Facebook's bid to take on Google The $19 billion USD that Facebook spent to acquire WhatsApp yesterday has delivered one of the world’s most stunning stories of wealth c... Nina Curley • 20 February, 2014
Euromed Business Opportunities Roadshow in Lebanon Berytech, Beirut Creative Cluster and Anima Investment Network will be organizing from March 20th till 22nd a cross-border innovative... Wamda • 20 February, 2014 beirut VC
Is Morocco ready to become the regional capital of game development? The video games market is a flourishing industry that has, over the past few years, gained more financial revenue and made more of a... Mehdi Reghai • 20 February, 2014
How to successfully crowdfund your next game Cross-posted from Cloud Games on February 10, 2014. Continuing its streak as the most successful crowdfunding campaign to date, upcoming... Glen Dalakian II • 20 February, 2014 zoomaal kickstarter indiegogo
What Souq has to say about those rumors, and its new mobile strategy Just as chatter is sweeping the tech world that Souq.com may be courting Amazon for a potential acquisition, the Dubai-based e-commerce... Nina Curley • 19 February, 2014 souq
5 ways you can participate in our MIT Media Lab workshop next week Next week, Wamda is bringing the MIT Media Lab to the Middle East for the very first time, hosted by twofour54 and Mubadala. The MIT... Wamda • 19 February, 2014 MIT Media Lab Workshops MIT
An Emirates-developed screenshot sharing app makes a flashing success Smartphone users are becoming increasingly addicted to sharing screenshots from their mobile devices, as opposed to links that require... Ahmed Gabr • 19 February, 2014 sharing screenshots Social Networks
3rd Wharton MENA Conference The 3rd Wharton Middle East and North Africa Conference, focused on opportunities for investing and doing business in the region, will be... Wamda • 19 February, 2014 philadelphia business school conference
Meet the first class of Saudi startups graduating from Flat6Labs Jeddah Nine months after its launch, Flat6Labs Jeddah startup accelerator has graduated its first class of startups, which serve markets... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 18 February, 2014 accelerator ksa saudi
Dealmakers' Weekend: a benchmark for Jordanian entrepreneurship Dealmaking was the name of the game on Saturday and Sunday at the Four Seasons Hotel in Amman as an impressive list of investors... Hayden Pirkle • 18 February, 2014 Venture Capital Investment Oasis500
Startup Weekend NEXT Baghdad shows what's possible As a co-organizer of the first and second installments of Baghdad Startup Weekend, I’ve learned first-hand how challenging it can be to c... Marwan A. Jabbar • 18 February, 2014 startup weekend next iraq Startup Weekend
Revolutionizing job training from Nairobi to Amman with SMS The trouble with skill trainings in Kenya is that the workers who need it the most don’t have time to attend, Evanna Hu tells me o... Nina Curley • 17 February, 2014 SMS Mobile
Regional Most workers in the Middle East would prefer to launch a business Due to high unemployment rates in the Arab region, more people than ever are launching their own businesses, hoping to create their own... Reine Farhat • 17 February, 2014 bayt.com entrepreneurship Report
3 reasons to develop a strategic partnership Entrepreneurs tend to insist on doing everything related to their startup themselves, often without realizing that there are solutions that... Muhanad Sabha • 17 February, 2014 strategic partnership
Mobile app generator wins the day at Startup Weekend Amman Hoards of aspiring entrepreneurs gathered at the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Building in Amman this past weekend for Startup Weekend – a 5... Hayden Pirkle • 17 February, 2014
Algerian entrepreneurs imagine a new future at Fikra Conference One could be tempted to compare Fikra to an Algerian TEDx, yet the event, which draws it name from the word idea in Arabic, debuted a u... Aline Mayard • 16 February, 2014
