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SocialWire Launches Optimized Ads for Facebook, Announces $2m in Investment

Online advertising has yet to be proven very effective. Yet SocialWire, a company started in Istanbul by a Turkish entrepreneur, is out to...

Digital Advertising Advertising Social Networks

Social Media to the Rescue: Egypt's Splinter Makes Résumés Obsolete

“A year and a half ago my brother asked me to design and update his CV and I remember telling him, this is the social era man, I'm sure we w...

Digital Marketing Egypt Innovation

Empowering Artists after the Tunisian Revolution: eArtvolution

The connection between art and business has always been a complicated one, and the debate on whether so-called “pure” art can be mar...

Art E-commerce

With Egyptian Style Parody, Video Magazine Disalata Goes Viral in Egypt

Sometimes all it takes is one great hit to secure a content startup’s viability. Video magazine Disalata – which means “it is a ...

Digital Media Education Entertainment

Entrepreneur of the Week: Wael Attili of Kharabeesh [Wamda TV]

This week's entrepreneur of the week is Wael Attili, the founder of animation and Arabic digital media company Kharabeesh and Endeavor...

Animation Arabic Content Digital Media

Morocco's Masarat App Aims to Conquer the Islamic Mobile App Market

During my frequent discussions with my business partners or friends, I usually share some milestones about the digital evolution in...

Arabic Content Mobile Mobile Apps

RihlaPrime/TravelerVIP Debuts Luxury Travel Deals Sites In The Middle East

UPDATE: RihlaPrime has changed its name to TravelerVIP. "A bad hotel experience can ruin an otherwise perfect trip", says...

Daily Deals Travel

Ex-Sukar CEO to Launch Fab.com Clone for the Middle East

UPDATE: Desado went live today, Monday, December 10th. Their press release states that Desado is now the "largest platform...

Design E-commerce

Burt Herman of Storify: Building a Social News Curation Platform [Wamda TV]

Burt Herman of Storify chats with Wamda at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit about how he was inspired to build the social news curation platform...

Social Media Abu Dhabi Media Summit

Cashless in Kenya: A Mobile Money Experiment Using M-PESA

Walking home from the office late one night, Amrit Pal, an Indian student working with a Nairobi-based mobile money startup for the summer,...

Mobile Mobile Apps Payment Gateways

Wamda TV Face-Off, Souq. com and MarkaVIP [Wamda TV]

Watch an unedited version of our first "Face Off!" that just aired on Wamda TV! We are hosting two of the biggest names in MENA e-commerce...

E-commerce Ecosystem Face Off

Lebanon’s Anghami Launches the First Music Streaming Platform for the Middle East: PROMOCODE Included

Forget Spotify. Anghami is here! Launching today for iPhone, the platform is bringing the Arab world its first mobile and web music...

Mobile Mobile Apps Music

Jordan

Building the first high-end 3D game in a virtual Arab world: Planet Toulan

For awhile, I’ve been wondering why no gaming studio in the Middle East that I knew of was building a high-end video game on the level of, s...

Gaming beladcom

Entrepreneur of the Week: Hind And Nadia Wassef of Diwan Bookstore [Wamda TV]

The Entrepreneurs of the Week today are Nadia and Hind Wassef, co-founders of Diwan Bookstore in Egypt, and Endeavor Egypt...

Egypt Endeavor Entrepreneur of the Week

Bringing a Turkish High Heel Brand to the Arab World [Wamda TV]

Harun Güner and Berk Alevi of Butigo, a Turkish women’s high heel company, discuss the creation of their own unique brand of high heel sh...

Conferences E-commerce Fashion

Can Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Solve Addressing Problems in the Arab World?

When Khaled Naim started building Addy.co in January, it was a side project conceived during a Startup Weekend. But after he debuted Addy...

Innovation Mobile Mobile Apps

Building a TripAdvisor for Cars in Dubai: YallaMotor

Review sites are all the rage lately – combine that with a deep-seated passion for cars in a region with disposable income to spare, and y...

Reviews

Get Ready to Network. Wamda Reveals the Mix 'n' Mentor Attendee List!

Getting ready for our Mix 'n' Mentor events starting next weekend? We're now revealed the attendee list, so you can start strategizing who ...

Mentorship Mix n Mentor

VIP-Only.ma Aims to Own Flash Sales in North Africa

If you thought MarkaVIP and Sukar were the only major flash sales site in the region, think again- others are cropping up to carve out...

E-commerce Ecosystem Expansion

Workspace Mesaha Supports Community Initiatives in Egypt

These days, Cairo’s coffee places are busy with groups of young men and women gathered around tables, not to eat nor to chatter for fun, b...

Coworking Spaces Egypt

Meet the Jordanian Company that Might Disrupt Global Game Development

For those of us who aren’t game developers, launching a disruptive middleware platform, as Jordanian company Mixed Dimensions (MXD) did t...

Design Developers Gaming

Kuwaiti Startup Yabila! Compiles Local Deals for MENA Consumers

Yabila! is a mobile advertising platform serving as a daily guide for the latest offers, promotions, and new arrivals in MENA...

Advertising Daily Deals Digital Advertising

Can a Young E-Commerce Logistics Startup Take On Aramex in the UAE?

"Typical courier companies are not built to handle the logistics of e-commerce", says entrepreneur Robin Antony, founder of Powergistix, a...

Delivery E-commerce

Online Advertising Solutions: Abedalmohimen Alagha Of Hsoub [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] At ArabNet 2012, Abedalmohimen Alagha, CEO and Co-founder of Hsoub, discusses the internet solutions provided by his company,...

Advertising Arabnet Conferences

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