engine Brate is aiming to revolutionize business search in the Middle East, say co-founders Shadi Tabbara and Sameeh Harfoush....

What Inspired Arab Entrepreneurs at Google I/O 2012

Google's yearly developer tech conference, Google I/O, brought developers and techies together from around the world to witness the latest...

Ecosystem Google

How Internet Users Will Spend Their Time in 2012 [Infographic]

Every moment of our lives nowadays is related to an internet act, a fact clearly demonstrated by this infographic, which examines five...

E-commerce Facebook Gaming

Internet Outage In Lebanon Caused By Cable Upgrade

Update: Minister Nicholas Sehnaoui announced today, Friday the 6th of July, that the internet got back to normal in all Lebanon, after...

N2V Announces First StartAppz Investment in Mobile App Startup iAraby

N2V has announced investment in Arabic mobile developer company iAraby, via its mobile investment vehicle and accelerator,...

Accelerators Mobile Mobile Apps

Seems Awkward, Ignores the Rules, but Brilliant: Meet the Maverick Job Candidate

In a paper recently published in the British Journal of Psychology, Elliroma Gardiner, an organizational psychologist at the London School...

Innovation

Regional

10 Video Resources Every Entrepreneur Should Know

It's always best to get tailored advice from hands-on mentors, but in your "free time" it also pays to get inspired by content around the...

Education

The Journey of a Food & Beverage Entrepreneur in Amman

Nickolas Neibauer's friendliness at Caffé Strada seemed out of place at first in Amman. With his warm toothy smile, and American accent, I ...

Food & Beverage

Startup Merges with Dinosaur to Create Egyptian Job Search Site Wuzzuf

In the job search market in the Middle East, new sites are always looking to solve the signal-to-noise problem, plucking useful applicants...

Job Recruitment

A Look at Oasis500's 5th Angel Event: Are Accelerators in the Middle East Doing Their Job?

Jordanian tech accelerator Oasis500 hosted its 5th Angel Investment event in Amman last night, bringing together 100 members of the...

Accelerators Oasis500

5 Simple Ways Startups Can Defend Against Hackers

The hacking of the Lebanese government websites two weeks ago, for the second time in two months, as well as the discovery of the Flame...

Egyptian Mobile App Dokani Links Shoppers to Offline Deals

For the mobile app-savvy shopper in Egypt, Dokani offers the chance to a check information online about new products and sales...

Mobile Apps

Winners of the MIT Enterprise Arab Business Plan Competition '12 Announced

The winners of the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business Plan Competition '11-'12 have been chosen. After winnowing the top 50 teams down to...

MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition

How a Dubai Entrepreneur Built and Funded the Year's Hottest Hardware Innovation Garage Style

"It's hard to be a tech entrepreneur in the Middle East," says Ahmad Zahran of Infinitec. Yet by shutting down his previous...

An Old Soldier's Advice on Leadership and How to Conquer Your Challenges

British Army Rt. Major General Tim Toyne Sewell not so secretly known as Big Tim to his subordinates at the Royal Military Academy...

Wharton

Does Peace in the Middle East Need Bombs? A Look at Game Cooks' New iPhone Game

Brothers Lebnan and Arz Nader, half of the team behind this year's biggest gaming success Birdy Nam Nam, are releasing a new iPhone game...

Gaming Mobile Gaming

Moroccan Web Entrepreneurs Gather, Pitch Ideas at g|maroc

Following a promising first edition of the g|Maghreb event organized in 2011 in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, Google returned to Morocco...

Conferences Google

7 Ways to Create a Healthy Indoor Environment at Your Business

Perhaps the first thing that comes to mind when someone says “air pollution” is the image of car exhaust filling the streets, industrial chi...

Environment

Thought Leadership

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