Watch the World Economic Forum Livestream Follow the World Economic Forum Livestream here. The schedule is below. See the full WEF Special Meeting schedule here. Schedule for... Wamda • 22 October, 2011
From the Sephora of Chile to the Staples of Egypt, Who Wowed Endeavor Panelists the Most? [Wamda TV] As panelists duked it out over which entrepreneurs deserved to become Endeavor mentees at the International Selection Panel this past week,... Nina Curley • 20 October, 2011
Meet the Emerging Market Entrepreneurs Who Will Leapfrog Silicon Valley This week Endeavor Global hosted its 40th International Selection Panel in Amman, Jordan. Entrepreneurs from Mexico, Chile, Brazil, South... Nina Curley • 20 October, 2011
Get Ready for the World Economic Forum Special Meeting The World Economic Forum's Special Meeting on Economic Growth and Job Creation in the Arab World begins this weekend,with the goal of... Wamda • 19 October, 2011
How Corporate Corruption Hurt Egypt's Entrepreneurs The moment Egypt toppled Mubarak was thrilling. Yet what has come after has been less so. Against a background of violence betwee Christian... Elmira Bayrasli • 19 October, 2011
World Economic Forum Special Meeting Dead Sea, Jordan 21-23 October 2011 Recent shifts in the Arab world coupled with an economic contraction at the global level have created... Wamda • 18 October, 2011
How Can Conferences Help the Arab World? This past weekend I attended the Arab Development Initiative’s (ADI) Envision Arabia Summit in Montreal, Canada. The Envision Arabia Summit ... Nafez Dakkak • 17 October, 2011
Can the Group Buying Boom in the Arab World Lead to Bust? Ever since the world witnessed Groupon’s meteoric rise, from its launch in November 2008, with close to $6 million in seed funding under i... Nina Curley • 17 October, 2011
Group Buying Site GoNabit Becomes LivingSocial After announcing its acquisition by e-commerce giant LivingSocial earlier this year, daily deals site GoNabit will officially re-launch as... Nina Curley • 17 October, 2011
Lebanese Startup Cuevox is Scheduling on Steroids Sometimes all it takes to spark an idea is witnessing a simple incident. The ability to see the possibility for change in everyday life is... Souhail Khoury • 16 October, 2011
Islamic Superheroes Save the World this Weekend In the context of protests for greater equality occurring around the globe this weekend, it seems fitting that a film has debuted... Nina Curley • 15 October, 2011
3 Skill Sets for Good User Experience Design In my previous post, I explained what User Experience Design (UXD) is. Here I will define what makes a good user experience (UX) designer.... George Elkhabbaz • 14 October, 2011 User Experience Design
Don’t Panic. There is Life After Blackberry. We all know that entrepreneurs in the Middle East are becoming very addicted to their smart phones. It's been an especially tough week with... Nina Curley • 13 October, 2011
Why Blackberry's Secretive Network is To Blame The recent massive Blackberry outage continues to spread around the globe, today hitting Canada. Research in Motion (RIM) has acknowledged ... Nina Curley • 13 October, 2011
Dennis Ritchie, Father of Unix and C, Dies The tech world has lost another of its greats today. Dennis Ritchie, the computer scientist who designed and developed programming language... Nina Curley • 13 October, 2011
5 Tips for Turning Failure into Success Failure is terrible. It’s a word we often associate with losing. And yet, when I failed, my so-called failure led to my working for an e... Khaled AlSaleh • 12 October, 2011