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Mobile advertising more vital than ever to marketers in the Arab world [Infographic]

With more than 366 million mobile phone users in the region, penetration rates and usage data are attracting more attention every day....

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Aliqtisadi partners with Harvard Business Review to offer management content in Arabic

Aliqtisadi, the Arabic business news portal launched out of Damascus, is continuing to expand despite the challenges of the Syrian...

Aliqtisadi Content Portals Arabic Content

Weekly Wrap-Up: December 08-12

Check out our Hangout with Christopher Schroeder! Yesterday, we took part in a Middle East focused Google Hangout with "Startup Rising"...

Weekly Wrap-Up

3 ways the Arab tech diaspora can stimulate regional development

From the Rise Up Summit (a conference dedicated to innovation and Egyptian startups), to the MENA Innovation DemoDay (a series of...

silicon valley Diaspora

Are you driven by your heart, brain, guts, or luck?

What drives you professionally: your heart, your brain, your guts, or your luck? Tony Tjan, a serial entrepreneur-turned-VC, gave his test...

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MySportner founder Kenza Bennani on her greatest challenges, and big plans for the future

The New Work Lab, a Moroccan co-working space based in Casablanca, recently held the first edition of Pitch Lab won by MySportner....

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PayPal brings new mobile payment option to rapidly developing East Africa

M-PESA, a mobile payment scheme launched in 2007 by Kenyan mobile network operator Safaricom, has fundamentally changed the way Kenyans...

mobile payments Payment systems Kenya

What's distracting the Middle East's workers? [Infographic]

Work-hours flexibility is not the only problem threatening employee productivity and efficiency in the work environment; 59.3% of...

workplace work distraction

Meet SafirLab, a French accelerator for entrepreneurs from the Arab world

In Paris, it's not often that you’re sitting in a room with entrepreneurs from across the entire Arab world, listening to them pitch s...

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5 tips for building a successful mobile game, from 2013's biggest app success story

There’s no secret to building a good game, especially in the Middle East. Despite the fact that people in the region – especially the Gulf ...

trivia game app

UrbanBuz announces Series A round of investment for its customized loyalty program

Most of the time, when customers become loyal to a business, it’s not because they’ve been offered benefits via a loyalty card or shown up...

Series A Loyalty Programs

10 amazing holiday gifts from innovators in the Middle East

Whatever your religious beliefs, we all worship at the altar of buying new things, especially at this time of year. We compiled a list of...

gift gift guide morocco

Why Transterra moved to Lebanon

This piece is part of our series on expat entrepreneurs. As we wrote in October, Transterra is one of the latest global startups...

Expatriate entrepreneurs Media

Enigma thinks big data can change the world

"Dad, the president retweeted my database!" "Well, it’s great that your boss appreciates your work." "No Dad, I’m talking about the Pre...

open data big data Diaspora

Yellow Pages Egypt opens avenue for low-cost, high-quality marketing videos

Many television commercials and videos produced by startups are of low quality due to new entrepreneurs’ often-limited funds, o...

Egypt Digital Marketing

Women's entrepreneurship and social media: the two hottest trends at Arabnet Riyadh

On December 3rd and 4th, the Arabnet Digital Summit took place in Riyadh for the second time, kicking off with a session on...

Arabnet

5 tips for small businesses on Facebook

Jonathan Labin is Facebook's Head of Middle East, Africa, and Pakistan. He contacted us with some tips, based on Facebook's own research,...

small business sme Facebook

Nuqat Creative Conference creates 'culture shock' in Kuwait

When I arrived in Kuwait and settled into a chair at the Nuqat Creative Conference last month, the young man next to me immediately turned,...

Ecosystem

Twitter aims to boost ad sales with retargeted ads

Now that its IPO is over, Twitter’s mission to expand is moving along at a clip. Sometime next week, the social network will officially l...

retargeted ads ads techcrunch

6 inspiring quotes for entrepreneurs from Nelson Mandela

Nelson ‘Madiba’ Mandela's life represented more than a selfless struggle for justice in Apartheid South Africa; his unw...

Expert Advice

Turbines bring winds of change to the West Bank

In 2010, Fadi Quran came back to Palestine during winter break from his senior year at Stanford University, where he was studying Physics...

independent wind west bank palestine

Weekly Wrap-Up: December 01-05

We're getting ready for Mix N' Mentor Dubai This week, we'll be heading to Dubai for our second Mix N' Mentor event in the city. We're...

Weekly Wrap-Up

Startup news ticker: ArabNet announces the three winners; Bayt launches People Search

Welcome to Wamda's weekly startup news ticker, which will offer quick announcements and stories relevant to the region. If you have a quick...

LinkedIn E-commerce

Saudi Arabia's Rwaq builds a online courseware platform for the Middle East

It’s not every day that a leading education initiative launches from Saudi Arabia. But one Riyadh-based company is poised to offer the r...

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