KAUST Announces Startup Showcase Winners The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has announced the two winners in its second round of VentureLab, a startup... Nina Curley • 10 May, 2012 Competitions Mobile Apps Trends
M&A's Overlooked Pitfall: The False Negative Plenty of merger deals should never happen: Buyers are too often attracted to "false positives" in targets that are overvalued. Less... Knowledge @Wharton • 10 May, 2012 Acquisitions
MIT Announces 14 Finalists in Arab Business Plan Competition Of the 50 teams that the MIT Enterprise Forum accepted into the semifinal round of the Arab Business Plan Competition, the... Nina Curley • 09 May, 2012 MIT MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition
Global 7 people you cannot afford NOT to have on your startup team Investors are lined up, the website is done, glossy promotional material with smiling faces is all set, your core team is pumped, and you... Bushra Azhar • 09 May, 2012 Programme Job Recruitment Team
Differentiating a Daily Deals Site in Dubai: Pradeep Menon of DealGobbler Pradeep Menon, part investor and part entrepreneur, is the founder of Deal Gobbler, a Dubai-based daily deal website. Menon is also among... Mo Ali Yusuf • 08 May, 2012 Daily Deals Demystifying E-Commerce E-commerce
Announcing the First Batch of Speakers at CoE E-Commerce Here's a tease of what's to come at CoE E-Commerce. Our first batch of speakers include the following industry experts. Stay tuned for the... Wamda • 07 May, 2012 E-commerce CoE E-Commerce COE
You Think Like An Entrepreneur If... [Pic of the Week] While entrepreneurship is the science of forming and growing a business, the mindset associated with it has come to signify much more, a... Wamda • 07 May, 2012 CoE Cards Pic of the Week
Demystifying E-Commerce: How to Create Discounts by Customer Segment This series by Mohannad Ghashim of ShopGo.me is part of our Demystifying E-Commerce series. It will explore various technical issues... Mohanad Ghashim • 07 May, 2012 E-commerce Demystifying E-Commerce
Woopra's New Interface Assists Quick Decision-Making Web analytics platform Woopra, which launched a sleek iPhone and iPad interface this fall, has updated their web app dashboard as well,... Nina Curley • 06 May, 2012 Analytics
Egyptian Accelerator Flat6Labs Shows Growth at Second Demo Day The great and the good of Egypt’s entrepreneurial ecosystem gathered for the showcase of Flat6Labs’ latest clutch of ready-to-grow acc... Omar Aysha • 03 May, 2012 Accelerators Angel Investment Ecosystem
At Dubai Forum, Arab Female Entrepreneurs Are Urged to Break from Traditional Choices There are a number of cultural challenges facing women in the Middle East who want to become entrepreneurs, but those belonging to the... Knowledge @Wharton • 03 May, 2012 Conferences
Why Toolkits Are Essential for Innovation and Education So how do you fit a cube-shaped canister into a cylindrical hole using only Moon rock plastic bags, cardboard, suit hoses, and... Oubai Elkerdi • 02 May, 2012 Education Innovation
Building a Social Network for Football Fans in the Arab World: Footballize Ten days ago, as Christian Ronaldo scored the winning goal for Real Madrid in a match that served archrival Barcelona its first loss... Nina Curley • 01 May, 2012
Sprowd: Crowdfunding for Startups Around the Globe The idea is simple: if you have a great idea for a business, why should you wait for a VC to take a leap of faith to invest in you? Why not... Fernande van Tets • 01 May, 2012 Crowdfunding Investment
Student-Powered Startup Education in Egypt What do cupcakes, touch technology, and venture capitalists have in common? In truth not much, unless we’re about talking s... Omar Aysha • 01 May, 2012 Conferences
Every Problem is An Opportunity [Pic of the Week] This week as we open registration for upcoming event CoE E-Commerce, this piece of advice seems especially relevant. The issues that most ... Wamda • 01 May, 2012 CoE Cards Pic of the Week
Microsoft Imagine Cup UAE Announces Winner Microsoft's Imagine Cup, a competition inviting software developers around the world to "imagine a world where technology helps solve the... Nina Curley • 30 April, 2012 Competitions Environment Mobile Apps
Announcing CoE E-Commerce on June 2nd and 3rd After the success of Celebration of Entrepreneurship in 2010 and CoE Animate 11 this past fall, Wamda is kicking off the next in its series... Wamda • 30 April, 2012 E-commerce COE CoE E-Commerce
RealTime Weather From Real People On Dubai-Based Metwit.com Are you wondering what the weather is like now in a certain location you are headed to? Are you trying to avoid carrying that umbrella and... Maya Rahal • 30 April, 2012
Why Middle East E-Commerce Site Souq.com Acquired Sister Site Sukar.com Leading Middle East e-commerce site Souq.com has acquired flash sales site Sukar.com today, as The Next Web and others reported, as part... Nina Curley • 30 April, 2012 Acquisitions E-commerce
Palestinian iPhone App for Prayer Launches This week, those looking to connect with their community have a new tool at hand. AnaBasalli, a mobile application and web platform... Nina Curley • 29 April, 2012 Mobile Apps
Nafham: A Learning Management Platform to Enhance Education in Egypt At Cairo tech-focused accelerator Flat6Labs, four entrepreneurs, including Ahmad El Alfi, the head of parent fund Sawari Ventures,... Khaled Sadek • 29 April, 2012 Education
MarkaVIP's $10 Million Series B Funding to Boost Logistics Middle East flash sales sites MarkaVIP is on its way to becoming a true success story with its latest gambit to tackle the hydra that is... Nina Curley • 26 April, 2012 E-commerce Investment
Crokodeals: A Moroccan E-Auction Monster Heads to the UAE A new way of tackling e-commerce and e-auction is coming to the Middle East from the heart of Morocco, through Crokodeals, the... Maya Rahal • 26 April, 2012 E-commerce