Wamda

Integreight: The First Software Controlled Electronic Breadboard [Wamda TV]

Integreight designs smart electronic solutions, starting with a Smart Breadboard device that shortens the time taken and the effort exerted ...

Competitions Technology

Hyperlocal Social Network Nassya Brings Cairo's Neighborhoods Online

In old Egyptian movies, women used to gossip on their balcony with their neighbors throughout the morning. Today, the same scene takes...

Egypt Social Networks

Lebanon

Solvermine: The Region’s First Crowdsourced Problem-Solving Platform [Wamda TV]

Solvermine is the first product from start-up Fekra2 (Idea2). Co-founders Sabrine Assem & Noha Askar explain that although there are...

Competitions Crowdsourcing Ecosystem

Entrepreneur of the Week: Melih Odemis of Yemeksepeti [Wamda TV]

This week's Entrepreneur of the Week is Melih Odemis, co-founder of Yemeksepeti, an online food ordering and delivery service that also ...

Endeavor Entrepreneur of the Week Food & Beverage

GamesBond Aims to Develop Educational Games on MS-Kinect [WamdaTV]

GamesBond’s co-founders Alaa Eltayeb & Ahmed Tayseer present their MS-Kinect based educational games. They explain that they will first ...

Competitions Egypt Gaming

Meet the Bahraini Woman Serial Entrepreneur Who Runs Two Companies at Once

After a career working in corporate and government worlds, Doa'a Essa Abdul Wahab had decided 2010 would be the year she started her first...

Food & Beverage

Feeding Demand for Local, Organic Produce in the Arab World: Dubai's Ripe

It isn’t easy being green – especially when you’re in a desert. The UAE is fertile ground for local businesses, but when Becky Balderstone s...

Food & Beverage

Ever Dreamt of a Private Jet Trip? Dubai's iFlyPrivate Capitalizes on Empty Seats

For all of those travelers who have fantasized about flying on a private jet, iFlyPrivate is now making private travel more...

Airlines

Taxis Apps Flourish in Egypt: A Look at El Ogra and 2Ogra

Often similar startups crop up in different countries with similar ideas, but it’s not everyday that two are launched with almost the same n...

Transportation

Entrepreneur of the Week: Abdullah Mando of UTURN Entertainment in Saudi Arabia

Before graduating from college, Abdulla Mando, Anmar Fatheldeen, and Omar Murad founded production house UTURN Entertainment in July 2010...

Arabic Content Digital Media Entrepreneur of the Week

Egyptian Accelerator Flat6Labs Hits Its Stride in Cycle 2 Demo Day

Flat6Labs, the Cairo-based accelerator, held its third demo day event on the 17th September, dubbed the “Cycle 2 Demo Day”. Not only did the...

Accelerators Acquisitions Egypt

TellUs the New Way For Customer Service in MENA

“I was talking with a friend when he suggested there should be some sort of solution to solve the [bad] customer service quality in Egypt, a...

Egypt Mobile Apps User Experience Design

A*Apps Launches Crowdsourced Mobile App-Testing at Flat6Labs Demo Day

In Egypt, A*Apps (“A Star Apps”) is developing a unique platform that allows mobile app developers to test their apps through cro...

Crowdsourcing Mobile Apps

Can Saving a Few Dollars Make Society More Stable? Cashy.me Launches UAE Saves Week

Can saving a few dollars a day build a more stable society? Nima Abu Wardeh of Cashy.me thinks so. But when she first came up with the idea...

Digital Media Investment

Marketing a Book on Arabic Culture with an iPad App: The Finjan

Daveeda Shaheen lived in many places while she was growing up, among them the United States, Switzerland, and England. But wherever she was...

Media

Is Equity Crowdfunding a Viable Model in MENA? A Look at Eureeca

As the Arab world warms up to the concept of crowdfunding, where individuals pool their resources to donate to others’ entrepreneurial i...

Crowdfunding Investment

Pentacle's Eddie Obeng: Creating Business Education That Keeps Pace with the Modern World

Is the business school model outdated? British educator and entrepreneur Eddie Obeng thinks so, and dedicated himself to developing...

Education Innovation

MarkaVIP Hits 2 Million Registered Users, Continues to Solve E-Commerce Issues in MENA

Less than two years after its launch in 2010, MarkaVIP has announced today that it has now hit two million registered users. It’s a big mi...

E-commerce

Egyptian Social Gaming Startup FunWave Delivers Football Fun

Egypt is full of football fanatics, and the region is as well. So it made perfect sense that Egyptian social games start-up FunWave’s ...

Accelerators Angel Investment Egypt

Saudi 3eesho brings healthy living to the Arab world

Saudi Arabia

Thought Leadership