Wamda

Arabic Mobile Gaming Platform Gamabox Launches

Jean Christophe Hoelt and Souad Merhebi, half of the team that launched Birdy Nam Nam, have now launched Gamabox, a platform for game...

Gaming

Jordanian Studio Quirkat Releases Arcade Game Zonkt!

Chosen to give the impression of a robotic metal sound, Zonkt! is the name of a new iPad game launched by Amman-based videogame development...

Gaming

KAUST Launches Wa'ed Ideathon, Announces Seed Fund Winners

What's new at The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)? If you're an aspiring entrepreneur, plenty: The univeristy is...

Competitions Investment

Beirutna: A Platform To Locate, Socialize and Share Favorite Places In Lebanon

A couple of years ago, four young Lebanese became frustrated enough by the lack of restaurant guides in Beirut that they spent a month...

Food & Beverage Mobile Apps

Building a Creative Brand on Arab Pop Culture in Jordan

As the warm weather slowly returns, look out for what has become a seemingly ubiquitous feature of West Amman fashion: the Jo Bedu t-shirt....

Fashion Innovation

A Chat with an Imaginary Small Business CEO in Saudi Arabia

Being an entrepreneur in Saudi Arabia is relatively easy. According to the World Bank’s Doing Business 2010 data, Saudi Arabia ranks 1...

Innovation Trends

Meet the Semifinalists from Google Ebda2

At Google's Ebda2 event this past Tuesday, the Egyptian start-up competition otherwise known as “Start With Google,” the 50 remaining compet...

Competitions Google

Learning to Love the Competition at Google's Ebda2

Ebda2, the Egyptian start-up competition otherwise known as “Start With Google” that began some months ago, reached the semi-final stage thi...

Competitions Google

Social Media Trends in Saudi Arabia and the UAE [Infographic]

Did you know that 3 out of 7 internet users in the Arab World are on social media? And that in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, logging on to...

Trends

Entrepreneurs, Be Tough, Be Global -- Export Now

Cross-posted (with a slight adaptation) from Forbes, June 9, 2011. Puerto Rico is one example of a small market- a four...

Google, Woopra, or Clicky: Which Web Analytics Platform Works Best for You?

Whatever you do online, whether you have a website for your small business or run a larger e-commerce site, whether you run AdSense or do...

Analytics Google Woopra

Online Donations Bring the Middle East and Africa Closer to American Donors

Last year, over US$290 billion in America was donated to charities, but surprisingly, less than 10% was donated online. With 240 million...

A Lesson in Leadership: Fadi Ghandour's Visit with Tony Fernandes of Air Asia

He walks in to greet us and starts cracking jokes. Full of passion and charisma, his knowledge of every single detail of his company is...

Fadi Ghandour

Cash Flow is Never More Important Than Your Mother: Happy Mother's Day from Wamda

Today is Mother's Day on Wamda. We just wanted to remind you that, while Ken Morse said that "cash flow is more important than your mother...

g|saudi arabia Returns This Weekend

Saudi techies get ready- this March, Google is once again hosting g|SaudiArabia. The event aims to engage with communities of developers, b...

Google Workshops

Angel Investment in MENA: What Works, What Could Improve

So you have been incubated for three months and you have built a solid demo. Unfortunately, your burn rates (negative cash flows) are...

Angel Investment Oasis500

Egypt NEGMA Conference Launches to Connect Egyptian Entrepreneurs to Diaspora

After the events of Egypt inspired members of the Egyptian diaspora community to get involved with rebuilding the country, a group of ...

Conferences Diaspora

Google Zeitgeist Young Minds Competition Calls on Changemakers in MENA

Young entrepreneurs with an idea for changing the world may want to apply to Zeitgeist Young Minds, a competition to find 10 pioneers and ...

Competitions

Coca-Cola Offers Summer Entrepreneurship Education Program to MENA Students

Less than two weeks are left to apply for the Coca-Cola Scholarship Program 2012. The program is offering Algerian, Egyptian, Jordanian...

Competitions

10 Tips for Success in Entrepreneurship from Ken Morse of MIT

At the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business Competition Workshop session, Kenneth P. Morse, Senior Lecturer and Managing Director of the MIT...

Global

Company Valuation: Is There a Formula?

Today at the 5th Annual MIT Enterprise Forum Entrepreneurship Workshop, Professor Tarek Kattaneh of the Olayan Business School at AUB...

Investment

Watch the MIT Enterprise Forum Workshop Livestream

Watch the Livestream from the 5th Annual MIT Enterprise Forum Entrepreneurship Workshop: Writing a Business Plan and Winning the...

Competitions MIT

Saletab Brings the iPad 3 to the MENA Region

In case you've been living under a rock when it comes to technology, the iPad 3 is out today. What's new? It's gone HD with the display, ...

E-commerce

Design Thinking to Disrupt Lebanese NGOs

Desmeem’s “D-Factor” Day witnessed scores of Lebanese designers of all stripes trying out at the Babel Theater stage this past weekend for a...

Education

Thought Leadership

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