Wamda

Careem, the Uber of the Middle East, Launches Mobile App [PROMOTION INCLUDED]

UPDATE: Those who sign up for Careem through Wamda will receive a free 30 AED (~US $8) in credit; click here. For those looking to get ar...

Mobile Mobile Apps Taxi + Traffic

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

How Three Women Founded Bahrain's First Self-Storage Company

These three friends never imagined that they would open A2D, Bahrain’s first self-storage facility, as all-female partners. Yet with t...

Warehousing

Egypt's Remotak Makes Your TV Guide Social

Remotak offers a modern alternative to the old-fashioned paper TV Guide, providing detailed and interactive schedules for today's...

TV series Technology Social Networks

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

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

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

Jordan

Jordanian gaming startup bets on crowdfunding for first title

“Most people who work at gaming companies rely on the orders of their CEO, but can never be a leading part of the game they are creating,” a...

Crowdfunding Gaming beladcom

Exclusive Sneak Peek: Ma2too3a! Pivots Towards Crowdsourced Traffic Updates

Last June, during Lebanon’s latest electricity crisis, AUB-trained computer engineer and software developer Mohammed Taha received a f...

Google Mobile Mobile Apps

Reviving Egypt's Handmade Paper Industry for a Sustainable Future

Throughout his life, the artist and social activist Mohamed Abou El Naga worked in the handmade paper industry in Alexandria. In 2005, he...

Egypt Environment

CastPace: Bringing the Region's Independent Filmmakers Together [Wamda TV]

During the Flat6Labs Cycle 3 Demo Day, Emad Mutter, founder and CEO of Castpace, the first regional online platform for the filmmaking and T...

Programme

Cirqy Creates a Social Marketplace for Local Designers [Wamda TV]

During the Flat6Labs Cycle 3 Demo Day, Cirqy founders Kareem El-Shaffei and Mostafa Talaat discuss how their e-commerce site is creating a s...

Art Accelerators

Egyptian Startup Offers Push Notification Solution for App Developers [Wamda TV]

During the Flat6Labs Cycle 3 Demo Day, PushBots founder and CEO Amr Sobhy shares the story behind launching PushBots which helps mobile dev...

Developers Egypt Technology

MIT Arab Student Launches ProBueno to Turn Your Talents Into Donations

Back in 2006, when the "July war" started in Lebanon, Michel Rbeiz experienced the frustration of living abroad and trying to help out...

Diaspora CSR

Food-zilla Launches Customers Online Food Ordering Service for Dubai

The latest of several sites focused on food ordering and discovery in Dubai, Food-zilla launches today to focus on offering a personal...

Food & Beverage

Advice from One of Saudi Arabia's Most Famous Web Entrepreneurs

“Developing for another sevice, like Twitter, is often a non-permanent profit business model”, says Saleh Al Zaid, the founder of Lun...

Technology Social Networks Social Media

Lebanese Entrepreneur Launches Data-Driven Career Matching Site

Between newcomers like Nabbesh, tasmeemME, Laimoon, and Wuzzuf, and veterans like Bayt and GulfTalent, the Middle East has its fill of job...

Data Programme

Sallaty Brings Online Grocery Shopping to Jordan

When Samia Jarrar first met her husband, she had no idea that she would end up starting a company with him. But in 2011, six years after...

Delivery E-commerce Food & Beverage

Mobile App Nabd Offers Personalized News in Arabic

With the abundance of news websites and a constant stream of article and video shares coming various social networks, online users can...

Arabic Content Digital Advertising Digital Media

Entrepreneurs of the Week: Marc Dfouni and Nemr Badin from Eastline Marketing [Wamda TV]

More than 15 years after starting up Eastline Marketing, a digital media agency based in Beirut, today's Entrepreneurs of the Week,...

Advertising Digital Advertising Digital Marketing

10 Secrets for Building Online Traffic from Women's Magazine Layalina

After several years of working in the media production business on daily, weekly and monthly periodicals, Awi, a publication company based...

Advice Arabic Content Data

Why Jordanian Startup TakTek Closed and What it Means for the Gaming Sector

“I’ve let everyone go,” Gaith Kawar confessed to me over coffee at Starbucks in Abdoun last month, giving a look of resignation through his ...

Advice Failure Gaming

Egypt's Flat6Labs Graduates Cycle 3: Here's What They're Building

Flat6Labs, the Cairo based accelerator, held its 4th Demo Day event, dubbed “Cycle 3 Fall 2013”, this week at the Cairo Marriott, showing of...

Egypt Flat6Labs

Can this Egyptian Mobile App Startup Meet its Ambitious Goals?

With the launch of two new apps late last year, startup 700apps hopes to make life easier for Egyptian commuters and...

Mobile Mobile Apps

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