Apple Has Pulled AppGratis, But Could Its Model Be Replicated in the Arab World? Dreaming of discovering new apps that would make your life easier or more entertaining? That's what app-discovery apps are for. From... Aline Mayard • 08 April, 2013
Bahrain's Exa.io Innovates in Cloud-Based 3D Rendering 3D rendering is the process film studios use to turn the 1’s and 0’s of raw digital data into the images that compose movies with animated c... Leena AlOlaimy • 10 April, 2013 3D rendering Cloud Computing
Born of the Revolution, Culture Corner Challenges Egypt's Intellect The day after the Egyptian revolution, six youths decided to start rebuilding the country their way, by creating a Culture Corner. The idea... Shaimaa El Nazer • 10 April, 2013 Social Change Education Social Entrepreneurship
Meet the First Arabic Music Teaching Platform Correction: We received an update that I3zif may not be launching an e-store. After struggling to learn how to play the guitar in Jordan,... Maya Rahal • 11 April, 2013 Education E-commerce
Meet Qatar's First Raw and Vegan Food Company Qatar has one of the highest obesity rates in the world. About 40% of its citizens are obese, and experts predict that number could rise... Christina Paschyn • 01 April, 2013 Organic Food Food & Beverage
How Hsoub Bootstrapped its Way to Success It’s not often that an Arab startup goes head-to-head with Google, but Hsoub is trying. In March 2011, Hsoub launched Hsoub Ads, a service t... Omar Aysha • 31 March, 2013 Digital Advertising Advertising Egypt
Event Management Startup Faces Steep Hurdles in Saudi Arabia One new startup in Saudi Arabia lets you better organize and personalize your social gatherings, but they ran into some big obstacles when... Ahmed Gabr • 14 April, 2013 Payment Gateways Social Networks Accelerators
Bahraini Startup Boosts IT Security in Saudi Arabia As a tech-savvy 15-year old with a dial-up internet connection in the late 90s in Bahrain, Ahmed Husain didn’t expect to make a career out o... Leena AlOlaimy • 25 March, 2013 IT Security Tenmou Bahrain
New Citizen Journalist Program Trains Jordan’s Storytellers After the Arab Spring, new media has gained tremendous traction, as internet penetration grows, and users look to track the... Shaden Abu Al-Haijaa • 26 March, 2013 Film Citizen Journalism Jordan
U.A.E Can Indian Review Site Zomato Satisfy the Gulf? India's market of over 1 billion has been enough to sustain most of its tech startups, including success story FlipKart, the online book... Aline Mayard • 21 March, 2013 f&b Reviews Expansion
Mobile App Snapze Helps Egyptians Find Entertainment Startups often emerge from a founder’s frustration. Cairo-based Snapze is one such startup that has built a mobile app to help people find t... Omar Aysha • 20 March, 2013
Who Loves Labneh? Lebanese Brand Krock's Eyes the Gulf Day after day, Ramzi Jalbout and his colleagues would gather during their lunch break at St. Georges Hospital in Beirut. Usually 9-to-5ers... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 14 March, 2013 Scaling Expansion Food & Beverage
Can Free Seed Money Build a $1 Billion Company? Welcome to Start-Up Chile To me, Chile is not just a country located in South America; it’s also one of the biggest startups in the world. The Chilean government has ... Abdullah Alshalabi • 13 March, 2013 Government Ecosystem Startup Communities
Palestinian Platform Helps Arab Students Find International Scholarships Improving education is the goal of every government in the Arab world today. Yet rather than wait for governments and political situations... Maya Rahal • 25 March, 2013 Education
Tahrir Academy Looks to Revolutionize Education in Egypt Capitalizing on the momentum for social change in post-revolution Egypt, one new online initiative has launched a “revolution against the t... Rola Tarek • 01 April, 2013 Education Animation
Seedstars World Startup Competition ‘Live in Dubai’ Innovation360 has organized a local pitching event for UAE entrepreneurs. Twenty selected startups will pitch their business in Dubai at... Wamda • 06 March, 2013 Competitions
Making Humor Profitable: A Look at Egypt's Sarcasm Society Egyptians are known for their sense of humor, often using sarcasm and irony to describe and get through tough situations. But what if... Hanan Solayman • 21 March, 2013 Crowdsourcing Egypt Animation
Egypt How to Invest in Egypt: Tamkeen Takes a Holistic View There are quite a few people in the Egyptian investment community who talk without delivering results; not so... Omar Aysha • 06 March, 2013 Financial management Business Development Expansion
Want to Rebuild Dubai? Silicon Valley Developer Launches SimCity-Style Game for the Middle East Silicon Valley game developer Lumba (which means light bulb in Arabic) recently released mobile game Desert Tycoon for iOS, targeting... Glen Dalakian II • 04 March, 2013 Gaming Mobile Mobile Apps
5 Drawings from Dubai's Creative Community on DrawDeck When David Hammond launched DrawDeck, he was inspired by a family member who began drawing in a therapeutic manner. “We thought we’d build a... Nina Curley • 04 March, 2013 Art Digital Media E-commerce
Fly-Foot Helps Arab Football Fans Attend Matches Without Lifting a Finger Football fans around the Arab region can now pick a game to attend, pack their bags, and hop on a plane without a second thought, thanks to... Maya Rahal • 05 March, 2013 E-commerce
Egypt's Careerise Makes Job Search Simpler, More Social Even in today’s hi-tech socially-networked world, the best way to find a new job is still through a personal referral. Of course, relying o... Omar Aysha • 26 February, 2013 Egypt Job Recruitment
How Egyptians Are Using Social Media [Report] Inspired by the Egyptian Revolution on January 25, 2011, startup 25trends released their first report today on social media trends in... Glen Dalakian II • 28 February, 2013 Analytics Data Egypt
Lebanese Gaming Startup Debuts Flying Carpet Hero, Prince of Persia Style Today, Lebanon's Gamabox has made their debut in game development with the launch of their first title, Ali Hood. Ali Hood, a cross between... Glen Dalakian II • 26 February, 2013 Gaming Mobile Mobile Gaming