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Moroccan Craigslist Competitor Soukaffaires.ma Announces $500K Investment from Maroc Numeric Fund

Soukaffaires.ma, a Moroccan portal for online classified ads, has announced today that it received 4.2 dirhams (~US $500,000) in investment...

Should You Upgrade to the iPhone 4S?

Last month the iPhone 4S was released worldwide to mixed reviews; the public and fans were expecting a major overhaul, but what was...

Intern at a Lebanese Startup Creates the Coolest Music App You'll Download this Year

If you’re tired of hoping a free streaming radio app will make it to the Middle East, the wait is over. You can thank Rony Fadel, a 2...

Regional

Arabic SEO Part One: Content Optimization

Building on my first post on Wamda, “SEO 101 for startups,” which gives a quick summary of search engine optimization, this...

Analytics SEO

5 Website Designs that Keep Users Coming Back

Now that I’ve given you an introduction to User Experience Design (UXD) is and the qualities that a User Experience Designer should h...

User Experience Design

Groupon Fuels Hype with $700 Million IPO

After some drama, and some back-and-forth over its valuation, Groupon has today gone public and begun trading on the NASDAQ at a record IPO...

Debunking the Myth of the One-Man Team

Successful companies are often represented by a figurehead that embodies the values of the company and acts as a public figure. That was...

How the Amazon of the Arab World Gains Consumer Trust [Wamda TV]

Ala'a AlSallal of Jamalon, the Amazon of the Arab World, discusses at the World Economic Forum how he found a gap in the market for online...

SEO 101 for Startups

What is SEO? SEO is an acronym for search engine optimization. In short, SEO refers to a variety of techniques used to position a...

Analytics SEO

Windows Phone 7.5 Mango: The New Must-Have OS for Social Media Lovers?

Last week I was invited by Microsoft to a social media gathering to discuss Microsoft’s multichannel marketing strategy in the region and h...

A Sneak Peek at Facebook Timeline

Facebook users might experienced small changes to their profile during the past month, and not thought much of it. But these changes are...

The Decline of Social Media Aggregators: Why Power.com Failed

The last five years have witnessed a huge surge in social media sites and users, especially with the advent of Facebook and Twitter. Users...

Rumors and Face-offs at the Internet Show Middle East

The Internet Show Middle East held its second annual event in Abu Dhabi this past week in what is one of a number of events and...

Will the iPhone 4S Console Apple Fans?

On Tuesday October 4th, Apple held its annual iPhone event. As usual, expectations were very high, particularly, since the event is usually...

Apple Pioneer Steve Jobs Dies at 56

Steve Jobs, the innovative leader of computer company Apple, died yesterday. After a long battle with pancreatic cancer, Jobs passed away...

How Syrian is Steve Jobs?

The world lost "the most successful Arab" this past week, when Steve Jobs, founder and former CEO of Apple succumbed to pancreatic cancer,...

3 Skill Sets for Good User Experience Design

In my previous post, I explained what User Experience Design (UXD) is. Here I will define what makes a good user experience (UX) designer....

User Experience Design

Why Blackberry's Secretive Network is To Blame

The recent massive Blackberry outage continues to spread around the globe, today hitting Canada. Research in Motion (RIM) has acknowledged ...

Dennis Ritchie, Father of Unix and C, Dies

The tech world has lost another of its greats today. Dennis Ritchie, the computer scientist who designed and developed programming language...

Five Apps that Will Make Your (Business) Life Easier

Just because your business is small doesn’t mean you should suffer by getting overwhelmed by organizational tasks. Google Apps is an e...

What Is User Experience Design?

This is my first post in a series in which I will tackle the ins and outs of User Experience Design, offering a crash course in...

User Experience Design

Why iOS 5 is Apple's Savviest Move Yet

An analysis of iOS 5 and its competitors and what Apple is doing to keep its lead in the phone business Apple has recently...

NETpeas Makes IT Security a Moroccan Export

As arrests of members from hacker group Anonymous make the news around the world, following high-profile breaches of Sony and Bank of...

Why is Magento an Ideal Solution?

This article is written for Wamda as part of a series on e-commerce by 7arake.com.One of Magento’s best properties lies in the fact that it ...

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