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Mobile advertising is on the rise in the Arab world [Report]

Mobile advertising in the Arab world grew 68% last year, offering stronger revenue-generating opportunities for mobile startups in the...

mobile advertising Digital Advertising Advertising

Why we need better arts education in the Arab world

“If the Arab world continues to under-value arts education, it risks falling even further behind developed countries in preparing students ...

Art Design Education

What does Rotana's entrance into the Arabic video on demand market mean for startups?

The massive popularity of online video streaming in the Arab world is beginning to attract the attention of big companies looking for...

Video On Demand

Lebanon

Beirut's new Co-Working +961 space hosts first startup pitch event

Last week, at the newly launched Co-working +961 space in Beirut, entrepreneurs, investors, and startup enthusiasts gathered to...

Pitching MIT Coworking Spaces

5 predictions about the future of digital, from Arabnet Dubai

Arabnet’s first Digital Summit in Dubai brought together the startup community and the digital media and marketing industries to hash out ...

Digital Advertising Arabnet Innovation

Mobile payment solution launches in Kuwait, looks to region

Finding the right platform for online and mobile payment continues to be one of the top challenges for Arab startups selling online. Over...

Payment Gateways Mobile E-commerce

Palestine gets its first seed fund, supported by MENA Apps and USAID

The startup scene in Palestine has been slow to build over the past few years, led by initiatives like Bazinga and grassroots...

Seed stage Incubator Accelerators

Challenges to scaling in Dubai: A look at Wild Peeta [case study]

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

Scaling Food & Beverage

Wizards founder builds new mobile gaming company at 500 Startups in Silicon Valley

In an effort to keep their gaming startup, Wizards Productions, afloat, founders Hussam Hammo and Sohaib Thiab pivoted into mobile,...

Incubator Failure Mobile Gaming

Lebanon

Zoomaal launches first crowdfunding platform for the Arab world

The Middle East’s newest crowdfunding platform, Zoomaal, launched today, offering entrepreneurs, artists, and socially-minded doers the c...

abdallah absi Crowdfunding zoomal

5 reasons why professionals quit their jobs

The rise of regional jobsites means that sourcing talent has become faster, easier and more cost effective for employers than ever. It...

Team Programme

10 tips for adopting the right entrepreneurial mindset

I genuinely believe that entrepreneurship is both a science and an art. The science will fast track your success but won’t get you there. T...

EdTech Tips Education

Kuwaiti entrepreneur builds sports apparel startup in Britain

Who would have thought a British-educated dentist from Kuwait would open his own cheerleading apparel design startup? It...

Apparel Sports Innovation

Arab Entrepreneurs Spread the 'Power of Yalla'

This piece was originally published on the Harvard Business Review Blog on June 25, 2013. In 2003, after two years in Texas, Moe...

Lean Methodology ShopGo Sustainability

LBA Pitching and Co-Working 961 Launch Events in Beirut

On July 2, new space Co-Working 961 is launching in Beirut alongside the LBA Pitching Event, which will bring together the Lebanese Angel...

Coworking Spaces Angel Investment

It's not easy being the Amazon of Morocco

With Livremoi (a play on words between “books & I” and “ship me”), Caroline Dalimier and Mathieu Malan want to be the Amazon of Morocco...

E-commerce

Egypt's green startups get a boost from mentor meet-up

While the startup industry is booming in the Middle East, it’s a nascent sector that still needs plenty of babysitting. Sometimes this g...

Training Egypt Mentorship

Coworking space iceaddis gives a home to Ethiopia's startups

When one thinks or reads about technology startups in Africa, there are a few places that crop up quite often: Nairobi, Kenya; Lagos,...

East Africa Innovation Coworking Spaces

8 sharing economy services that could make it in the Arab world

Books, houses, cars, washing machine, food, knowledge… it seems that you can lend, rent, or share anything these days thanks to the number ...

Sharing Economy

Riding the e-commerce wave, price comparison site Bkam announces investment from Jabbar

Egyptian price comparison site Bkam.com has announced its launch in the UAE, following recent investment from Jabbar Internet Group...

Aggregation Jabbar Investment

Defining social entrepreneurship: Alashanek ya Balady in Egypt [Case Study]

Continuing our new case study series, in partnership with the El Khazindar Business Research and Case Center (KCC) at the American U...

Social Entrepreneurship

Dubai World Game Expo & Summit 2013

Dubai World Game Expo (DWGE) is one of the largest events for video games and digital entertainment industry in the Middle East &...

Dubai Mobile Gaming Conferences

The mobile opportunity for startups in the Middle East and Africa [report]

“Even though we have a mobile penetration rate of 109% in the Middle East, I still see room for growth,” says Amr Shady, the founder of TA ...

Report Mobile Trends

Why Saudi Arabia could be the next big e-commerce hub in the Arab world

Saudi entrepreneurs have often cited the challenges to opening an e-commerce startup in the Kingdom. Many note a lack of public trust...

Saudi Arabia Demystifying E-Commerce E-commerce

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