Wamda

4 simple reasons why a young digital agency in Lebanon is turning a steady profit

Sometimes the startups seeing the most steady returns aren’t the ones that are popping up in the news, but just those with a solid model a...

CER Blog Developers

Not an incubator, not an accelerator, but a startup academy: Bedaya launches in Egypt

Bedaya Startup Academy is one of the few entrepreneurship training program existing outside the academic sphere in...

Training

3 tips for a successful mobile advertising campaign

Mobile advertising has fast been gaining momentum in the region, growing at a rate of 77% this year only. While many may still find them...

mobile advertising Advertising

12 tips for young entrepreneurs from an Egyptian startup founder

Amira Azzouz is the founder and editor-in-chief of Fustany.com, a fashion portal for the Middle East in both Arabic and English, which...

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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

Is building hardware in China the secret to crowdfunding a huge seed round?

Devices are having a moment, and so is HAXLR8R. The hardware-focused startup accelerator, based between San Francisco and Shenzhen, China,...

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Regional

4 issues the sharing economy could solve in the Arab world

The sharing economy may have led to several multibillion dollar successes like AirBnb and Kickstarter, and brought community back into...

Sharing Economy collaborative economy Ouishare

Meet the business network that's empowering women in Saudi Arabia [Wamda TV]

CellA is a network for professional Saudi women. Founded in Riyadh, it’s quickly spreading to the rest of the kingdom’s commercial and edu...

ksa saudi Networking

LINE readies for a $28 billion IPO; could it overtake Whatsapp in the Arab world?

While the tech world is hotly anticipating Twitter's IPO, which could happen before the end of the year at a valuation of around $16...

Social Networks Mobile

The story of Jordanian pharmaceutical giant Hikma: from bartering to IPO [Case Study]

This is the fifth post in our case study series, in partnership with the El Khazindar Business Research and Case Center (KCC) at the A...

case study Healthcare Health

How a Dutch woman became an entrepreneur in Beirut - with a little help from her friends

This piece is part of a new series on expat entrepreneurs. Last week in Beirut, a crowd of native Beirutis and foreigners...

Independant Publishing Book

Dubai's Emaar launches $100 million fund for emerging designers

As a series of glamorous events this week in Dubai attract the fashion world’s heavyweights, Emaar, the Middle East’s biggest developer, ha...

Why technology is not always the solution for better education

Until quite recently, I was a keen advocate of transforming education through technology. Over the years I was inspired by the ideas and...

E-Learning Technology Education

Saudi Arabia

Hadafi competition offers Saudi women the chance to fund business ideas

Last week, Dubai-based social enterprise Potential launched Hadafi, a women’s entrepreneurship program designed to empower women in Saudi A...

Women Hadafi Saudi Arabia

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

Egyptian students shine at Intel Science Competition

At an exposition recently held at Intel's Cairo office, eight Egyptian student winners of the Intel Science Competition, between the ages...

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

How does the Arab world's mobile market compare to the rest of the world? [Infographic]

Smartphones are undoubtedly the future of the internet. Around the globe, smartphone penetration has been increasing by 10% each year since...

Mobile Penetration mobile advertising Mobile

Visualizing Palestine unites activism and entrepreneurship

In 2009, Ramzi Jaber quit his job as a civil engineer in Jerusalem to organize TEDxRamallah. Upon moving to Ramallah to begin work on the...

indiegogo palestine Crowdfunding

Arab Mobile App Challenge

The Arab Mobile App Challenge, organized by Silatech, invites teams from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Tunisia to compete with mobile...

Competitions Mobile

Jordan

Thought Leadership