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Startup Weekend Doha

Qatar is hosting another startup weekend between November 29th and December 1st, 2012. The event will take place at Carnegie Mellon U...

Startup Weekend

Pivoting to Solar Energy: India's Hind High Vacuum Company [Case Study]

This is the fourth installment of a new series on Wamda featuring companies in emerging markets around the world. Launched in 1965, the ...

Aureos Aureos Case Studies Business Development

Jordan's Hashdoc Goes for a Global Market

An entrepreneur at heart and techie in action, Tarek Koudsi learned a lot from his family hardware and software business in Jordan before...

Cloud Computing Innovation Oasis500

Can Startappz Disrupt the Mobile Space in the Arab World?

The idea of being more committed to learning than to a given product seems appropriate for the wave of young entrepreneurs entering the...

Arabic Content Investment Mobile

PayPal Launches Middle East Operations with Aramex Partnership

PayPal, which is already an active payment platform in the region, has announced the official launch of its operations in the Middle East...

Payment Gateways E-commerce Delivery

What's New at Google in the Arab World? [Wamda TV]

Ever since Google launched Maps with Navigation in beta in the Middle East (in Egypt, the UAE, Saudi, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Lebanon, ...

Google Technology

10 Education Technology Resources for the Arab World

In my previous article, I talked about the accumulating research on the importance on early childhood education, and the rising importance...

Education

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

Making Music a Social Experience: SoundCloud's Thom Cummings at SHARE Beirut [Wamda TV]

At SHARE Beirut 2012, Thom Cummings of SoundCloud discusses how their platform is making music and other audio files a more interactive and ...

Conferences Digital Media Media

Fatooosh Offers Mobile and SmartTV Video Streaming Tailored for the Arab World

Amidst a rise in available Arabic content online, a new cross-platform SmartTV app has launched to offer seamless video viewing and...

Arabic Content Digital Media Entertainment

Startup Weekend Bahrain

Do you want to turn your idea into reality? This is your chance: Bahrain is hosting a startup weekend between November 8 and 10, 2012. All...

Startup Communities Startup Weekend Workshops

Circumvention Tech Summit in Tunis

OpenITP and the Information Security Coalition (ISC) will be hosting the Circumvention Tech Summit in Tunis, Tunisia from November...

Censorship Conferences Corruption

An Emerging Opportunity in the Cloud: Tariq Krim of Jolicloud [Wamda TV]

Tariq Krim, co-founder of Jolicloud, discusses a global trend towards using the Cloud to store and preserve data. He explains that, “The c...

Cloud Computing Conferences Webrazzi

Pivoting into Mobile: Alexis Bonte of Social Gaming Company eRepublik [Wamda TV]

At the Webrazzi Summit 2012 event earlier this month, Alexis Bonte, co-founder of eRepublik, discusses the company’s pivot from social b...

Arabic Content Conferences Gaming

Arab World Publishing Platform Tahadi Localizes Korean Game Knight Online

After publishing Age of Titans less than a month ago, Tahadi Games, is releasing another title, this time originally...

Gaming

Developers Face Off in Beirut Coding Battle

On Saturday, ArabNet brought over 40 young Lebanese developers together in Beirut to compete in an intense coding tournament. The winners...

Arabnet Competitions Developers

Inventing The Best Encrypted Chat Client: 21 Year-Old Nadim Kobeissi Shares Story of Cryptocat [Wamda TV]

Lebanese entrepreneur, Nadim Kobeissi, developer and founder of Cryptocat speaks to Wamda at SHARE Beirut, introducing his instant...

Conferences Developers Invention

Conflict Mapping Platform Ushahidi's Henry Addo at SHARE Beirut [Wamda TV]

At SHARE Beirut event last weeked, Henry Addo, co-founder of Ushahidi, discussed Ushahidi’s work to map incidents of violence and peace e...

Analytics Conferences Digital Media

Michelle Thorne of Mozilla Announces New Mobile Operating System [WamdaTV]

At SHARE Beirut during the first weekend of October, Michelle Thorne of Mozilla speaks about their non-profit organization which puts users ...

Conferences Mobile Software

Understanding the Arab Digital Generation [Report]

A recent report by Strategy& and Google, Understanding the Arab Digital Generation, reveals interesting facts about how the newest...

Booz & Company Digital Media E-commerce

Going Digital: Offline Businesses Moving Online, Part 4 [Wamda TV]

In the last segment of our June CoE E-Commerce panel, Going Digital: Offline Businesses Moving Online, moderator Omar Christidis o...

COE CoE E-Commerce Conferences

The State of the Internet in 2012 [Presentation]

Henry Blodget and Alex Cocotas from Business Insider’s BI Intelligence team have assembled a detailed overview of the U.S. and global digita...

Advertising Digital Advertising Digital Marketing

Going Digital: Offline Businesses Moving Online, Part 2 [Wamda TV]

In Part 2 of our June CoE E-Commerce panel, Going Digital: Offline Businesses Moving Online, moderator Omar Christidis of ArabNet, asks pan...

Advertising COE CoE E-Commerce

Sami Ben Gharbia of Tunisian Collective Blog Nawaat at SHARE Beirut [Wamda TV]

At the SHARE Beirut gathering last weekend, Nawaat co-founder Sami Ben Gharbia discussed the influence of Tunisian independent collective...

Censorship Conferences Diaspora

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