Wamda

Cairo's Cloud 11, Raising Cloud Services to New Heights

Cloud 11 is a Cairo based cloud-computing services start-up that provides various Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions to their clients....

Cloud Computing

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...

Gaming Mobile Mobile Gaming

Dubai's Aflamnah Offers MENA-focused Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding is the latest buzzword making the rounds in the entrepreneurial world, and a UAE initiative is out to show there’s more to it t...

Crowdfunding Investment

RecycloBekia Transforms Egypt’s E-Waste into a Commodity

Can recycling e-waste really be profitable? Twenty Tanta University students say yes, as they work to build an electronic waste...

Environment

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 ...

Mobile Endeavor Entrepreneur of the Week

Agzakhana Offers Egyptian Pharmacists an Online and Mobile Pharmacy Platform

Agzakhana.com is about to launch a new electronic system to manage Egyptian and Arab pharmacy sales and orders. Designed by a group of...

Medical

Looking For A Repairman? Mjarrab Launches to Crowdsource Home Repairs in Jordan

Mjarrab is launching a new twist on a traditional service: household repairs. The concept makes sense; sourcing your own repairmen in ...

Crowdsourcing Job Recruitment Ratings Sites

Dubai E-Commerce Site JadoPado Seizes Growing Opportunity

When we first started off, I kept asking "why hasn't anyone done an Amazon-style site in the region?" says Omar Kassim, founder of...

E-commerce Technology

Algeria

Algerian Team Takes Microsoft's Global Stage to Fight Diabetes

This July, three Algerian college students became the first team from the Middle East and North Africa to place as finalists in the cloud...

Competitions Health Mobile Apps

LivingSocial Confirms Closure of Middle East Operations [Exclusive]

Early this morning, LivingSocial has confirmed its rumored exit from the Middle East and North Africa to Wamda. In a statement, the...

Exits and Sales Daily Deals

Moroccan Social Ad Startup Buzzeff Raises $1.2M for International Expansion

In the Moroccan digital space today, startup Buzzeff is becoming a strong and influential player with a fresh approach to advertising....

Advertising Digital Advertising Digital Marketing

Revolutionizing Egypt's Oldest Bank with Cloud Computing

This week, OMS won an award for their role in a different kind of Egyptian revolution, one that took place in its oldest commercial bank....

Technology Software Cloud Computing

Arab Twitter Apps Developer: Saleh Al Zaid of LunarApps [Wamda TV]

Arabic. Saleh Al Zaid, co-founder and CEO of LunarApps, speaks about the start of the company specialized in developing applications for...

Social Media Arabnet

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...

Entrepreneur of the Week Gaming Mobile Gaming

3 Lessons for Building a Popular Arabic Content Portal

There’s no shortage of demand for Arabic content online today, but building a niche site that will captivate and consistently entertain a l...

Arabic Content Digital Media

Pivoting into Social Game Development After Birdy Nam Nam: J.C. Hoelt of Gamabox [Wamda TV]

J.C. Hoelt, one of the original co-creators of popular iPhone game Birdy Nam Nam, discusses the new mobile gaming studio, Gamabox, that he ...

Arabnet Gaming

Launching a Citizen Journalism Application: Mark Malcon & Emile Khatar from Sign.al [Wamda TV]

Mark Malcon and Emile Khatar speak about Sign.al, a citizen journalism application they built and developed since more than a year. Sign.al...

Arabnet Social Media

A Look at Turkish E-Commerce Site Lidyana.com's $3M Investment from Ru-net [Wamda TV]

As in almost all emerging economies, Turkey’s e-commerce market is presenting very attractive growth opportunities. In 2011, with a growth r...

E-commerce Investment

Building an Apartment Rental Site in Saudi Arabia: Hattan Ahmed of ArabRooms.com [Wamda TV]

Hattan Ahmed of Arabrooms.com describes how his Jeddah-based company launched to provide economy lodging and furnished short-term lease...

Arabnet

Can Facebook Spice Up Place Reviews? Jeeran Launches Social Update

Today, Jeeran is making location reviews in the Arab World a more social experience, by launching an updated iPhone app and website that...

Ratings Sites Endeavor

Localizing Comparison Shopping for Financial Products: Ambareen Musa of Souqalmal [Wamda TV]

Mauritian entrepreneur Ambareen Musa, who started her first company at 21, explains at Arabnet 2012 how she built Souqalmal by localizing...

Arabnet

Facing the Legal Challenges of an Art Startup: Draw Me a Song

When Lebanese entrepreneur Nour Tohme started posting musical illustrations of songs for fun on her blog, she had no idea that she was...

Competitions Design MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition

Lebanese Recipe Sites Localize for Ramadan

To cater to cooks during Ramadan, two Arabic recipe sites have recently taken steps to make content their content more local and...

Food & Beverage Trends

Finding a Recipe for Success During a Revolution: Egypt's NOLA Cupcakes

Laila Sedky has achieved a lot so far for a 25-year old. By founding NOLA cupcakes just before the Egyptian revolution, she’s managed t...

Food & Beverage

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