Announcing the Winner of Wamda's Community Blog Competition After launching the Community Post function and Competition just last month, Wamda received a great response and some very compelling, ... Maya Rahal • 21 January, 2013 Competitions Ecosystem Social Change
Meet the Winners of the Maghreb Startup Initiative Competition After nine months of pitching sessions and bootcamps during the Maghreb Startup Initiative competition, 13 startups have survived to win... Nina Curley • 21 January, 2013 Competitions Innovation
Introduction to Video Game Design The Design Institute Amman is hosting a course titled “The Age of Videogames: from Pong to Gamification.” By defining game design pri... Wamda • 21 January, 2013 Gaming Mobile Gaming
Entrepreneurs Flock to Tamkeen Expo in Bahrain Over 2000 exhibitors and delegates flocked to the inaugural Tamkeen (Labour Fund) Expo in Bahrain earlier this month. Held under... Leena AlOlaimy • 21 January, 2013 Conferences Ecosystem
Why Jordanian Startup TakTek Closed and What it Means for the Gaming Sector “I’ve let everyone go,” Gaith Kawar confessed to me over coffee at Starbucks in Abdoun last month, giving a look of resignation through his ... Nina Curley • 21 January, 2013 Advice Failure Gaming
An Anatomy of E-Commerce in the UAE [Infographic] For e-commerce companies in the UAE, it's time to go mobile, reduce your prices, and advertise in the evening. These conclusions may... Nina Curley • 21 January, 2013 E-commerce Infographic
Global Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility, by Fadi Ghandour It is a matter of fact that chronic poverty and unemployment have long been the twin hallmarks of most Arab economies. While poverty... Fadi Ghandour • 21 January, 2013 Social Change Ecosystem Fadi Ghandour
Taskty Launches to Provide Services to Egyptian Startups and Customers While creating platforms for freelancers and project-based jobs has been a popular concept around the globe, now it's becoming one of the... Ahmed Gabr • 20 January, 2013 Flat6Labs Outsourcing
Dispelling the Myth that Arab Women Entrepreneurs Don't Found Scalable Businesses What do you get when you put an outspoken group of female entrepreneurs under one roof for one day? At the recent Women Entrepreneurs in... Serene Touma • 20 January, 2013 Ecosystem Scaling Women
Russian Craigslist Avito Climbs to the Top in Morocco Online classified ads is one of Morocco's two biggest digital sectors, along with daily deals, and both have seen spectacular g... Karim Jazouani • 20 January, 2013 Wamda News
How Unfair Competition Caused an Egyptian Startup to Fail Sometimes a lack of money is the reason behind the failure of a certain project; other times a moment of cultural disconnect might be a... Hanan Solayman • 20 January, 2013 Egypt Failure
Best Arabic Web Project Competition The Best Arabic Web Project Competition 2012, sponsored by Mobily, was recently launched to give entrepreneurs the chance to show off and... Wamda • 18 January, 2013 Arabic Content Competitions Design
Keep Dreaming and Work Hard [Pic of the Week] Despite the conflicts, instability and misfortunes hitting some Arab countries lately, it is refreshing to note that Arab communities are... Maya Rahal • 17 January, 2013 Advice CoE Cards Egypt
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 Facebook's Graph Search Means for the Middle East When quizzed about Facebook privacy issues in 2010 at D8, Mark Zuckerberg took a halting, nervous stab at convincing us to accept his... Nina Curley • 17 January, 2013 Facebook Social Networks Technology
Maysalward Localizes New Mobile Game ShaqDown for the Arab World A new battle is being fought in the Middle East, thanks to Jordanian gaming company Maysalward. Basketball legend Shaquille... Glen Dalakian II • 17 January, 2013 Mobile Mobile Gaming Gaming
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