Wamda

Egypt

2 lessons from last year's Dare'n'Deal shutdown

Ever since Dare’n’Deal shut down last May, many have wondered why Egypt’s most popular daily deals site...

Can media marketplaces disrupt traditional news outlets?

The statistics are by now familiar: newspaper and magazine subscriptions are in free fall, Facebook and Twitter are on the rise, and what...

marketplace news Media

e-Innovate Day in Dubai

e-Innovate Day in Dubai will be held on November 12, 2013 at the Westin Hotel Dubai Mina Seyahi Beach Resort & Marina, offering a...

Payment Gateways Conferences E-commerce

Global

This young Jordanian entrepreneur bootstrapped a funky gadget e-commerce site from home

Loay Malahmeh loves funky gifts. While shopping for one recently, he became frustrated with the overpriced products that he found...

cash-on-delivery Shipping E-commerce

Global

Could Middle East e-commerce benefit from Pinterest?

There was nothing special about the verb ‘pin’ before Pinterest was founded in 2010. Today, online, it's most likely to...

Funding Social Networks Marketing

Foodonclick enters Saudi and Lebanon. Can they replicate their success in Turkey and UAE?

Who will own online food delivery in Saudi Arabia? With Foodonclick, the Arab arm of Turkish giant Yemeksepeti, announcing expansion into...

Food delivery Food & Beverage

BusinessPulse's workshop about the latest trends in e-commerce and trading

BusinessPulse, an online portal that provides advice and support to SMEs in the region, is organizing a workshop on the 28th of October in...

Dubai Workshops

Is Algeria ready for an online supermarket?

Despite significant challenges for e-commerce sites in Algeria – including the fact that only 14% of Algerians are internet users – t...

algeria

Jordan

Can Jordan's Voga Closet scale its e-commerce store without offering cash-on-delivery?

[Update: Voga Closet is now offering Cash on Delivery] Needless to say, online payment is a serious issue for e-commerce websites in...

cash-on-delivery Shipping Payment Gateways

Aramex, Google, PayPal, and ShopGo launch EZStore.me to help offline retailers go online

With 30 million people shopping online today in the Middle East and North Africa, in a market expected to reach $15 billion by 2015,...

E-commerce

How to reduce cash-on-delivery in Middle East e-commerce

At a roundtable hosted by PayPal last week, representatives from some of the region’s biggest e-commerce players gathered to discuss the r...

cash-on-delivery Payment Gateways E-commerce

How Dubai media machine AWI is turning traffic into transactions with new car portal ArabsTurbo

In classifieds, Egypt has become a highly competitive market, with companies like the revamped Waseet, Dubizzle, and Avito’s Bekam duking i...

classified Content Portals

How e-commerce site Kahenas overcame local challenges to sell stunning Moroccan designs

Preserving national heritage is a concern for many cultures today, as globalization causes the production and consumption of similar items...

Art E-commerce

What did startups learn at Astrolabs' recent workshop in Amman?

After their first Scaling Online Startups (SOS) workshop in Dubai this past May, and subsequent workshops in Riyadh and Beirut,...

Astrolabs Workshops Marketing

What are the most surprising e-commerce trends in the Middle East this year?

After PayPal released its Insights report yesterday, which details trends in e-commerce in the Middle East, we chatted with Elias Ghanem,...

PayPal Payment Gateways E-commerce

PayPal Insights: E-commerce in the Middle East [Report]

A new report by PayPal takes a comprehensive look at statistics and trends in e-commerce in the Middle East, specifically the UAE, Saudi...

M-commerce Mobile Penetration PayPal

PayPal Insights e-commerce report reveals trends in mobile, travel in the Middle East

The idea that mobile is the future of e-commerce isn’t new, but it may surprise some to learn that shoppers in the Gulf already p...

Mobile Penetration Travel Mobile

Can e-commerce site Cazamoda overcome the challenges of family business?

Jordan

Thought Leadership

2 lessons from last year's Dare'n'Deal shutdown

Can media marketplaces disrupt traditional news outlets?

e-Innovate Day in Dubai

This young Jordanian entrepreneur bootstrapped a funky gadget e-commerce site from home

Could Middle East e-commerce benefit from Pinterest?

Foodonclick enters Saudi and Lebanon. Can they replicate their success in Turkey and UAE?

BusinessPulse's workshop about the latest trends in e-commerce and trading

Is Algeria ready for an online supermarket?

Can Jordan's Voga Closet scale its e-commerce store without offering cash-on-delivery?

Aramex, Google, PayPal, and ShopGo launch EZStore.me to help offline retailers go online

How to reduce cash-on-delivery in Middle East e-commerce

How Dubai media machine AWI is turning traffic into transactions with new car portal ArabsTurbo

How e-commerce site Kahenas overcame local challenges to sell stunning Moroccan designs

What did startups learn at Astrolabs' recent workshop in Amman?

What are the most surprising e-commerce trends in the Middle East this year?

PayPal Insights: E-commerce in the Middle East [Report]

PayPal Insights e-commerce report reveals trends in mobile, travel in the Middle East

Can e-commerce site Cazamoda overcome the challenges of family business?

Empowering Moroccan artisans to sell on Etsy and Ebay

Edgy streetwear brand challenges sedate Egyptian fashion market

How ArabHardware built a strong community in Egypt and pivoted into e-commerce

The Future of E-Commerce panel in Dubai

Mumzworld seeks investment from 'empowered' women angels; how it's persuading moms to buy online

How the Arab startup ecosystem grew in 2012 [Videographic]

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