Wamda

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Arab Conference at Harvard 2017

The Arab Conference at Harvard is considered to be one of the largest Pan-Arab conferences in North America. This year it is aiming to...

Harvard MENA startup

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GSMA Mobile 360 MENA

GSMA Mobile 360 MENA is a two-day conference which identifies and addresses key challenges/opportunities for the mobile ecosystem...

GSMA Mobile conference

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Gender discrimination in entrepreneurship: MENA women’s take

This is the first of two articles about how recent global developments affecting gender dynamics and discrimination against women in tech...

Women empowerment gender discrimination women in tech

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Uber and Arabiaweather announced a strategic partnership

The ride hailing app Uber announced a strategic partnership with Arabiaweather, a platform that provides weather products, services and...

ksa Saudi Arabia Jordan

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What I Know about blockchain in the MENA: Ernst & Young’s Grant Niven

The global blockchain technology market was valued at $316 million in 2015 and is expected to reach $20 billion by the end of 2024. The...

Ernst & Young Grant Niven Bitcoin

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This is why MENA corporates should invest more in agriculture [Opinion]

Recent reports providing data on investments in the food and beverage (F&B) sector indicate its increasing importance to the Middle...

Agriculture oped Corporate investment

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Arabnet Kuwait 2017 Competitions [Call for applications]

If you have an idea for a mobile app or a website and would like to turn it into product, then you should apply to the Ideathon competition...

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Arabnet Kuwait 2017

ArabNet is flying to Kuwait on October 17-18 for the second time on a row. The 2-day conference particularly focusing on the Kuwaiti and...

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Marriott Hotels launches TestBED in Middle East and Africa

Marriott Hotels launched today its TestBED programme for the first time in the Middle East and Africa, which will begin its roll-out in the...

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UX Workshop by Willy Lai

Learn how to design great UX from recent Apple UX Design Director and award winner, Willy Lai. At this engaging 2-day workshop,...

Workshop UX User Experience Design

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AI is taking roots in the MENA

Even though Artificial Intelligence (AI) is developing at a blistering pace, outside academia and engineering, it remains a bit of a...

AI Investment Technology

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Tarjama accomplished its Coursera for Refugees Arabization mission

Tarjama, a UAE-based translation startup, finished its six-month project with Coursera to Arabize courses specifically targeted at...

Tarjama Coursera refugees

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Will MENA’s on-demand startups become sustainable businesses?

On-demand startups, the so-called ‘Uber for X’ of startups, are those that provide immediate service by dispatching someone to...

On-demand startups Technology entrepreneurship

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What I Know about the right time to crowdinvest: Eureeca’s Chris Thomas

Chris Thomas, co-CEO and cofounder of equity crowdfunding platform Eureeca, has sat at both ends of the proverbial funding table. He has...

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What MENA entrepreneurs should know before moving to Europe and the US

Expanding your business beyond the MENA region is a challenge. People in the know cite such a venture’s costliness, point out...

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When Facebook means business for MENA women

If you are a woman, have founded, cofounded, or own a business, and are interested in using Facebook and Instagram to grow it, then you...

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You are what you wear, 2.0

Wearable smart devices are rapidly changing the face of technology in the 21st century, and the MENA is no stranger to that evolution....

GITEX Future Stars Wearable devices Technology

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SourceNow: A digital solution that redefines the industrial services marketplace

For several years, the UAE has consistently topped regional rankings of entrepreneurship and innovation. Most recently, the 2017 Global...

GE SourceNow IT solutions

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This is how Jamalon brought print-on-demand to the MENA

Ala Alsallal was still a university student when he perceived a need for high-quality published content in the Arab world. While he was...

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Battle of the finances: venture capital vs. private equity

If a business is searching for a source of external funding, it can turn to various sources. Some of these sources may be vastly different,...

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GITEX Future Stars Competitions

In case you haven’t heard yet, we have recently announced our partnership with GITEX Future Stars to create an all-encompassing...

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Middle Eastern environmental startups get on the right side of the green line

In recent years, the tech sector around the world has come to recognize the importance, the urgent necessity even, of going green. The...

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MAD Mentorpreneurs Pitch Competition

MAD Mentorpreneurs is a reverse mentoring program that will launch with a pitch competition taking place on September 30, 2017. 5...

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What I know about building ecosystems in emerging countries: Linda Rottenberg

It only took Linda Rottenberg a brief conversation with a taxi driver in Buenos Aires to launch Endeavor. Initially an engineer, this...

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