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Maker Hackathon Cairo 2016

Maker Hackathon Cairo is the first hardware competition in Egypt powered by Zoomaal and organized by Dimensions student organization to...

Innovators Maker Hackathon competition

Egypt

Egypt's first FiT payout goes to startup Cairo Solar

Hisham Tawfik's FiT cheque from North Cairo Electricity Distribution Company. (Image via Hatem Tawfik) After much skepticism about...

renewables FiT feed in tariff

Egypt

1776 Challenge Cup Local: Cairo, Egypt

1776 Challenge Cup is a worldwide tournament for the most promising, world-changing startups to win cash prizes and make international ...

1776 challenge cup competition cairo

Egypt

Microsoft's Satya Nadella visits Cairo on January 5th

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is visiting Egypt as a special keynote speaker during the Microsoft Developers Conference, which will be he...

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Egypt

Apply to the MoboMarket Developer Contest (MMDC) by Dec 31

The MoboMarket Developer Contest (MMDC) is now officially open in universities across Egypt. MMDC is a great opportunity for all developers...

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Egypt

Seeding success at Cairo Innovates

The Cairo Innovates tech fair was held at the historic Baron Palace. (Image via Cairo Innovates) Youth technology fair Cairo Innovates is...

Eqotaqa Beetw Green Battery

Egypt

Hack4Egypt tackles the big issues

Mentor Tarek Amin, digital group head for Adline Media Network, offers some advice. (Images via Hacka Mena) Hack4Egypt is a chance to...

Nile University HEAT HACK4EGYPT

Egypt

RiseUp Summit meets expectations, beats them

A closing keynote: how does entrepreneurship impact on the economy? Well, it depends who you ask. (Images via Rachel...

Oak Investment Partners YCombinator US Aid

Egypt

Hack4Egypt hackathon

Happening in collaboration with RiseUp Summit, Hack4Egypt, is bringing together the 100 most daring and innovative designers, programmers, ...

Innovators HACK4EGYPT RiseUp

Egypt

Si-Ware's miniature MEMS worlds

Imagine looking through a microscope and seeing a fully-operational machine, with tiny motors and micro-sized mirrors to redirect...

fabless spectrometer Siware

Egypt

Startups urged to use Egypt's wealth of waste

Rubbish piled in the streets and beside waterways is a common sight in many of Egypt's cities and rural areas. (Image via...

PET flakes El Misbah El Mudii Tagaddod

Egypt

Sun rises on Egypt's Silicon Valley

The Middle East has long been searching for its own Silicon Valley, but it’s been searching for the wrong ecosystem under the wrong...

MEMS semiconductor Sun City

Egypt

Lessons from the Tahrir Academy shutdown

Tahrir Academy first announced their closure earlier this summer. News that Egyptian online learning center Tahrir Academy was...

nafham legislations close down

Egypt

Egypt pill reminder app sets sights on Germany

Despite having perfect health, Ahmad ElKaragy always dreaded having colds for one reason: he often forgot to take his medication...

MEMakers Healthcare Egypt

Egypt

Fawry sells major stake for $100M

A consortium of international investors has taken an 85 percent stake in Egyptian electronic bill presentment and payment platform Fawry...

fawry Egypt Investment

Egypt

Incubators prompt entrepreneurship in Upper Egypt

Hemma encouraged students at Assiut University to apply with innovative ideas. (Images via Hemma) Cairo often takes all the attention of...

Holol Techno-Falah Upper Egypt

Egypt

This Egyptian fashion startup has its eyes on Europe

Online luxury sales are projected to grow by an unprecedented 20 to 25 percent over the next five years, according to a Boston Consulting...

maria munoz slickr Clothing

Egypt

Renac Oasis Renewable Energy offers PV Off-grid Course

The Renac Oasis Solar Academy in Egypt is offering a PV Off-grid course. The course is tailored for engineers, consultants, and...

course solar academy Renac Oasis

Egypt

How to make social entrepreneurship work in MENA

JP Morgan's Ali Idrissi, Droomzaken's Martijn Blom and Accion Venture...

Misr El Kheir Social Entrepreneurship Egypt

Egypt

Egypt's Otlob sold for a bargain to Rocket Internet

Egyptian food-ordering website Otlob has been snapped up by Rocket Internet, but at an almost firesale price. The acquisition by...

online food ordering otlob Rocket Internet

Egypt

Egypt’s El Noor Geh takes part in GE’s first Minds+Machines event in the region

As Egypt suffers from frequent power cuts, programmers, makers and builders keep trying to find ways to prevent their work from being...

El Noor Geh Minds+Machines MEMakers

Egypt

Egypt's VoIP block to make the startup life harder

At the start of October news broke on social media websites that Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications such as Skype, WhatsApp...

voice over internet protocol Mobinil Viber

Egypt

KarmSolar, first Egyptian company to get license for off-grid solar power plant

Update: This article has been updated to include KarmSolar's largest deal to date, announced on October 18. Solar energy...

solar power MEMakers KarmSolar

Egypt

Egyptian social entrepreneurship incubator aims to help the neediest

A year ago the Misr El Kheir foundation launched GESR, an Egyptian incubator for social entrepreneurship, with the...

Gesr Egypt Social Entrepreneurship

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