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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

Dubai entrepreneur serves up affordable golfing equipment in the Gulf

“I’m an avid golfer, a scratch golfer,” says Dubai-based entrepreneur Dean Cheesley. "But I also have an entrepreneurial streak." To bring ...

Sports E-commerce

How Hijabik is serving the booming hijab market with a lean approach

It’s no secret that many of the region’s online retail companies are relying on high-end Western brands to keep sales accelerating. But wh...

Islamic products Online retail Apparel

Will this Egyptian startup be the next Pinterest of the Middle East?

With women making up 70% of worldwide Pinterest users, and 97% of Pinterest’s Facebook fans, one image-sharing social network s...

Social Networks Social Media Fashion

4 Startups that make event management easier in the Levant

Organizing an event is never easy. How do you make sure that enough people attend, or that they'll pay? Small businesses or individuals...

E-commerce

Flat6Labs' 5th Demo Day Brings New Spectacle to Egypt's Startup Scene

I doubt many people get treated to a speech about CNC (computer numerical control) machines, the creation of a Bluetooth-based alternative...

Investment Accelerators Flat6Labs

How a 24-year-old Lebanese entrepreneur found global success by beating Tamagotchi at their own game

When Yahoo! paid 17-year-old Nick D’Aloisio $30 million for news summary app Summly, one of our Wamda contributors wrote us, “I’m looking f...

Merchandising Success Stories Mobile Gaming

Egypt's Weladna launches an e-commerce portal for educational kids' games

“When you do not know your roots you get lost,” says Fatima Azmy, an Egyptian entrepreneur who became frustrated with the lack of cultural ...

kids Egypt Design

A chat with HungerStation, an online delivery platform for Saudi Arabia [Wamda TV]

Fast food market sales in Saudi Arabia are expected to grow to $4.5 billion by 2015. Although Saudi youth are increasingly inclined to make...

Delivery Mobile

Egypt's Eduudle makes it easier to find the right Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

Bassem Fayek is a man on a mission to "make MOOCs more popular.” A former consultant in the process of getting his MBA, Fayek launched E...

MOOC Education

FOO launches the first mobile matchmaking app for Facebook in the Middle East

It might not surprise you that one of Lebanon's earliest mobile app development companies was built by two AUB graduates. It's almost...

Social Networks Facebook Mobile

Meet the Jordanian College Graduate Who Rose to Startup Success by Reporting the Weather

Jordanian entrepreneur Mohamed Al-Shaker is very, very passionate about the weather. “I’ve had an interest in weather since I was 4 years o...

Science Jordan Competitions

Bnooki Offers a One-Stop Shop for Bank Products in Lebanon: Can it Expand?

Figuring out what banks offer in Lebanon is notoriously difficult, says Elie Bou Jaoude. “There are more than 600,000 searches on G...

Financial management

Restronaut Feeds Foodies and Founders in Dubai

Restronaut.me recently launched as an online-meets-offline startup by Dubai restaurateur Leith Matthews. Based on successful events at...

Startup Communities Food & Beverage

The Young Entrepreneur Forum - Marrakech, Morocco

You can now submit your ideas of activities for the next Young Entrepreneur Forum. Submissions should fit into the general theme: "Youth e...

Agriculture

Egyptian Brothers Innovate Recycling Technology in the Emirates

Many residents in the UAE simply don’t understand recycling, several recycling companies have said over the past few years. In Abu Dhabi, w...

Recycling Sustainability Environment

iPhone Contacts Made Simple: Introducing ReachFast

iOS application ReachFast started as a weekend vacation project, and ended up a sudden success. When Lebanese serial entrepreneurs...

Mobile

Mohammed Al-Ayouti: Vodafone Egypt's Intrapreneur

"I don’t even believe in the value of a formal education. What drives me is the desire to build," says Mohammed Al-Ayouti, the Senior M...

vodafone xone vodafone Incubator

5 Lessons from the Indian Entrepreneur Who Built a Multi-Million Dollar Company in Jordan

The fact that you haven’t heard of Aspire.jo isn’t an accident. “I’ve kept the company very low profile,” says founder and CEO Kaushal Shah,...

India Outsourcing

Egyptian Startup Signs First Game with International Publisher Chillingo

Mobile gaming is on the rise in the region, and the newest startup to join the mobile gaming frey is Spyros Entertainment from...

Mobile Gaming Gaming

InstaBug in Egypt Makes Bug Reporting Easy for Mobile App Developers

Ask most users what they hate most in any kind of app, and the answer is usually “bugs”. But as even the best developers in the world ...

Egyptian Team Delivers a Killer Global App: Ninja SMS

Recently we had an Arab company going head-to-head with Google, now we have the Ninja apps team going head-to-head with...

Lebanon's Presella Targets the Globe with an E-ticketing and Event Crowdfunding Platform

Watching people entering the We Were Evergreen concert in Beirut a few weeks ago was certainly a show. People were excited to show their...

Crowdfunding E-commerce

3 Ways That a Tunisian IT Outsourcing Company Survived the Revolution

In Europe, outsourcing is a delicate topic. Some politicians picture it as an epidemic that must be be stopped, as new hubs in India...

Surviving a Revolution Outsourcing

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