Wamda

Maghreb

Is a traditional European delivery system the answer to MENA's payment and delivery woes?

Ecommerce in the Arab world is in a particularly fascinating and exciting phase. Everybody knows it’s bound to boom, and wants to be a...

CoD cash-on-delivery Online delivery

Maghreb

Could Jumia be the Alibaba of Africa?

Alibaba’s successful IPO fixed everyone’s attention firmly on e-commerce in fast-growing markets, and especially on marketplaces, like eBa...

Jumia marketplace Rocket Internet

Regional

The Middle Eastern startup blind spot: an obsession with money

This article was co-authored by Melltoo founders Sharene Lee and Morad Irsane “How do you make money?” is a question everyone asks about Mel...

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Regional

Dubai's listings site Melltoo on the hunt for investors

The world of classified ads has moved a long way from one having to trawl through the back sections of local newspapers looking for...

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Saudi Arabia

4 ways to tackle Saudi ecommerce, from an Oasis500 mentor

Sometimes, you can talk to people for hours and not understand how the time passed so quickly. And then there are those times when a half...

Saudi Arabia Social Media Marketing

Jordan

Jordanian serial entrepreneur pivots from selling gadgets to 3D printing his own

Loay Malahmeh is becoming what he never thought he would be – a serial entrepreneur. From TickyTacky.me to 3Dmena, the Jordanian e...

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U.A.E

Middle East kids fashion marketplace off to a strong start

E-commerce has proved once again to be a promising industry for entrepreneurs in the Arab region. After witnessing the rise of many online...

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How 5 teenagers built one of Algeria's biggest websites

The story of Algeria’s eighth most visited website started eight years ago when police showed up to shut down a suburban street market. F...

Ouedkniss algeria classified

Telr and Innovate Payments merge to boost e-commerce in global emerging markets

Telr, the payment gateway for emerging markets based between Dubai and Singapore, has announced that it will merge with Innovate Payments,...

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Starting up, getting acquired, and shutting down: GoNabit co-founder's advice on the entrepreneurial journey

In a startup ecosystem as young as the Arab region’s, there are only a few founders that have completed the full entrepreneurship cycle, f...

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Turkey’s Prisync has its eye on the Middle East

The growth of e-commerce has brought with it a surge in the choice of products and suppliers at customers’ fingertips. It has never been e...

E-commerce turkey

Desado founder blazing a trail for Muslim fashion

The world is increasingly recognizing the tremendous potential of the global Islamic economy — one that encompasses diverse sectors i...

muslim Fashion

Young Lebanese innovators honored by MIT, confirms a growing trend

Update: Wamda has just learned that a third Lebanese, entrepreneur Rand Hindi, was also included in the MIT list (editors were...

littlebits MIT

From Saudi to the US: selling camel milk as the new superfood

A Palestinian raised in Saudi, Walid Abdul-Wahab moved to Los Angeles in 2009 to study at USC, where he discovered how health-conscious a...

How can the region attract more venture capital? Wamda's Q&A with Rabea Ataya

Photo courtesy of Joi Ito. Earlier this year, Wamda launched its newest initiative, the Wamda Research Lab (WRL), a program that...

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Bikhir merges with Avito: a look at the new company

Five months ago, the news that the two leaders of the classified market in Morocco, Avito.ma and Bikhir.ma, were merging made a lot of...

Merger MarocAnnonces Avito

Can adapted Google algorithm get MENA customers to shop online?

According to experts, e-commerce is the fastest growing sector in the Gulf. For the UAE in particular, they expect its value to reach...

uae Expansion Egypt

How to gain customer trust: 6 lessons from top Moroccan and Tunisian daily deals sites

In Morocco and Tunisia, daily deals websites have changed the way people use the internet. There was a before, when online purchases were...

Superdeal.ma Hmizate Bigdeal.tn

How this startup is taking on the region's $15 billion cosmetics market

While Faisal Hakki was working at the Jordanian VC firm Accelerator Technology Holdings, where he screened, evaluated, and helped...

same day delivery kohlah beauty products

Whatever happened to Morocco’s ecommerce pioneer MyDeal.ma?

For a few months now, one question has been on many Moroccans’ lips: is daily deals website MyDeal.ma really “on hold, to rise from its ash...

morocco Failure Daily Deals

Namshi's momentum acknowledged with MSN strategic partnership

Major entities striking deals to support economic growth has become a trend in the region. Luxury fashion retail site Namshi, a Rocket...

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Credit cards, internet access, and online bill pay: Moroccan e-commerce is booming

Morocco

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