Weekly Wrap-Up: January 13-17 This week on Wamda, we covered startups involved in reviving their neighborhoods, and startups using gaming to rev up the regional... Wamda • 17 January, 2013 Accelerators Advice E-commerce
What the UAE's New Home Shipping Service Means for E-Commerce In my very first post for Wamda one year ago, I spoke about shipping concerns as one of the five major infrastructure needs for regional... Mo Ali Yusuf • 14 January, 2013 Delivery E-commerce
5 Easy Steps for Setting Up an E-Commerce Store in the Middle East This series by Mohanad Ghashim of ShopGo.me is part of our Demystifying E-Commerce series. It will explore various technical... Mohanad Ghashim • 08 January, 2013 Demystifying E-Commerce E-commerce Payment Gateways
7 Essential Tips for E-Commerce SEO If you’re looking to optimize an e-commerce website for search, there are plenty of simple ways to ensure that your products are ranked w... Wissam Dandan • 07 January, 2013 Analytics SEO E-commerce
A Look at E-Commerce in India: How MartJack Helped Offline Retailers Go Online When Indian software company eReasoning built MartJack in 2007, “most offline retailers in India were not tech-savvy,” says founder Abhay De... Nina Curley • 30 December, 2012 E-commerce
Mallna Makes Arab E-Commerce More Social, Adds Gamification While only 43% of internet users in the Middle East and North Africa have shopped online, according to research by OneCard, Jordanian site... Shaden Abu Al-Haijaa • 18 December, 2012 E-commerce Social Media
Founder of Daily Deals Site Hmizate Launches Online Marketplace Hmall The e-commerce sector in Morocco has truly boomed in the last 2 years. We've seen a particularly large influx of e-commerce sites,... Karim Jazouani • 09 December, 2012 morocco Cloning Daily Deals
Wamli Launches Quirky New E-Commerce Platform in Dubai Wamli, a funky new e-commerce platform for geeks and those looking for an unorthodox shopping experience, launched today in Dubai. The... Glen Dalakian II • 12 December, 2012 E-commerce Fashion Loyalty Programs
Entrepreneur of the Week: Taline Assi Co-founder of Mosaic Marble [Wamda TV] Entrepreneur of the week today on Wamda is Taline Assi, who co-founded along with her husband Mosaic Marble in 2003, an online and offline... Maya Rahal • 18 December, 2012 E-commerce Entrepreneur of the Week
Weekly Wrap-Up: December 09-13 Throughout your entrepreneurial journey, you will often be reminded of why connections and mentorship are important. Support is equally as... Wamda • 13 December, 2012 Advice Agriculture CoE Cards
Entrepreneur of the Week: Sara Galal and Mohammad Badrah of Sweety Heaven [Wamda TV] This week’s entrepreneurs of the week are Sara Galal and Mohammad Badrah, the co-founders of Sweety Heaven, an online portal in Egypt for r... Glen Dalakian II • 11 December, 2012 E-commerce Egypt Entrepreneur of the Week
Jordan's Wysada to Launch One Kings Lane Clone for the Middle East You’ve heard of Desado. Now meet Wysada.com, the Jordan-based One Kings Lane clone launching in the Middle East. Set to go live in D... Nina Curley • 05 December, 2012 Design E-commerce
From Bankruptcy to Growing Success in Saudi Arabia: The Story of Intercontinental Travel Company Intercontinental Travel Company (ITC) is one of the leading travel agencies in the Middle East and one of the pioneering companies in the... Ahmed Al Majid • 09 December, 2012 Advice E-commerce Travel
Reflections on Bahrain’s Shifting Entrepreneurship Landscape After an energetic Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), which included a week-long agenda of entrepreneurship activities organized by the... Leena AlOlaimy • 02 December, 2012 Advice E-commerce Ecosystem
Bahrain’s Majaal Makes Warehousing Startup Friendly Speculating about the rise of tech companies is fun, but with e-commerce on the region on the rise, the seemingly mundane expansion of a... Nina Curley • 28 November, 2012 E-commerce Expansion Innovation
Egypt's Bkam Boosts E-Commerce with Comparison Shopping Site and Mobile App UPDATE: Bkam won 3rd place in the Vodafone Appstar competition today. With the explosion of e-commerce websites in the past year, it... Nina Curley • 26 November, 2012 E-commerce
Dubai's SwipeZoom Offers Global E-Commerce Payment and Shipment Solution Amer Qavi was a biomedical engineer designing artificial internal organs before he set up his own medical distribution business. After... Rania Habib • 22 November, 2012 E-commerce Payment Gateways
How a 25-year-old Saudi Entrepreneur is Rethinking the Hijab Fashion entrepreneurship is one of the fastest growing segments in the world of startups. The clothing industry is estimated to equal more... Ahmed Al Majid • 20 November, 2012 E-commerce Fashion
SocialWire Launches Optimized Ads for Facebook, Announces $2m in Investment Online advertising has yet to be proven very effective. Yet SocialWire, a company started in Istanbul by a Turkish entrepreneur, is out to... Nina Curley • 14 November, 2012 Digital Advertising Advertising Social Networks
PayPal Launches Middle East Operations with Aramex Partnership PayPal, which is already an active payment platform in the region, has announced the official launch of its operations in the Middle East... Nina Curley • 14 November, 2012 Payment Gateways E-commerce Delivery
Empowering Artists after the Tunisian Revolution: eArtvolution The connection between art and business has always been a complicated one, and the debate on whether so-called “pure” art can be mar... Hatem Mahbouli • 12 November, 2012 Art E-commerce
Emirates Avenue: Turning a Steady Profit Without Ambition to Scale Unlike many of the interviews I've done lately with entrepreneurs who are very aware of their own spin, chatting with Julien... Glen Dalakian II • 12 November, 2012 E-commerce
Weekly Wrap-Up: November 11-15 If you were part of Mix N' Mentor Amman or Beirut last week, you know that the events hosted a number of enriching conversations between... Wamda • 15 November, 2012 Advice Animation CoE Cards
Wamda Face Off: MarkaVIP vs. Souq on Challenges in E-Commerce in the Arab World [Wamda TV] We hosted the first installment of our new Face Off video series last Thursday, hosting Ahmed Khatib, Founder and CEO of MarkaVIP, the... Nina Curley • 13 November, 2012 Demystifying E-Commerce E-commerce Face Off