Wamda asks: How will Google Play Music All Access affect streaming services in the Arab World? On May 16, 2013, during its I/O developer conference, Google made a major, albeit expected announcement: the launch of its... Aline Mayard • 19 May, 2013 Music Google
Google Reader is almost dead. Here are some alternatives from the Arab World Google recently announced that they are discontinuing their news feed service Google Reader as of July 1st , citing... Ahmed Gabr • 10 June, 2013 Google
Google I/O Extended – Beirut Google I/O Extended is a local event to get developers who are interested in Google related technologies to mingle and hangout together,... Wamda • 01 May, 2013 Developers Conferences Google
12 Key Statistics on How Tunisians Use Social Media [Infographic] Did you know that Tunisia is the second most connected country in Africa in terms of internet penetration rate? UM Digital Tunisie, a... Aline Mayard • 28 April, 2013 Infographic Social Networks Facebook
Google Acquires Wavii for $30 Million, a Startup Founded by a Lebanese Entrepreneur In Silicon Valley, the race is on to build a better mobile news summarizer. Google is the latest to make a move, with its... Glen Dalakian II • 24 April, 2013 Mobile Google
Would You Be Concerned if Google Bought Out WhatsApp? [Poll Results] After moving to Beirut, the first thing people ask me when we want to stay in touch is not “Can I have your number?” “What’s your e-ma... Glen Dalakian II • 15 April, 2013 Telecommunication SMS Google
Wamda Announces Partnership with Google for Mix n’ Mentor 2013 Google for Entrepreneurs and Wamda are excited to announced our partnership to foster entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa... Wamda • 11 March, 2013 Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility Mix n Mentor Ecosystem
Exclusive Sneak Peek: Ma2too3a! Pivots Towards Crowdsourced Traffic Updates Last June, during Lebanon’s latest electricity crisis, AUB-trained computer engineer and software developer Mohammed Taha received a f... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 06 February, 2013 Google Mobile Mobile Apps
What's New at Google in the Arab World? [Wamda TV] Ever since Google launched Maps with Navigation in beta in the Middle East (in Egypt, the UAE, Saudi, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Lebanon, ... Nina Curley • 30 October, 2012 Google Technology
Going Digital: Offline Businesses Moving Online, Part 4 [Wamda TV] In the last segment of our June CoE E-Commerce panel, Going Digital: Offline Businesses Moving Online, moderator Omar Christidis o... Wamda • 15 October, 2012 COE CoE E-Commerce Conferences
The State of the Internet in 2012 [Presentation] Henry Blodget and Alex Cocotas from Business Insider’s BI Intelligence team have assembled a detailed overview of the U.S. and global digita... Wamda • 10 October, 2012 Advertising Digital Advertising Digital Marketing
Going Digital: Offline Businesses Moving Online, Part 3 [Wamda TV] In Part 3 of our June CoE E-Commerce panel, Going Digital: Offline Businesses Moving Online, moderator Omar Christidis... Wamda • 14 October, 2012 COE CoE E-Commerce Conferences
Webit Congress 2012, An EMEA Emerging Digital Markets Event Webit Congress is an international event for the digital, technology, and entrepreneurial ecosystem with special focus on European,... Wamda • 11 September, 2012 Advertising Advice Conferences
Ramallah TT - a Hi Tech Hub event Wednesday, September 12 will witness the kickoff of the Ramallah TT - Hi Tech Hub events, a series of events that will gather anyone... Wamda • 08 September, 2012 Competitions Google Ideas
Google Days Is Coming To Algeria The Google days are two or three days of workshop and exposition, organized by the internet giant “Google” and attracting developers, bus... Wamda • 13 August, 2012 Google Workshops
Google Apps Developer Challenge 2012 Developers, get ready!! Google has opened the first round of submissions for “Google Apps Developer Challenge 2012”. This year developers fr... Wamda • 27 July, 2012 Google
YouTube Launches Ramadan Channel, Bringing Favorite Series Online In Cairo today, YouTube announced the launch of a new Ramadan-dedicated channel that will feature 50 premium shows during the... Nina Curley • 18 July, 2012 Digital Media Google
Diary of a Google Finalist: Do Arab Entrepreneur Tournaments Help Startups? Sarah Wali left the U.S. media scene and returned to Egypt to pursue an idea for a citizen journalism platform for the Middle East. With... Knowledge @Wharton • 12 July, 2012 Digital Media Google Media
What Inspired Arab Entrepreneurs at Google I/O 2012 Google's yearly developer tech conference, Google I/O, brought developers and techies together from around the world to witness the latest... Nina Curley • 08 July, 2012 Ecosystem Google
Moroccan Web Entrepreneurs Gather, Pitch Ideas at g|maroc Following a promising first edition of the g|Maghreb event organized in 2011 in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, Google returned to Morocco... Karim Jazouani • 27 June, 2012 Conferences Google
Google's Ebda2 Competition in Egypt Ends with Controversy “The baby has a face only their mother could love,” some say. After waiting expectantly for about 9 months, witnessing the labor pains, loo... Omar Aysha • 16 May, 2012 Competitions Google Mentorship
Building Interactive Stories in Arabic for Children on Sacha Books [Wamda TV] Co-founder Samer Adel Youssef of Egyptian startup Sacha Books, presenting at Google's startup competition in Cairo, Ebda2, describes how he ... Omar Aysha • 08 May, 2012 Animation Arabic Content Competitions
12 Mobile Predictions for 2012 from Google at Arabnet Mobile was one of the biggest buzzwords during Arabnet 2012, and this talk from Ahmad Hamzawi (@ahamzawi), Google’s Head of New Business D... Fernande van Tets • 02 April, 2012 Arabnet Google Mobile
Learning Online Marketing at g|SaudiArabia 2.0 This comment on g|saudi is co-authored by Nora Maghraby and Muna Alamer of Naqa’a Environmental Enterprise. With four simultaneous tracks t... Norah Magraby • 01 April, 2012 Google