Wamda

TAG-Org expands its support services to startups with new program

Joining a growing group of organizations providing support to entrepreneurs in the region, the Jordan-based international business ...

Talal Abou Ghazaleh Innovation

Iraq

Iraqi startup Miswag.net helps merchants transition to the internet

Miswag.net, Baghdad’s first internet-based startup with real potential to grow, launched less than a month ago to help local merchants in B...

PAYMENT iraq Delivery

Lebanon

Lebanese developer overcomes technical challenges to launch Arabic mobile word game

After attending a seminar about the lack of digital Arabic content at ArabNet 2012, Samer Hamandi came up with the idea of Charbaka, a...

Mobile Gaming Arabic Content Mobile

Intel Egypt denies rumors blaming partial shutdown on political woes

In the midst of a not-so-pleasant economic situation in Egypt, Intel made headlines last week. A number of online news sources reported...

Intel Egypt

Fresh off Kickstarter glory, Integreight gears up for 1Sheeld due date

$85,210 USD. That’s how much funding the Egypt-based startup Integreight attracted for its award-winning product 1Sheeld during its 30-day ...

1sheeld arduino Hardware

Regional

How to raise $18M in the Middle East? 5 tips from MarkaVIP founder Ahmed Alkhatib

How do you raise $18 million USD in the Middle East? It’s not easy. Last week I sat down with Ahmed Alkhatib, the man behind the...

MarkaVIP

Yamsafer tackles region's payment challenge with cardless bookings

Faris Zaher, CEO and co-founder of hotel bookings site Yamsafer, thinks his team may have come up with a solution to the region’s payment r...

yamsafer payment solutions cardless bookings

Palestinian entrepreneur launches e-store and educational blog on sexual health for married couples

“It started one day when I was walking in Ramallah,” Ashraf Alkiswani says. “I was stuck behind these two guys in their late thirties, and ...

karaz sexual health ramallah

Elance's Dubai hiring announcement signals increased regional focus

Nearly two years after hiring a Startup Mobilizer based in Cairo, multinational online staffing platform Elance has moved to hire a...

elance localization Freelancers

Oasis500 launches Omraan, a funding competition for startups working to solve urban problems

As it intensifies its effort to spread entrepreneurial culture in the region, Jordanian tech-focused incubator Oasis500 launches its first...

Competitions

Meet the airline pilot behind one of the biggest apps in Morocco and Algeria

Stéphane Lagouche is not your usual app developer. Ten years ago, this French engineer moved to Morocco to start a new career as an ...

morocco mobile advertising

Palestinian software companies merge; set sights on changing U.S. healthcare market

iConnect-Tech and 2i Software, two software development companies with front offices in Chicago and programming teams based in Palestine,...

software development palestine Developers

E-commerce Entrepreneurship Program in Egypt

In partnership with Souq.com, Education for Employment Egypt (EEE) launches the E-commerce Entrepreneurship Program to create a group of...

Egypt E-commerce

Can lean e-commerce site ShuGeek bootstrap indefinitely?

One month was all it took to launch ShuGeek, the website for so-called geeky products in the UAE. The team, adopting a lean startup...

Technology E-commerce

Social entrepreneurship incubator in Tunisia seeks to foster civic engagement

In Tunisia, the revolution has lead to a real revival of civic engagement. To help this movement bear fruit and be sustainable, a...

Incubator Social Entrepreneurship

Finnish game developer bets on the Arab region - and wins

Developing games for the Middle East, and making current titles available in Arabic, are usually difficult and time-consuming tasks for...

social gaming Social Technology

Saudi Arabia

What are users in the Arab world watching on YouTube? [Infographic]

YouTube’s potential for regional startups is clear: Saudi Arabia alone accounts for 190 million YouTube views a day, and other...

Online video Saudi Arabia Video Advertising

Lebanon

ShopBuilder hopes to boost e-commerce in Lebanon

After realizing the huge opportunity for e-commerce in Lebanon, Emile Boustani, a Lebanese entrepreneur who spent 20 years in the...

lebanon Payment Gateways E-commerce

4 tips on monetizing Arabic content from Rudolf Jabre of 2Pure

This is the first part of our expert content series, in which we will highlight valuable advice from key experts in the regional...

Chababs Gheir Ra2ed

From outer space to fashion e-commerce: New York's Slow Factory

When Celine Semaan, back in 2012, was struck with inspiration based on NASA's images of outer space available to the public via...

Bitcoin in the Middle East, explained

In a recent talk at the New Think Theatre in Amman, Fouad Jeryes, the cofounder of new payment service CashBasha, the Amman Tech Tuesdays...

Bitcoin

Cary! off to a rollicking start on Eureeca; signals an increasingly complex UAE used car market

U.A.E

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