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How a Dubai Entrepreneur Built and Funded the Year's Hottest Hardware Innovation Garage Style

"It's hard to be a tech entrepreneur in the Middle East," says Ahmad Zahran of Infinitec. Yet by shutting down his previous...

Moroccan Web Entrepreneurs Gather, Pitch Ideas at g|maroc

Following a promising first edition of the g|Maghreb event organized in 2011 in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, Google returned to Morocco...

Conferences Google

Geekfest Beirut 5.0: Where Geeks, Fashion And Music Will Gather

This year Beirut hosts the 5th edition of Geekfest, subtitled “Fashion & Music”, which will take place at The Alleyway Group, Gemmayze o...

Entertainment Fashion

The 5th Dubai World Game Expo

On November 27th-28th, the 2012 Dubai World Game Expo (DWGE) will take place at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition...

Conferences Gaming

MENA Investor-Backed Job Search Platform Identified Scores $21m in Series B: What's Next?

Job search platform Identified, that aims to become the LinkedIn for the next generation of Facebook-focused entrepreneurs, took a huge...

Investment Job Recruitment LinkedIn

Using Digital Innovation, CrowdVoice.org Seeks to Amplify Minority Voices in the Middle East

Esra'a Al Shafei is founder of CrowdVoice.org, a user-powered service that tracks voices of protest from around the world by crowdsourcing...

Digital Media

Links Are Not Answers: Cairo's Kngine Launches App to Revolutionize Search

Operating with the tagline, "Links are not answers," intelligent search company Kngine (pronounced “kin-gin”) has launched beta versions of ...

Mobile Apps

6 Essential Tools For User Experience Design On a Budget

You can't any work done without good tools. Yet if you're just starting to learn and work in user experience design, you don't want to...

User Experience Design

Jordanian Entrepreneurs Launch Startup Enabling Global Access to Healthcare

"We want to export U.S.-quality healthcare to the rest of the world," says Ayman Sharaiha, explaining his startup, Clinical Fellows. The...

Medical

Facebook to Target Ad Revenue with New Dubai Office

As we predicted in February, Facebook is indeed entering the MENA region, planning to open an office in Dubai now that its IPO...

Facebook Social Networks

Wixel Studios to Return to Arabic Mobile Games with New Investment

When Wixel Studios was started by Ziad Fehali, Reine Abbas and Karim Abi Saleh in 2007, it was one of the first companies to appear...

Mobile Gaming

Yahoo! Acquires a License to Yamli’s Technologies

Today marks an important milestone in the life of popular Arabic language startup Yamli, as Yahoo! announces its acquisition of a license...

Innovation

Can't Attend CoE E-Commerce? Wamda is Hosting Google Hangout Meetups in Cairo, Beirut and Dubai

If you can't attend CoE E-Commerce in Amman and are based in either Cairo, Beirut or UAE, read on. We will be hosting a meetup with lunch...

CoE E-Commerce COE

Facebook Use in the Arab World in 2012

Just in time for Facebook's IPO tomorrow, @Shusmo has created an infographic detailing data from the Dubai School of Government's Arab...

Trends

Get Ready for CoE E-Commerce: Speakers and Program Announced

Get ready for CoE E-Commerce. Here's the breakdown: the first day will have a fully attendee-driven agenda. You'll get the chance to...

CoE E-Commerce COE

Woopra's New Interface Assists Quick Decision-Making

Web analytics platform Woopra, which launched a sleek iPhone and iPad interface this fall, has updated their web app dashboard as well,...

Analytics

Building Interactive Stories in Arabic for Children on Sacha Books [Wamda TV]

Co-founder Samer Adel Youssef of Egyptian startup Sacha Books, presenting at Google's startup competition in Cairo, Ebda2, describes how he ...

Animation Arabic Content Competitions

Microsoft Imagine Cup UAE Announces Winner

Microsoft's Imagine Cup, a competition inviting software developers around the world to "imagine a world where technology helps solve the...

Competitions Environment Mobile Apps

Demystifying E-Commerce: How to Create Discounts by Customer Segment

This series by Mohannad Ghashim of ShopGo.me is part of our Demystifying E-Commerce series. It will explore various technical issues...

E-commerce Demystifying E-Commerce

Google Workshop to Empower SMEs in Lebanon

Google and the IE Alumni Association invite AUB alumni and MBA students to a panel workshop and careers networking session on the topic of e...

Workshops

How to Create Banner Awareness (Or Bypass Blindness)

User-friendly design guru Jakob Nielsen held out a finding in one of his studies for 10 years, but finally finally to publish it in 2007....

User Experience Design

Will Jordan's My Marbles be the next Angry Birds? TakTek Games Inks Deal with Chillingo

Amman-based TakTek Games has secured a breakthrough deal this week, signing with U.K.-based mobile publishing giant Chillingo, which...

Gaming Mobile Gaming

ImagineCup Calls On MENA's Best Tech Students

This year, Microsoft is once again giving entrepreneurs a chance to launch themselves on a global stage with its Imagine Cup competition....

Competitions

Wind Technology: Could Radical Innovation Come from MENA?

The world today needs a clean and affordable energy solution to address both growing electricity challenges and the effects of global...

Green Energy Environment

Thought Leadership

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