Wamda

Egypt's Tourism Gets Back on Its Feet at Rouqayah's Ranch

You think you're driving into the middle of nowhere, then thoughts of classic horror plots jump to mind. But once you arrive through...

Egypt Environment Food & Beverage

What the UAE's New Home Shipping Service Means for E-Commerce

In my very first post for Wamda one year ago, I spoke about shipping concerns as one of the five major infrastructure needs for regional...

Delivery E-commerce

Could a Sharing Economy Transform Saudi Arabia?

In recent articles, various Wamda contributors discussed the rise of the sharing economy. Gulay Ozkan discussed the potential of...

Sustainability Ecosystem

HUB Dubai Set to Launch UAE's Newest Co-Working Space

On 12/12/12 12:12 PM and precisely 12 seconds Dubai time, HUB Dubai launched virtual operations; the physical space is expected...

Coworking Spaces Startup Communities

Learning and Development Open Forum at Shelter Dubai

Organizational learning and development has become one of the most important topics in the field of management and leadership, to bring...

Conferences Education

5 Ways Your Startup Can Be More Socially Responsible in 2013

Whenever I run corporate social responsibility (CSR) workshops, sharing strategies of how multinational corporations have successfully...

CSR

5 Easy Steps for Setting Up an E-Commerce Store in the Middle East

This series by Mohanad Ghashim of ShopGo.me is part of our Demystifying E-Commerce series. It will explore various technical...

Demystifying E-Commerce E-commerce Payment Gateways

7 Essential Tips for E-Commerce SEO

If you’re looking to optimize an e-commerce website for search, there are plenty of simple ways to ensure that your products are ranked w...

Analytics SEO E-commerce

How 3 Women Entrepreneurs are Creating Opportunities in Morocco, Egypt, and Jordan

We often hear that it's difficult for women entrepreneurs to found companies- they face social stigma as founders, or they have difficulty...

Egypt Social Entrepreneurship Women

Turkey

Turkey Management 3.0: Agile Leadership Practices Course

Scrum Turkey is hosting an Agile Leadership Practices Course in Ankara, Turkey on January 29-30, 2013. Taught by Jurgen Appelo, the...

Developers Education

Jordan vs. Kenya: What Sets the Two Entrepreneurship Ecosystems Apart

In my last post, we started to explore some of the similarities between the rising ‘Silicon Savannah’ and “Silicon Wadi’ tech startup...

Ecosystem Education Mobile

A Look at E-Commerce in India: How MartJack Helped Offline Retailers Go Online

When Indian software company eReasoning built MartJack in 2007, “most offline retailers in India were not tech-savvy,” says founder Abhay De...

E-commerce

Egypt's Revolutionaries Take to the Streets, To Improve Neighborhoods

“Change starts in the streets," was a slogan coined during the Egyptian revolution, as demonstrators took pride in cleaning the streets i...

Egypt Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

Wellnesia to Indulge Dubai with New Spa and Beauty Hub

In the Arab world, the web has been buzzing lately with sites offering flash sales, low prices and online booking, often for restaurants,...

Digital Marketing Ecosystem Health & Beauty

Save Paper at Your Startup, Part 2: Invoices

In the first part of the series, I wrote about digitizing your business cards. This article, the second in our series on saving paper (and...

Environment

320 Reality Contest Application Deadline

320Reality is a contest that encourages social entrepreneurs to share and implement their ideas to address defined challenges in the Middle...

Competitions Social Entrepreneurship

Music Marketing Platform Helps Artists Go Viral in the Arab World

Today, viral YouTube videos propel artists to fame overnight, creating a completely new set of rules for music promotion. This is where the...

Entertainment Music Social Media

Mallna Makes Arab E-Commerce More Social, Adds Gamification

While only 43% of internet users in the Middle East and North Africa have shopped online, according to research by OneCard, Jordanian site...

E-commerce Social Media

GEMS Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp Brings Students From Around the World to Dubai

After introducing a new entrepreneurship curriculum in their schools and recently inspiring our list of entrepreneurship programs for high...

Conferences Education

KnowElectricity Teaches Pakistan About Energy Efficiency: Can It Become a Sustainable Business?

Scores of Pakistanis are curious about the potential for solar and wind energy to cut costs in a country where continuous power is at a...

Digital Media Environment Green Energy

Founder of Daily Deals Site Hmizate Launches Online Marketplace Hmall

The e-commerce sector in Morocco has truly boomed in the last 2 years. We've seen a particularly large influx of e-commerce sites,...

morocco Cloning Daily Deals

Lebanon's Myschoolpulse Brings Education to Children in Hospitals

Not every startup idea begins with a happy epiphany. Daniele Diab was first inspired to start Myschoolpulse when her cousin was...

Education Medical

15 Startups Doing Social Good in the Arab World

Across the Arab world, social enterprise is gaining traction as new entrepreneurs seek to not just innovate or make money, but to do social...

Social Change Social Entrepreneurship Top Lists

Dubai's Game Minion Acquired by Corona Labs in Silicon Valley

Yesterday, Dubai-based mobile app development platform Game Minion was acquired by Corona Labs in Palo Alto, California. Combining to...

Acquisitions Developers Gaming

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