How Mobile is Changing Business [Infographic] Starting this year, the number of mobile devices used to access the internet will overtake the number of desktop devices, for the first... Wamda • 28 February, 2013 Mobile E-commerce
Social Enterprise Week Draws a Crowd, Sets Goals for the Middle East At the Capital Club in Dubai Monday night, a group of inspiring entrepreneurs launched the first Social Enterprise Week in the Middle East,... Shaimaa El Nazer • 27 February, 2013 CSR Social Change Social Entrepreneurship
Think Science Exhibition The Think Science Competition ask participants to design, develop, and build science based innovations, and to apply science skills in... Wamda • 27 February, 2013 Competitions
Will Facebook's New Deal with Mobile Operators Help It Take On Whatsapp, Viber, and Skype? Yesterday, Facebook announced a partnership with telecom operators in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Egypt, to offer discounted access to its... Nina Curley • 27 February, 2013 Facebook Mobile Mobile Apps
Reviving Egypt's Handmade Paper Industry for a Sustainable Future Throughout his life, the artist and social activist Mohamed Abou El Naga worked in the handmade paper industry in Alexandria. In 2005, he... Shaimaa El Nazer • 27 February, 2013 Egypt Environment
Souq and EFE Expand E-Commerce Training in Egypt E-commerce companies in Egypt now have a better chance of hiring and scaling with the expansion of a new talent training... Maya Rahal • 27 February, 2013 E-commerce Egypt
Regional How to get hired by a leading regional company There's a lot of hype in the tech world about the best places to work. Thousands of people just like you dream of working at one of the... Mais Gousous • 27 February, 2013 Pitching Job Recruitment Programme
PayPal Answers Your Questions: When, Where, and How Will It Expand in the Middle East? [Wamda TV] After our recent interview with Elias Ghanem, General Manager PayPal Middle East, at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Dubai, several... Nina Curley • 26 February, 2013 E-commerce Payment Gateways PayPal
New Arab Woman Forum (NAWF) A yearly event, the New Arab Woman Forum (NAWF) has brought women together for workshops and panels since 2007, addressing leadership in re... Wamda • 26 February, 2013 Conferences Women
Building a Hacker Culture in Abu Dhabi For three days inside New York University Abu Dhabi’s purple campus in the Emirati capital, delegates from universities in sixteen c... Adam Valen Levinson • 26 February, 2013 Competitions Ecosystem Social Entrepreneurship
Lebanese Gaming Startup Debuts Flying Carpet Hero, Prince of Persia Style Today, Lebanon's Gamabox has made their debut in game development with the launch of their first title, Ali Hood. Ali Hood, a cross between... Glen Dalakian II • 26 February, 2013 Gaming Mobile Mobile Gaming
15 Must-Read Books for Middle East Entrepreneurs Last week, the Wamda team asked our readers on Facebook, “What is the first book you would recommend for a new startup founder to read?” We ... Glen Dalakian II • 26 February, 2013 Top Lists Tips Advice
Egypt's Careerise Makes Job Search Simpler, More Social Even in today’s hi-tech socially-networked world, the best way to find a new job is still through a personal referral. Of course, relying o... Omar Aysha • 26 February, 2013 Egypt Job Recruitment
Amman Gets Its First Co-Working Space After 25 years of his life in the corporate world, working for giants in Jordan like Nuqul Group, it’s fair to say that Nidal Eses has g... Shaden Abu Al-Haijaa • 26 February, 2013 Coworking Spaces
NYUAD Hackathon Winners Debut Startups for Social Good Yesterday, Social Enterprise Week in Dubai kicked off with a pre-launch event at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) campus, as part of... Shaimaa El Nazer • 25 February, 2013 Competitions Conferences Social Change
From Bankruptcy to Topping the Arabia500: German Imaging Technologies [Wamda TV] In an interview at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Sassan Khatib-Shahidi, co-founder and CEO of Dubai-based printer cartridge ... Wamda • 25 February, 2013 Failure