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
Entrepreneur of the Week: Ravi Bhusari and Brian Sigafoos of Duplays [Wamda TV] This week's entrepreneur of the week is Ravi Bhusari, who founded Duplays, along with co-founder Derv Rao. Here he chats, along with Brian... Nina Curley • 03 July, 2012 Entrepreneur of the Week Sports
A Look at Oasis500's 5th Angel Event: Are Accelerators in the Middle East Doing Their Job? Jordanian tech accelerator Oasis500 hosted its 5th Angel Investment event in Amman last night, bringing together 100 members of the... Nina Curley • 02 July, 2012 Accelerators Oasis500
5 Simple Ways Startups Can Defend Against Hackers The hacking of the Lebanese government websites two weeks ago, for the second time in two months, as well as the discovery of the Flame... Fernande van Tets • 02 July, 2012
The Critical Elements for Creating a Healthy Entrepreneurship Ecosystem: Steven Koltai of GEP [Wamda TV] At the recent Global Entrepreneurship Program in Turkey, Steven Koltai, Senior Advisor in Entrepreneurship to the U.S. Department of State,... Gulay Ozkan • 01 July, 2012 Ecosystem
Egyptian Mobile App Dokani Links Shoppers to Offline Deals For the mobile app-savvy shopper in Egypt, Dokani offers the chance to a check information online about new products and sales... Maya Rahal • 01 July, 2012 Mobile Apps
GameTako Launches Its Second Region-Wide Arabic Game Jam GameTako announced, few days later, that it will be holding its second region-wide “Game Zanga” game development weekend and competition on ... Wamda • 30 June, 2012 Gaming
Winners of the MIT Enterprise Arab Business Plan Competition '12 Announced The winners of the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business Plan Competition '11-'12 have been chosen. After winnowing the top 50 teams down to... Nina Curley • 28 June, 2012 MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition