Wamda

Personal finance app Wally announces $400K in investment from Napkin

Wally, the personal finance application that officially launched at Arabnet Beirut this year, announced $400,000 in investment at the...

Financial management

Lebanon

Organic juice startup targets Beirut's high society

Swaying palm trees, sun-dappled sidewalks, image-conscious ladies who lunch; sometimes, at certain angles, especially during traffic jams,...

Food & Beverage

Saudi entrepreneur showcases Silicon Valley startups in Arabic web series

“It’s important for Arab entrepreneurs to be familiar with the details on how giants like Facebook, Google and Twitter originally started o...

silicon valley YouTube Digital Media

Egyptian 'Social Mirror' lets users analyze their personal Twitter and Facebook accounts

Egyptian social media analytics startup 25trends just launched a new “Social Mirror” service, allowing individuals to get a detailed rea...

Social Networks Social Media Analytics

It's not easy being the Amazon of Morocco

With Livremoi (a play on words between “books & I” and “ship me”), Caroline Dalimier and Mathieu Malan want to be the Amazon of Morocco...

E-commerce

What to do when your best employee quits

In an ideal world, your top employees would stay on board for years and years, and you would never have to worry about finding...

Team management Team Programme

Kick-start your mobile app by developing on these alternative platforms

As of last April, the number of smartphones and tablets sold in the Middle East reached 22 million and continues to grow. The...

Developers Mobile Gaming Competitions

How to create the perfect Pinterest, Google+, Facebook and Twitter post [Infographic]

Does the perfect social media post really exist? As social media platforms have evolved over the years, so have their uses and functions...

Social Networks Social Media

It's not about the money: why isn't there more startup investment in emerging markets?

Cross-posted and adapted from the original version published on Techies.pk on March 20, 2013. There is no doubt that the...

Venture Capital Angel Investment Investment

Is the Nile river the solution to Cairo's traffic problems?

If you’re currently visiting Egypt, you may be a bit overwhelmed by the heat and congested traffic. But there’s a new was to tra...

Transportation Egypt

8 sharing economy services that could make it in the Arab world

Books, houses, cars, washing machine, food, knowledge… it seems that you can lend, rent, or share anything these days thanks to the number ...

Sharing Economy

Coworking space iceaddis gives a home to Ethiopia's startups

When one thinks or reads about technology startups in Africa, there are a few places that crop up quite often: Nairobi, Kenya; Lagos,...

East Africa Innovation Coworking Spaces

Is Venture Capital the right investment model for startups in the Arab world?

We all know that venture capital (VC) works well in Silicon Valley; most of the biggest tech companies, including Intel, Google, Yahoo,...

Venture Capital Investment

A tablet cafe launched in Senegal; could the trend transform North Africa?

Does the future of the internet lie in tablets? That’s what Médoune Seck believes. With the help of Google, he turned his internet café in ...

Internet growth Tablets Ecosystem

Women in Jordan resolve to be changemakers: Conclusions from our W4Women roundtables

“I didn’t negotiate well because I was too shy,” one woman admitted at our Wamda for Women roundtables in Amman. After finding that women...

W4Women Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs Women

Global

Is your idea good enough to become a great startup? [Infographic]

Your friends might like your idea, but how do you know it's good material for a viable startup? The Founder Institute, a global network of...

Ideas

6 ways to boost your sales through social media

The question of return on investment (ROI) from social media spending continues to linger in the mind of many social marketers. And while...

Social Networks Facebook Social Media

Weekly Wrap-Up: June 16-20

This week's hot topics revolved around the sharing economy and collaborative consumption models. Could these models help consumers share...

Weekly Wrap-Up

Riding the e-commerce wave, price comparison site Bkam announces investment from Jabbar

Egyptian price comparison site Bkam.com has announced its launch in the UAE, following recent investment from Jabbar Internet Group...

Aggregation Jabbar Investment

Crowdinvestment takes off with a bang in the Middle East: Nabbesh raises $30,000 in 24 hours on Eureeca

It’s 10am in Nabbesh’s offices in Dubai. The team is a bit speechless. “We’re at 29%,” someone says excitedly. Founder Loulou Khazen sounds...

crowdinvesting Crowdfunding

5 reasons why running a startup is NOT like being a father