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Women's portal HawaaWorld spins out new iPad recipe magazine

HawaaWorld is one of the oldest and most popular user-generated content portals targeting women in the Arab region. The platform,...

Food & Beverage

7 tips for launching a successful guerrilla marketing campaign

We all see tons of emails each week with subject lines like, “Top 10 Advertising Ideas for this Year” or “What Are Some of the Most Creat...

Advertising Marketing

Sleep-deprived, failing fast, and pivoting smartly: Day 1 on StartupBus Europe

They say travel makes you wiser, meeting people opens your mind, and succeding involve trying - and even failing. What happens when the...

hackathon Startupbus

5 graphs that explain the ICT sector in Jordan

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is often lauded as one of Jordan's most promising- and fastest growing- sectors. Last year,...

Report ict Data

Can media marketplaces disrupt traditional news outlets?

The statistics are by now familiar: newspaper and magazine subscriptions are in free fall, Facebook and Twitter are on the rise, and what...

marketplace news Media

What are Saudi consumers hungry for? A look at search trends in the Kingdom [Infographic]

The online ordering sector is heating up this year with Foodonclick, the Arab arm of Turkish online delivery giant Yemeksepeti, announcing e...

Food & Beverage

Global

This young Jordanian entrepreneur bootstrapped a funky gadget e-commerce site from home

Loay Malahmeh loves funky gifts. While shopping for one recently, he became frustrated with the overpriced products that he found...

cash-on-delivery Shipping E-commerce

Startup news ticker: MIT connecting Arab startups to Silicon Valley; Bitcoin launches its first ATM

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

ticker news

4 reasons why game developers should consider crowdfunding

Update: The campaign mentioned at the end of the piece is updated to show a more realistic representation of an unknown developer raising...

Developers Crowdfunding Mobile Gaming

12 initiatives working to empower women in the Middle East

Bahraini women weaving. Photo courtesy of Sophie Middleton. Women’s economic integration and empowerment is a global issue that has a...

W4Women Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs Women

Why startups should focus on strong customer service [Infographic]

As the saying goes, “the client is king” and, just like kings, customers expect to be well-served. While some companies may shrug off the im...

Customer Service

5 ways to compete with Amazon, and why its model isn't 'profitless'

After almost two decades in online retail, Amazon is still the punchline to jokes about profitability. “Amazon, as best I can tell, is a ...

Amazon Scaling Payment Gateways

Aliqtisadi launches in Palestine and London, in hopes of becoming the #1 Arabic business news site

Aliqtisadi, the business magazine based in Damascus, Syria, announced its launch in Palestine and London last week, at the Abu Dhabi...

content news Arabic Content

Fun logistics game launches in Dubai on a lean budget; can it find distribution?

This piece is part of a new series on the challenges of new entrepreneurs who are bootstrapping their startups. “This is a game from ...

Bootstrapping Shipping Mobile Gaming

One woman's quest to get kids reading in the Arab world

Very few initiatives originating in the Arab world achieve international recognition: Kitaby Kitabak (my book, your book in English), a...

libraries library reading

One bus, 40 entrepreneurs, a 5-day hackathon: StartupBus comes to southern Africa

When an idea is good, it tends to travel across oceans. After successful runs in the U.S. and Europe, the StartupBus has launched...

Global

Could Middle East e-commerce benefit from Pinterest?

There was nothing special about the verb ‘pin’ before Pinterest was founded in 2010. Today, online, it's most likely to...

Funding Social Networks Marketing

Egyptian students shine at Intel Science Competition

At an exposition recently held at Intel's Cairo office, eight Egyptian student winners of the Intel Science Competition, between the ages...

Weekly Wrap-Up: October 20-24

6 startup challenges answered at Mix N' Mentor Beirut We recently held our second Mix N' Mentor event in Beirut - this time with a brand...

Weekly Wrap-Up

Why Nextly, now open to the public, stands to revolutionize content sharing

There are several ways to curate content on the web these days, but it’s often a fragmented experience. Now that Google Reader is dead, s...

content

Zain Jordan partners with Wamda to support startups via Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility

Telecom company Zain is now the first company in Jordan to partner with Wamda on Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility (CER), an...

Zain Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility Wamda News

12 tips for young entrepreneurs from an Egyptian startup founder

Amira Azzouz is the founder and editor-in-chief of Fustany.com, a fashion portal for the Middle East in both Arabic and English, which...

fustany amira azzouz Egypt

4 simple reasons why a young digital agency in Lebanon is turning a steady profit

Sometimes the startups seeing the most steady returns aren’t the ones that are popping up in the news, but just those with a solid model a...

CER Blog Developers

On-the-ground details on the closure of Yahoo's Egypt office

As the Mayer era continues at Yahoo!, its Egypt office is the latest element to be scrubbed out and rethought. Today, Yahoo! announced...

Yahoo Closures

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