Wamda

Regional

M-health apps taking the pulse of the region

Following up on our recent piece on m-health in the region, we’ve compiled a list of other health applications and platforms that are...

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U.A.E

Bright future for drones industry on display at UAE contest

The winning, Swiss, team. (Image via Drones for Good) Dubai Internet City was buzzing with the sounds of drones this week at the inaugural...

Unmanned aerial vehicle UAV Drones for good

Kuwait

Rocket Internet acquires Kuwait’s Talabat for $170M, largest MENA tech acquisition since Maktoob

Since Yahoo! acquired Maktoob in 2009 for $165 million the region has anticipated the next big exit. Today the German ecommerce...

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U.A.E

Can live online tutoring shake up the Arab region's education sector?

Update: Teach Me Now announced moving to Azure, Microsoft's Cloud Computing Platform, and becoming part of Microsoft BizSpark. This...

tutoring MOOCs Education

Regional

The Arab region's freelance economy: some data

By all accounts the global freelance economy is burgeoning. For many, it acts as a way to earn income in the absence of formalized,...

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Regional

Building the Arab region’s biggest B2B market place is not without its challenges

Two years ago Syrian entrepreneur Salim Akil was poised to make his SearchinMena.com, a Yellow Pageseque search engine, the region’s l...

Egypt

Proposed Egypt technology park facing bureaucratic delays

Big plans to create a technology and entrepreneurial hub in the southern Cairo suburb of Maadi could be stalling, for which some are...

maadi technology park Hardware Egypt

U.A.E

Dubai's 'Drones for Good' competition enters finals

Look at that drone go. (Images via Dubai government) Dubai’s government is pushing engineers and entrepreneurs to create drones that a...

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Egypt

Can this Egyptian entrepreneur follow her passion to success?

This piece has been crossposted with Firnas. Entrepreneurs don’t necessarily have to create a new product or come up with a new service to ...

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Egypt

Palestinian startup seeks to bridge Egypt’s digital divide

Jacob Korenblum, CEO of Palestinian startup Souktel, says there is a a huge potential in Egypt for audio mobile services and low-data...

Bayt Iqraaly Zambaleeta

Lebanon

Rollin'pen finds its opportunity in optimizing Arabic content for the web

While Beirut has countless translators, one in particular is targeting businesses with an eye on corporate communication. “The idea i...

RollinPen lebanon Translation

Regional

The growing m-health sector of the Middle East, too slow?

When the Arabic medical information platform AlTibbi accept their World Summit Award for best mobile medical content in February...

MENA Healthcare Dr Bridge

U.A.E

Ustad Mobile to scale mobile ed tech programs to the Middle East

Access to technology has long been seen as key to developing education programs in low-income countries, but the availability...

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Regional

5 predictions for ecommerce in the Arab World in 2015

This article is a crosspost with the Payfort blog. At Payfort, we always gather our teams in January to discuss and plan for...

Payfort

Maghreb

If hackers and makers in Morocco mingled, they could all be winners

Like most Maghreb and Middle East countries, Moroccan entrepreneurs often refuse to collaborate and to share knowledge with one another....

collaborative communities makers Maghreb

Egypt

3 Cairo coworking spaces offering a new approach to education

A reduction in rent costs is no longer the only reason for coworking spaces to trend in Egypt, rather, the expansion is looking to include...

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Jordan

Jordan's gaming industry steadily grows

Over the last few years Jordan’s IT and entrepreneurship fields have witnessed sizeable boom. The most significant of them...

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Maghreb

Morocco's Education Media Company raises $280,000 on the strength of an unusual story

The 9rayti team. Adam Bouhadma is only 24, and has just raised 2.5 million Moroccan dirhams ($280,000) for his company Education...

MNF Education Maroc Numeric Fund

Libya

Two Maghrebi women named new Ashoka Fellows

The Voice of Libyan Women's Alaa Murabit addresses a crowd. Ashoka Arab World, an organization dedicated to enabling social...

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Saudi Arabia

The future is bright, the future is ecommerce in Saudi Arabia

This article was posted originally on Firnas.org. This year, online payment solution provider PayFort released the State...

E-commerce Saudi Arabia firnas

Egypt

Egypt ed-tech firm eyes home turf for expansion [Wamda TV]

One of Egypt’s earliest technology companies is beginning to venture into its local education market, having already conquered the...

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Saudi Arabia

The quick rise of online video content in Saudi Arabia

This post was originally published on firnas.org Making the most of the access now had to basic filming equipment, such as...

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Jordan

ArabiaWeather.com closes $2M investment round led by Badia Impact Fund

ArabiaWeather.com has announced a new round of investment, reported by some outlets to be $2 million, led by new investor Badia Impact...

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Maghreb

Asma Mansour: Tunisia's social entrepreneurship pioneer

For some, entrepreneurship starts as an epiphany, and quickly becomes an addiction. Asma Mansour is one of them. The founder of the...

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