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Mobile advertising is on the rise in the Arab world [Report]

Mobile advertising in the Arab world grew 68% last year, offering stronger revenue-generating opportunities for mobile startups in the...

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5 predictions about the future of digital, from Arabnet Dubai

Arabnet’s first Digital Summit in Dubai brought together the startup community and the digital media and marketing industries to hash out ...

Digital Advertising Arabnet Innovation

6 unsettled debates from Arabnet's first Dubai summit

“How was the new Arabnet?” People have been asking since I returned from Dubai last week. Quickly: it was sleeker, with more industry hea...

Debate Arabnet Conferences

How to track your website's progress on Google Analytics

In a world where nearly everything is trackable, finding data to inform important business decisions is simple. Shaping that data into a...

Tips Analytics Google

Can this Facebook clone become the biggest social network in Yemen?

Could the Arab world's next social network come from... Yemen? Why invent the wheel, the cofounders argue. “We created a design very s...

Social Networks Facebook Social Media

Egyptian 'Social Mirror' lets users analyze their personal Twitter and Facebook accounts

Egyptian social media analytics startup 25trends just launched a new “Social Mirror” service, allowing individuals to get a detailed rea...

Social Networks Social Media Analytics

How to create the perfect Pinterest, Google+, Facebook and Twitter post [Infographic]

Does the perfect social media post really exist? As social media platforms have evolved over the years, so have their uses and functions...

Social Networks Social Media

6 ways to boost your sales through social media

The question of return on investment (ROI) from social media spending continues to linger in the mind of many social marketers. And while...

Social Networks Facebook Social Media

Update: Facebook resolves Tor issues

UPDATE: Tor has posted that Facebook is not blocking Tor. "A high volume of malicious activity across Tor exit nodes triggered...

Internet Freedom Technology Censorship

How blog comments can help you connect to influencers and investors

Sometimes a comment is all it takes to open new doors. Commenting on a website helped me start contributing at Wamda, connect to...

Community Social Networks

Twitter now offers free account analytics. How does it benefit users?

With 6.5 million users in the Arab world, Twitter is easily the second most popular social network in the region, and the world,...

Networking Social Social Networks

Egypt's famous not-so-good girl Amy Mowafi explains why women can't have it all

The four Mowafi siblings are nothing if not savvy about creating buzz. After moving back to Cairo in 2002, the four siblings, Amy, Tamim,...

Women

Will this Egyptian startup be the next Pinterest of the Middle East?

With women making up 70% of worldwide Pinterest users, and 97% of Pinterest’s Facebook fans, one image-sharing social network s...

Social Networks Social Media Fashion

Why every child in the Middle East should be taught to code

Coauthored by Carine Abi Akar and Nafez Dakkak. Ever since the successful launch of Facebook in 2004, and perhaps as early as the first...

Coding EdTech Education

The Arab Spring through the eyes of Zaid

Zaid Farekh is as Jordanian as Mansaf. Born, bred and schooled in Jordan, he's a hardworking man from a hard working family. Before he had...

Jordan Technology Fadi Ghandour

Qordoba translated its 5 millionth word. Here's how it manages a distributed team

Global translation platform Qordoba has just translated its 5 millionth word, hitting the mark last April on a Mandarin translation job,...

Dubai Translation Team management

Mix N’ Mentor Amman Brings The Lean Startup Workshop, by Tech Pioneer Calvin Chin

Alongside Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor Amman on May 24th, serial entrepreneur Calvin Chin will lead a Lean Startup Workshop for the event’s atten...

Training Mix n Mentor

Meet the Jordanian College Graduate Who Rose to Startup Success by Reporting the Weather

Jordanian entrepreneur Mohamed Al-Shaker is very, very passionate about the weather. “I’ve had an interest in weather since I was 4 years o...

Science Jordan Competitions

Saudi Arabia's Untapped Tourism Opportunity

When we think of tourism in the Arab world, we usually first imagine the Egyptian pyramids, the lavish resorts of Dubai, the museums of...

Tourism Saudi Arabia

Meet Egypt's new entrepreneurship magazine: Ideaneurs

Entrepreneurship is about failure just as much as it is about success. That's the idea behind Ideaneurs, a...

Disruptive Entrepreneurship Part I: We’re Going to Change the World

For just three days once a year, I don’t have to explain myself. The notion that business and social impact are in fact m...

Social Change Conferences Social Entrepreneurship

5 Timeless Offline Principles for Online Startups

As technology continues to enable a more virtual office experience, it’s important to remember that offline principles still apply in m...

Tips Advice

10 Tips from Jordan's E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year

“I joined Oasis500 as a board member last year because I believe it’s time to give back and success is contagious,” says Akram Khreis, who ...

Team management Tips Advice

Wamda Announces Mix n' Mentor Doha

Building on the success of our first stop in Cairo on the 2013 Mix n’ Mentor Roadshow, Wamda next heads to Doha to continue our tour of 12 ...

Mix n Mentor Mentorship

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