Wamda

Regional

Big data for a big industry: oil and gas

BP technicians in the control room of the Atlantis platform. (Image via BP) The global oil and gas industry is being seduced by...

The Internet of Things IoT MEMakers

Egypt

Egypt's Otlob sold for a bargain to Rocket Internet

Egyptian food-ordering website Otlob has been snapped up by Rocket Internet, but at an almost firesale price. The acquisition by...

online food ordering otlob Rocket Internet

Regional

‘Speed Pitching’ Infiniti entrepreneurial competition across Middle East

Infiniti, one of the region’s fastest growing premium automotive brand, has today announced the launch of a major competition to give M...

infiniti competition middle east

Regional

SwitchMed Connect

SwitchMed Connect 2015 is the first annual gathering of Mediterranean stakeholders to build synergies, exchange knowledge, and scale up...

Mediterranean SwitchMed Barcelona

Lebanon

Entreprenergy Summit [Discount]

Entreprenergy Summit is the one year celebration of launching the Entreprenergy podcast, connecting entrepreneurs and wantrepreneurs...

summit entreprenergy beirut

Saudi Arabia

KAUST's New Ventures Accelerator open for fall applications

New Ventures Accelerator, the accelerator program run by the KAUST Entrepreneurship Center, is accepting applications for its new batch ...

deadline application accelerator

Lebanon

TechWadi MENA Roadshow: Beirut

The TechWadi Roadshow, a ten-day traveling roadshow powered by Google for Entrepreneurs, is coming to Beirut on October 23-24. The Roa...

Roadshow MENA techwadi

U.A.E

Pretotyping and Beyond: Building the Right ‘It’ Before You Build ‘It’ Right

'Pretotyping and Beyond: Building the Right ‘It’ Before You Build ‘It’ Right', the first pretotyping workshop in the region, will be held i...

Pretotyping startups silicon valley

Egypt

TechWadi MENA Roadshow: Cairo

The TechWadi Roadshow, a ten-day traveling roadshow powered by Google for Entrepreneurs, is coming to Cairo on October 22 -23. The Roa...

Roadshow MENA techwadi

Egypt

Egypt's VoIP block to make the startup life harder

At the start of October news broke on social media websites that Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications such as Skype, WhatsApp...

voice over internet protocol Mobinil Viber

Regional

What I know about big data: Ali Rebaie

Ali Rebaie is a data scientist. One of the few data scientists, in fact, in MENA. He’s the founder of Rebaie Analytics Group...

What I Know ali rebaie Le Wagon

Regional

5 ecofriendly developments in MENA

Attention is shifting towards harnessing the powers of the environment for new energy sources, and the Middle East is securing its own...

Khalifa Al Tajer Mosque Bahrain World Trade Center The Gate

Europe

Apps and pizza: Dubai's Heart Ping hits Milan

Dubai startup Heart Ping truly expanded its horizons over the weekend, traveling to Milan to speak at the Expo Innovation Challenge. The...

Heart Ping EXPO Innovation Challenge Milan EXPO

Maghreb

Connecting the IoT dots in Tunisia [Opinion]

The industry of connected objects, or what we have come to call the Internet of Things (IoT), has rapidly expanded around the world, but...

IoT MEMakers CONNECTED HOME

Regional

Disrupting lives: how tech is changing us

When it comes to technology changing our lives and revolutionizing the way we do things the examples are endless - from steam engines to...

disruptive technology IoT MEMakers

Regional

5 ways startups should approach smart cities

Dubai's smart city, Silicon Park, aims to improve life, society, mobility, economy, governance and the environment.(Image via...

Dell Smart Cities IoT

Lebanon

New tech, new opportunities for cyber criminals, says INTERPOL

INTERPOL cyber security expert Christian Karam discusses the ways cyber criminals conduct their business. (Image via Antoine...

INTERPOL Cyber crime UK Lebanon Tech Hub

Saudi Arabia

Fab Lab Dhahran: building a new generation of makers

The country's future makers (Images via Fab Lab Dhahran) Fab Lab Dhahran launched in 2014 and is Saudi Arabia’s eastern locus for p...

Fab Lab makers Saudi Arabia

Regional

Time ‘ripe’ for oil industry disruption

There may be no better time than now for entrepreneurs to ‘disrupt’ the oil and gas industry. As the oil price hovers...

Intelligent Oil&Gas conference IoT oil & gas

Egypt

The Egypt teen cracking the fuel crisis

Azza Faiad’s passion for science started in a taxi ride late in 2010, a ride which sparked a potentially multibillion dollar idea to create ...

pyrolysis EPRI alternative energy

U.A.E

Melltoo launches premium service

Things are moving fast at Melltoo Marketplace. The Dubai-based mobile classifieds startup has just rolled out a new premium service just a...

Melltoo Marketplace melltoo

Regional

Innovative tent for refugees harnesses renewable energy

What the tents, in use, could look like. (Images via Abeer Seikaly) Nearing the half-decade mark, the Syrian Civil War has by modest...

refugees tent abeer seikaly

U.A.E

Dubai’s smart city goal creeps closer

Dubai wants to be a world-leader in building smart cities and it’s attracting corporate players from around the world clamouring to be i...

Dubai Design District cisco MEMakers

Regional

Does your business really need an Arabic Top Level Domain?

It’s now possible to buy domain names in non-roman letters including Chinese, Arabic and Russian, following a major expansion in the kinds o...

TLD top level domains

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