Regional Investing in tech enhances guest experience A BLP MENA hotel market survey, revealed that 67 percent of hotels and industry professionals have plans to spend more on technology in the... Rana Freifer • 15 November, 2017 Data Customer Service Hotel tech
Global How Orange is helping entrepreneurs cooperate with telcos [Q&A] Orange, the French multinational telecommunications company, has recently made strides in diversifying its business activities while... Tarek Faycal • 01 October, 2017 orange telecom startup
Turkey Turkish startup turned machine failure into a business model Airways and railways have been conservative and difficult sectors for startups due to safety and security issues. But this is changing,... Maya Rahal • 18 September, 2017 Delphisonic predictable maintenance turkey
Saudi Arabia Big opportunities for startups in KSA [Report] The number of entrepreneurship support organizations in the KSA, including funds, coworking spaces, incubators and accelerators, has nearly... Maya Rahal • 13 June, 2017 Saudi Arabia ksa Wamda Research Lab
Jordan Mawdoo3.com scales into video and AI In January 2017, Mawdoo3.com reached 33 million views which made it the most popular website in the Gulf according to a report released by... Tala El Issa • 18 April, 2017 Mawdoo3 big data AI
Saudi Arabia Tapping into social media: the story of Lucidya Arabic content, be it news or software, has become massively popular, and one Saudi startup is mining that trend in social media... Abdullah Baghawitah • 15 March, 2017 Saudi Arabia ksa big data
Regional Data Science: a field in demand [Wamda TV] From casual office discussions to blogs and coffee tables around the world, the future of jobs is a topic heavily discussed amongst all... Berthe El Aya • 07 March, 2017 data science Future of Work Women in Data Science
Regional Can democracy stand a better chance with civic tech? “The region’s tech startups may not be setting up tents in public squares or painting their messages on street walls but they... Tala El Issa • 08 January, 2017 Civic tech E-government Government
Egypt Did this Egyptian company predict the US election? Donald Trump’s election to the US presidency was a shock for many, but not so much for those who were willing and able to read the... Eman Mostafa • 08 January, 2017 big data TweetElect MEMakersGE
Global What I know about IoT: Cedric Giorgi The Internet of Things (IoT) is throwing off some new innovations, one of which is the need for something called a ‘low power... Rachel Williamson • 12 December, 2016 IoT Sigfox Spimesense Labs
Global Behind Gradberry’s rebirth: it's all about timing “I don’t look like any other founder in the [Silicon] Valley. I wasn’t born and raised here,” Gradberry founder Iba... Vanessa Khalil • 02 November, 2016 Gradberry TARA uae
Global What I know about privacy and AI: Rand Hindi The future holds so many innovations to make our lives easier, but we are often told that it will come at a price. We’ll need to... Aline Mayard • 07 November, 2016 privacy AI Snips
U.A.E Redefining cities, the human touch Marwa al-Sabouni, an architect from Homs, said in her book The Battle for Home: The Vision of a Young Architect in Syria, that “the... Lucy Knight • 05 September, 2016 MIT Media Lab uae urban planning
Egypt Egypt startup eyes global industrial IoT Spimesense Labs was born from corporate sluggishness: two friends were working at Ericsson when it was trying to work out just how big this... Rachel Williamson • 04 September, 2016 SpimeSenseLabs Egypt big data
Egypt The startups mapping Cairo's in between spaces Informality is the rule in Cairo, be it the sprawling extra-legal settlements that form a moat around the city center, forgotten alleys... Rachel Williamson • 14 August, 2016 Cluster Egypt CUIP
Egypt App Lab kills cash at Egypt festivals Festivals, be they music or other, are bedevilled by two problems: ticketing fraud and cash. Early last year the founders of a new music... Rachel Williamson • 03 August, 2016 App Lab Sandbox Oshtoora
A tale of two cities: how a Lebanese startup moved to San Francisco Elie Khoury knew he wanted to be in California ever since he was a child tinkering with computers in Byblos. “I didn’t have... Brooke Anderson • 31 July, 2016 Woopra data analytics lebanon