Microsoft Announces Initiative to Empower African Tech Ecosystem This week, Microsoft announced a new initiative to support development and global competitiveness in Africa.The Microsoft 4Afrika... Nina Curley • 06 February, 2013 Advice Education Mobile
Founder of GoNabit Joins MarkaVIP as COO After the close of daily deals site LivingSocial, Sohrab Jahanbani is now joining MarkaVIP. After first founding daily deals site GoNabit,... Nina Curley • 06 February, 2013 Daily Deals E-commerce Team
Exclusive Sneak Peek: Ma2too3a! Pivots Towards Crowdsourced Traffic Updates Last June, during Lebanon’s latest electricity crisis, AUB-trained computer engineer and software developer Mohammed Taha received a f... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 06 February, 2013 Google Mobile Mobile Apps
Gate2Play Releases New APIs for E-Commerce Sites This week, Gate2Play has rolled out new support for various e-commerce platforms, to help online merchants connect to its list of regional... Nina Curley • 06 February, 2013 E-commerce Payment Gateways PayPal
Cairo Transport App Challenge Awards The Cairo Transport App Challenge (Cairo TApp) is coming to a close after the participants' hard work of several months to develop i... Wamda • 06 February, 2013 Mobile Mobile Apps Transportation
Yemeni Entrepreneurs Relocate to Cairo to Build GoEjaza Nearly 50% of Arab tourists rely on the web to plan for their trips and search for any relevant information, and 67% of them ask their... Ahmed Gabr • 06 February, 2013 Arabic Content Travel
Entrepreneur of the Week: Goktug Okan Oguz of Unnado [Wamda TV] Goktug Okan Oguz, co-founder of Turkish flash sales and e-commerce platform Unnado, which sells products for future moms and babies, is ... Maya Rahal • 05 February, 2013 Daily Deals E-commerce Endeavor
A Review of the Economic Factors that Led to the Arab Spring [Report] The International Labour Organization, along with UNDP, has released a new report detailing the economic conditions that led up to the Arab... Nina Curley • 05 February, 2013 Ecosystem Education Government
The Social Media Awards - Lebanon The Social Media Awards will allow the Lebanese online community to nominate, vote for and award the bloggers, journalists, content... Wamda • 05 February, 2013 Competitions Social Media Social Networks
How to Prevent Abandoned Shopping Carts in E-Commerce "Abandoned shopping cart" is a term used when a customer who intends to make an online purchase does not complete the checkout process.... Yasmeen Alani • 05 February, 2013 Accelerators Demystifying E-Commerce E-commerce
Regional Resource Scarcity and the Future of Business, Interactive Webinar Aramex, ArcelorMittal, the London Business School and CSM will join a live webinar debate on resource scarcity, organized by the Ethical... Wamda • 05 February, 2013 CSR Environment
7 Reasons Why You Should Not Be An Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is suddenly the coolest thing around. Even children who once wanted to grow up to be engineers, doctors, pilots and... Khurram Zafar • 05 February, 2013 Advice
Can a Hackerspace in Beirut Spread Do-ocracy? A Look at Lamba Labs “I reject thinking like that,” Bilal Ghalib said to me when I first met him. I had just arrived in Beirut and was visiting Lamba Lab... Glen Dalakian II • 05 February, 2013 Art Coworking Spaces Crowdfunding
Startup Weekend Sanaa Startup Weekend makes its way to Sana’a, Yemen for the first time on May 29-31, 2013. SW Sana’a will follow the basic Startup Weekend mode... Wamda • 04 February, 2013 Conferences Startup Weekend
Video-on-Demand Portal Istikana Announces Deal with Umniah in Jordan Istikana, one of the region’s major video-on-demand portals, has just announced a partnership with Jordanian telecom company Umniah. Inked t... Nina Curley • 04 February, 2013 Digital Marketing Mobile Video On Demand
Oasis500 Launches New Investment Track for Growing Companies Oasis500, the region’s biggest startup accelerator, is now targeting growth stage companies with a new investment vehicle. Oasis500 is k... Nina Curley • 04 February, 2013 Accelerators Investment