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The startups that won the Maroc Web Awards

For the past seven years, Moroccans have elected their favorite web players during the Maroc Web Awards. The award ceremony is a...

morocco Awards

Startup Weekend Damascus attracts young entrepreneurs despite strife

At long last, Startup Weekend, the global entrepreneurial competition, has found its way to Damascus, in spite of the three-year war...

3d printer robot competition

Green projects take the day at the Dubai+Acumen competition

“People believe that innovation thrives in every other part of the world… but it also exists here, and we want to be a platform to support ...

Acumen+Dubai Competitions Social Entrepreneurship

Online Arabic music school i3zif kicks off the year with 3 ambitious new goals

Just over a year after launch, the team at i3zif, the online Arabic music school, has kicked off 2014 with three ambitious new goals, says...

oud Music Jordan

CARE Clothing wins first place at January’s Pitchlab competition in Casablanca

Casablanca co-working space New Work Lab organizes monthly pitch competitions titled the Pitch Lab that...

Pitch pitch lab Social Entrepreneurship

Saudi Arabia

Former Rocket Internet employee launches a Pinterest for travelers

“Rocket Internet has inspired many people to launch their own startups,” says Anirudh Gupta, a former employee...

Crowdsourcing Travel

Parisian accelerator Startup42 welcomes startups from the Arab world for its third batch

Lately, we’ve reported on a growing number of European and American initiatives aimed at startups in the Arab world. Needless to say, w...

Startup Bahrain online magazine seeks to revolutionize the ecosystem

I ran into Bader Kamal, a freelance graphic designer and photographer who is part of the Startup Bahrain team, after the online magazine...

magazine content

Hsoub neutralizes competition, acquires Moroccan digital marketplace Asnad

After hitting the milestone of one billion ads served per month just a couple weeks ago, three year-old web solutions...

Customer Service Acquisitions E-commerce

Can Kuwait's Waveline Media disrupt the mobile gaming market by remaking a classic title?

Kuwaiti startup Waveline Media seems to be going from strength to strength lately. First, the media company...

Toad Rider Waveline Media Mobile Gaming

Weekly Wrap-Up: February 16-20

5 ways you can participate in our MIT Media Lab workshop next week We’re gearing up for four days of intensive workshop sessions with some o...

Weekly Wrap-Up

Facebook's bid to take on Google

The $19 billion USD that Facebook spent to acquire WhatsApp yesterday has delivered one of the world’s most stunning stories of wealth c...

Is Morocco ready to become the regional capital of game development?

The video games market is a flourishing industry that has, over the past few years, gained more financial revenue and made more of a...

How to successfully crowdfund your next game

Cross-posted from Cloud Games on February 10, 2014. Continuing its streak as the most successful crowdfunding campaign to date, upcoming...

zoomaal kickstarter indiegogo

What Souq has to say about those rumors, and its new mobile strategy

Just as chatter is sweeping the tech world that Souq.com may be courting Amazon for a potential acquisition, the Dubai-based e-commerce...

souq

5 ways you can participate in our MIT Media Lab workshop next week

Next week, Wamda is bringing the MIT Media Lab to the Middle East for the very first time, hosted by twofour54 and Mubadala. The MIT...

MIT Media Lab Workshops MIT

An Emirates-developed screenshot sharing app makes a flashing success

Smartphone users are becoming increasingly addicted to sharing screenshots from their mobile devices, as opposed to links that require...

sharing screenshots Social Networks

Meet the first class of Saudi startups graduating from Flat6Labs Jeddah

Nine months after its launch, Flat6Labs Jeddah startup accelerator has graduated its first class of startups, which serve markets...

accelerator ksa saudi

Dealmakers' Weekend: a benchmark for Jordanian entrepreneurship

Dealmaking was the name of the game on Saturday and Sunday at the Four Seasons Hotel in Amman as an impressive list of investors...

Venture Capital Investment Oasis500

Startup Weekend NEXT Baghdad shows what's possible

As a co-organizer of the first and second installments of Baghdad Startup Weekend, I’ve learned first-hand how challenging it can be to c...

startup weekend next iraq Startup Weekend

Revolutionizing job training from Nairobi to Amman with SMS

The trouble with skill trainings in Kenya is that the workers who need it the most don’t have time to attend, Evanna Hu tells me o...

SMS Mobile

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