Jordanian online music shop Feesheh expands into the UAE

Between positive revenue growth in Jordan, a new partnership with Liwwa, and a victory at Seedstars World Amman, Nur Alfayez and...

Robert Carroll • 03 June, 2014

Payfort report delves into regional payment issues, and looks to the future

During yesterday’s ArabNet Digital Summit, regional e-payment gateway Payfort issued its 2014 State of Payments Report. The report c...

Eman Mostafa • 05 June, 2014

E-commerce

4 Arab game developers you should know about

Crossposted with Cloud Games' May 25 post. Arabic game development is on the rise. Many talented regional indie as well as larger...

Johan Lofstrom • 28 May, 2014

Qleek, the wooden hardware that reconciles vinyl and digital music, launches IndieGogo campaign

As I write this, I’m listening to a playlist on Spotify, sitting across from my empty bookshelf, its sparse shelves occupied by a few CDs I...

Aline Mayard • 26 May, 2014

digital content algeria Music

Can mobile games be social? Meet Qwidz, a board game gone mobile

Ever wondered why board games like Monopoly, Chess and Risk are still popular? Unlike mobile and online games, board games increase...

Reine Farhat • 01 June, 2014

games Mobile Gaming

Queen Rania of Jordan, in partnership with edX, launches Arabic MOOC platform Edraak

With the launch yesterday of Edraak, a new Arabic MOOC platform, education professionals have made a new stride towards the development of ...

Wamda • 20 May, 2014

Will the next real challenger to Eventbrite come from Morocco?

While the MENA region lacks many of the web services that the rest of the world has become dependent on, many entrepreneurs in the Arab...

Aline Mayard • 22 May, 2014

events

Continuing its focus on emerging markets, Seedstars World hosts Dubai round

In 2005, Mohamed Elwazer witnessed a disturbing scene while waiting for a train at a metro station in Egypt. A security officer was...

Natasha D'Souza • 19 May, 2014

competition Health

Gaming studio stops developing games, pivots into do-it-yourself platform

Alaa-eddine Kaddouri has a dream: to create the first MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) in HTML5. It sure is an...

Aline Mayard • 19 June, 2014

Pivot games

Egyptian InstaPush adopted by international app integration platform

Zapier, a popular online platform that simplifies the process of connecting web apps and APIs, based on triggers and actions, has just a...

Ahmed Gabr • 23 April, 2014

instapush pushbots Technology

How this Tunisian gaming company rebounded after a failure

Just over a year ago, then-Features Editor Glen Dalakian got pretty excited about a new game, DefenDoor, and a new gaming studio,...

Aline Mayard • 15 July, 2014

digital mania tunisia Failure

ScreenDy, a coding-free DIY app creation service, tackles MENA market

Mehdi Alaoui created his first mobile app in 2001, succeeded in gathering 50,000 members on his dating app in 2003, and since 2006 has...

Aline Mayard • 27 May, 2014

How niche e-commerce site HobbyGulf doubled its orders in four months

The Gulf aviation industry has been the envy of the world over the last decade with lower costs and an ideal, centralized location that...

Alexander Hawkes • 07 May, 2014

niche E-commerce

Ecommerce Show Middle East

The Ecommerce Show Middle East 2014, which advertises itself as the Middle East's number one event dedicated to internet retailing, is a...

Wamda • 14 January, 2014

E-commerce

Has MyVLE's Moroccan founder learned enough from two failures to finally achieve success?

MyVLE is without a doubt one of the most hotly anticipated startups from Morocco. With its Moroccan and U.S.-based A-team, a well-designed...

Aline Mayard • 05 May, 2014

morocco E-Learning Failure

Ifrosh tests cardless ecommerce platform in Iraqi Kurdistan

In recent years, the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan has generated headlines for its relative stability and booming...

Eric Reidy • 28 April, 2014

iFrosh Kurdistan credit cards

4 tips to put user generated content to work for your business

As an entrepreneur, you’ve probably had some kind of internal monologue that went a bit like this: “I know we need great content – but it t...

Wissam Dandan • 27 April, 2014

UGC user generated content content

PayPal partners with Cairo Amman Bank to boost regional e-commerce

PayPal, as part its continued expansion throughout the Middle East, announced a new partnership with Cairo Amman Bank yesterday at the...

Hayden Pirkle • 23 April, 2014

cairo amman bank banking PayPal

Morocco's Meditel Apps Challenge helps first time developers get coding

Morocco is a country full of paradoxes. For instance, you can find 3G SIM cards anywhere, at the airport or on the beach, but local apps...

Aline Mayard • 28 April, 2014

app Competitions

How this Bahraini woman uprooted her successful London creative agency and moved home

I first met Wafa Obaidat at a TEDxYouth event in Bahrain. I was floored by how — at 23 years old — Obaidat was running operations for her S...

Leena AlOlaimy • 23 April, 2014

Fashion

Halal P2P lending site Liwwa partners with e-commerce site Feesheh

Liwwa, the halal crowdinvestment site launched last November in Jordan, is adding a new facet to its business model: a partnership with...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 21 April, 2014

halal arts crowdinvestment

Palestinian startup AidBits aims to streamline the aid sector

NGOs aren’t known for being the most efficient organizations. The amount of bureaucratic navel gazing, however important, it takes to get d...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 15 April, 2014

aidbits arabreneur palestine

A radical solution to the region's payment challenges, from serial ecommerce entrepreneur

At this point, it wouldn’t come as a surprise to learn that Moustafa Mahmoud eats, drinks, and sleeps e-commerce, in addition to having l...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 17 April, 2014

payment solutions uae cash-on-delivery

KarTag enters the Cairo carpooling market with a user-generated 'pure carpooling' model

Egypt suffers from an astonishing amount of automobile-related pollution, traffic, and parking problems. Egyptian entrepreneurs have...

Ahmed Gabr • 09 April, 2014

Car Service Coworking Sharing Economy