Wamda

Turkey

Biggest tech exit in the region, Turkey’s Yemeksepeti acquired for $589M

Delivery Hero, the Berlin-based billion-dollar food delivery service, has acquired Turkey’s Yemeksepeti for $589 million. Not only is this ...

Delivery Hero yemeksepeti Rocket Internet

Lebanon

Zoomaal founder shares tips from $330k Series A round

The Zoomaal team at their offices in Beirut. After raising a seed round of $75,000 in Q3 of 2013 (from Wamda, MEVP, and Sawari Ventures),...

abdallah absi cairo angels zoomaal

Lebanon

Beirut gets a new accelerator, UK Lebanon Tech Hub now open

A giant Twitter deck at the UK Lebanon Tech Hub. (Images via Lucy Knight) Standing on a podium in a carpark in a fast sweltering Beirut,...

UK Lebanon Tech Hub Beirut Digital District lebanon

Jordan

DIY app wins top prize at first ever RedTroops JO Hackathon

The developers of Edy, an iOS app that blends the creative photo sharing elements of Instagram with the DIY work of online marketplaces...

U.A.E

Wamda and General Electric announce partnership

Wamda and General Electric (GE), one of the world’s leading technology companies, are joining hands to enable and support the industrial e...

MEMakers partnership General Electric

Global

The growing list of global VCs investing in MENA startups

Earlier this year we published an article about the reasons behind foreign VCs' increase interest in the Middle East. Here...

vostok new ventures New Enterprise Associates Goldman Sachs

U.A.E

Russian entrepreneurship organization Startup Sabantuy comes to Dubai

The Cribb, an innovative hub based in Dubai, is hosting Startup Sabantuy this June 6, 2015, in Dubai UAE. The event will start at 11:30 AM...

Russia Startup Sabantuy Dubai

Egypt

Egypt’s North African Summit discusses regional media challenges

The North African Media Summit will be held from June 8 to 10, 2015, at the Movenpick Hotel, Cairo, Egypt. A panel of speakers will be...

North African Media Summit

Global

How one Jordanian's innovative approach to job hunting got Airbnb's attention

Nina Mufleh wants a job at Airbnb. Like thousands of others though, when she began her quest, she quickly found her applications and calls...

resume Airbnb CV

Global

Facebook adds free peer-to-peer payments in Messenger

This article is a crosspost with the Payfort blog. If you’re like most people, you know settling debts or splitting bills between f...

U.A.E

TURN8 hackathon in Dubai this May

TURN8 is organizing a hackathon on May 1-2, 2015, in Dubai, UAE. The event will begin at 12:00 PM GST and will end the following day at...

turn8 hackathon

Kuwait

Sirdab Lab organizes UX Design Workshop

Sirdab Lab is hosting a two-day long UX (User Experience) Design Workshop this May 3 and May 4, 2015, in Kuwait City, Kuwait. The workshop...

UX design Haider Al-Mosawi sirdab lab

Turkey

UX Alive conference in Istanbul

The UX Alive conference is an international conference on user experience and usability. This will be the first iteration of the event. It ...

Elaine Brechin Montgomery Giles Colborne Dustin Senos

Egypt

WE’Resilient, a competition for women solving urban risks of the MENA

WE’Resilient is a startup competition organized by the World Bank in partnership with IE Business group. The competition encourages the c...

WE'Resilient IE Business Group world bank

Jordan

Girls in Tech hosts its first bootcamp in Jordan

Participants of the first Girls in Tech bootcamp in Jordan. (Images via Tala El Issa) One month into their existence and...

MENA Apps Umniah Telecommunications The Tank

Kuwait

Volume and variety mark this year's #MITEFArab

The 8th annual MIT Enterprise Forum of the Pan Arab region witnessed a record number of participants on Sunday April 19, with more...

MITEF kuwait MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition

Turkey

Turkish news site to launch Arabic version from Beirut

The Istanbul offices of haberler.com By the end of 2015 Beirut is going to be home to another news portal for the Arabic speaking region,...

Yeni Medya haberler turkey

Lebanon

With Oracle and in the cloud, Transtek eyes regional opportunities

For small and medium-sized companies that aim to impact their markets rather than focusing on scaling, it is critical to have a quality...

Supply Chain System Compass ERP ERP

U.A.E

Under the hood of the HyperSport: the $3.4M Arab star of Furious 7

All images via W Motors' website. “This time it ain’t just about being fast,” growls Vin Diesel in the newly released, box office record b...

w motors furious 7 fast & furious

Egypt

NASA hackathon sheds light on Egypt’s growing interest in outer space

The growth of scientific minds in Egypt. (Images via Nasa Space Apps Cairo) With so many problems on the ground, why would we want to...

PSC-BA CubeSat Space Apps Challenge NASA

Regional

What if it all came together?

This article is a crosspost in partnership with Huffington Post. To outside observers the Arab world looks anything but happening;...

Nafez Al Dakkak online education Huffington Post

Regional

MEVP announces first round of $30M MEVF II fund

Yesterday, Middle East Venture Partners announced the first round of investments as part of its $30 million Middle East Venture Fund II....

yougotagift The Luxury Closet AlTibbi

Regional

MENA online market to soon create billion dollar companies

The iMENA Group has published, in partnership with Kauffman Fellows Press, a report outlining how the MENA region’s online sector will r...

Khaldoun Tabaza growth iMENA

U.A.E

A forum for Android lovers, Droidcon comes to Dubai

Droidcon Dubai 2015. (Images via Facebook) "A 17-hour flight is how long it took for some of the event speakers to come...

Dubai Smart City initiative Alljoyn Groupon

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