Egyptian InstaPush adopted by international app integration platform Zapier, a popular online platform that simplifies the process of connecting web apps and APIs, based on triggers and actions, has just a... Ahmed Gabr • 23 April, 2014 instapush pushbots Technology
ScreenDy, a coding-free DIY app creation service, tackles MENA market Mehdi Alaoui created his first mobile app in 2001, succeeded in gathering 50,000 members on his dating app in 2003, and since 2006 has... Aline Mayard • 27 May, 2014
KarTag enters the Cairo carpooling market with a user-generated 'pure carpooling' model Egypt suffers from an astonishing amount of automobile-related pollution, traffic, and parking problems. Egyptian entrepreneurs have... Ahmed Gabr • 09 April, 2014 Car Service Coworking Sharing Economy
Lebanon Lebanese developer overcomes technical challenges to launch Arabic mobile word game After attending a seminar about the lack of digital Arabic content at ArabNet 2012, Samer Hamandi came up with the idea of Charbaka, a... Reine Farhat • 24 April, 2014 Mobile Gaming Arabic Content Mobile
Meet the airline pilot behind one of the biggest apps in Morocco and Algeria Stéphane Lagouche is not your usual app developer. Ten years ago, this French engineer moved to Morocco to start a new career as an ... Aline Mayard • 03 April, 2014 morocco mobile advertising
Finnish game developer bets on the Arab region - and wins Developing games for the Middle East, and making current titles available in Arabic, are usually difficult and time-consuming tasks for... Ahmed Gabr • 10 March, 2014 social gaming Social Technology
Why is Indian personal assistant app Shifu taking the Arab region by storm? Smartphones make life a lot easier, socially and professionally. But, thought Indian mobile app developer Prashant Singh, how much easier... Ahmed Gabr • 03 March, 2014 smartphone Technology Mobile
Jordanian mobile business app Applixya to target global executives Having turned a profit since 2011, the founders of Applixya, an iPad app that allows highly mobile business executives to stay in... Ahmed Gabr • 04 March, 2014 Technology Mobile
The relocation of geolocation: Syrian startup Rootal finds a home in the UK Last month, Adnan Al-Khatib had a happier reason than usual to follow the news from his home city of Damascus. From his office... Harriet Fitch Little • 09 March, 2014 geolocation syria
A peek inside the East African startup scene Stickers wall at iHub (Martin Pasquier) In September 2013, we – a small and dedicated team of tech maniacs – started a world tour of inn... Martin Pasquier • 05 March, 2014 Innovation tour africa Kenya
Meet PinchPoint, the 7 month-old Palestinian gaming startup that just got funding from Sadara Ventures “I remember when Apple released its first SDK [software development kit]. I made my first game there,” recalls Khaled Abu Alkheir, CE... Eric Reidy • 27 February, 2014 pinchpoint ramallah palestine
New mobile app greens coupon-clipping in Kuwait Kilshay is a 6 month-old mobile app, available for both iOS and Android devices, that provides an environmentally friendly alternative to ... Ahmed Gabr • 26 February, 2014 M-commerce mobile advertising Commerce
Over 300 game developers gather for Egypt Game Jam conference At the end of last month, the Egyptian Information Technology Institute (ITI) hosted the second annual Egypt Game Jam, hosting... Ahmed Gabr • 18 March, 2014 mobile games Gaming
Startup Bahrain online magazine seeks to revolutionize the ecosystem I ran into Bader Kamal, a freelance graphic designer and photographer who is part of the Startup Bahrain team, after the online magazine... Leena AlOlaimy • 23 February, 2014 magazine content
Revolutionizing job training from Nairobi to Amman with SMS The trouble with skill trainings in Kenya is that the workers who need it the most don’t have time to attend, Evanna Hu tells me o... Nina Curley • 17 February, 2014 SMS Mobile
Mobile app generator wins the day at Startup Weekend Amman Hoards of aspiring entrepreneurs gathered at the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Building in Amman this past weekend for Startup Weekend – a 5... Hayden Pirkle • 17 February, 2014
Egyptian pharmacist creates Dawaa, a digital pharmaceutical drug index Designed to bridge the gap between the conventional hard copy drug reference manual and the digital lives of today's physicians, Dawaa is... Ahmed Gabr • 09 February, 2014 Healthcare Health Mobile
3 apps win big at the Arab Mobile App Challenge The winners of the 2014 Arab Mobile Learning Challenge have been announced at an event in Doha. The winning team, Loujie, based in the... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 05 February, 2014 arab mobile learning challenge doha
Anghami launches 'industry disruptive' $1 music streaming service A little over a year ago, Anghami’s Strategy and Business Development Lead George Audi mentioned to Wamda that the platform was set to b... Maya Rahal • 30 January, 2014 alfa anghami Music
Wamda hosts MIT Media Lab innovation workshop in Abu Dhabi from Feb 24-27 To support the community of innovators throughout the Middle East, Wamda and MIT Media Lab are hosting a multi-day workshop to explore best... Wamda • 26 January, 2014 MIT Media Lab MIT Innovation
An Emirates-developed screenshot sharing app makes a flashing success Smartphone users are becoming increasingly addicted to sharing screenshots from their mobile devices, as opposed to links that require... Ahmed Gabr • 19 February, 2014 sharing screenshots Social Networks
Two successful Saudi game developers eye the international market “We felt like aliens,” says Bandar Al Mashari, on how he and his friend Sultan Al Sharif related to the mobile gaming industry four years a... Ahmed Gabr • 21 January, 2014 game Mobile Gaming Mobile
Mobibus, a multilingual app maker designed for the Arab world New entrepreneurs welcome all the help they can get, especially because most of them need to invest their every penny in development... Pamela Kesrouani • 29 January, 2014
Saudi Arabia Saudi startup Feelit provides teenage girls with a forum to express their feelings The rise of social networks has shown just how much people like to express themselves. Feelit, as the name implies, is one social... Reine Farhat • 22 January, 2014 teenagers Bootstrapping Saudi Arabia