Coca-Cola Offers Summer Entrepreneurship Education Program to MENA Students

Less than two weeks are left to apply for the Coca-Cola Scholarship Program 2012. The program is offering Algerian, Egyptian, Jordanian...

Wamda • 18 March, 2012

Competitions

10 Tips for Success in Entrepreneurship from Ken Morse of MIT

At the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business Competition Workshop session, Kenneth P. Morse, Senior Lecturer and Managing Director of the MIT...

Wamda • 18 March, 2012

Company Valuation: Is There a Formula?

Today at the 5th Annual MIT Enterprise Forum Entrepreneurship Workshop, Professor Tarek Kattaneh of the Olayan Business School at AUB...

Nina Curley • 18 March, 2012

Investment

Watch the MIT Enterprise Forum Workshop Livestream

Watch the Livestream from the 5th Annual MIT Enterprise Forum Entrepreneurship Workshop: Writing a Business Plan and Winning the...

Wamda • 18 March, 2012

Competitions MIT

Saletab Brings the iPad 3 to the MENA Region

In case you've been living under a rock when it comes to technology, the iPad 3 is out today.  What's new? It's gone HD with the display, ...

Wamda • 16 March, 2012

E-commerce

Design Thinking to Disrupt Lebanese NGOs

Desmeem’s “D-Factor” Day witnessed scores of Lebanese designers of all stripes trying out at the Babel Theater stage this past weekend for a...

Said Hamideh • 15 March, 2012

Education

Want to Rent out That Spare Room? The Growing Popularity of 'Collaborative Consumption'

The founders of Internet startup Airbnb were accustomed to rejection. Joe Gebbia, Brian Chesky and Nathan Blecharczyk peddled to venture...

Knowledge @Wharton • 15 March, 2012

Coworking Spaces

Ernst & Young Announces Randa Ayoubi as Jordan Entrepreneur of the Year 2011

Ernst & Young has announced the winners of its Jordan Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 Award: Randa Ayoubi of Jordan-based digital content...

Wamda • 14 March, 2012

Competitions

8 Hot New Trends at Arabnet Digital Summit 2012

"It's not a conference. It's a festival," Arabnet founder Omar Christidis corrected me when we discussed the Arabnet Digital Summit 2012....

Nina Curley • 14 March, 2012

Conferences Arabnet

Looking for an Affordable Place to Go Out in Cairo? No5rog Has Answers

Two months ago, young Egyptian entrepreneur Kirolos Alfy pitched online entertainment guide No5rog at Startup Weekend Cairo, and...

Maya Rahal • 14 March, 2012

Mobile Apps

Creating Jobs with Homegrown Palestinian Produce: Thimar

"For 18 years we saw the settlements around us expanding. Today, after six months, they are getting smaller and we are getting bigger and...

Wamda • 13 March, 2012

Agriculture

LibroSwap: A Book Exchange Platform to Encourage Reading in the Arab World [Wamda TV]

During Startup Weekend Amman, Frida Kiriakos pitched LibroSwap, an online platform designed to encourage reading by allowing users to rent a...

Wamda • 13 March, 2012

Startup Weekend

4 Ways to Innovate in Online Travel in the Middle East

The regional behemoth airlines, Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways, continue to inspire us with their global dominance. Yet despite...

Mo Ali Yusuf • 13 March, 2012

Innovation Mobile Travel

Kiva, Silatech Join to Boost Loans to Young Arab Entrepreneurs

As The Next Web reported, crowdsourced microfinance platform Kiva has announced a partnership with Silatech, to support entrepreneurs...

Nina Curley • 12 March, 2012

Investment

Ajjerni: A Neighborhood Goods Swapping Platform for the Arab World [Wamda TV]

At Startup Weekend Amman, young Jordanian Abed el Hamid Ghrandoukha, the founder of online marketplace taltol.com, pitched the idea...

Wamda • 12 March, 2012

Startup Weekend

Negotiate Your Startup’s Success, Part One: Talking to Investors

Last week, a friend of mine was meeting with a potential investor for a new venture he was kicking off. He called me to discuss and seek...

Nadim Haddad • 12 March, 2012

Investment