Wamda

Regional

A key enabler of innovation is commitment to diversity

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower,” once said late Steve Jobs, founder of Apple. During periods of...

Team Diversity Expert Advice

Regional

How mobile and digital transform the shared Ramadan experience

Technology and digital communication are impacting people’s interactions and activities during Ramadan. Freemium mobile apps like...

Ramadan YouTube snapchat

Regional

GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund - Round 2

The GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund provides selected startups from Africa and Asia Pacific with equity-free funding, technical...

GSMA smes entrepreneurship

Regional

Exponential growth wasn’t built in a day [Podcast]

“Everyone has the Middle East at the bottom of their pyramid,” said Fadi Ghandour, Wamda’s executive chairman, and...

Souq.com Namshi careem

Lebanon

Is 3D printing the future of prototyping? [Wamda TV]

Doumit Raidy, of the Raidy Printing Group, and Guillame Credoz, of Ghouyoum, are two innovators building their businesses on new 3D...

3d printing ArabNet Beirut 2017 Innovation

Regional

What I know about building communities: David Spinks

After years of working as a community manager for different companies, David Spinks noticed a trend. He realized that businesses...

What I Know WIK Community

Regional

How talented is the MENA? [Report]

INSEAD Business School, Google and the Center for Economic Growth recently released this year’s edition of the Middle East and North...

Employment talents Skills

Regional

Support Legal: subscription based lawyer services for startups [Wamda TV]

Wamda speaks to Patrick Rogers and Lee McMahon cofounders of Support Legal, a new kind of law firm that is targeting entrepreneurs and...

legal advice startup Innovation

Regional

Bloovo receives $3M in investment

Bloovo, a Dubai-based algorithmic online recruitment platform founded in 2016, closed a $3 million funding round. The co-investment was...

recruitement online platform

Regional

Aim low, shoot high: AI regional startups are keeping it real

In the past two years, both growth numbers and tech advancements in the AI industry have made it fairly easy for its outsiders to fantasize...

chatbot AI Facebook Messenger

Regional

Video analytics startup Mintrics receives seed funding from Numu Capital

Numu Capital, the Dubai-based venture capital seed fund, has invested in Mintrics, a social video analytics dashboard. The startup uses...

startup seed investment Social Media

Regional

New startups on the block: June

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to...

new startups f&b SAAS

Regional

Ramadan strategies to help you compete with giants

When people have more leisure time away from work it’s not surprising to see their online habits change. So, during the month of...

Insider Ramadan Digital Marketing

Regional

The journey towards MENA’s future jobs: a train wreck or a gentle stroll?

The battle between old and new is fierce. Ride hailing apps versus yellow cabs, telcos versus VoIPs, Youtube versus TVs. But the future is...

wef employent jobs

Regional

Middle East Investment Summit explores MENA's VC trends

With the largest B round funding in the history of the Middle East tech ecosystem (41 million dollars for Fetchr) and Amazon’s...

Middle East Investment Summit Fetchr Angus Paterson

Regional

Talents get hired [Video]

This video is a crosspost with IFC. Figures and statistics released by the World Bank reveal that 28 percent of the Arab...

Nabbesh.com Expert's advice

Egypt

Minesweepers: Towards a Landmine-Free World

Minesweepers: Towards a Landmine-Free World is an international robotics competition that will be held in October 2017 in Kuala Lumpur,...

mines robots tech

Regional

C5 Cloud 10 Scalerator

The third round of the Cloud 10 Scalerator program is currently accepting applications from startups and entrepreneurs that are working on...

C5 Accelerate Cloud10 Entrepreneur

Regional

Alabbar acquires large stake in MEVP

Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) announced May 18 that Mohamed Alabbar, acquired a large stake in the company to create one of...

Alabbar emaar properties MEVP

Regional

Facebook selects finalists for Bots for Messenger Challenge

Facebook has selected 60 finalists from the hundreds of entries it received from across the Middle East and Africa for the Bots for...

Facebook Messenger Bots

Regional

The opportunity of an inclusive sharing economy in MENA

It’s 9am. A commuter leaves home heading for her office in the local tech business hub. After 30 seconds a car has arrived to take...

lebanon uae Egypt

Regional

Logistics company secures $41M in Series B funding

Fetchr, a tech company disrupting the traditional logistics sector in the MENA region, secured 41 million dollars in a Series B...

Fetchr New Enterprise Associates Inc. Idriss Al Rifai

Jordan

Digitizing financial transactions in the region: go startups!

The rise of the fintech industry in the region throughout the years, proves that this sector has a big impact on emerging markets despite...

Fintech online payment Oasis 500

Syria

Arageek: the reader comes first, even at our expense

‘Arabic content worth reading’ is the motto many Arabic content platforms hold to against the rise of poor online Arabic...

arageek raseef22 Arabic Content

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