Wamda

Global

How can investors use data science?

Dmitry Kaminskiy is the general partner at Deep Knowledge Group, a UK-based consortium of commercial and non-profit organisations active in...

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U.A.E

Hub71 chooses startups for third cohort

Abu Dhabi-based accelerator Hub71 has chosen the 19 startups that will partake in the third cohort of its accelerator...

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Regional

Gaining more value from data through incentive, investment and regulation

Jad Hajj, partner with Strategy& Middle East; Alice Klat, director of the Ideation Center, and Jana Batal, senior fellow at the...

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Turkey

Turkish startup turned machine failure into a business model

Airways and railways have been conservative and difficult sectors for startups due to safety and security issues. But this is changing,...

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Algeria

From dates to big data, entrepreneurship as therapy

“You need to start by entering your order into the machine,” a waiter explained to Hadj Khelil at a McDonald’s in Paris....

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Jordan

Mawdoo3.com scales into video and AI

In January 2017, Mawdoo3.com reached 33 million views which made it the most popular website in the Gulf according to a report released by...

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Saudi Arabia

Tapping into social media: the story of Lucidya

Arabic content, be it news or software, has become massively popular, and one Saudi startup is mining that trend in social media...

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U.A.E

Using big data and AI to fill the digital Arabic content void

When it comes to digital content there’s not much out there in Arabic. In fact, according to data released in the 2016 Media in...

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Egypt

Did this Egyptian company predict the US election?

Donald Trump’s election to the US presidency was a shock for many, but not so much for those who were willing and able to read the...

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U.A.E

Big data, food for thought at Dubai’s Smartcon

‘Big data’ is an increasingly cited buzzword but not always completely understood in relation to the planning and optimization...

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Jordan

Health tech in MENA: How do you say measles, mumps and rubella in Arabic?

“Now is the era of systems that learn. It’s like [sending] a child to school. You teach them to read and digest information....

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Global

Behind Gradberry’s rebirth: it's all about timing

“I don’t look like any other founder in the [Silicon] Valley. I wasn’t born and raised here,” Gradberry founder Iba...

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Tunisia

Favizone, the Tunisian big data company that's launching in France

What do you do after you’ve found success and sold your startup? Mehdi Khemiri’s answer was to pick a high potential...

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Egypt

Egypt startup eyes global industrial IoT

Spimesense Labs was born from corporate sluggishness: two friends were working at Ericsson when it was trying to work out just how big this...

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Regional

MIT Media Lab and Wamda Workshop Abu Dhabi 2014: Joe Paradiso

The MIT Media Lab Abu Dhabi innovation workshop brought together design innovators, technologists, entrepreneurs, makers, thinkers, and...

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Regional

Big data in health: good for anything yet?

Using big data in healthcare, anywhere, might it be true to say no one seems to quite know what they’re doing yet? But Dr....

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Regional

Applications open for Start IT with Etisalat

Start IT with Etisalat are on the lookout for this year’s batch of aspiring Egyptian entrepreneurs. The initiative,...

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Global

Data science: how is it good for business?

Can you make data science work for your business? (Image via Alamy/Carol and Mike Werner) “Data is the new oil,” says big...

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U.A.E

The challenges and possibilities of IoT, big data

The first day of Future Tech Week, busy. (Images via Future Tech Week) The latest buzzwords in technology - big data, Internet of Things...

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Egypt

Egypt's Big Data Hackathon teaches next gen of data crunchers

Big Data Hackathon participants learn get a crash course in data analysis. (Images via Eman Mostafa) Go big or go home could have been a...

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Egypt

Egypt Big Data Hackathon III

The Information Technology Institute (ITI) will hold its third edition of the Egypt Annual Big Data Hackathon on February 18-20th, at the...

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Maghreb

Tunisia’s media monitoring service, WebRadar, is targeting the Arab world

The Innova team is changing Arabic big data. Here they pause at Cogite coworking space's garden. (Images via WebRadar) Upon discovering...

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Regional

How to leverage healthcare analytics to control healthcare costs [Opinion]

Healthcare costs directly impact an SME’s bottom line and overall competitiveness. Skyrocketing healthcare costs in the United...

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Egypt

Egypt's Winex innovates with health tech

The international health sector is evolving as innovators mix tech solutions with healthcare, but in Egypt the shift to even partially...

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