Wamda

Regional

New app encourages users to go offline

As studies pop up suggesting social media makes us miserable and some countries go as far as legally restricting children from using...

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Egypt

Egyptian news startup aims to change the media landscape

Students from Deshna, Egypt, pull sugarcane from tractors on Egypt’s Aswan Agriculture Road, which usually puts students’ lives in danger (...

Egypt

How to monetize a social business without losing the human element

Dina Sherif discussing trends and challenges facing the region's youth at the#ShapersMENA conference Right after the Egyptian...

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Regional

Crowdfunding platforms see education as key to growth

A recent panel at the MENA ICT Forum included liwwa's Ahmed Moor, second from left; crowdfunding strategist Ronald Kleverlan, third...

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Syria

Displaced Syrian developers bringing unique skill sets to benefit the region

Syrian entrepreneurs and developers at Startup Weekend Damascus (image via Huffington Post). Syria’s nearly four-year-old civil war has l...

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U.A.E

How interns can solve the startup hiring conundrum

“Every company should open its doors to fresh blood and young talent like interns or trainees (interns that later become full-timers), l...

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Syria

How Syrian entrepreneurs are creatively working through war

The tech ecosystem is booming in the MENA, we keep hearing. More investments were made in regional startups last year than ever before,...

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Kuwait

The war story behind Rocket Internet's acquisition of Kuwait's Talabat

This piece was originally published on February 15th, 2015 on LinkedIn. When 33-year-old Kuwaiti entrepreneur Abdulaziz Al Loughani first...

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Bahrain

The startup shrink: Tenmou's Hasan Haider

Back in 2009 when Netflix was offering a collection of 100,000 titles on DVD and had surpassed 10 million subscribers, Hasan Haider, a...

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U.A.E

From plumbers to cake decorators, can Mrusta provide the quick fix for Dubai's expats?

While sitting at the Business Development table during Mix N’ Mentor Dubai, two entrepreneurs caught my attention: Ibrahim Colak...

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Maghreb

Meet the entrepreneur who created Algeria's online advertising sector

Few countries can boast that their number of internet users has gone from 1.5 million to 15 million in eight years, that they reached...

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Regional

Arabic Q&A site Jawabkom turns down 4 VCs

It took Twitter 24 months to reach one million users. Tumblr published its one-millionth blog after 27 months. Facebook’s millionth user s...

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Regional

M-health apps taking the pulse of the region

Following up on our recent piece on m-health in the region, we’ve compiled a list of other health applications and platforms that are...

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U.A.E

Can live online tutoring shake up the Arab region's education sector?

Update: Teach Me Now announced moving to Azure, Microsoft's Cloud Computing Platform, and becoming part of Microsoft BizSpark. This...

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Maghreb

Entrepreneurs, start your engines: the Moroccan taxi app race is ready to begin

The news was all over the Moroccan web: Uber is looking for a community manager for Casablanca. Is the famous taxi service really...

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Egypt

New crowdfunding platform takes aim at Egypt's entrepreneurs

Egypt’s latest crowdfunding platform Tennra for entrepreneurs launched this week with a proposition to make giving away money...

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Regional

Building the Arab region’s biggest B2B market place is not without its challenges

Two years ago Syrian entrepreneur Salim Akil was poised to make his SearchinMena.com, a Yellow Pageseque search engine, the region’s l...

Jordan

Turning your planning nightmare into a piece of cake

Established in 2014 MICEit.co is the first online platform out of Jordan that will streamline the organization of events,...

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Saudi Arabia

A new Saudi healthcare app looks to solve the obesity epidemic

This article has been crossposted with Firnas.org We are surrounded by problems but it is those who are brave enough that see them as...

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Maghreb

How 5 Maghrebi entrepreneurs met their business partners [Wamda TV]

One question often leads to another, especially when the answer is not what you expected. A couple of months ago, we asked Tunisian and...

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U.A.E

Employment platform success for 2CVs

There is no doubt that with the increasing willingness of people to move to other countries for work, plus the continuous search of...

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Egypt

The pros and cons of being a foreign founder in Egypt

UK citizen and former financial analyst Emily Renny is a cofounder of the gamified crowdfunding platform Tennra, and has lived in...

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Egypt

Can this Egyptian entrepreneur follow her passion to success?

This piece has been crossposted with Firnas. Entrepreneurs don’t necessarily have to create a new product or come up with a new service to ...

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U.A.E

Dubai fintech startup Cashnomix acquired by Singapore firm

The Dubai tech startup Cashnomix, a cloud based platform that allows small businesses to collect money early on their invoices, has been...

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