Regional Creating a comprehensive model for e-commerce success Darren Hodgkin, CEO of Digital&Code E-commerce has made massive gains during the Covid-19 pandemic. Consumers were forced to... Thought Leadership • 03 August, 2020 E-commerce
Regional The audiobook opportunity in education UAE-based audiobook platform Kitab Sawti was recently acquired by Storytel. In this exclusive piece for Wamda, Kitab Sawti's founder... Thought Leadership • 30 July, 2020 Kitab Sawti Audiobooks Education
Egypt Mayday's mission to improve roadside assistance in Egypt By Mostafa Adel In Cairo alone, it is estimated that traffic issues cost Egypt’s economy $7 billion every year. This figure... Middle East Exchange • 29 July, 2020 mobility
U.A.E Has the office become a burden? Life is returning to offices in the UAE and the wider Middle East region as workers go back to their desks wearing masks and attempting to... Triska Hamid • 27 July, 2020
Regional elGrocer: The lessons we learned in the era of Covid-19 Nader Amiri is the founder of UAE-based e-grocery startup elGrocer E-commerce is on everyone’s mind. There’s a lot being... Thought Leadership • 23 July, 2020 e-grocery elGrocer covid-19
Regional What is the future of events? Last week, after four long months of coronavirus lockdowns, Dubai hosted its first “in-person” event. AI Everything, held at... Shaimaa El Nazer • 21 July, 2020 STEP Step Conference eventtus
Bahrain E-sports and gaming: Mena's new global frontier Yousef Buhazza is the founder of Unreal Bahrain and vice chairman of the Bahrain Internet Society Growth in Crisis All manner of... Thought Leadership • 20 July, 2020 Gaming E-sports
Regional Real to virtual: Buying and selling property online Real estate is one sector that appears to have resisted the indelible disruption that has redefined other, traditional sectors like... Triska Hamid • 16 July, 2020 Real Estate Proptech
Regional Adopting emerging technologies in a post-Covid-19 world By Jad Hajj, partner, Imad Atwi, Jean Salamat, principals, and Riazul Raquib, senior associate, with Strategy& Middle East, part of the... Thought Leadership • 14 July, 2020 digital transformation
Global A deep dive into the GCC’s cloud kitchen sector [part two] Cloud kitchens are the backend equivalent of the food courts found in malls - several offerings all under one roof. They emerged as a... Triska Hamid • 12 July, 2020 cloud kitchen Food delivery
Regional Top five investment deals in the second quarter of 2020 The top five disclosed venture capital (VC) deals in the second quarter of 2020 amounted to $244.6 million, largely down to the $150... Dunya Hassanein • 09 July, 2020 VC investment
Global How do you build a company to last? Mudassir Sheikha and Magnus Olsson founded Careem in 2012 initially as a transportation service for the corporate world. It soon became the... Wamda • 07 July, 2020 careem Mudassir Sheikha
Regional In a world of remote work, will control replace culture? Marilyn Zakhour, founder and chief executive officer of UAE-based Cosmic Centaurs At the height of the pandemic, I started a company... Thought Leadership • 05 July, 2020 company culture remote work
Global Edtech and its roadmap to new realities Wamda hosted an online panel discussion in collaboration with Columbia Global Centers Amman, to address the future of education in the... Wamda • 02 July, 2020 Education EdTech coronavirus
Saudi Arabia Munch:On - Going beyond lunch Most food delivery platforms witnessed a slowdown in business once lockdown came into effect. Working from home gave people enough time to... Shaimaa El Nazer • 30 June, 2020 Lunch:On Munch:On
Regional Will cash on delivery return post Covid-19? By Faris Fallouh, Senior Global Express Services at Aramex During this pandemic, consumers globally and in the Middle East and North... Thought Leadership • 28 June, 2020 CoD cash-on-delivery