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A Look at Entrepreneurship in Oman: A Chat with Sharifa Albarami [Wamda TV]

In an interview at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Sharifa Albarami, founder of Al Jazeera Technical Solutions & Training and the ...

Coworking Spaces Ecosystem

Souq and EFE Expand E-Commerce Training in Egypt

E-commerce companies in Egypt now have a better chance of hiring and scaling with the expansion of a new talent training...

E-commerce Egypt

Regional

How to get hired by a leading regional company

There's a lot of hype in the tech world about the best places to work. Thousands of people just like you dream of working at one of the...

Pitching Job Recruitment Programme

Can Cultural Entrepreneurship Soothe Political Strife? The Nile Project Unites East Africa with Music

Typically we think of entrepreneurship as the creation of new businesses, but working to change public opinion could be called cultural...

Music Egypt Agriculture

Social Enterprise Week Kicks Off in Dubai Sunday - Register Now!

Social entrepreneurship is one of the most exciting spaces to watch in the Middle East today, as several local pioneers are launching...

Green Energy Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

Bedriye Hulya of Turkey Named Social Entrepreneur of the Year

Entrepreneurship in Turkey is being celebrated on the global stage once again, as the World Economic Forum’s Schwab F...

Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

Mobile App Wasalny Tackles Cairo's Traffic, Now in Arabic

Amidst a wave of transportation apps being developed across Cairo, startup Wasalny has worked hard to differentiate itself through some...

Transportation Egypt Mobile

Weekly Wrap-Up: February 17-21

This week's content included a number of announcements, from Turkish entrepreneur Bedriye Hulya's Social Entrepreneur of the Year award at...

Advice Competitions Conferences

Inside 7 of East Africa’s Hottest Tech Hubs

Part 1 of this three-part series offers a look at 7 of East Africa's most popular coworking spaces for tech startups, investors, and...

Accelerators Coworking Spaces Developers

Innovations Against Poverty Launch Event

The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) will be hosting a launch event for Innovations Against Poverty (IAP) in...

Business Development CSR Social Entrepreneurship

Payment Gateways in the Arab World: 2013 [Infographic]

If you're looking to startup an e-commerce company in the Middle East, here's our cheat sheet showing the availability and cost structure...

PayPal Payment Gateways E-commerce

How Gate2Play Supports E-Commerce Growth in the Middle East [Wamda TV]

In an interview at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, founder and CEO of regional payment solution Gate2Play, Muhannad Ebwini, discusses ...

E-commerce Investment Payment Gateways

Saudi Billionaire Alwaleed Invests in Chinese E-Commerce Site 360buy

As e-commerce is skyrocketing in China, Kingdom Holding Company (KHC), an investment firm chaired by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed...

E-commerce Investment

Dermandar Wins World’s Best App Award: What’s Next

Dermandar, one of the hottest startups to come out of the Arab world this year, has just won the “World’s Best App” award in the Lifestyle a...

Mobile Mobile Apps Scaling

Think Science Competition Encourages UAE Youth to Pursue a Science Major

The Emirates Foundation for Youth Development is gearing up to launch the Think Science Competition for three days, starting April...

Competitions Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

Hult Prize Final Award Ceremony

As the last part of a series of events during Social Enterprise Week, the Award Ceremony of the Dubai Regional Final of the Hult Prize h...

Competitions Conferences Social Entrepreneurship

Aramex Launches Shop and Ship in Dubai: What it Means for E-Commerce Merchants

Aramex will soon be launching its international shipment service, Shop and Ship, in Dubai, in a move that could dramatically boost...

Delivery Demystifying E-Commerce E-commerce

E-Commerce Site Taw9eel Acquires Kuwaiti Game Rental Startup Digumz

This week, Kuwaiti game rental company Digumz.com was acquired by Kuwaiti platform Taw9eel.com, one of the largest e-commerce sites...

Acquisitions E-commerce Ecosystem

Ethical Food Enterprise Panel, Social Enterprise Week

Part of a series of events for Social Enterprise Week, this session features social entrepreneurs who launched food enterprises discussing...

Conferences Environment Food & Beverage

From Small Steps to Big Change Panel & Film, Social Enterprise Week

Part of a series of events for Social Enterprise Week, this panel features entrepreneurs engaged in diverse sectors such as child safety, f...

Conferences Environment Social Entrepreneurship

Expanding Salad Boutiques from Kuwait to the GCC [Wamda TV]

In an interview at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Doa’a Abdul Wahab, co-founder of A2D storage in Bahrain, and managing director of Sa...

Conferences Food & Beverage

Intel Ideathon Camp Helps College Students Innovate Egypt's Future

In partnership with the Egyptian Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, Intel launched its first Ideathon Camp in Egypt this...

Innovation Mentorship Social Entrepreneurship

Reviving Egyptian Waqf to Catalyze Social Change

Change starts when citizens start asking questions to solve local issues, and themselves try to find new alternatives to traditional work...

Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

10 Tweetable Facts about Mobile App Development [Report]

The following statistics and facts are based on VisionMobile’s recent survey of 3,460 developers across 95 countries, which was shared with ...

Developers Mobile Mobile Apps

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