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Middle East Venture Partners invests $1.9 million in three scaling companies

With a history of investing in tech and e-commerce ventures, Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) is now diversifying a...

Venture Capital MEVP Scaling

The Arab World Competitiveness Report 2013: how the region can build more effective economies [Report]

Qatar is the most competitive economy in the Arab region according to the the Arab World Competitiveness Report 2013, which was just...

Report World Economic Forum

Dubai's entrepreneurs reflect on MAKE Business Hub's acquisition by CeeCee Holding

From its inception, MAKE Business Hub has been a co-working space built for startups. With artfully curved seating, electrical jacks next...

MAKE Business Hub Coworking Spaces Acquisitions

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

4 Startups that make event management easier in the Levant

Organizing an event is never easy. How do you make sure that enough people attend, or that they'll pay? Small businesses or individuals...

E-commerce

American Express launches banking app in Saudi Arabia; will it take off?

Global credit card giant American Express just launched an Arabic and English iPhone app for Saudi Arabia, offering...

Help us make sense of this Ipsos report on Q1 2013 ad spend in the Arab world

Note: this piece is derived from an original post by Ahmed Gabr but amended with comments by Wamda's Editor below: According to a recent ...

Video Advertising Advertising Marketing

Predictions for technology, media, and telecoms usage in 2013 [Report]

Do you know how to safely navigate the internet? 90% of user-generated passwords, even those considered strong by IT departments, are...

crowdinvesting Telecommunication Crowdfunding

What does Yahoo!'s acquisition of Tumblr mean for users?

Yesterday, Yahoo! Inc. announced their $1.1 billion acquisition of microblogging platform Tumblr. Although the six-year-old...

Social Media Acquisitions

Flat6Labs' 5th Demo Day Brings New Spectacle to Egypt's Startup Scene

I doubt many people get treated to a speech about CNC (computer numerical control) machines, the creation of a Bluetooth-based alternative...

Investment Accelerators Flat6Labs

Lebanese entrepreneur named one of the five most powerful women in gaming

Last week, Lebanese entrepreneur Reine Abbas of Wixel Studios was named one of the five most powerful women in gaming by Inc.com. Abbas...

Mobile Gaming Gaming Women

Why did Path have a sudden recent surge in popularity in France, the UAE, and Bahrain?

Two days ago, TechCrunch spotted a peculiarity on the French App Store. Path, the two-and-a-half year old social network almost...

Social Networks

Bayt Virtual Job Fair

Bayt.com is organizing a virtual job fair in between May 26 - 30, 2013. This free event will only take place online. Participants will be ...

Bayt Virtual Job Fair

Following its Virtual Job Fair of May, Bayt.com is organizing a virtual job fair focused on the hospitality industry in between June 9 - ...

Egypt's Weladna launches an e-commerce portal for educational kids' games

“When you do not know your roots you get lost,” says Fatima Azmy, an Egyptian entrepreneur who became frustrated with the lack of cultural ...

kids Egypt Design

Arab Heroes can now battle on the iPhone in Falafel Games' new mobile MMO Knights of Glory

“We’re the only game where the Arabic player can identify with his own culture, his own history, and say ‘I’m one of the heroes’ instead of...

Mobile Gaming Mobile Gaming

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

Startup Cup Round 2 in Egypt

Innoventures, in cooperation with MECSBE and the support of the Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP), is organizing the second Startup C...

Conferences Innovation Competitions

7 French startups that are hot right now

For those entrepreneurs curious about what's going on in other ecosystems, the French startup scene has a lot to offer. Here are 7 French...

3D Sharing Economy Accelerators

A chat with HungerStation, an online delivery platform for Saudi Arabia [Wamda TV]

Fast food market sales in Saudi Arabia are expected to grow to $4.5 billion by 2015. Although Saudi youth are increasingly inclined to make...

Delivery Mobile

Eureeca, the first global crowdinvesting platform, exits beta, focuses on the Middle East

Following the general success of crowdfunding platfoms around the globe, several crowdinvesting platforms are now launching to offer a new...

collaborative economy crowdinvesting Funding models

2013 Orange Price for Social Entrepreneurs in Africa Deadline

Orange is launching the 3rd edition of its Prix Orange de l'entrepreneur social en Afrique. This award is promoting the development of...

Competitions

Swipe-A-Service seeks to solve home repair troubles in Saudi Arabia [Wamda TV]

The business of home maintenance and repairs in Saudi Arabia is an archaic morass. The current system is utterly unorganized and a task as...

Startup Services Mobile

Why last year's rise in unemployment for Saudi women might be a positive trend

For Saudi women, unemployment rates are climbing, while they’re dropping for Saudi men and non-Saudi workers, according to government d...

Thought Leadership

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