Social Media for a New Arab World at Alamjadid.com With social media use booming in Arab World in the wake of spring protests, it comes as no surprise that Morocco’s first social network is o... Nina Curley • 06 September, 2011
Jeeran's New HyperLocal Growth Strategy Name it a digital call to arms. Discussion of the online lack of relevant Arabic content has reached a fever pitch. Just last month, Google... Nina Curley • 09 February, 2011 Endeavor
Going Global After a Decade at Eskadenia Software Product innovation and success in industry are two faces to a hard currency in Jordan. The environment for growing industry is challenging... Wamda • 26 July, 2010
Would You Rather Pay for Music Streaming or Downloads? We Ask the Crowd [Wamda TV] At the “Mobile Music” panel at Arabnet Beirut, panelists from Anghami, Yala, Deezer, and Vinelab discussed their competing strategies for ta... Wamda • 28 March, 2013 Music Arabnet
Scaling an online reviews platform in Saudi Arabia [Wamda TV] We met up with Jihad Alammar, the founder of Qaym, at Mix N’ Mentor Riyadh to discuss how his restaurant review site is scaling in Saudi Ar... Wamda • 22 July, 2013 Reviews Mix n Mentor Mobile
Gazan entrepreneur builds online platform to unite Palestine's professionals [Wamda TV] [Arabic] One new startup in Gaza is looking to unite all of Palestine’s professionals in one accessible online network. Entrepreneur I... Mariam Hamed • 10 July, 2013 Incubator Networking Accelerators
8th Startup Q8: Multi-sided platforms On Monday, May 27th, Startup Q8 (Kuwait) is hosting their 8th event at the Global Tower, Al-Shuhada Street, Kuwait City. At this month’s ev... Wamda • 22 May, 2013 Startup Q8
Tunisia's MobiSpot serves up video advertising to users without smartphones It's clear that the Arab World is hungry for video content. In 2012, the Middle East and North Africa had the second largest number of... Aline Mayard • 23 May, 2013 Digital Advertising Advertising Mobile
Entrepreneur of the Week: Serkan Sevim of MediaNova in Turkey [Wamda TV] This week, we chatted with Serkan Sevim, the founder of Medianova, one of Turkey's leading digital services companies. Before founding the... Nina Curley • 05 March, 2013
From Bankruptcy to Topping the Arabia500: German Imaging Technologies [Wamda TV] In an interview at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Sassan Khatib-Shahidi, co-founder and CEO of Dubai-based printer cartridge ... Wamda • 25 February, 2013 Failure
How to Prepare Your Business for Rapid Growth On March 5th, The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) Dubai are hosting an event in their “How To” series entitled How to Prepare Your Business for ra... Wamda • 04 March, 2013 Innovation
Going Global in an Emerging Market: Tips from Alexander Galitsky of Almaz Capital [Wamda TV] Alexander Galitsky, managing partner and co-founder of leading Russian venture capital firm Almaz Capital, was one of the key speakers at... Gulay Ozkan • 13 January, 2013 Advice Ecosystem Innovation
Entering the Saudi Market, and Global Trends for 2013: MixNMentor Panel Part 4 [Wamda TV] In the 4th segment of the final panel at the Wamda MixnMentor Dubai event this November, Brian Sigafoos of Duplays discusses why he moved ... Wamda • 26 December, 2012 Advice E-commerce Mix n Mentor
DevCom Maroc - 2nd Edition DEVCOM MAROC is a B2B event, exclusively for professionals. It takes place for the second time in Casablanca in Morocco. The event is a... Karim Jazouani • 12 December, 2012 Business Development
A Chat with Kaveh Gharib of Twitter: Revolutions, Mobile, and Monetization [Wamda TV] At the Abu Dhabi Media Summit last month, Kaveh Gharib, the localization project manager at Twitter specializing in the Middle East and ... Nina Curley • 14 November, 2012 Abu Dhabi Media Summit Mobile Social Media
Bayt.com's Rabea Ataya on Failure, Success, and Keeping Things Fresh [Wamda TV] In a chat at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit, Rabea Ataya of job search platform Bayt.com, one of the region's biggest internet companies to ... Nina Curley • 07 November, 2012 Programme Job Recruitment Abu Dhabi Media Summit
How Turkish Startups Can Expand Into the Arab World [Wamda TV] Cem Sertoglu of Earlybird Ventures discusses how the MENA and Turkish ecosystems have changed since last year’s Webrazzi Summit. Earlybird V... Wamda • 29 October, 2012 Conferences Digital Media Ecosystem
Expanding to the Arab World through Partnership: Turkish Cosmetics Startup Balerin [Wamda TV] Ahmet Marasli, founder of Balerin.com, discusses how the Turkish startup is planning to enter the Arab world through local partnership at... Wamda • 28 October, 2012 Conferences E-commerce Expansion
How Saudi's femi9 Grew to Be a Global Middle-Eastern Fashion Brand [Wamda TV] Since 1999, Eyad Mashat has been running Femi9, an evening wear line for women between the ages of 18-40 that ranked at #15 on... Ahmed Al Majid • 29 October, 2012 Fashion Scaling
Entrepreneur of the Week: Ravi Bhusari and Brian Sigafoos of Duplays [Wamda TV] This week's entrepreneur of the week is Ravi Bhusari, who founded Duplays, along with co-founder Derv Rao. Here he chats, along with Brian... Nina Curley • 03 July, 2012 Entrepreneur of the Week Sports
What It Takes to Build a Successful Daily Deal Site: Dan Stuart [Entrepreneur of the Week] Dan Stuart, co-founder of GoNabit (now LivingSocial), offers insights into the daily deal business, discussing GoNabit's values, how the... Nina Curley • 01 May, 2012 Acquisitions Daily Deals Demystifying E-Commerce
How Moroccan Startup NETpeas is Making Internet Security Affordable [Wamda TV] At the Second Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Turkey this past November, Moroccan Arabia500 company NETpeas explained to Wamda how they ... Nina Curley • 05 January, 2012
How Online Community Jeeran Pivoted to Boost Regional Expansion [Wamda TV] Laith Zraikat and Omar Koudsi speak about how they channeled their abilities and ambitions into starting up online community Jeeran in... Wamda • 30 December, 2011 Endeavor
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