Moroccan Social Ad Startup Buzzeff Raises $1.2M for International Expansion In the Moroccan digital space today, startup Buzzeff is becoming a strong and influential player with a fresh approach to advertising.... Karim Jazouani • 21 August, 2012 Advertising Digital Advertising Digital Marketing
Social Media Week Is Coming To Jeddah This year, Jeddah was chosen to be one of the cities that will host the social media week 2012. Jeddah will organize 5 consecutive days of... Wamda • 20 August, 2012 Digital Media Social Media
INJAZ-Lebanon, Student Company Of The Year Competition INJAZ Lebanon is hosting the 5th “Student Company of the Year” competition, on September 1st 2012, in collaboration with LAU (Lebanese Ame... Wamda • 17 August, 2012 Competitions Social Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneur of the Week: Nour Khrais of Jordanian Gaming Studio Maysalward [Wamda TV] This week's Entrepreneur of the Week is Nour Khrais of Jordanian gaming development studio Maysalward, one of the first game development... Nina Curley • 16 August, 2012 Entrepreneur of the Week Gaming Mobile Gaming
MENA PEA's Second Venture Capital in the Middle East and North Africa Report Those looking for a quick overview of the state of the venture capital industry today in the Middle East and North Africa have a new cheat... Nina Curley • 16 August, 2012 Investment
Moroccan Game Based on Palestinian Cartoon Wins in Saudi Arabia Today, GameTako has announced the winning teams from its second Game Zanga competition, which brought over 240 game developers together... Nina Curley • 16 August, 2012 Competitions Gaming
Revolutionizing Egypt's Oldest Bank with Cloud Computing This week, OMS won an award for their role in a different kind of Egyptian revolution, one that took place in its oldest commercial bank.... Nina Curley • 15 August, 2012 Technology Software Cloud Computing
Internet Censorship Called A Black Eye for Jordan's Tech Sector As Ramadan comes to an end, controversy is building in Jordan over potential internet censorship. After Jordan's Ministry of... Nina Curley • 15 August, 2012 Censorship Jordan
SeedStartup Demo Day in Dubai SeedStartup, Dubai-based international startup accelerator and seed fund, announced details of the Startup Demo Day event to be held at... Alaa Chehayeb • 15 August, 2012 Investment
What's the Secret to Building an Innovation Ecosystem? To build an innovation ecosystem out of nothing, it’s commonly believed there’s an unwritten recipe which goes something like this: first ta... Kia Davis • 14 August, 2012 Ecosystem Innovation
Building Out-of-the-Box Business Applications: Emad Ayyash Of What Is Next? [Wamda TV] Emad Ayyash, co-founder of “What is Next?”, speaks about the platform he created to help businesses build their own online applications wit... Maya Rahal • 14 August, 2012 Arabnet Mobile Apps
LivingSocial Rumored to Pull Out of the Middle East: Comment From Competitor On Regulation The National has reported today that global daily deals company LivingSocial is priming to sell its assets in the Middle East and shut down... Nina Curley • 13 August, 2012 Trends
Is Online Payment a Solved Issue? Part 5 [Wamda TV] In the 5th and final section of our payment gateway panel at CoE E-Commerce, Marten Waldenstrom discusses the fees that cashU takes as Dan... Nina Curley • 12 August, 2012 CoE E-Commerce Payment Gateways Cloud Computing
3 Lessons for Building a Popular Arabic Content Portal There’s no shortage of demand for Arabic content online today, but building a niche site that will captivate and consistently entertain a l... Nafez Dakkak • 12 August, 2012 Arabic Content Digital Media
Is Online Payment a Solved Issue? Part 4 [Wamda TV] In the 4th section of our payment gateway panel at CoE E-Commerce, moderator Dan Stuart of LivingSocial explains why building customer... Nina Curley • 09 August, 2012 CoE E-Commerce Payment Gateways E-commerce
Content Delivery & Digital Services-Middle East 2012 Capacity Conferences announced the dates for "Content Delivery & Digital Services-Middle East 2012" taking place on the 10 & 11... Wamda • 09 August, 2012 Digital Media Trends