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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

Entrepreneurs, Be Tough, Be Global -- Export Now

Cross-posted (with a slight adaptation) from Forbes, June 9, 2011. Puerto Rico is one example of a small market- a four...

Google, Woopra, or Clicky: Which Web Analytics Platform Works Best for You?

Whatever you do online, whether you have a website for your small business or run a larger e-commerce site, whether you run AdSense or do...

Analytics Google Woopra

Online Donations Bring the Middle East and Africa Closer to American Donors

Last year, over US$290 billion in America was donated to charities, but surprisingly, less than 10% was donated online. With 240 million...

A Lesson in Leadership: Fadi Ghandour's Visit with Tony Fernandes of Air Asia

He walks in to greet us and starts cracking jokes. Full of passion and charisma, his knowledge of every single detail of his company is...

Fadi Ghandour

Cash Flow is Never More Important Than Your Mother: Happy Mother's Day from Wamda

Today is Mother's Day on Wamda. We just wanted to remind you that, while Ken Morse said that "cash flow is more important than your mother...

g|saudi arabia Returns This Weekend

Saudi techies get ready- this March, Google is once again hosting g|SaudiArabia. The event aims to engage with communities of developers, b...

Google Workshops

Angel Investment in MENA: What Works, What Could Improve

So you have been incubated for three months and you have built a solid demo. Unfortunately, your burn rates (negative cash flows) are...

Angel Investment Oasis500

Google Tech Workshop Comes to Beirut

On March 28th 2012, Google will be hosting its first workshop in Lebanon, in partnership with the American University of Beirut (AUB), to...

Google Workshops

Startup Weekend Doha

StartUp Weekend is coming to Doha on June 14-16, 2012.Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile...

Startup Weekend

Startup Weekend at Zayed University

StartUp Weekend is coming to Zayed University on April 26-28, 2012.Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event which focuses on building a...

Startup Weekend

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