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Vote for the Future You Want

In the Sustainable Development Dialogues, or Rio+20 Dialogues, over 10,000 experts, stakeholders, and academics from a variety of ...

Ecosystem Social Entrepreneurship

Enhancing Startup Support with a Mediterranean-Wide Ecosystem

To facilitate the development of new ideas that lead to small business creation, it’s essential to create a viable ecosystem that supports i...

Ecosystem

Wamda Leaders Rank on 2012 List of Most Influential Arabs

Both Wamda Chairman Fadi Ghandour and Wamda CEO Habib Haddad made the 2012 list of the world's most influential Arabs, published today by...

Trends

Growth of Active Twitter Users in the Arab World [Infographic]

In the vein of his recent infographic on Facebook Users in the Arab World, today Khaled AlAhmad (@shusmo) published an infographic...

Flat6Labs Joins Global Accelerator Network

Tech startups seeking acceleration and support in Egypt now have a better chance to connect with peers around the globe. After Wamda's...

Accelerators

Using Digital Innovation, CrowdVoice.org Seeks to Amplify Minority Voices in the Middle East

Esra'a Al Shafei is founder of CrowdVoice.org, a user-powered service that tracks voices of protest from around the world by crowdsourcing...

Digital Media

The Spirit of Arab Art Comes Alive on E-Commerce Site AlHoush

There is so much innovation, and so many amazing talented artists and designers in the Arab World. Why are they not getting the attention...

E-commerce

MENA Investor-Backed Job Search Platform Identified Scores $21m in Series B: What's Next?

Job search platform Identified, that aims to become the LinkedIn for the next generation of Facebook-focused entrepreneurs, took a huge...

Investment Job Recruitment LinkedIn

Get Up Start Up in Cairo: Alternative Education Wins the Day

El-Sawy Culture Wheel (SCW), the avant-garde capital of Cairo’s cultural scene, was the location of Cairo’s latest entrepreneurial com...

Accelerators Innovation Startup Communities

Can Emerging Markets Capitalize on Their Growth? WEF Livestream

At the World Economic Forum on the Middle East, North Africa and Eurasia, leaders are discussing bridging regions in transformation, d...

Ecosystem

7 Tips and Confessions from Day 2 of CoE E-Commerce

CoE E-Commerce, our CoE event focused on the E-Commerce sector, concluded yesterday after a second day jam-packed with "Wamdat" talks and...

CoE E-Commerce E-commerce COE

CoE E-Commerce Unites MENA with Global Debut of Google Hangouts On Air

During day 2 of CoE E-commerce, Wamda leaped over geographical borders, carrying interested crowds from Beirut, Cairo and Dubai, who could...

CoE E-Commerce COE

Recorded Livestream of CoE E-Commerce

Watch the recorded Livestream on YouTube to see more of the key stats and presentations at CoE E-Commerce (full program here). Thanks to...

COE CoE E-Commerce

Debates and Mentorship at Day One of CoE E-Commerce

Who says a conference has to be an endurance test that makes you crave a coffee break? At Day 1 of CoE E-Commerce, as the Mentors Lunch and...

CoE E-Commerce E-commerce COE

Is Rocket Internet's Entrance into the Middle East a Bad Thing?

With the launch of Zappos clone Namshi two months ago and now Amazon clone Mizado, Rocket Internet has officially entered the Middle East....

E-commerce Rocket Internet

Tomorrow is about Innovation & Scale [Pic of the Week]

Often when building a company, we're so heads down just trying to get day-to-day operations running properly that we forget to look up and...

CoE Cards CoE E-Commerce Pic of the Week

Middle East Social Entrepreneurship Faces Challenges, but No Shortage of Volunteers

The Arab Spring brought tumult to the Middle East, but the demonstrations have also ushered in new aspects to civil life in Arab society....

Social Entrepreneurship

Jordanian Entrepreneurs Launch Startup Enabling Global Access to Healthcare

"We want to export U.S.-quality healthcare to the rest of the world," says Ayman Sharaiha, explaining his startup, Clinical Fellows. The...

Medical

Links Are Not Answers: Cairo's Kngine Launches App to Revolutionize Search

Operating with the tagline, "Links are not answers," intelligent search company Kngine (pronounced “kin-gin”) has launched beta versions of ...

Mobile Apps

MBC Ventures Launches, Invests in Falafel Games, Aranim, Supermama

MBC Group announced early this week the launch of a new venture capital arm, MBC Ventures, which will invest in media and entertainment...

Investment

Trends in User-Generated Arabic Content: A Look at d1g's 2012 Shift

Two years ago, d1g and Jeeran were going head to head as two of the region's biggest Arabic language user-generated content (UGC)portals...

Arabic Content

Wixel Studios to Return to Arabic Mobile Games with New Investment

When Wixel Studios was started by Ziad Fehali, Reine Abbas and Karim Abi Saleh in 2007, it was one of the first companies to appear...

Mobile Gaming

The Way Forward for Women Entrepreneurs in Egypt

The fundamental role of women in Egypt’s revolution and growing its economy was the focus of the event “Co-Creation: Women and Ent...

Ecosystem Education Women

Yahoo! Acquires a License to Yamli’s Technologies

Today marks an important milestone in the life of popular Arabic language startup Yamli, as Yahoo! announces its acquisition of a license...

Innovation

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