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4 ways to increase sales on your e-commerce site

Which e-commerce website owner doesn’t dream of higher sales numbers? Making a plan and building a skilled team to increase sales on your w...

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Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking workshop

This workshop, sponsored by the CHAIN Institute, advertises an opportunity for attendees to be immerse into an interactive environment...

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Designer Reem Buqais on what it takes to succeed in fashion

“Anyone can design,” says Reem Buqais during an interview after the 2nd Annual Leading Women in Business Forum at The Capital Club Bahra...

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Lebanon's Game Cooks launches new game, makes global top 50 list

Drawing on previous themes and skills they’ve built since their launch in 2012, Lebanese game developer Game Cooks has demonstrated a new m...

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Lebanon's touch launches an app store; can it succeed where others have failed?

Yesterday, touch, one of Lebanon's two major telecom companies, announced the launch of its Android-compatible app store, aimed at serving...

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Bahrain's Blossom Events to expand, founder Rasha Khunji says

Rasha Khunji, founder of Bahrain’s Blossom Events, trains entrepreneurs on how best to plan their companies, in an attempt to help stem t...

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Meet the Moroccan startup that hopes to build a LinkedIn with customer relationship management

This piece is part of New Work Lab's startup series. This past December, New Work Lab, Casablanca's new co-working space, hosted...

Pitch Networking

Et3arraf, the Middle East-focused dating site, announces $150,000 USD fundraising round

With his French business school diploma and his job at an international consulting firm, Cédric Maalouf was following the same path that ...

Dating service Seeqnce Social Networks

DealMakers' Weekend

For investment-ready companies in the information and communications technology sector looking for investors, and high-level angel...

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Al Riwaq Art Space seeks to change how Bahrainis approach art [Wamda TV]

“One of our missions is to change the mindset of the people, not to take everything as it comes,” says Bayan Al-Barak Kanoo, founder of Bah...

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Palestinian startup MobiStine to launch free healthcare app for new parents

At the end of October 2013, Husni Abu Samrah returned to Palestine after spending five months in the United States. He had just completed...

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How will Instapush make it easier for entrepreneurs to monitor their businesses?

At a time when the digital technology sector’s growth is skyrocketing, PushBots, an Egyptian startup, has launched Instapush, a service t...

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8 tech conferences in the Middle East to attend in 2014

Tech conferences in the Middle East have contributed to the success of several startups Wamda has covered over the past few months,...

Conferences

Narise Kamber, founder of Bahrain's Saffron Cafe, on scaling, funding, and passion [Wamda TV]

Saffron Café is one of Bahrain's fledgling success stories, having grown from one to four cafes over the course of just one year. The ...

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HAXLR8R co-founder on what hardware trends to expect in 2014

HAXLR8R, the hardware-focused startup accelerator based between San Francisco and Shenzhen, China, hosted its third demo day...

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What Uber’s leaked financials say about its surge pricing model

Uber’s revenues were leaked on ValleyWag this month, revealing that the car service company is potentially making far more than i...

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Innovative business model hopes to spark artistic creativity in Palestine

“If you live as a victim you stay as a victim,” says Rami Khader, a founding member and manager of Bethlehem’s Diyar Dance Theatre. “The h...

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Startup news ticker: Google brings Android to cars; new platform for teachers and students

Welcome to Wamda's weekly startup news ticker, which will offer quick announcements and stories relevant to the region. If you have a quick...

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Friendshippr regulates informal P2P international shipping; secures $670,000 USD Series A round

Asking friends to ship or bring back an item from overseas is a practice as popular as it is tricky. Especially in this region, with its...

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How Lebanese gaming portal At7addak is building an online empire with user-generated content

As I drove up to the town of Mansourieh overlooking sprawling Beirut, I wondered how such a successful online company could operate in...

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Nakhweh opens its social initiative to the crowd

If 2013 was the year of crowdfunding, 2014 shows no signs of slowing when it comes to startups leveraging the power of...

Nakhweh

What You Look Like to a Social Network [Infographic]

Facebook makes a lot of us feel warm and fuzzy; if commenting on ‘life event’ photos and smugly stalking friends and family halfway around ...

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PieRide offers Egypt's commuters an Uber for carpooling

Traffic jams in Cairo, while infuriating, remain a source of inspiration to many entrepreneurs looking for new solutions to this daily...

Transport Transportation Egypt

The future is mobile: here are the 3 things you need to build an app

According to mega-successful VC Bill Gurley, “we are in the midst of a critical platform transition,” from browsers to mobile app...

VC Mobile

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