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Founder of GoNabit Joins MarkaVIP as COO

After the close of daily deals site LivingSocial, Sohrab Jahanbani is now joining MarkaVIP. After first founding daily deals site GoNabit,...

Daily Deals E-commerce Team

Gate2Play Releases New APIs for E-Commerce Sites

This week, Gate2Play has rolled out new support for various e-commerce platforms, to help online merchants connect to its list of regional...

E-commerce Payment Gateways PayPal

How to Prevent Abandoned Shopping Carts in E-Commerce

"Abandoned shopping cart" is a term used when a customer who intends to make an online purchase does not complete the checkout process....

Accelerators Demystifying E-Commerce E-commerce

Sallaty Brings Online Grocery Shopping to Jordan

When Samia Jarrar first met her husband, she had no idea that she would end up starting a company with him. But in 2011, six years after...

Delivery E-commerce Food & Beverage

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...

E-commerce Infographic

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...

Accelerators Advice E-commerce

What the UAE's New Home Shipping Service Means for E-Commerce

In my very first post for Wamda one year ago, I spoke about shipping concerns as one of the five major infrastructure needs for regional...

Delivery E-commerce

5 Easy Steps for Setting Up an E-Commerce Store in the Middle East

This series by Mohanad Ghashim of ShopGo.me is part of our Demystifying E-Commerce series. It will explore various technical...

Demystifying E-Commerce E-commerce Payment Gateways

7 Essential Tips for E-Commerce SEO

If you’re looking to optimize an e-commerce website for search, there are plenty of simple ways to ensure that your products are ranked w...

Analytics SEO E-commerce

A Look at E-Commerce in India: How MartJack Helped Offline Retailers Go Online

When Indian software company eReasoning built MartJack in 2007, “most offline retailers in India were not tech-savvy,” says founder Abhay De...

E-commerce

Mallna Makes Arab E-Commerce More Social, Adds Gamification

While only 43% of internet users in the Middle East and North Africa have shopped online, according to research by OneCard, Jordanian site...

E-commerce Social Media

Founder of Daily Deals Site Hmizate Launches Online Marketplace Hmall

The e-commerce sector in Morocco has truly boomed in the last 2 years. We've seen a particularly large influx of e-commerce sites,...

morocco Cloning Daily Deals

Wamli Launches Quirky New E-Commerce Platform in Dubai

Wamli, a funky new e-commerce platform for geeks and those looking for an unorthodox shopping experience, launched today in Dubai. The...

E-commerce Fashion Loyalty Programs

Entrepreneur of the Week: Taline Assi Co-founder of Mosaic Marble [Wamda TV]

Entrepreneur of the week today on Wamda is Taline Assi, who co-founded along with her husband Mosaic Marble in 2003, an online and offline...

E-commerce Entrepreneur of the Week

Weekly Wrap-Up: December 09-13

Throughout your entrepreneurial journey, you will often be reminded of why connections and mentorship are important. Support is equally as...

Advice Agriculture CoE Cards

Entrepreneur of the Week: Sara Galal and Mohammad Badrah of Sweety Heaven [Wamda TV]

This week’s entrepreneurs of the week are Sara Galal and Mohammad Badrah, the co-founders of Sweety Heaven, an online portal in Egypt for r...

E-commerce Egypt Entrepreneur of the Week

Jordan's Wysada to Launch One Kings Lane Clone for the Middle East

You’ve heard of Desado. Now meet Wysada.com, the Jordan-based One Kings Lane clone launching in the Middle East. Set to go live in D...

Design E-commerce

From Bankruptcy to Growing Success in Saudi Arabia: The Story of Intercontinental Travel Company

Intercontinental Travel Company (ITC) is one of the leading travel agencies in the Middle East and one of the pioneering companies in the...

Advice E-commerce Travel

Reflections on Bahrain’s Shifting Entrepreneurship Landscape

After an energetic Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), which included a week-long agenda of entrepreneurship activities organized by the...

Advice E-commerce Ecosystem

Bahrain’s Majaal Makes Warehousing Startup Friendly

Speculating about the rise of tech companies is fun, but with e-commerce on the region on the rise, the seemingly mundane expansion of a...

E-commerce Expansion Innovation

Egypt's Bkam Boosts E-Commerce with Comparison Shopping Site and Mobile App

UPDATE: Bkam won 3rd place in the Vodafone Appstar competition today. With the explosion of e-commerce websites in the past year, it...

E-commerce

Dubai's SwipeZoom Offers Global E-Commerce Payment and Shipment Solution

Amer Qavi was a biomedical engineer designing artificial internal organs before he set up his own medical distribution business. After...

E-commerce Payment Gateways

How a 25-year-old Saudi Entrepreneur is Rethinking the Hijab

Fashion entrepreneurship is one of the fastest growing segments in the world of startups. The clothing industry is estimated to equal more...

E-commerce Fashion

SocialWire Launches Optimized Ads for Facebook, Announces $2m in Investment

Online advertising has yet to be proven very effective. Yet SocialWire, a company started in Istanbul by a Turkish entrepreneur, is out to...

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