Weekly Wrap-Up: September 30 - October 04 This week, we've highlighted a number of startups that keep on setting the bar higher for themselves. What drives you to go further? Pic of ... Wamda • 04 October, 2012 Acquisitions Animation Competitions
10 Arab Gaming Startups to Watch This week we highlight some of MENA’s most creative gaming startups. These innovative ventures transport players into new worlds to o... Glen Dalakian II • 01 October, 2012 Gaming Mobile Gaming Top Lists
Game Cooks Hits #1 Around the Globe with New Mobile Game Deja Vu Lebanese-based gaming startup Game Cooks recently launched Deja Vu, a new mobile game designed to test a gamer’s memory and reaction t... Glen Dalakian II • 20 September, 2012 Mobile Gaming
Wizards Productions Continues to Go Global, Announcing Partnership with Tapjoy, Acceleration with YetiZen After announcing a pivot into mobile gaming and a deal with leading international publisher 6waves, Wizards Productions is continuing to... Nina Curley • 06 September, 2012 Gaming Mobile Mobile Gaming
Entrepreneur of the Week: Sohaib Thiab of Wizards Productions [Wamda TV] This week's entrepreneur of the week, Sohaib Thiab, founded game development Wizards Productions along with Hussam Hammo and Afif Toukan in ... Nina Curley • 06 September, 2012 Mobile Endeavor Entrepreneur of the Week
Weekly Wrap-Up: September 02-06 It’s finally Thursday and time for our Weekly Wrap-Up! If you're game for taking your business to the next level, don't miss this week's to... Wamda • 06 September, 2012 Crowdsourcing Fadi Ghandour Gaming
Entrepreneur of the Week: Nour Khrais of Jordanian Gaming Studio Maysalward [Wamda TV] This week's Entrepreneur of the Week is Nour Khrais of Jordanian gaming development studio Maysalward, one of the first game development... Nina Curley • 16 August, 2012 Entrepreneur of the Week Gaming Mobile Gaming
Trends in Gaming in the Middle East Market: Alex Tho Seeth, Formerly of Travian Games [Wamda TV] Alexander Tho Seeth of monetizer.com, a company that helps digital content companies enter the Middle East market, discusses why German... Nina Curley • 02 August, 2012 Gaming Mobile Gaming
N2V Announces First StartAppz Investment in Mobile App Startup iAraby N2V has announced investment in Arabic mobile developer company iAraby, via its mobile investment vehicle and accelerator,... Nina Curley • 05 July, 2012 Accelerators Mobile Mobile Apps
Does Peace in the Middle East Need Bombs? A Look at Game Cooks' New iPhone Game Brothers Lebnan and Arz Nader, half of the team behind this year's biggest gaming success Birdy Nam Nam, are releasing a new iPhone game... Nina Curley • 27 June, 2012 Gaming Mobile Gaming
Jordanian Gaming Studio Wizards Productions Pivots into Mobile 2012 marks a new era for Wizards Productions, which today announced a publishing agreement with 6waves, a leading international social and... Nina Curley • 19 June, 2012 Gaming Mobile Mobile Gaming
Wixel Studios to Return to Arabic Mobile Games with New Investment When Wixel Studios was started by Ziad Fehali, Reine Abbas and Karim Abi Saleh in 2007, it was one of the first companies to appear... Fernande van Tets • 29 May, 2012 Mobile Gaming
Will Jordan's My Marbles be the next Angry Birds? TakTek Games Inks Deal with Chillingo Amman-based TakTek Games has secured a breakthrough deal this week, signing with U.K.-based mobile publishing giant Chillingo, which... Nina Curley • 13 April, 2012 Gaming Mobile Gaming
Livestream of Flat6Labs' Mobile Gaming Class Want to build the next big game? Train by watching Flat6Labs's new mobile gaming classes, which will be held for the next 3 weeks, over 9... Nina Curley • 09 April, 2012 Mobile Mobile Apps Mobile Gaming
twofour54 Abu Dhabi and Ubisoft Debut Arabic Video Game Studio Investment vehicle twofour54 has announced the opening of the first major video game studio in Abu Dhabi, in partnership with French video... Nina Curley • 26 October, 2011 Gaming Mobile Gaming
U.A.E Dubai: a city built on data [Wamda TV] Cities are not built on a whim, but today a new kind of data is used to sculpt modern metropoli from the bare bones of steel and... Rachel Williamson • 28 June, 2016 cellular data Dubai du
Global The Facebook factor: hacking social media for growth [Wamda TV] A business today with no social media presence is, frankly, an anomaly. Continuously, surveys show that the use of social media as a... Lucy Knight • 21 June, 2016 Step2016 Advertising Facebook
Regional Geeks on a Plane (#GOAP) Organized by 500 Startups, Geeks on a Plane (#GOAP) is an invite-only tour for startups, investors, and executives to learn about... Wamda • 23 September, 2015 mentoring Flights GOAP
Recently launched Egyptian app aims to help eliminate fake media reports During a heated political debate that took place in Cairo after the events of June 30th 2013, three Egyptians, freshly graduated from... Ahmed Gabr • 20 April, 2014 news Mobile
How a Lebanese telecom sees the local startup scene At our recent Mix N’ Mentor Beirut, we chatted with partner touch about their view of the Lebanese startup ecosystem and how they, as a m... Wamda • 24 October, 2013 Telecommunication Mobile
Women entrepreneurs in Gaza develop new app for the blind [Wamda TV] [Arabic] “This is the beginning of a shift to smartphones and tablets in Gaza,” says entrepreneur Nidaa Wishah. Taking advantage of the gro... Mariam Hamed • 30 July, 2013 Women
Building a gamer community for women in Saudi Arabia [Wamda TV] At Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor Riyadh, we chatted with Tasneem Salim, the cofounder of GCON, a community and annual conference for female gamers a... Wamda • 23 July, 2013 Community Mix n Mentor Mobile Gaming
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
A Tour of Wixel Studios in Lebanon: Launching Survival Race [Wamda TV] Note: Wixel Studios has since changed the game’s name from Abou Ahmad the Arabian (AAA) to Survival Race. Today, Wixel Studios in Lebanon l... Glen Dalakian II • 08 April, 2013 Mobile Gaming Gaming