Wamda

Egypt

Minesweepers: Towards a Landmine-Free World

Minesweepers: Towards a Landmine-Free World is an international robotics competition that will be held in October 2017 in Kuala Lumpur,...

mines robots tech

Regional

C5 Cloud 10 Scalerator

The third round of the Cloud 10 Scalerator program is currently accepting applications from startups and entrepreneurs that are working on...

C5 Accelerate Cloud10 Entrepreneur

Regional

Alabbar acquires large stake in MEVP

Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) announced May 18 that Mohamed Alabbar, acquired a large stake in the company to create one of...

Alabbar emaar properties MEVP

Regional

Facebook selects finalists for Bots for Messenger Challenge

Facebook has selected 60 finalists from the hundreds of entries it received from across the Middle East and Africa for the Bots for...

Facebook Messenger Bots

Regional

The opportunity of an inclusive sharing economy in MENA

It’s 9am. A commuter leaves home heading for her office in the local tech business hub. After 30 seconds a car has arrived to take...

lebanon uae Egypt

Regional

Logistics company secures $41M in Series B funding

Fetchr, a tech company disrupting the traditional logistics sector in the MENA region, secured 41 million dollars in a Series B...

Fetchr New Enterprise Associates Inc. Idriss Al Rifai

Jordan

Digitizing financial transactions in the region: go startups!

The rise of the fintech industry in the region throughout the years, proves that this sector has a big impact on emerging markets despite...

Fintech online payment Oasis 500

Syria

Arageek: the reader comes first, even at our expense

‘Arabic content worth reading’ is the motto many Arabic content platforms hold to against the rise of poor online Arabic...

arageek raseef22 Arabic Content

Regional

What do MENA telcos want to be when they grow up? Part II

This is the second article of two about telecom companies in MENA and how they should be adapting. The first is here. In this part we are...

Telcos du anghami

Regional

500 Startups closes $15M on MENA fund

Hassan Haidar, the managing director of the MENA fund for 500 Startups, 500 Falcons, announced Wednesday the closing of their fund at $15...

500 startups falcon fund Investment

Regional

SOCAP 17

SOCAP17 is a conference on impact investment and social enterprise. Held in San Francisco, SOCAP17 will bring together innovators in...

entrepreneurship conference San Francisco

U.A.E

What do MENA telcos want to be when they grow up? Part I

This is the first article of two about telecom companies in MENA and how they should be adapting. In the opening sequence of...

Telcos du anghami

Regional

IFLIX launches in MENA

IFLIX’s service is now available to over 1 billion consumers in 18 countries across Asia and the Middle East and North...

IFLIX TV on demand SVoD

Regional

How to make a good digital media strategy for your business [Wamda TV]

In a region where internet penetration is rapidly growing (60 percent in 2017), having a good digital strategy for your business is...

Jad Yammine content strategies content

Regional

What's your share of the company? [Opinion]

The Souq.com deal was great for the news media cycle, but was it so great for the investors? In tech, these types of events are fraught...

Souq.com investments VCs

Jordan

Startup with Purpose

Startup With Purpose has recently announced that it will be hosting its first week-long entrepreneurship bootcamp at King’s Academy...

Jordan entrepreneurship startup

Regional

Half of Arab youth visit Youtube every day [Report]

According to the Arab Youth Survey 2017, published by ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller this week, 35 percent of young people in the Arab...

Arab youth Report YouTube

Regional

New startups on the block: May

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to...

new startups Healthcare Travel

Regional

ArabNet Digital Summit 2017

The fifth edition of the ArabNet Digital Summit will be back on May 16-17, at the Madinat Jumeirah Conference and Events Center in...

Dubai Arabnet summit

Regional

Cohort 4 Acceleration Program

The U.S. hardware accelerator, "Make in LA", is recruiting International and MENA hardware startups for the Cohort 4 Program in...

LA acceleration accelerator

Regional

5 steps to startup video stardom [Opinion]

I see everyday how online video can be an efficient and effective way for entrepreneurs and small businesses to develop their brand and...

YouTube Vidéo Online video

Regional

Where does MENA really do business? [Infographic]

Even as entrepreneurs look to the Gulf to expand their sales, they look to the Levant to expand their back office operations. Wamda...

Wamda Research Lab WRL backoffice

Regional

5 AI advertising startups to watch

This edited article was originally published on Centric. Using AI in marketing has been the new kid on the street for some time. With...

Artificial intelligence Marketing Advertising

Regional

4 startups that are changing Maghreb healthcare

A woman fainting at a railway station in Morocco, while waiting for the train that would take her three hours away for dialysis treatment,...

tunisia morocco Medtrucks

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