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The Big Entertainment Show - Dubai

The Big Entertainment Show is a comprehensive entertainment content festival offering an opportunity for global and regional industry ...

Conferences

How digitization spurs economic growth and job creation around the world [report]

Globally, digitization is accelerating economic growth and facilitating job creation, providing a $193 billion boost to world...

Report Booz & Company Trends

Coworking space iceaddis gives a home to Ethiopia's startups

When one thinks or reads about technology startups in Africa, there are a few places that crop up quite often: Nairobi, Kenya; Lagos,...

East Africa Innovation Coworking Spaces

A tablet cafe launched in Senegal; could the trend transform North Africa?

Does the future of the internet lie in tablets? That’s what Médoune Seck believes. With the help of Google, he turned his internet café in ...

Internet growth Tablets Ecosystem

Webit Congress 2013 in Istanbul

Webit Congress is an international event for the digital, technology, and entrepreneurial ecosystem with special focus on European, Middle ...

Technology Conferences

Dubai World Game Expo & Summit 2013

Dubai World Game Expo (DWGE) is one of the largest events for video games and digital entertainment industry in the Middle East &...

Dubai Mobile Gaming Conferences

The mobile opportunity for startups in the Middle East and Africa [report]

“Even though we have a mobile penetration rate of 109% in the Middle East, I still see room for growth,” says Amr Shady, the founder of TA ...

Report Mobile Trends

Why Saudi Arabia could be the next big e-commerce hub in the Arab world

Saudi entrepreneurs have often cited the challenges to opening an e-commerce startup in the Kingdom. Many note a lack of public trust...

Saudi Arabia Demystifying E-Commerce E-commerce

Tech companies support women entrepreneurs in the Arab world

With 74% of women confident that they can achieve a balanced professional and personal life and reach the upper echelons of business...

Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

Update: Facebook resolves Tor issues

UPDATE: Tor has posted that Facebook is not blocking Tor. "A high volume of malicious activity across Tor exit nodes triggered...

Internet Freedom Technology Censorship

How blog comments can help you connect to influencers and investors

Sometimes a comment is all it takes to open new doors. Commenting on a website helped me start contributing at Wamda, connect to...

Community Social Networks

Twitter now offers free account analytics. How does it benefit users?

With 6.5 million users in the Arab world, Twitter is easily the second most popular social network in the region, and the world,...

Networking Social Social Networks

Kick-start your mobile app by developing on these alternative platforms

As of last April, the number of smartphones and tablets sold in the Middle East reached 22 million and continues to grow. The...

Developers Mobile Gaming Competitions

Would your kids play in an online world? Dubai design agency RBBi launches Worldoo

“Nobody talks about what happens after the first click,” says Amol Kadam, cofounder of UX/UI design agency RBBi (Red Blue Blur ideas) in D...

kids Social Networks Design

Will free VoIP apps disappear from the Middle East? A look at Saudi Arabia's Viber ban

While VOIP (Voice over IP) applications facilitate over represent more than 34% of the total time spent on international...

Skype VOIP Saudi Arabia

Will this French startup attract Arab travelers with its trip recording app?

Though it’s been tried by Arab companies before, and failed, French startup Trekea Media, Inc. is expanding their real-time mobile t...

Travel Mobile

Meet the Egyptian entrepreneur trying to build a digital brain

Coauthored with Mazen Aly, Egyptian Artificial Intelligence Ph.D. student at Max Planck Computer Research Institute in Germany. "In order...

Data Egypt Technology

3 tools to find and audit your best blog content

Are you stuck trying to find new topics for your blog? Want to turn your past content into an ebook? Or do you want to expand your content...

Tips Analytics

10th Annual Conference on Innovation Based Regional Development in Riyadh

The Technopolicy Network will be hosting the 10th Annual Conference on Innovation Based Regional Development in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on N...

Saudi Arabia Conferences Innovation

YouTube and CairoDar Launch education portal for Egyptian high school students

Students studying for tawjihi in Egypt now have a new online resource: YouTube and CairoDar's new education portal, which will provide...

Students EdTech Education

American Express launches banking app in Saudi Arabia; will it take off?

Global credit card giant American Express just launched an Arabic and English iPhone app for Saudi Arabia, offering...

The Arab Spring through the eyes of Zaid

Zaid Farekh is as Jordanian as Mansaf. Born, bred and schooled in Jordan, he's a hardworking man from a hard working family. Before he had...

Jordan Technology Fadi Ghandour

Arab Heroes can now battle on the iPhone in Falafel Games' new mobile MMO Knights of Glory

“We’re the only game where the Arabic player can identify with his own culture, his own history, and say ‘I’m one of the heroes’ instead of...

Mobile Gaming Mobile Gaming

Lebanon

New initiative launches in Cairo and Beirut to support Arabic content online

There’s a reason why initiatives like Taghreedat and Arabic Web Days are focusing on boosting Arabic content on the...

Translation Arabic Content

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