Wamda

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...

SMS Mobile

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...

souq

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...

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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...

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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...

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...

Egyptian startup Funwave bets on social gaming

“We believe that social gaming is the future of electronic games. Game genres no longer matter; what really matters is that the game is s...

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Lebanon's Re-H2O team tackles water scarcity in the Arab world

At Intel and Injaz al-Arab's Sci-preneurship Innovation Camp this past July, six young Lebanese students found an innovative, inexpensive...

Intel Injaz al Arab competition

Can this Bahraini couple's startup help fight childhood obesity in the Gulf?

Yoga, Team Awesome, Muay Thai, Zumba, and Parkour all sound like classes you can take at a gym that combines fun with fitness. This is...

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Iranian developers gamify a 1,000 year-old poem

The story of how Amir-Esmaeil Bozorgzadeh first met Hossein Jalali, his partner at their new startup, GameGuise, is “a MAKE Business ...

Gaming

3 lessons in startup culture from Beirut's sudden success, Jai Kitchen

This is the first in a series on the business of starting a food & beverage company in the Middle East. Check back periodically for...

jai kitchen f&b beirut

Global

Jordan's Bitcoin Meetup Group weighs in on the cryptocurrency's recent crash

In the world of the internet, a bug is not something to take lightly. So Monday, when MTGox, the first Bitcoin exchange site...

Bitcoin

4 lessons from Fishfishme's successful investment round

Some of you may already know that we just closed a $200,000 USD financing round from some angel investors Sim Whatley, Saif Alzarouni,...

Angel Investment Investment

Wamda launches Wamda Debates in Casablanca

When a topic is good, time always runs out. We've seen that first hand at our Mix N' Mentor events where we often are forced to cut c...

PAYMENT Wamda Debates mobile payments

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...

strategic partnership

Meet 8 Palestinian startups this Thursday in Amman!

Join Endeavor, Gaza Sky Geeks, Fast Forward, Oasis500, and PALinnO this Thursday to get a taste of history in the making. For the first t...

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Baraka Bits uses 'good news from the Middle East' to power positive change in the region

“It’s OK if we don’t see thousands of views on our articles,” says Rama Chakaki, founder and CEO of news site Baraka Bits. “We’re willing t...

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Na3m Games' latest (accidental) release tops Saudi game charts

An accidental release has been a serious success for Saudi game developer Na3m Games. Harwil Ya Wahsh!, the company’s free-to-play iOS g...

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TIEC incubator now accepting applications

The Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC) is calling for applications to its next incubation cycle starting in April...

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Egyptian pharmacist creates Dawaa, a digital pharmaceutical drug index

Designed to bridge the gap between the conventional hard copy drug reference manual and the digital lives of today's physicians, Dawaa is...

Healthcare Health Mobile

Turkey's Gram Games secures $600K to scale new Wild West strategy game

Clash of Clans, the social combat game, was the most lucrative gaming app last year. As a result, Japan's SoftBank Corporation...

Mobile Gaming

3 apps win big at the Arab Mobile App Challenge

The winners of the 2014 Arab Mobile Learning Challenge have been announced at an event in Doha. The winning team, Loujie, based in the...

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Now serving one billion ads per month, Hsoub looks to the future

Hsoub, the web solutions company based in Egypt and the UK, whose mission is to develop online opportunities for people living throughout...

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Here's why the Arab world needs a startup exchange program

Ten accelerators from around the world have announced the launch of a travel abroad program called Startup Exchanges. During one month, 50...

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