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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...

Arabic Type Enters the Modern Era at Kashida Design

In the wake of revolutions this spring and summer, discourse about modern identity in the Arab World seems to have translated into a...

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

Wamda Announces Commitment to Follow On Funding for Oasis500 Startups

Today, Wamda is announcing a strategic partnership with Oasis500, Jordan’s entrepreneurship accelerator. Through the Wamda Fund (yes there i...

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

Mentorship Helps Design Agency Get Out of its Comfort Zone

Boudy and Walid Nasrala are two brothers who own one of Beirut’s most successful and well known creative agencies, WonderEight. A n...

Startup Weekend Dubai Draws Women, Empowers Emirati Youth

Last weekend, on October 20th, the first sparks of an entrepreneurial revolution were ignited in Dubai. More than 350 participants from...

Startup Weekend

How Arabia Weddings will Transform Wedding Planning in the Middle East

Arabia Weddings has launched a new wedding planning website catering to brides in Jordan, and eventually the Arab World. The site, launched...

Wedding Industry

Why the MENA Region Needs Better Research

Sindibad released its first business report on internet and technology startups in the Arab World this past week, aiming to provide the...

Can a Syrian Internship Initiative Solve Youth Unemployment?

The issue dominating every conversation on the table in the Middle East today is omnipresent enough to have a band named after it: Job...

7 Must-Dos Before You Build Your Website

As a new business owner, an entrepreneur or even the owner of an established business looking to launch or change its website, it...

Digital Marketing

twofour54 Abu Dhabi and Ubisoft Debut Arabic Video Game Studio

Investment vehicle twofour54 has announced the opening of the first major video game studio in Abu Dhabi, in partnership with French video...

Gaming Mobile Gaming

Meet the Winning Teams from Arabnet Cairo

Meet the winners from this year's Arabnet in Cairo. Notably the top three Startup Demo teams as well as the third place and crowd prizes in...

Arabnet Conferences Women

9 Common Mistakes Tech Startups Make According to Investors at Arabnet

Some of the region’s top investors, during their panel discussion at Arabnet Cairo, shared their experiences of the most common mistakes t...

Arabnet Conferences

Get Ready Egypt, Women Winners Took Arabnet Cairo

Cairo played host to its first ArabNet conference for internet and mobile entrepreneurs on the 19th & 20th October. “We’re glad to...

Arabnet

7 Agendas for Change in the Arab World: WEF Day 2 Summary

On the second day of the World Economic Forum Special Meeting on Economic Growth and Job Creation in the Arab World at the Dead Sea,...

The World Economic Forum Blog: Day 1

How can Arab economies better leverage regional and global trade to restart growth and drive economic and social development? A final...

Watch the World Economic Forum Livestream

Follow the World Economic Forum Livestream here. The schedule is below. See the full WEF Special Meeting schedule here. Schedule for...

From the Sephora of Chile to the Staples of Egypt, Who Wowed Endeavor Panelists the Most? [Wamda TV]

As panelists duked it out over which entrepreneurs deserved to become Endeavor mentees at the International Selection Panel this past week,...

Meet the Emerging Market Entrepreneurs Who Will Leapfrog Silicon Valley

This week Endeavor Global hosted its 40th International Selection Panel in Amman, Jordan. Entrepreneurs from Mexico, Chile, Brazil, South...

Get Ready for the World Economic Forum Special Meeting

The World Economic Forum's Special Meeting on Economic Growth and Job Creation in the Arab World begins this weekend,with the goal of...

How Corporate Corruption Hurt Egypt's Entrepreneurs

The moment Egypt toppled Mubarak was thrilling. Yet what has come after has been less so. Against a background of violence betwee Christian...

How Can Conferences Help the Arab World?

This past weekend I attended the Arab Development Initiative’s (ADI) Envision Arabia Summit in Montreal, Canada. The Envision Arabia Summit ...

Can the Group Buying Boom in the Arab World Lead to Bust?

Ever since the world witnessed Groupon’s meteoric rise, from its launch in November 2008, with close to $6 million in seed funding under i...

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