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Will Facebook's New Deal with Mobile Operators Help It Take On Whatsapp, Viber, and Skype?

Yesterday, Facebook announced a partnership with telecom operators in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Egypt, to offer discounted access to its...

Facebook Mobile Mobile Apps

PayPal Answers Your Questions: When, Where, and How Will It Expand in the Middle East? [Wamda TV]

After our recent interview with Elias Ghanem, General Manager PayPal Middle East, at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Dubai, several...

E-commerce Payment Gateways PayPal

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

What Would You Do If You Had Google Glass?

Google Glass has arrived. Google’s new demo video, released yesterday, reveals some of the wildest and most touching ways it could t...

Innovation Technology

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

Google Science Fair 2013

Google is hosting an online science competition open to students between the ages of 13 and 18 from across the globe, in partnership with...

Competitions Invention

Aramex Launches Shop and Ship in Dubai: What it Means for E-Commerce Merchants

Aramex will soon be launching its international shipment service, Shop and Ship, in Dubai, in a move that could dramatically boost...

Delivery Demystifying E-Commerce E-commerce

10 Tweetable Facts about Mobile App Development [Report]

The following statistics and facts are based on VisionMobile’s recent survey of 3,460 developers across 95 countries, which was shared with ...

Developers Mobile Mobile Apps

Lebanese Telecoms Ministry Asks Citizens to 'Be The Minister' with New Game

In an attempt to engage with citizens online, Lebanese Telecoms Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui is offering young Lebanese participants...

Competitions Government Telecommunication

Who Egypt’s YouTube Ban Will Hurt the Most

On the anniversary of the day Mubarak stepped down two years ago, Egypt is still facing a pending 30-day ban on YouTube, ordered by Egypt’s ...

Censorship

Is the Internet in Danger of Becoming an Echochamber? [Wamda Debates]

This post is the second in a new content series called Wamda Debates. Every other week, the Wamda team debates a topic, industry, or...

Debate Social Media Social Networks

Regional

90% of Tech Startups Fail [Infographic]

A recent study by Allmand Law found that more than 90% of all tech startups fail. It’s a bleak statistic, but let’s take a look...

Failure Infographic Mobile

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

Gate2Play Releases New APIs for E-Commerce Sites

This week, Gate2Play has rolled out new support for various e-commerce platforms, to help online merchants connect to its list of regional...

E-commerce Payment Gateways PayPal

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

Mideast Tunes, the Indie MySpace of the Middle East, Announces Partnership with Shazam

In 2010, when MySpace-style music platforms were just launching in the Middle East, opinionated blogger Ahmad Al-Shagra took a stand,...

Digital Marketing Mobile Music

Is Streaming Music a Viable Model in the Arab World? A Look at the Future of the Music Industry [Wamda Debates]

This post is the first in a new content series called Wamda Debates. Every other week, the Wamda team debates a topic, industry, or...

Mobile Mobile Apps Music

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

Tutorial Platform Facebook Studio Edge Launches in Dubai

After unveiling the platform last spring, Facebook today announced the Dubai launch of Facebook Studio Edge, a tutorial platform designed...

Facebook Marketing Social Media

2013 Java Developers Conference

On March 8-9, 2013, the Java Developers Conference will take place in Cairo, Egypt to bring professionals and students from across the Arab...

Conferences Developers

Twitter Finally Expands Ad Products To The Arab World. Is It Preparing for an IPO?

Startups in the Middle East now have a new ad channel on the world’s favorite micro-blogging platform. In an event in Dubai yesterday, T...

Digital Advertising Digital Marketing Expansion

6 Tools For Improving Your Team's Communication

In the Arab world, having a team across several countries is not uncommon, especially in a tech startup. Whether due to a lack of talent in...

Mobile Mobile Apps Social Media

Maroc Web Awards, 6th Edition

The Maroc Web Awards (MWA) is Morocco's largest web competition wich seeks to recognize talented tech influencers from across Morocco. The ...

Digital Media Technology

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

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