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New Mobile Gaming Studio Game Cooks Launches Facebook Competition

As one half of the team that developed popular mobile game Birdy Nam Nam launched Gamabox, the other half of the team, brothers Lebnan and...

Gaming

Inside Istikana's Arabic Video Content Coup

It’s been a good year for Istikana. One year ago at digital media conference Arabnet in Beirut, the Arabic online video company launched a H...

To Succeed in the Gulf, Offer the Best Price and Be Mindful of Relationships

Jan De Nul Group is a company specialized in dredging and civil engineering works. Launched in 1938 in Belgium, Jan De Nul originally...

Arabic Freelancer Platform Analancer Launches in Gaza

Winning the third place in Startup Weekend Gaza this past December, AnaLancer has launched an “expert-sourcing platform” that connects ...

Job Recruitment

8 Ways Jordan Created an Enabling Environment for Tech Entrepreneurs

So Arabnet is here. If you are a regular visitor to the Beirut conference you are going to see a very strong Jordanian presence. For a...

Fadi Ghandour

Get Ready for the Ideathon and Startup Demo at Arabnet Digital Summit

Arabnet Has Launched in Beirut! Today's Developer Days at the Hilton Beirut Metropolitan Palace have kicked off, featuring...

Conferences Arabnet

Riyada Enterprise Development Acquires 50% Stake In The Entertainer

Riyada Enterprise Development (RED) has announced its intent to acquire a 50% stake in The Entertainer, a consumer services company that...

Investment

Arabic Mobile Gaming Platform Gamabox Launches

Jean Christophe Hoelt and Souad Merhebi, half of the team that launched Birdy Nam Nam, have now launched Gamabox, a platform for game...

Gaming

Jordanian Studio Quirkat Releases Arcade Game Zonkt!

Chosen to give the impression of a robotic metal sound, Zonkt! is the name of a new iPad game launched by Amman-based videogame development...

Gaming

KAUST Launches Wa'ed Ideathon, Announces Seed Fund Winners

What's new at The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)? If you're an aspiring entrepreneur, plenty: The univeristy is...

Competitions Investment

Beirutna: A Platform To Locate, Socialize and Share Favorite Places In Lebanon

A couple of years ago, four young Lebanese became frustrated enough by the lack of restaurant guides in Beirut that they spent a month...

Food & Beverage Mobile Apps

Building a Creative Brand on Arab Pop Culture in Jordan

As the warm weather slowly returns, look out for what has become a seemingly ubiquitous feature of West Amman fashion: the Jo Bedu t-shirt....

Fashion Innovation

A Chat with an Imaginary Small Business CEO in Saudi Arabia

Being an entrepreneur in Saudi Arabia is relatively easy. According to the World Bank’s Doing Business 2010 data, Saudi Arabia ranks 1...

Innovation Trends

Meet the Semifinalists from Google Ebda2

At Google's Ebda2 event this past Tuesday, the Egyptian start-up competition otherwise known as “Start With Google,” the 50 remaining compet...

Competitions Google

Learning to Love the Competition at Google's Ebda2

Ebda2, the Egyptian start-up competition otherwise known as “Start With Google” that began some months ago, reached the semi-final stage thi...

Competitions Google

Social Media Trends in Saudi Arabia and the UAE [Infographic]

Did you know that 3 out of 7 internet users in the Arab World are on social media? And that in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, logging on to...

Trends

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