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Building a Social Network for Football Fans in the Arab World: Footballize

Ten days ago, as Christian Ronaldo scored the winning goal for Real Madrid in a match that served archrival Barcelona its first loss...

Sprowd: Crowdfunding for Startups Around the Globe

The idea is simple: if you have a great idea for a business, why should you wait for a VC to take a leap of faith to invest in you? Why not...

Crowdfunding Investment

What It Takes to Build a Successful Daily Deal Site: Dan Stuart [Entrepreneur of the Week]

Dan Stuart, co-founder of GoNabit (now LivingSocial), offers insights into the daily deal business, discussing GoNabit's values, how the...

Acquisitions Daily Deals Demystifying E-Commerce

Student-Powered Startup Education in Egypt

What do cupcakes, touch technology, and venture capitalists have in common? In truth not much, unless we’re about talking s...

Conferences

Every Problem is An Opportunity [Pic of the Week]

This week as we open registration for upcoming event CoE E-Commerce, this piece of advice seems especially relevant. The issues that most ...

CoE Cards Pic of the Week

Microsoft Imagine Cup UAE Announces Winner

Microsoft's Imagine Cup, a competition inviting software developers around the world to "imagine a world where technology helps solve the...

Competitions Environment Mobile Apps

Announcing CoE E-Commerce on June 2nd and 3rd

After the success of Celebration of Entrepreneurship in 2010 and CoE Animate 11 this past fall, Wamda is kicking off the next in its series...

E-commerce COE CoE E-Commerce

Networking 961

Bader Young Entrepreneurs Program organizes Networking 961 on Friday May 4th, at the Gefinor Rotana Hotel Beirut at 7pm. Networking 961 is ...

Workshops

Google Workshop to Empower SMEs in Lebanon

Google and the IE Alumni Association invite AUB alumni and MBA students to a panel workshop and careers networking session on the topic of e...

Workshops

RealTime Weather From Real People On Dubai-Based Metwit.com

Are you wondering what the weather is like now in a certain location you are headed to? Are you trying to avoid carrying that umbrella and...

Why Middle East E-Commerce Site Souq.com Acquired Sister Site Sukar.com

Leading Middle East e-commerce site Souq.com has acquired flash sales site Sukar.com today, as The Next Web and others reported, as part...

Acquisitions E-commerce

Palestinian iPhone App for Prayer Launches

This week, those looking to connect with their community have a new tool at hand. AnaBasalli, a mobile application and web platform...

Mobile Apps

Nafham: A Learning Management Platform to Enhance Education in Egypt

At Cairo tech-focused accelerator Flat6Labs, four entrepreneurs, including Ahmad El Alfi, the head of parent fund Sawari Ventures,...

Education

Educating the Market and Investors about an Islam-Inspired Superhero Series [Wamda TV]

Dr. Naif Al Mutawa, the creator of comic book and animated series The 99 and parent company Teshkeel Media Group, describes the challenges ...

Animation Arabic Content CoE Animate

My Pillow: A Donor-Matching Platform for the Arab World [Wamda TV]

[Arabic]. Young Palestinian entrepreneur Bayan Bibi, who lives in Lebanon, speaks about the idea she pitched during Startup Weekend Amman,...

Social Entrepreneurship Startup Weekend

Waselny: A Carpooling Service to Reduce Traffic in Amman [Wamda TV]

At Startup Weekend Amman, Anas Saudieh describes his social carpooling service, which is designed to help citizens and workers get to their...

Startup Weekend Taxi + Traffic

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