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7 Opportunities and Challenges for Gaming Startups

At the Smartphones and Tablets Session at the Dubai World Game Summit, Ayham Gorani, the CEO of Alpha Apps, sketched out the opportunities...

Virtual Closet App DressBox Wins Microsoft DevCamp Competition

With every startup competition lately seeming to feature iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, and Android apps, watching a series of developers pitch...

Fashion Mobile Apps

Turkish, European Powerhouses Partner with MENA Talent at Dubai Game Expo

The pervasive call for improved infrastructure and regional unity in the Middle East is not a new trend. But at the 4th Dubai World Game...

Gaming

Get MBA Skills for Free Playing MIT’s New Online Game

Honing your business skills by playing a free online game sounds too good to be true. But, as Good Magazine reports, MIT’s Sloane School of ...

Google Democratizes Mobile Publishing, Wamda Gets Early Access

News aggregation is typically not a pretty task. But with the launch of Google Currents yesterday, a new app for Android, iPhone, and iPad,...

How to Find Out What Users Really Want: Part One

How do you find out about what the user wants? Or if your application is effective? You should conduct research, but it pays to take a...

User Experience Design

Wamda Holiday Guide: Check Out the Top 35 Gadgets for 2011

The holiday season is coming in a few weeks, and as usual this means it's time to indulge yourself and your loved ones with gifts. Whether...

Arabic Smartphone App Review Site Tatbeeq.at Launches

Website Tatbeeq.at, meaning "applications" in Arabic, launched in beta 5 days ago to offer the Arab World its first fully Arabic directory...

Tired of Political News ADD? Just-Launched Egyptian Mobile App Brings You Smart Aggregation

With all that’s going on in Egypt, staying on top of political developments can be all-consuming. When grazing on today’s media buffet, it’...

Mobile Apps

Social Startups See Surprise Wins at SME Advisors Awards

In a domain where more established players typically take home the awards, two young socially-oriented startups received a boost at the SME...

Qordoba Launches Innovative, Affordable Arabic Translation Platform

For international platforms looking to break into the Middle East, local companies looking to go global, or even bilingual platforms like...

Sleek Site Design Hub Launches to Showcase MENA Freelancers

Design freelancing in the Middle East just got easier with the public beta launch of Design Hub this past week. Simplicity rules the day on...

MarkaVIP Announces $5 Million in Funding From Lumia Capital and Invus

Amman-based private online sales club MarkaVIP has announced $5 million in investment led by Lumia Capital with participation from...

5 Crowd Questions from the 2nd Global Entrepreneurship Summit

While there have been many interesting panels at the Second Global Entrepreneurship Summit, some of the best questions I heard were asked...

RED, EIB, and Cisco Announce $50 Million Lebanon Growth Capital Fund

At the Second Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Istanbul, access to finance was pointed to as the single biggest barrier to...

Entrepreneurs Face Down Challenges in Post-Revolution Tunisia

Job creation was the phrase on everyone’s lips during Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) in Tunisia, which kicked off two weeks ago for the ...

Social Media Tips and Trends in the Arab World from the MediaME Forum

One of the memorable Social Media Forums I attended in 2010 was the MediaME Forum. Back then, I had just started my current job as a...

Woopra Responds to Google Analytics with Game-Changing iPhone App

Analytics lovers looking to monitor their site traffic on foot now have a new weapon in their arsenal: Woopra’s sleek iPhone and iPad app. T...

Analytics Woopra

Arabia500+Turkey Announces the Fastest-Growing Companies in the Gulf

Today, the Arabia500+Turkey announced the GCC winners in their ranking of fast-growing companies, in anticipation of the Arabia500...

Oasis500 Announces Investment Deals for Jamalon and Zaytouneh

This morning, Oasis500 announced investment in two of its startups, Zaytouneh, a digital library of high quality short cooking videos, and...

Exploring E-commerce’s Most Overlooked Sector in the Middle East: Online Travel

While attending the WebInTravel conference in Singapore earlier this month, I couldn't help but wish we had a similar MENA-based event...

In the Mobile OS War, Can Android Ice Cream Sandwich Save Google's Lead?

If your answer to which mobile device operating system has the most market share is “iOS,” this article will set you straight. Google, with ...

Fights Break Out Between Egyptian Presidential Candidates, in Online Game Masr 3ayza Meen

As voters continue to cast votes for the Parliamentary elections in Egypt today, streetfights have broken out between Egypt’s presidential ...

Need a Refresher on Egyptian Candidates? Mobile App Sawtak Offers On-the-Go Election Information

If Egyptian voters queuing in long lines today needed a quick reminder of the list of potential candidates, all they had to do was open a...

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