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U.A.E

First Collaborative Entrepreneurship workshop, Wamda and Expo2020 get started

Habib Haddad kick starting the day (Images by Wamda) Expo 2020 Dubai and Wamda’s collaboration is already underway. By acting as the ...

Roundtable Expo 2020 Dubai Collaborative Entrepreneurship

Regional

Global startups circle MENA at WFES forum

Masdar's interactive model showing its energy activities from Pakistan to North Africa. (Images via Rachel Williamson) Amid a...

IRENA water-energy nexus wind energy

Maghreb

Morocco's New Work Lab grows coworking space into entrepreneurship training center

Eyes were riveted on startup at a Pitch Lab. (Images via New Work Lab) Last Thursday, 35 Moroccan startups exhibited their services and...

New Work Lab Coworking Training

Regional

MENAT’s internet growth and barriers [Infographic]

Despite the apparent prevalence of the world wide web in people’s lives, there are still a many who go without internet access. According t...

eMarketer MENAT internet penetration

Regional

Health and education apps dominate at Arab Mobile Challenge

Five teams from five countries are heading to the world finals in Barcelona. (Images via Arab Mobile Challenge) Third time’s the c...

Arab Mobile Challenge Arab Mobile App Challenge algeria

U.A.E

$20M series C round for Bayut.com’s owners

UAE's quickly growing real estate landscape The landscape of UAE's real estate. (Image via Spacing.ca) The owners of...

Bayut.com Zameen Series C

U.A.E

Sharjah’s Sheraa sets sail

An ecosystem building series, an innovation lab, an idea lab and a growth lab - these are the first four programs coming with the launch of...

Sheraa YCombinator Support

Regional

The competitive advantage of good customer service [Opinion]

It should be self-evident. Good customer service increases revenues and decreases costs. (Image via tnooz.com) Inadequate or non-existent...

competitive advantage leaky bucket customer loyalty

Kuwait

A cost effective and environmentally friendly way to cook your food, straight out of Kuwait

As reported previously on Wamda, the teams attending the first Kuwait Global Technopreneurship Challenge were trying to answer questions...

Solar cooker Kuwait Global Technopreneurship Challenge MEMakers

Saudi Arabia

Six winners announced at Saudi's first MITEF competition

B8ak, an application for home maintenance has won first place in the ‘Startups Track’ at Saudi Arabia’s first MIT Enterprise Forum...

MIT Technology Review Arab Edition careem competition

Maghreb

Tunisian stock exchange startup ilBoursa reaching new heights

ilBoursa offers data to help investors make better financial decisions. Some entrepreneurs want to be famous, others want to make money,...

stock exchange Ilboursa finance

Pakistan

Pakistan's eye on MENA

Pakistan is as misrepresented in the media as the Middle East and has an equally thriving startup ecosystem, but there is not much...

Zameen Rozee.pk incubation

Egypt

Egypt's next meal ticket in tech

Egypt birthed the Middle East's first delivery website with Otlob.com in 1999; today its digital food and beverage sector is finally...

Aklni Mumm Engezni

Egypt

Many challenges still facing Egypt’s startups

Startology cofounders from L to R: Ayman Saeed, Mahinaz El-Aasser, and Mahmoud Wasfy. Egypt's startup ecosystem...

Global Entrepreneurship Index Entrepreneurship in Egypt From Revolution To Evolution Startology

Saudi Arabia

Saudi launches $133M fund for ICT startups

Saudi Arabia has seen the launch of a new ICT venture worth 500 million riyals (US$133 million). Saudi riyals are plenty for...

Riyadh Taqnia Capital Riyad Capital Taqnia

Palestine

What I know about developing hardware and software in Palestine: Ayman Arandi

Ayman Arandi and his partners launched Iris Solutions with $15,000 of their own capital in the West Bank in 2012, with a plan to provide...

Ayman Arandi Sensory room Touch screens

U.A.E

Expo 2020 and Wamda partner to drive collaborative entrepreneurship #Expo2020xWamda

Expo 2020 Dubai has announced that it will partner with Wamda, the leading platform for entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North...

CE Collaborative Entrepreneurship Dubai Expo 2020

Lebanon

Lebanese telco Touch expands its reach with startups

Nadim Khater at his office. (Image via Touch) After indulging in an era of global expansion, telecom operators around the world...

Telcos touch lebanon

Regional

Digi-teens' online spending habits [Infographic]

The teens love their brands. (Image via International Digital Marketing) Today's teens are the market for many ecommerce...

mobile shopping Payfort teenagers

Jordan

Space: the next tech frontier for MENA?

An art installation in Amman that could soon have a real-life counterpart. (Image via Sam Wendel) Watch out Elon Musk, a new force is...

Oasis Space Ventures Jordan Space Ventures SpaceX

Lebanon

Speed@BDD sends two startups off to Silicon Valley

Two of Speed@BDD’s first six startups are off to Silicon Valley. The accelerator’s CEO Sami Abou Saab said Rational Pixels...

NAR Rational Pixels Speed@BDD

Maghreb

Tunisian incubator Esprit aims to turn engineers into entrepreneurs

The first promotion of engineers-entrepreneurs presented health and safety-related startups at Esprit's demo day. (Images via Esprit) If...

Esprit engineering school

Saudi Arabia

Saudi's MyCN makes shopping in China simple

"From China to your doorstep... In just a couple clicks". The MyCN homepage. If you found something you wanted on Amazon for $5, but its...

WorldShip MyCN china

Regional

Opportunities in the risk intelligence market [Opinion]

A map of countries facing the greatest risk of terrorism. (Image via The Telegraph) One basic law of economics dictates a...

Risk intelligence data analysis MEMakers

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