Wamda

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

E-commerce

Hold the Vegetables: How 'Now vs. Later' Affects Customer Choice

If people typically watch a kung-fu flick or a trashy teen comedy on DVD before the documentary they rented several days earlier, it only...

E-commerce Marketing

Demystifying E-Commerce in MENA: What Goes Wrong? Part 1

This content series, "What Goes Wrong?" is part of our new "Demystifying E-Commerce in MENA" series, which will explore the challenges...

E-commerce Demystifying E-Commerce

Defining Small and Medium Enterprises in Oman

As Oman’s Third Economic Forum came to a close on Monday, the question of how to define small and medium enterprises SMEs came to a h...

Conferences Ecosystem Startup Communities

The Road to Crowdfunding Ruin

Editor's Note (NC): Daniel Isenberg's latest article addresses the "Jumpstart Our Business Startups" (JOBS) act that President Obama...

Legal Trends

Announcing Wamda's Entrepreneur of the Week Series

Today we are launching a new video series on Wamda: Entrepreneur of the Week. Each Tuesday, we'll be posting an interview with startup ...

Entrepreneur of the Week

Beware of Praise [Pic of the Week]

Fadi Ghandour said it. Arif Naqvi said it. A previous entrepreneur turned VC and blogger told his story. And maybe Chuck D said it best:...

CoE Cards Pic of the Week

The Rise of Arabic on the Web [Infographic]

It took 30 years for 2 billion people to come online, but 1 billion more will come online in the next 4 years, according to...

Arabic Content

Shaping the Entrepreneurial Future of Egypt

The 2012 AUC Research Conference, held this past week at the university's New Cairo campus, was an exercise in uniting Egypt's...

Accelerators Angel Investment Arabic Content

4 Reasons Why Smart Businesses Go Green

So green is now a trend in the Middle East – even though it’s still to catch on in Saudi Arabia. It's also a term that's been going ar...

Green Energy

How to Create Banner Awareness (Or Bypass Blindness)

User-friendly design guru Jakob Nielsen held out a finding in one of his studies for 10 years, but finally finally to publish it in 2007....

User Experience Design

Building a Learning Management System in Saudi Arabia: Acadox

During our undergraduate studies in King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) we, Mohammad Al-Hareeqi, and Nedal Mourad, and...

MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition Accelerators MIT

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