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How does Bitcoin threaten the global status quo?

“Bitcoin is the biggest invention since the internet,” Pamir Gelenbe, Partner at Hummingbird Ventures, asserted in a chat las...

Bitcoin Virtual Currency

Tech companies support women entrepreneurs in the Arab world

With 74% of women confident that they can achieve a balanced professional and personal life and reach the upper echelons of business...

Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

Does the sharing economy break the law? What's different in the Arab world?

Last week, we discussed how the sharing economy could empower people, create jobs, and help people bypass malfunctioning infrastructures...

Sharing Economy

Google for Entrepreneurs supports new co-working space in Egypt

Are Egypt's tech entrepreneurs ready for a co-working space with device testing facilities? Google for Entrepreneurs has announced support...

Expert Advice Training Coworking Spaces

Desado announces investment from iMENA Holdings; how does it stack up in flash sales?

It’s been said that there needs to be more linguistic creativity when it comes to branding in the Arab world. The announcement of D...

Flash Sales Scaling Investment

AUC launches new incubator for startups across Egypt

“In Egypt, we need to create 800,000 jobs every year, but you have to start somewhere,” says Dr. Sherif Kamel, Dean of the American Uni...

Incubator Egypt Accelerators

Sketch In Motion Founders Launch BeeLabs to Build Educational Apps for Kids

After spending almost ten years producing interactive media and cartoon animation for television and the web,...

Mobile Gaming Arabic Content Education

LeWeb says the sharing economy is going to change everything

Every year, the European startup scene awaits the new theme of LeWeb, the popular two day web conference based in Paris, that now boasts a...

Sharing Economy

CSR: a tool for sustainable development in the Middle East [report]

The need for sustainable development in the Arab world is twofold: to increase job opportunities and to protect natural resources. With...

Job Creation Sustainability Environment

Growing a hybrid online-offline business: Duplays from Dubai [Case Study]

Wamda is announcing the launch of a new case study series, in partnership with the El Khazindar Business Research and Case Center (KCC) at...

Dubai Sports

Why the Arab world needs more women in the workforce

When female participation in the workforce in the Arab world still ranges between 17% and 27% of the female population, something has to...

W4Women Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs Women

Scaling a lean startup in Iraq: how Easy Bites took Erbil by storm

Restaurants and fast food outlets are booming in Kurdistan. According to one official in Erbil, Kurdistan’s capital now boasts close to 5...

Addressing Online delivery Scaling

Kick-start your mobile app by developing on these alternative platforms

As of last April, the number of smartphones and tablets sold in the Middle East reached 22 million and continues to grow. The...

Developers Mobile Gaming Competitions

Global

How to run a crowdfunding campaign: 10 Tips from entrepreneurs who succeeded and failed

Any entrepreneur who doubts the power of crowdfunding can simply look to the example of Hind Hobeika, a Lebanese engineer who recently...

Crowdfunding Investment

Casablanca gets a new co-working space: New Work Lab launches to support Morocco's entrepreneurs

The idea of having co-working spaces where independent workers can work and socialize has already spread like wildifire...

Coworking Spaces

Can Jordanian flash sales site Harir crack the Saudi market?

The hour of daily deals may be fading in the Arab world, but flash sales is quick on its heels as the model of the moment. Since...

Saudi Arabia E-commerce

Why education reform won’t succeed without a cultural revolution

What does it mean to be educated? Nowadays, anyone who goes to school and receives a degree after spending a few years in university is...

Education

4 reasons why sustainability should matter to your startup

Amidst a massive rethink of how we do business, global markets have begun embracing sustainability as an integral part of strategy and a...

Sustainability Social Entrepreneurship

European mobile voucher startup tests Dubai's market

With daily deals potentially on the decline, the time might be ripe for a return to basic coupons; TWOFORONE GO is a new mobile...

Dubai Mobile

Meet The Winners of the HCT-Wharton Innovation Tournament 2021

Early this May, three forward-thinking companies from the Middle East and North Africa took home the top prizes at the...

Sustainability Wharton Competitions

Launching a fishing startup in the Gulf

“I used to go fishing with my uncle, but once I graduated it was difficult without my own boat,” says Kuwaiti entrepreneur Abdullah Als...

Dubai Incubator Sports

How to raise your kids to be entrepreneurs

Some children may not be born to be lawyers or doctors, or to get good grades in a traditional school, but they might have other skills...

Education

Will this French startup attract Arab travelers with its trip recording app?

Though it’s been tried by Arab companies before, and failed, French startup Trekea Media, Inc. is expanding their real-time mobile t...

Travel Mobile

Meet the Egyptian entrepreneur trying to build a digital brain

Coauthored with Mazen Aly, Egyptian Artificial Intelligence Ph.D. student at Max Planck Computer Research Institute in Germany. "In order...

Data Egypt Technology

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