Regional GE Geeks Go for Gold Challenge During this year's Rio 2016 Olympic Games, GE machines are tweeting in their native tongue - binary code – about their... Wamda • 17 August, 2016 GE twitter Coding
Regional National Treasure 2016 [Exclusive discount code] The region’s first theatrical conference and gathering of leaders shaping the future of UAE is here! National Treasure will be... Wamda • 16 August, 2016 Dubai conference Dubai Chamber
Regional Making the best of a child’s addiction In the 90s, parents hid Gameboys from their children on high shelves and under heavy mattresses. This year, with face-to-screen time at... Dana Ballout • 16 August, 2016 Play My Way children Education
Regional Mighty Labs Pre-Accelerator Want to make your business idea a reality? The Mighty Labs Pre-Accelerator program in Berlin is accepting MENA applications for its... Wamda • 15 August, 2016 Berlin MENA entrepreneurship
Regional What I know about investing in content: Turi Munthe A little over two years ago, the MENA region witnessed the first big acquisition of a media company. Diwanee, a Dubai-based digital... Maya Rahal • 15 August, 2016 digital content demotix WIK
Regional #MESTVideo Contest Every day, news from the Middle East paints a portrait of chaos and despair. But in the maelstrom of violence and conflict, there are... Wamda • 15 August, 2016 hope middle east Film
Regional Impressions from #MLAbuDhabi: urban food systems track team chat about their solution The MIT Media Lab Abu Dhabi innovation workshop brought together design innovators, technologists, entrepreneurs, makers, thinkers, and... Wamda • 15 August, 2016 MIT Innovation urban
Regional MIT Media Lab and Wamda Workshop Abu Dhabi 2014: Hind Hobeika of Instabeat The MIT Media Lab Abu Dhabi innovation workshop brought together design innovators, technologists, entrepreneurs, makers, thinkers, and... Wamda • 15 August, 2016 MIT Innovation Sports
Regional MIT Media Lab and Wamda Workshop Abu Dhabi 2014: Joe Paradiso The MIT Media Lab Abu Dhabi innovation workshop brought together design innovators, technologists, entrepreneurs, makers, thinkers, and... Wamda • 15 August, 2016 MIT Innovation Technology
Regional 5 medical solutions startups from MENA Research suggests that the global medical device market will grow by 14 percent between 2016 and 2020. However, VC investment in medical... Lucy Knight • 15 August, 2016 Healthcare medical solutions Slighter
Regional Be the CEO not the COO: finding space for vision-making [Opinion] A whopping 70.6 percent of entrepreneurs in MENA say it’s difficult to balance daily operational work and fire-fighting with strategy... Abdelrahman Wahba • 11 August, 2016 Opinion Iqraaly strategy
Regional Startup Watch: IKEA domination, young blood, and death by space travel The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your... Rachel Williamson • 11 August, 2016 Startup Watch
Regional 5 [NOT Netflix] video streaming platforms available in MENA 2016 was a year of celebration for young MENA users hungry for video on demand (VOD) and online streaming services. Netflix entered our... Dana Ballout • 10 August, 2016 Video Streaming Video On Demand netflix
Regional What's holding MENA's digital media market back? [Podcast] This podcast has been crossposted from Wamda Capital. Digital media is a growing market, but the amount of education still required for... Rachel Williamson • 08 August, 2016 Wamda Capital digital content Kharabeesh
Regional Tamatem: Gaming for 18 million users As global gaming publishers overlook the Arab region’s hunger for localized mobile games, regional publishers are... Tala El Issa • 07 August, 2016 tamatem Gaming localization
Regional How to land deals with the biggest fish in the market? [Wamda TV] Kharabeesh, an online media and entertainment network, has collaborated with Samsung to launch an application that has unlimited access to... Reine Farhat • 02 August, 2016 Collaborative Entrepreneurship Kharabeesh
Regional What I know about money and hardware: PK Gulati Hardware is in vogue. Where once you needed years, millions of dollars, and institutional support to launch a device or hardware... Rachel Williamson • 01 August, 2016 The Assembly hardware investing PK Gulati
Regional Blueprint of a VC fund This is an edited version of an article that originally appeared on Medium. Newly formed VC firms are startups that are vying for... Mohamad Charafeddine • 28 July, 2016 venture capital fund term sheets Airbnb
Regional A Google for Arabic e-books To look for books in Arabic, on free websites, means to enter a cycle of endless electronic links, which might sometimes be unsafe.... Veroniqua Khachan • 27 July, 2016 Open araby Cubic connect Arabic digital content
Regional Startup Battle 2016 Startup Battle, in association with The Rockstar Hubs International is an exciting pitch-fest, featuring a panel of entrepreneur investors.... Wamda • 27 July, 2016 entrepreneurship Pitch Competition Investment
Regional Wisdom and warnings: Twitter chat with Christopher Schroeder and Marwan Kheireddine “[We] need to stop thinking of MENA as one country - some areas [are] hard, even tragic; some [are] rising,” tweeted... Dana Ballout • 27 July, 2016 Christopher Schroeder Marwan Kheireddine YPO
Regional Wissam Sabbagh: A visionary turning idea to product “Sex and $550.” That was the subject line of an email then 18-year-old Wissam Sabbagh sent to thousands of potential... Dana Ballout • 26 July, 2016 Wissam Sabbagh Dotcom Mangomolo
Regional Fortifying healthcare startups in the Middle East and North Africa This article is a crosspost with the Stanford Social Innovation Review. AlemHealth, an Emirati medical startup, can remotely diagnose... Jamil Wyne - Willam Altman • 25 July, 2016 AlemHealth CardioDiagnostics AlTibbi
Regional BusinessConnect Session on SME Participation for Expo 2020 Dubai Expo 2020 Dubai continues its series of events and conferences by building bridges between local and international businesses. These... Wamda • 25 July, 2016 Expo 2020 Dubai sme Dubai