Diary of a Google Finalist: Do Arab Entrepreneur Tournaments Help Startups? Sarah Wali left the U.S. media scene and returned to Egypt to pursue an idea for a citizen journalism platform for the Middle East. With... Knowledge @Wharton • 12 July, 2012 Digital Media Google Media
What Stood Out at Startup Weekend Beirut This past Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, entrepreneurs gathered at Berytech in Mansourieh, Lebanon, overlooking a scenic view of Beirut as... Nina Curley • 11 July, 2012 Startup Weekend
How to Track Social Media Traffic Using Google Analytics' New Features If you want to know more about how social media networks play a role in sending traffic to your website, Google Analytics has some... Wissam Dandan • 11 July, 2012 Analytics
The Wamda Media Effect: Why Media is Central to the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem It's always good to reflect on whether we're having any impact on the startups we profile- after all, we are obsessed with writing about... Nina Curley • 10 July, 2012 Media
Entrepreneur of the Week: Bassam Jalgha, Inventor and Hackerspace Pioneer [Wamda TV] Our entrepreneur of the week today is Bassam Jalgha, the founder of Douzan, a hardware solution that automatically tunes any stringed... Maya Rahal • 10 July, 2012 Entrepreneur of the Week
Less Talk, More Action Needed at Rio+20 Summit Twenty years after the original Earth Summit, world leaders gathered once again to discuss humanity's sustainable development. This... Muna Alamer • 09 July, 2012 Ecosystem Environment
Moroccan Startup Taxi Counter Wins Global Competition BeMyApp Last week was an exciting time for all mobile Moroccan entrepreneurs and developers as it happened to be the BeMYApp WeekEnd... Karim Jazouani • 09 July, 2012 Competitions Mobile Mobile Apps
How Brate Hopes to Revolutionize Product Rating in Lebanon Local search engine Brate is aiming to revolutionize business search in the Middle East, say co-founders Shadi Tabbara and Sameeh Harfoush.... Fernande van Tets • 09 July, 2012
What Inspired Arab Entrepreneurs at Google I/O 2012 Google's yearly developer tech conference, Google I/O, brought developers and techies together from around the world to witness the latest... Nina Curley • 08 July, 2012 Ecosystem Google
How Internet Users Will Spend Their Time in 2012 [Infographic] Every moment of our lives nowadays is related to an internet act, a fact clearly demonstrated by this infographic, which examines five... Wamda • 08 July, 2012 E-commerce Facebook Gaming
Internet Outage In Lebanon Caused By Cable Upgrade Update: Minister Nicholas Sehnaoui announced today, Friday the 6th of July, that the internet got back to normal in all Lebanon, after... Maya Rahal • 05 July, 2012
N2V Announces First StartAppz Investment in Mobile App Startup iAraby N2V has announced investment in Arabic mobile developer company iAraby, via its mobile investment vehicle and accelerator,... Nina Curley • 05 July, 2012 Accelerators Mobile Mobile Apps
Seems Awkward, Ignores the Rules, but Brilliant: Meet the Maverick Job Candidate In a paper recently published in the British Journal of Psychology, Elliroma Gardiner, an organizational psychologist at the London School... Knowledge @Wharton • 05 July, 2012 Innovation
Regional 10 Video Resources Every Entrepreneur Should Know It's always best to get tailored advice from hands-on mentors, but in your "free time" it also pays to get inspired by content around the... Nina Curley • 04 July, 2012 Education
The Journey of a Food & Beverage Entrepreneur in Amman Nickolas Neibauer's friendliness at Caffé Strada seemed out of place at first in Amman. With his warm toothy smile, and American accent, I ... Nina Curley • 04 July, 2012 Food & Beverage
Startup Merges with Dinosaur to Create Egyptian Job Search Site Wuzzuf In the job search market in the Middle East, new sites are always looking to solve the signal-to-noise problem, plucking useful applicants... Nina Curley • 03 July, 2012 Job Recruitment