NYUAD Hackathon Winners Debut Startups for Social Good Yesterday, Social Enterprise Week in Dubai kicked off with a pre-launch event at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) campus, as part of... Shaimaa El Nazer • 25 February, 2013 Competitions Conferences Social Change
From Bankruptcy to Topping the Arabia500: German Imaging Technologies [Wamda TV] In an interview at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Sassan Khatib-Shahidi, co-founder and CEO of Dubai-based printer cartridge ... Wamda • 25 February, 2013 Failure
CircleTie: Better than Foursquare, Built in Egypt Location-based check-in apps are all the rage, especially those that help you discover new venues. In Egypt, however, CircleTie, is... Omar Aysha • 25 February, 2013 Egypt Gamification Innovation
Bosletak: An Online Guide to Jobs and Colleges in Egypt Right after the end of summer, high school and college graduates start thinking about their next steps, whether that involves applying to... Hanan Solayman • 25 February, 2013 Arabic Content
Mobile App Startup Localizes Daily Deals in Malaysia [Wamda TV] In an interview at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Fadzli Anuar, the founder of Voucheres, a mobile app for local ad promotion based in ... Wamda • 24 February, 2013 Daily Deals Mobile Mobile Apps
Accelerating the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in the Arab World [Workshop] At Silatech's recent Arab Youth & Entrepreneurship conference, speakers worked to bring together the elements that constitute a... Nina Curley • 24 February, 2013 Ecosystem Workshops
Cairo Transport App Challenge Winners Announced Last Saturday, the Cairo Transport App Challenge (Cairo TApp) concluded with an awards ceremony announcing the top 3 tech solutions to... Glen Dalakian II • 24 February, 2013 Mobile Mobile Apps Social Change
Careem, the Uber of the Middle East, Launches Mobile App [PROMOTION INCLUDED] UPDATE: Those who sign up for Careem through Wamda will receive a free 30 AED (~US $8) in credit; click here. For those looking to get ar... Nina Curley • 24 February, 2013 Mobile Mobile Apps Taxi + Traffic
Five Smartphone Apps for Creating and Editing Documents Whether you're looking to review a few important papers, take a final look at a lecture or add edits to a document before sending it to one... Ahmed Gabr • 24 February, 2013 Mobile Mobile Apps
The Top 10 Applications on the App Store in Lebanon In Lebanon, the smartphone market is rapidly growing, predominantly on Android which is in the lead, and iOS, which is just a few... Salim Al-Lawzi • 23 February, 2013 Mobile Apps Ranking Social Networks
Weekly Wrap-Up: February 17-21 This week's content included a number of announcements, from Turkish entrepreneur Bedriye Hulya's Social Entrepreneur of the Year award at... Wamda • 21 February, 2013 Advice Competitions Conferences
Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs Project to Launch at the New Arab Woman Forum It’s no secret that as youth employment in the Middle East rises over the next decade, governments through the region will increasingly l... Nina Curley • 21 February, 2013 Conferences Ecosystem Women
What Would You Do If You Had Google Glass? Google Glass has arrived. Google’s new demo video, released yesterday, reveals some of the wildest and most touching ways it could t... Nina Curley • 21 February, 2013 Innovation Technology
What It Means to Stay Yalla [Pic of the Week] At the World Economic Forum 2013 in Davos, Switzerland last month, Wamda CEO Habib Haddad gave a talk on the importance of “Thinking A... Wamda • 21 February, 2013 Ecosystem Pic of the Week
6 Tools For Improving Your Team's Communication In the Arab world, having a team across several countries is not uncommon, especially in a tech startup. Whether due to a lack of talent in... Ahmed Gabr • 21 February, 2013 Mobile Mobile Apps Social Media
How Gate2Play Supports E-Commerce Growth in the Middle East [Wamda TV] In an interview at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, founder and CEO of regional payment solution Gate2Play, Muhannad Ebwini, discusses ... Wamda • 20 February, 2013 E-commerce Investment Payment Gateways