Wamda

Telr and Innovate Payments merge to boost e-commerce in global emerging markets

Telr, the payment gateway for emerging markets based between Dubai and Singapore, has announced that it will merge with Innovate Payments,...

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The story behind Cairo's first coworking success

Coworking spaces are no longer news for entrepreneurs in Egypt, but no one in Cairo did it before The District, which launched three years...

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Diaspora key to making Lebanon more business friendly, says Nokia's Ramzi Haidamus

In the early 1980s, at the age of 17, Ramzi Haidamus migrated from his war-ravaged home of Lebanon, leaving his family behind....

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Regional

How do Arabic speakers use mobile apps? [Infographic]

Last time we checked in, Khaled Swilat’s startup App Mahal, a search engine for Arabic apps, had 40,000 downloads, 39,000 of...

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Announcing the Mix N' Mentor Competition Amman finalist

1, 2, 3, startup! at Mix N' Mentor Amman. We’re ready to announce the winner of the Mix N’ Mentor Competition Amman edition: RedTroops, the ...

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Starting up, getting acquired, and shutting down: GoNabit co-founder's advice on the entrepreneurial journey

Yesterday, we published the first article based on an interview with Dan Stuart, the co-founder of the MENA’s first daily deals site, G...

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Iran

Iran startup scene gears up with new startup accelerator Avatech

A year ago, Mohsen Malayeri told us in a Wamda community post that the election of Iranian President Rouhani meant things were...

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Online obituary service born in Egypt

Given the extent to which the digital world has become an essential part of our everyday lives, many of the region’s industries have been f...

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Can smartphone tracking tools revitalize brick-and-mortar retail?

Whether on a shopping mission or merely killing time before a meeting, your wandering around the shops has more of an impact that you...

Retail Analytics

Starting up, getting acquired, and shutting down: GoNabit co-founder's advice on the entrepreneurial journey

In a startup ecosystem as young as the Arab region’s, there are only a few founders that have completed the full entrepreneurship cycle, f...

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Lebanon

Lebanese youth benefit from Zoomaal funding

Shhhhhhhhhh. It seems that the determination of youth in the Lebanese city of Tripoli is steadfast in the face of political and security...

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Turkey’s Prisync has its eye on the Middle East

The growth of e-commerce has brought with it a surge in the choice of products and suppliers at customers’ fingertips. It has never been e...

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'Tinder for trivia': SwypeOut, Lebanon's newest mobile game

As the Arab world has become home to the world’s most active gamers, it has increasingly been eyed as a potential hotbed for game d...

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Regional

New fund to offer support for creative coworking spaces in the MENA

After working for several years on a global scale, international development organization Hivos is launching its first program to support...

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Egypt

Can this app streamline medical care in the MENA?

When ill or recovering from an illness or operation, a patient often finds themselves tied to the hospital where they have received their...

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A Forbes 30 under 30 shares some home truths about entrepreneurship

They call me a “social entrepreneur,” but I always prefer to call myself an “entrepreneur wannabe.” But regardless of the name, what we do s...

300% growth demands expansion for Moroccan sports site

Patience and passion can be worth more than fundraising or aggressive marketing; this is an often-repeated maxim that might sometimes be...

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Newly launched Mobily Ventures invests in Anghami, Easy Taxi

Mobily, a leading telecom in Saudi Arabia, will announce today the launch of Mobily Ventures, a venture capital fund seeking to invest...

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Starting over: Lessons from 2 entrepreneurs who've closed a business

The process of winding down a company is an essential part of learning and growth. That’s true across lots of fields and specialties, and i...

Code no more: Jordanian platform debuts drag-and-drop builder for in-app ads

When Samer Tarazi and Omar Massad of RedTroops – an in-app advertising-focused startup that connects advertisers and app developers, and a...

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Shelvies builds on Instagram's momentum in Saudi to promote ecommerce

This article was originally posted on Firnas.org. During my meeting with Khalid Al-Issa, the young developer told us how he built...

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Global

8 essential skills for growing your team [Infographic]

Do you need to expand your team but don't know how to start? According to data extracted from LinkedIn, the best recruitment managers are a...

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Maghreb

Behind the scenes at Rocket Internet's eBay in North Africa

When we hear about Rocket Internet, it’s usually related to massive fundraising, aggressive strategies, and management style (check out o...

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6 ways to gamify your customer acquisition model

If you have never heard the word ‘gamification’, the reason is not because it is not a proven concept, but because companies might not tak...

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