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How to Create Wireframes for Your Website

A website wireframe, also known as a page schematic or screen blueprint, is a visual guide that represents the skeletal framework of a...

User Experience Design

Global Mobile Market Trends: Who Will Dominate 2012?

There were now around 6 billion mobile subscribers worldwide (87% of the global population) at the end of 2011, according to the...

Egyptian Startup Ekshef Eases the Pain of Finding a Doctor

In the heart of Cairo stands Ramsis Building, an imposing office-block whose four faces are covered in a jumble of signs for the dozens of...

Medical

Small Business Social Media Cheat Sheet

Did you realize that the next largest social network after Facebook (which now has around 845 million users) is YouTube? Or that Google+ is...

5 Reasons Why Middle East Startups Should Care About Facebook's IPO

We've all heard the news- Facebook finally filed its much-anticipated prospectus for an initial public offering yesterday, seeking around...

How Women Entrepreneurs Are Driving Business in the Middle East

Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud is an Arabian princess with an entrepreneurial streak. As president and CEO of ALFA International and AL HAMA...

Women Wharton

Four Bahraini Startups Graduate from Local Accelerator

Tenmou, Bahrain's first Y Combinator-style accelerator, has announced the graduation of its first round of startups, focusing on IT...

Flip Media Acquired by Publicis Groupe

Publicis Groupe has announced its acquisition of Flip Media this morning. The regional digital media agency will join Leo Burnett...

Digital Marketing

Saudi E-Commerce Startup Finds Success Selling Apple Products

Almost exactly a year ago, three young Saudi entrepreneurs started e-commerce website iPhady to sell only iPhones, iPads and their a...

E-commerce

Maroc Numeric Fund Invests 3.5 Million Dirhams in Energy Optimizing Startup Meolink

Maroc Numeric Fund (MNF) has added a fourth tech startup to its portfolio this month, announcing investment of 3.5 Moroccan million dirhams...

How a Self-Taught Young Iraqi Developer Hit #1 in Saudi Arabia

When young Iraqi developer Ammar al Issa first started building iPhone applications for kids in his free time, he didn't expect...

Mobile Apps

Surviving the Egyptian Revolution: Small Businesses One Year After #Jan25

Days after the one-year anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, it’s now the Egyptian economy, not popular tolerance for dictatorship, that ...

How a Tunisian Software Company Built a Global Brand

In my search for Tunisian success stories in entrepreneurship, I was told I must speak with Mr. Samy Achour, the President and Founder of...

Why Entrepreneurship in the Arab World Depends on Education

Entrepreneurship is not a luxury today, speakers seemed to say at the 6th Annual Global Competitiveness Forum last week. As global policy...

Education

Can an Egyptian Virtual Call Center Outprice India?

As local small businesses in Egypt suffer, due to reduced consumer spending during the country’s economic crisis, one entrepreneur is p...

Creative Commons' Joichi Ito: Arab Unrest Altered Social Media's Image

This piece kicks off our partnership with Arabic Knowledge@Wharton, in which Wamda will offer weekly content tailored to entrepreneurs...

Arabic Knowledge@Wharton and Wamda Join to Offer Knowledge Resource for Middle East Entrepreneurs

Announcing a partnership that will reach thousands of readers in the Middle East and North Africa, Wamda and Arabic Knowledge@Wharton, the...

How to Build Interactivity with Customers: A Look at Dubizzle’s Email Survey

Around end of November last year, famous UAE-based online free classifieds site Dubizzle, who just expanded their marketing team, wanted...

Digital Marketing

4 Simple Ways to Create Interactive Experiences on Your Website

I grew up in Cyprus, and one of the activities I did as a kid was play a SEGA arcade game called Wonder Boy. The game was so much fun...

Digital Marketing

Women Entrepreneurs on the Rise in Egypt: How Heba Hosny Hopes to Fund Social Good

As Egyptians stage a sit-in in Tahrir to honor the anniversary of the uprisings that eventually ousted Hosni Mubarak last year, one...

Women

Startup Weekend Cairo 2012 Team List

Below is a list of prize winners and team that competed at Startup Weekend Cairo 2012. First Prize, winner of Best Mobile App award...

Mobile Apps Startup Weekend

Egyptian e-Commerce Site books.com.eg Launches Social Bookstore

On the anniversary of the first massive protest in Tahrir Square, Egyptian e-commerce company books.com.eg is making it easier for readers...

E-commerce

10 Tips for Giving and Receiving Good Feedback

Sebastien Trzcinksi-Clement, the MENA Developer Relations Lead at Google, knows a thing or two about developing a good relationship with...

Advice Feedback Software

Teams Pitch Ideas for the People at the Second Startup Weekend Cairo

“Is it better than the original?” That’s the first question we normally ask about the sequel. Startup Weekend Cairo, held from the 19t...

Startup Weekend

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