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Prayer, Media, and Gaming Apps Win at the Innovation Theatre Competition at QITCOM

After 10 teams pitched their ideas yesterday at the Innovation Theatre, in a competition hosted by Potential at QITCOM, the 5 team that...

Education Gaming Mobile

Diabetes Prevention App for Qatar Wins Vodafone Appathon at QITCOM

Over the past 48 hours, 13 teams hustled to build working mobile apps during the Appathon hosted by Vodafone Qatar and supported by...

Mobile Mobile Apps

How an Advisory Board Adds Value to Your Business

What is an advisory board? Ideally, it’s a collection of individuals who bring unique knowledge and skills to the table that complement the ...

Corporate Governance

Entrepreneurship Outperforms Innovation

Innovative ideas can make a splash, but entrepreneurs are more likely to create value, change the world, and make profits. Pro or...

Innovation

10 Semifinalists Pitch at QITCOM's Innovation Theatre

Today, in the Innovation Theatre at QITCOM, Qatar's IT-focused conference, 10 nervous entrepreneurs pitched ideas to a panel of judges,...

Competitions Innovation

Interested in Tracking Your Daily Health? Quantified Self Comes to Beirut

I woke up this morning at 7:30 AM after going to sleep at 1:20 AM. I woke up twice during the night. My heart rate was 56 BPM, my weight 65...

Health

A Practitioner's Guide for Social Entrepreneurs in Egypt and the Arab Region

Ehab Abdou is a social entrepreneur who has spent more than 15 years working to energize young Egyptians to contribute to their country's...

Pitching a Mobile App for Medical Diagnosis in Jordan: Dr. Bot

[English]. At Startup Weekend Amman, engineer Mahmoud Darawsheh discusses his team's idea for Dr. Bot, a mobile and tablet application that...

Startup Weekend

WMA: Bringing Sponsored Tweets to the Arab World [Wamda TV]

WMA: Bringing Sponsored Tweets to the Arab World [Wamda TV] At Startup Weekend Amman a few weeks ago, Ahmad Kharbat told us about the idea...

Startup Weekend

Yahoo! Maktoob's New Geo-Located Events Concept Battuta Revealed at QITCOM

Of the pitches that I saw today in the TechZone at QITCOM, Qatar's IT-dedicated conference, one that stood out was Yahoo's forward-thinking...

Digital Media Mobile Mobile Apps

Wamda Capital Announces Investment in Translation Platform Qordoba

Wamda Capital, the early stage funding arm of Wamda, has announced investment in crowdsourced translation platform Qordoba. Qordoba, which...

Investment

What Ethical SEO Is and Why You Should Care

I was reading a book by Christopher Elliott titled Scammed, which is all about the extent to which companies will go to misinform...

Analytics Digital Marketing SEO

Dalalat: A Research Initiative to Boost Arabic SEO [Wamda TV]

At Startup Weekend Amman a few weeks ago, young Jordanian Hussein El Natcheh told Wamda about the idea behind his startup, Dalalat.Dalalat ...

Startup Weekend

Which Mobile OS Dominated 2011?

If you're looking to build mobile applications for export to a global market, take a look at iCrossing's recent infographic detailing the...

Mobile Trends

Entrepreneurs: Stop Innovating, Start Minnovating

This article was originally published on the Harvard Business Review Blog Network. If we want more entrepreneurs, stop worrying about...

Innovation

Intelligent Flying Robots, Designed for Social Good [Wamda TV]

Today we're inspired by this video of a set of intelligent flying robots, developed by Vijay Kumar. While the robots, which coordinate in a...

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