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Group Buying Site GoNabit Becomes LivingSocial

After announcing its acquisition by e-commerce giant LivingSocial earlier this year, daily deals site GoNabit will officially re-launch as...

Lebanese Startup Cuevox is Scheduling on Steroids

Sometimes all it takes to spark an idea is witnessing a simple incident. The ability to see the possibility for change in everyday life is...

Islamic Superheroes Save the World this Weekend

In the context of protests for greater equality occurring around the globe this weekend, it seems fitting that a film has debuted...

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

Don’t Panic. There is Life After Blackberry.

We all know that entrepreneurs in the Middle East are becoming very addicted to their smart phones. It's been an especially tough week with...

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...

5 Tips for Turning Failure into Success

Failure is terrible. It’s a word we often associate with losing. And yet, when I failed, my so-called failure led to my working for an e...

The Benefits of Moving Back into the Region

In 2004, Tunisian entrepreneur Dhafer Berrachid started Axe Finance to deliver consulting services to European banks. By 2007, however, he...

7 Startup Ideas from 5 Thought Leaders

Wamda asked five investors and startup mentors in the region for an idea that they would like to see turned into a company. Here are their...

New Startup Accelerator Flat6Labs Launches in Cairo

Flat6Labs, the newest startup accelerator in Egypt, launched its first round of startup investment and training today. Last night, its...

Accelerators Flat6Labs

7 Secrets to Successful Email Marketing

When it comes to marketing your business, email marketing is one of the most effective and underrated channels you can use. It's sometimes...

Digital Marketing

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

8 Survival Tips for First Time Fathers & Entrepreneurs

1. Don't panic. Focus. When I quit my job to start my entrepreneurial journey, I didn't know that we were already blessed to have our first...

5 Web Awards You Should Know

Janelle Brown described the Webby Awards in 1997 in Wired Magazine as an event spawned by fledgling glossy The Web Magazine, that “felt m...

The Arab dot Spring Will Not be Televised

The revolution will be not be televised. But it will be tweeted, and liked, and shared on YouTube, Facebook and picked up by your major...

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,...

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...

Jordanian Ex-Apple Employee Recalls Steve Jobs’s Influence

In the wake of Steve Jobs’s death yesterday, the web has flooded with memories of the legendary Apple CEO’s time at the helm. As Stephen Lev...

25 Tweetable Startup Tips from Steve Jobs

1. Create a product with soul. Jobs proved that to create a product that customers would not just use, but love, you have to marry science...

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...

5 Social Networks that Make the Little League

The time we spend on the internet has been gradually increasing every year, nowhere more than on social media. According to the Nielsen...

Matching Entrepreneurs with Investors in Palestine

It’s been said often that perseverance is the key to success in the region, especially in Palestine. Yet while options for funding are g...

How to Stay Healthy while Running a Company

Health can be defined in many ways, and maybe most importantly, how you feel on a day-to-day basis. When you look at the life of an...

Thought Leadership

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