Wamda

Lebanon

Innovation fills the prescription: 6 tips on building a wearable from CardioDiagnostics

Most of the entrepreneurial activity in the region focuses on ecommerce or online services, and software development and services...

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Maghreb

Tunisian startup begins manufacturing innovative wind turbine; announces Microsoft partnership

Anyone who has had the chance to speak to Anis Aouini and Hassine Labaïed, the cofounders of Tunisia’s Saphon Energy, knows that ...

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U.A.E

Middle East Digital Group acquires Cobone.com to fill its ecommerce gap

ExpatWoman.com team More than two years after being acquired by Tiger Global Management, Dubai-based daily...

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Maghreb

What does the future hold for the Tunisian coworking scene? Cogite's Rym Baouendi weighs in

Two months ago, Cogite blew out its first candle, celebrating its one-year anniversary. It’s hard to believe it has already been a year s...

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Egypt

5 startups to watch in Egypt's exciting agritech sector

Following last week's agritech overview, we profile five up-and-coming businesses from the startups seeking to revolutionize the way...

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Egypt

Egypt's agritech entrepreneurs bring the farm to the boardroom

For eight millennia the thin strip of land along the Nile, and the green fan of the Delta, supported Egypt's growing...

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Saudi Arabia

Games in Saudi Arabia: What’s popular and what’s profitable

This article has been crossposted from Firnas.org. Smartphones are widely spread in Saudi Arabia, to the point that the mobile...

games Saudi Arabia

Kuwait

Kuwait's myU shows promise in beta; can it scale?

Social networking is seen in many schools and colleges as a distraction best avoided for students aiming for the top grades. But for Bader...

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Jordan

How to scale Jordan's gaming ecosystem? Community and strategy, say experts at Think ZINC

From left to right: Moderator and Zain CEO Ahmad Hanandeh, Alison Kelly, Greg Mitchell, Gavin Goulden, and Rachad Saddi. Taking advantage...

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Lebanon

Japan's Cookpad to acquire Lebanon's Shahiya for $13.5M to enter the Arab world

Japan's largest recipe portal Cookpad is set to acquire Lebanon's Shahiya for a reported $13.5 million in a landmark deal for the Arab...

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U.A.E

Flat6Labs launches Abu Dhabi accelerator with a focus on media startups

From L to R: Flat6Labs CEO Ramez Mohamed, Flat6Labs Abu Dhabi Managing Director Nina Curley, and twofour54's Issa Aghabi. Hoping to...

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Kuwait

Kuwait startup ecosystem builds momentum and welcomes new partners

Kuwait’s nascent startup ecosystem may be getting a serious boost this week, when Mark Solon, the managing partner of global accelerator n...

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi's iPhady finds new home with Alfalak

As part of its expansion strategy throughout Saudi Arabia, Alfalak Electronic Equipment and Supplies, a provider of IT and telecom...

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Jordan

4 lessons on scaling from 2014's MENA ICT Forum

Last week, Amman’s King Hussein Business Park played host to the 2014 edition of the MENA ICT Forum, a two-day event that brought together ...

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Egypt

Startups are filling gaps left by Egypt's banking behemoths

Mohamed Sameh Fouad, MENA and Pakistan sales director of banking SunGard Financial Systems, Abeer Khadr, National Bank of...

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Regional

Sudan and Iraq poised to win Collaborative Spaces Challenge

There’s nothing like a healthy competition to get people clicking. Hivos’s Mideast Creatives program and Zoomaal know something about thi...

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Regional

New Diwanee site seeks to feed growing interest in MENA celebrity news

When Paris-based digital publishing company Webedia acquired a majority stake in Diwanee in March, the Dubai-based Arabic content...

U.A.E

Personal finance app Wally launches on Android, aimed squarely at UAE

A year after its initial launch at Arabnet Beirut, personal finance application Wally is now rolling out Wally+, a...

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Jordan

For Arabic educational digital content turn to Jordan

What Jordan lacks in natural resources it makes up for in human resources. Pioneering as a key entrepreneurial tech hub for the Arab world,...

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U.A.E

Wamda announces the last 2014 Mix N' Mentor: Dubai

Mix N’ Mentor Dubai, the final stop on Wamda’s 2014 #MixNMentor Roadshow, will take place on December 13th, 2014 at Dubai’s in5 Innovation ...

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Egypt

Egypt's ecommerce potential drives startups to push past challenges

Startups Yaoota and Kickin both launched in June with a goal of exploiting the massive potential of Egyptian ecommerce, but both...

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Saudi Arabia

Traditional Saudi products make a move to online

The articles mentioned below were all originally posted on firnas.org According to a VISA study of the MENA’s internet usage, r...

E-commerce N2V Saudi Arabia

Global

Best practices for ecommerce SEO (Part II)

Earlier this week we shared five tips on how to get the most out of the SEO for your ecommerce site. Here are another five current and...

SEO

Global

Best practices for ecommerce SEO (Part I)

Whether you’re only just thinking of starting an online store or you’ve already launched into the fray, you’ll quickly find that there’s a w...

SEO

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