Wamda

U.A.E

A forum for Android lovers, Droidcon comes to Dubai

Droidcon Dubai 2015. (Images via Facebook) "A 17-hour flight is how long it took for some of the event speakers to come...

Dubai Smart City initiative Alljoyn Groupon

Lebanon

5 things I learned from making a video game in 30 hours

Sten Selander of Media Evolution (Sweden) briefs Arabic Game Jam participants As a kid, I had two main hobbies: drawing and playing video...

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Regional

Souq.com opens API to the public to spur MENA ecommerce

Souq.com announced Friday that it will be making its API (application program interface) available to the public, allowing third party...

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Maghreb

Careem shakes things up in Morocco by acquiring Taxiii

Back in January, we were talking about how taxi apps made their entrance in Morocco, and were to become the hot market in the kingdom....

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Jordan

Zain and Wamda kick off Traxn with 5 Jordanian startups

Five Jordanian startups have been selected to join a new accelerator program designed to bring together young innovators with one of the...

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Regional

What KinTrans' Mohammed Elwazer learned at SeedStars International

KinTrans may not have won SeedStars 2015 competition in Geneva in February, but founder Mohammed Elwazer didn’t walk away empty h...

SeedStars International hearing impaired KinTrans

Lebanon

Art meets architecture at design startup UV Lab

Khan Bar Restaurant: UV Lab's first comprehensive project This article is part of a partnership with Dreammatcher and AltCity. UV...

Regional

How ArabiaWeather battles the forces of nature

Residents of the Middle East don't need me to tell them that this year so far has been a doozy in terms of weather. First, we had...

yohan windy huda

Regional

When will the Middle East adopt Bitcoin? We ask 3 experts.

(Image via bitcoin.org) Over the last few years, the MENA region has seen a growing interest in Bitcoin, the digital currency. While...

Bitcoin

Lebanon

Lebanese government inks $6.4 million loan to create tech hub

Lebanon’s government is moving forward with an initiative aimed at strengthening innovation and entrepreneurship in its mobile internet e...

Ministry of Telecommunications MIHub tech hub

U.A.E

Can a UAE government app solve the address quandary of ecommerce delivery?

Last March, Sheikh Mohammed promised to transform Dubai into a ‘Smart City’, and at Payfort we were eager to see how that pledge would mak...

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Global

Not so tech, not so startup

This article has been crossposted with The Economist. When The Economist posted their 'special report on tech startups' Daniel...

The Economist tech

U.A.E

Bright future for drones industry on display at UAE contest

The winning, Swiss, team. (Image via Drones for Good) Dubai Internet City was buzzing with the sounds of drones this week at the inaugural...

Unmanned aerial vehicle UAV Drones for good

Egypt

Egyptian entrepreneurs push forward long-awaited e-government measures

The Mugamma, Egypt's central bureaucracy building, stands sentinel over Tahrir Square and is a monument to a government legacy of...

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Egypt

Proposed Egypt technology park facing bureaucratic delays

Big plans to create a technology and entrepreneurial hub in the southern Cairo suburb of Maadi could be stalling, for which some are...

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Egypt

Palestinian startup seeks to bridge Egypt’s digital divide

Jacob Korenblum, CEO of Palestinian startup Souktel, says there is a a huge potential in Egypt for audio mobile services and low-data...

Bayt Iqraaly Zambaleeta

U.A.E

Ustad Mobile to scale mobile ed tech programs to the Middle East

Access to technology has long been seen as key to developing education programs in low-income countries, but the availability...

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Jordan

Tamatem Games hits six million milestone but won't be celebrating (yet)

After landing two million downloads in two months last summer, Jordan’s Tamatem Games has closed out 2014 with more big numbers: the g...

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Global

2014 technologies that promise smarter devices

With every new lifestyle comes the need for a new technology to meet our needs in home and work. The 20th century’s move from motor focused ...

batteries 2014 techs Wearable devices

Lebanon

Innovation fills the prescription: 6 tips on building a wearable from CardioDiagnostics

Most of the entrepreneurial activity in the region focuses on ecommerce or online services, and software development and services...

CardioDiagnostics Beirut Digital District Wearable devices

Palestine

Startups have a role to play in rebuilding Gaza

Despite Israel’s destroying several billion dollars worth of property, businesses, and homes, displacing 500,000 people, and killing 2,200 ...

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Egypt

Egypt's agritech entrepreneurs bring the farm to the boardroom

For eight millennia the thin strip of land along the Nile, and the green fan of the Delta, supported Egypt's growing...

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Egypt

Startups are filling gaps left by Egypt's banking behemoths

Mohamed Sameh Fouad, MENA and Pakistan sales director of banking SunGard Financial Systems, Abeer Khadr, National Bank of...

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Jordan

Increase in new marketing companies reflects changing MENA advertising climate

Since the early days of advertising, the rise of digital has made tracking consumer behavior all over the world easier than ever. The...

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