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Can Airbnb clone Agaztak boost tourism in Egypt?

Not every entrepreneur is comfortable admitting that his startup is a local clone of an internationally successful business idea. But...

Egypt Travel

8 leading startups get connected with Silicon Valley at MENA Innovation DemoDay

Despite the instabilities at home, Egyptian startups are gaining global recognition for their innovations lately; it’s not just that I...

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New meetup at Morocco's New Work Lab awards MySportner startup of the month

The Moroccan co-working space New Work Lab has launched a new meetup called Pitch Lab, giving entrepreneurs the opportunity to pitch...

pitch lab new work labs morocco

Activity-tracking app wins at Startup Weekend Doha as women attend in record numbers

An activity monitoring mobile application, created by a team that included two high school students, won first prize in the...

Startup Weekend

Global

6 of the hottest smartwatches: fashion trend or smartphone alternative?

In 1973, Motorola introduced the first wireless "hand-held cell phone." Twenty years later, in 1993, IBM and American...

wearables smartphones Trends

How are teenagers using social networks? Can Shots of Me surpass Facebook?

Shots of Me, the new social network for selfies (photos taken of oneself), has famously raised $1.1 million USD in a seed-funding round...

shots of me teenagers Social Networks

Lebanon's Roadie Tuner debuts a device 'three times more accurate than the human ear'

Fresh off their stay in China at hardware accelerator HAXLR8R, the Lebanese team behind Roadie Tuner is now set to release its...

haxlr8r china Hardware

StartupYourLife, the community that’s shaking up the Moroccan startup scene

“Countries from all around the world look up to Silicon Valley as if it were the heart of innovation; they’re all getting the...

startupyourlife morocco events

4 trends shaping the future of mobile

The future is mobile, and the future for mobile is apps. Advertising, video and image sharing, and mobile retail are all gaining traction...

tech mobile advertising Technology

Voucher book The Entertainer bets on a new mobile app for global expansion

While daily deals are no longer as popular as they were a few years ago, the prospect of getting more for less is a perennial hit. Voucher...

uae entertainer Dubai

The Mobile Show Middle East 2014 in Dubai

The Mobile Show is one of the Middle East’s largest mobile solutions and technology events where the enabling technologies behind mobile i...

Conferences

How idea stage entrepreneurs can benefit from startup competitions

As entrepreneurship has boomed in the Middle East, startup and business plan competitions have also sprouted up in the region, after...

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How Lebanon's fashion industry can create the next Elie Saab

Krikor Jabotian thinks it started with Halle Berry. Before the beauty won her Best Actress Oscar in 2002, the Lebanese fashion industry...

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Global

Should entrepreneurs know how to code?

Perfecting your product before testing it in the market is an outdated approach, many have argued. But what if coding a technical...

Lean Methodology Coding Customer Service

What role should social media play in classrooms in the Middle East?

Facebook, Twitter, and Google have become indispensible tools in our professional as well as social lives; this is fast becoming as true in...

dubai school of government Education

What if you train your employees, and they leave?

I recently stumbled upon this cartoon and laughed to myself about the sad reality it presents. At Wamda, we’ve heard numerous...

Team building Training Pic of the Week

New tech park launches in Tahrir Square to empower Egypt's entrepreneurs and inventors

[Coauthored by Nina Curley] Cairo’s Tahrir Square, which will forever be known as the epicenter of Egypt’s revolution, is now ground zero fo...

Technology

Microsoft's MEA Visual Studio 2013 Online Launch

On November 19th, Microsoft will be launching the Visual Studio 2013 in the Middle East and Africa. The event will be broadcasted live...

Cards & Payments Middle East 2014 in Dubai

Cards & Payments Middle East is one of the region’s largest smart card, payments and ID events. With over 5,000 attendees and 200+ inte...

Payment systems Payment Gateways

What do Arab youth think of volunteerism? [Infographic]

Volunteerism may not historically have been a popular practice in the Arab world, but data from Nakhweh reveals that that's c...

Infographic Social Media Social Entrepreneurship

10 lessons for building a startup from the Google for Entrepreneurs Partners Summit

Two weeks ago, Muhammed Mekki and I participated – as AstroLabs – in the first Google for Entrepreneurs Partners summit, a two da...

silicon valley Advice Google

6 surprising facts about the future of the internet

Google is dominating the internet, Business Insider Intelligence reveals in a new presentation on 'The Future of Digital.' While the search...

Internet growth Data Google

Arab Mobile App Challenge Acceleration Workshops

As part of the Arab Mobile App Challenge, Accelerator Workshops will be held in Qatar, the UAE, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia to allow...

Competitions Mobile

Celebrities suit up with online tailoring from Dubai

“We’re effectively ‘stealing’ from the Brooks Brothers and Jos. A. Banks of the world,” says Tarig El Sheikh, cofounder of bespoke online s...

Retail Online retail E-commerce

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