Wamda

TourTwist Puts Crowdsourced Spin on Tourism in Lebanon

Some startups don't just create commercial ventures; they work to turn communities of ordinary people into little engines of commerce....

E-commerce Innovation Travel

Zawya's Multimillion Dollar Sale to Close Within 6 Weeks

It's not just the sleek new interface that's evolving at Middle East business news portal Zawya. The media outlet is preparing for a...

How Moroccan Daily Deal Site Hmizate Faced Down Competition

After working for eight years in the tech sector in the United States, Moroccan entrepreneur Kamal Reggad decided to return to his home...

E-procurement Daily Deals Hmizate

Seed Forum Abu Dhabi

Seed Forum Abu Dhabi‭ is taking place‬ on Wednesday the 25th of April 2012‭ ‬at the Emirates Palace‭ ‬Hotel, sponsored by The Belleau Wood G...

Investment

Dokkankom Launches an eBay for the Middle East

E-commerce site Dokkankom launched this weekend, bringing the region an eBay-like platform that allows vendors to create customized online...

E-commerce

Fadi Ghandour to Step Down as Aramex CEO, Focus on Entrepreneurship

In a move that surprised many yesterday at Aramex's annual conference in Dubai, Fadi Ghandour has announced that he is stepping down as CEO...

E-commerce Fadi Ghandour

Will Jordan's My Marbles be the next Angry Birds? TakTek Games Inks Deal with Chillingo

Amman-based TakTek Games has secured a breakthrough deal this week, signing with U.K.-based mobile publishing giant Chillingo, which...

Gaming Mobile Gaming

ImagineCup Calls On MENA's Best Tech Students

This year, Microsoft is once again giving entrepreneurs a chance to launch themselves on a global stage with its Imagine Cup competition....

Competitions

Maroc Numeric Fund Invests In Moroccan Daily Deals Site MyDeal.ma

The first Moroccan group buying website MyDeal.ma announced investment of 2 million Moroccan Dirhams (~$240,000) by the Maroc Numeric Fund...

Daily Deals Mydeal.ma MNF

Nominate a Social Entrepreneur for an Ashoka Fellowship

Ashoka Arab World is looking for social entrepreneurs for its Fellowship program, who are social innovators with “System Changing Ideas” tha...

Innovation Social Entrepreneurship

Creating an Egyptian Economic Miracle at Startup Nation 2.0

“The vision is to get Egypt into the top 10 list of countries by GDP in 5 years time.” This vision brought together around 50 progressive Eg...

Angel Investment Innovation Investment

New Mobile Gaming Studio Game Cooks Launches Facebook Competition

As one half of the team that developed popular mobile game Birdy Nam Nam launched Gamabox, the other half of the team, brothers Lebnan and...

Gaming

12 Mobile Predictions for 2012 from Google at Arabnet

Mobile was one of the biggest buzzwords during Arabnet 2012, and this talk from Ahmad Hamzawi (@ahamzawi), Google’s Head of New Business D...

Arabnet Google Mobile

Inside Istikana's Arabic Video Content Coup

It’s been a good year for Istikana. One year ago at digital media conference Arabnet in Beirut, the Arabic online video company launched a H...

Young People in the Middle East Are Ready to Innovate

Lebanese entrepreneur Habib Haddad is one of the Middle East's biggest cheerleaders for the creation of a vibrant startup culture. As...

Social Entrepreneurship Wharton

Qordoba Launches Arabic ePublishing and eReading Platform

[Diclosure: Wamda has invested in Qordoba]. Authors looking to digitize or self-publish Arabic books online or distribute Arabic...

Digital Media

Nafham: A Learning Management Platform to Enhance Education in Egypt

At Cairo tech-focused accelerator Flat6Labs, four entrepreneurs, including Ahmad El Alfi, the head of parent fund Sawari Ventures,...

Education

Riyada Enterprise Development Acquires 50% Stake In The Entertainer

Riyada Enterprise Development (RED) has announced its intent to acquire a 50% stake in The Entertainer, a consumer services company that...

Investment

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

To Succeed in the Gulf, Offer the Best Price and Be Mindful of Relationships

Jan De Nul Group is a company specialized in dredging and civil engineering works. Launched in 1938 in Belgium, Jan De Nul originally...

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

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

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