Egypt 'Push' is big business for these Egyptians 2015 was the year of the push notification. App makers discovered that a prompt on a smartphone could remind their users they existed... Rachel Williamson • 06 November, 2016 pushbots push notification Egypt
Regional Telcos to the startup rescue? Telcos could be the saviour of emerging market startups, according to a report from mobile industry association GSMA. They have the... Rachel Williamson • 06 November, 2016 GSMA corporate venture capital Venture Capital
Iraq Fertile ground for mobile wallets: Iraq Hussein Kanber agha says his company has built a user friendly mobile wallet that will allow Iraqis to make payments using their... Lucy Knight • 17 October, 2016 iraq wallet ideal payments Zain Group
Jordan Home-cooked food gets a taste of delivery services in Jordan When Marwan Oklah Al Zou'bi and Adam Barghouti were studying indoors during Canada’s harsh winters, ordering homemade food... Tala El Issa • 13 October, 2016 Jordan Delivery Homecooked meals
Lebanon Tripoli-based startup brings online retail to local merchants Lebanon’s northern coastal city of Tripoli, once the center of trade in the region, is now too often associated with political... Maysaa Ajjan • 12 October, 2016 Tripoli lebanon Navybits
Regional Digital Arabic content: A massive opportunity to capitalize on [Wamda TV] In 2015, the population of the Arab world reached 375 million, of which 41.5 percent use the internet. Digital Arabic content stands at 3... Abdulghani Kataya • 20 September, 2016 Arabic Content Mix n Mentor Mix n Mentor Beirut
Syria 10 tech ideas to prevent a lost Syrian generation “Between two million and three million Syrian children are not attending school. The UN children’s agency says the... Maysaa Ajjan • 22 August, 2016 Social Entrepreneurship syria Education
Regional Making the best of a child’s addiction In the 90s, parents hid Gameboys from their children on high shelves and under heavy mattresses. This year, with face-to-screen time at... Dana Ballout • 16 August, 2016 Play My Way children Education
Regional Tamatem: Gaming for 18 million users As global gaming publishers overlook the Arab region’s hunger for localized mobile games, regional publishers are... Tala El Issa • 07 August, 2016 tamatem Gaming localization
Jordan Zain Jordan wants you to ditch your console and grab your phone There isn’t a better example than Pokémon Go to highlight the crucial role of mobile in the gaming industry. Several of the... Tala El Issa • 03 August, 2016 tamatem Gaming Telcos
Bahrain Skip ahead: Skiplino wants to put queuing behind us According to a Lebanese Central Bank official at the Arabnet Beirut summit this year, the Lebanese enjoy queuing in banks and use the... Eman Mostafa • 23 June, 2016 Skiplino LevelZ SAAS
Lebanon FOO's timing curse: when being ahead of the game is a problem Foo founders Elie Nasr and Ghady Rayess. (Image via Brooke Anderson) Being early to the market can be both a blessing and... Brooke Anderson • 25 May, 2016 app development Foo lebanon
Maghreb Tiny Tunisian startup cracks open global telco market Roamsmart helps mobile operators manage their roaming operations. (Image via RCR Wireless) Roaming is a pain for business travelers and a... Aline Mayard • 01 May, 2016 BizSpark RoamSmart roaming
Lebanon Krimston 'Kickstarts' its dual-SIM iPhone adapter Krimston's cofounders Fouad Fattal (left) and Nabil Nasr (right). (Images via Krimston) In April 2012, Lebanese entrepreneur Fouad Fattal... Samuel Wendel • 06 April, 2016 kickstarter Hardware Crowdfunding
Regional Health and education apps dominate at Arab Mobile Challenge Five teams from five countries are heading to the world finals in Barcelona. (Images via Arab Mobile Challenge) Third time’s the c... Aline Mayard • 22 January, 2016 Arab Mobile Challenge Arab Mobile App Challenge algeria
Egypt Egypt pill reminder app sets sights on Germany Despite having perfect health, Ahmad ElKaragy always dreaded having colds for one reason: he often forgot to take his medication... Ahmed Gabr • 16 November, 2015 MEMakers Healthcare Egypt
Saudi Arabia How this Saudi app developer is nurturing talent [Update]: Ibtikar released a new trivia game called HEXA, with tens of thousands of questions in more than 15 different fields... Ahmed Gabr • 13 October, 2015
Regional Three killer strategies to engage your inactive app users [Opinion] Keeping your app users engaged is an art and a science. (Image via eventasticme.com) Through my work with AppsGuru I've seen... Faisal Al Bitar • 17 September, 2015 retention churn rate Faisal Al Bitar
Maghreb Lik pays mobile users to pay ad-tention Lik cofounders on the stage during LevelUp event (Image vis Houda Lahlou) A revolutionary idea is not enough to ensure the success of a... Sara Kadaoui • 12 July, 2015 contextualization LevelUp LevelUp Morocco
Jordan DIY app wins top prize at first ever RedTroops JO Hackathon The developers of Edy, an iOS app that blends the creative photo sharing elements of Instagram with the DIY work of online marketplaces... Melanie Butcher • 27 April, 2015
U.A.E Dubai's Pixelbug launches highly anticipated edutainment app Colorbug The coloring is taken to a whole other level. Are you a child between 4 and 10? Do you want to meet Patrick the Horse, Pablo the... Pamela Kesrouani • 04 May, 2015 PixelBug Colorbug edutainment
Regional 'They're not there yet but they will be soon': Ubisoft analyst on MENA gaming [Wamda TV] No matter how you slice it, the gaming industry in the Middle East lags behind European, Asian, and American markets when you look at... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 12 April, 2015 mena games conference beirut mena games conference teut weidemann
U.A.E Can Yebab use photo messaging to take on Instagram? Instagram is one of the most popular social networking sites to upload and share images, but the founders of Yebab believe that their... Elsy Melkonian • 15 March, 2015 Yebab instagram
Kuwait Physical gets digital for self storage with Kuwait's BoxIt For decades now, self-storage in America has been big business. Fuelled by that all-American accumulative consumerist instinct, by 2009... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 11 March, 2015 sirdab lab self-storage storage