Pakistan Careem acquires Pakistani ride sharing service Two minds will be better than one when it comes to battling Uber. (Image via Careem) Car-hailing app Careem has acquired... Lucy Knight • 31 March, 2016 car hailing ride sharing Savaree
U.A.E Al Jaith designs a 'FitBit' for camels Camel racing is (slowly) going high tech. (Image via Prodijee) It’s “FitBit for camels”, a device that will optimize... Rachel Williamson • 31 March, 2016 maker camel racing Al Jaith
U.A.E What you've missed at Droidcon 2016 in Dubai Droidcon attendees at the Impact Hub offices. (Images via Droidcon) Amazon’s cloud-based voice service, Alexa, made a special appearance a... Archana Menon • 30 March, 2016 android developers Droidcon Dubai google developers group
Jordan The internet: is it good or bad for music? Music is one of the many industries that the internet has massively transformed. In 2014, the global recording industry, according to... Tala El Issa • 30 March, 2016 Disrupt! Music! Music streaming piracy
Jordan Jordan gets a new startup accelerator with BIG by Orange Jordan’s startup factory just powered-up another assembly line. In December 2015, Orange Jordan, which is part of the multinational... Samuel Wendel • 30 March, 2016 Support Incubator Accelerators
Regional MENA’s fab labs and the fourth industrial revolution We are in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution in human history. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4ID) is an economic... Willam Altman • 30 March, 2016 hackerspace MEMakers Job Creation
U.A.E Prepping to ‘trep During the early stages of Careem, cofounder Magnus Olsson saved every single dirham he could and devoted his whole self to the growth of... Archana Menon • 29 March, 2016 Rula Galayini creative entrepreneurship Abraaj Week
Maghreb Entrepreneurship lessons from the Algerian desert Slimane Kadi turned the desert into a succesfull business. (Images via Mehdi Bennaceri) This is a story about entrepreneurship in its most... Ismail Chaib • 29 March, 2016 low tech desert algeria
U.A.E MyCars to launch first EV car sharing in UAE The Danish-designed hybrid Fisker Karma, introduced to the UAE in 2012, is unlikely to be part of MyCars on-demand rental offerings, but... Rachel Williamson • 29 March, 2016 Al Futtaim Zipcar car sharing
Qatar What I know about digital Arabic content: Nawaf Felemban In 2015 Wamda produced a report that showed 60 percent of Arabs wanted to read online content in Arabic. That would be great... Lucy Knight • 28 March, 2016 Kooora Kasra WIK
Jordan Has foreign investment helped Jordanian SMEs and entrepreneurs? Jordanian NGO Leaders of Tomorrow (LoT) was recently doing some research on the history of local economic reform. It brought them to the... Samuel Wendel • 28 March, 2016 Diwanieh Foreign Direct Investment Leaders of Tomorrow
Saudi Arabia Building a real estate startup in Saudi's stagnant market The decrease in oil prices also affected the real estate market. (Image via news.weetas.com) Online real estate platform Lamudi,... Safar Ayad • 28 March, 2016 lamudi hellofood Carmudi
Qatar Looking to build an ecosystem, Qatar Foundation “I met with a Jordanian minister a few years ago and he told me that he wanted the country to have 10,000 PhDs in the next few years,... Lucy Knight • 27 March, 2016 ARC'16 Qatar Foundation techwadi
Regional Is it really necessary to protect your ideas? Gotta protect those brainwaves. (Image via FamousInventors.org) It’s an all too common scenario. An entrepreneur comes up with a brilliant ... Rachel McArthur • 27 March, 2016 Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company Wrapp EQT Ventures
Egypt Injaz turns to crowdfunding for Startup Egypt The funding crunch for Egypt’s startups is no secret. As seen at a recent Mix N’ Mentor in Cairo, it can in fact push... Rachel Williamson • 27 March, 2016 Escape HD Etba3ly 3D EpicVr
Jordan Launching Arab Women In Technology (Jordan Chapter) Arab Women in Computing (ArabWIC) have joined forces with Oasis500 to launch their Jordan chapter. An introductory event will be held at... Wamda • 25 March, 2016 launching ArabWIC Jordan
