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Turkey

8 (Tweetable) Stats to Know about E-Commerce in Turkey

The Süleymaniye Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey (Image via Travel Busy)As Turkey's economy grew from $200 billion in 2011 to almost $800 billion ...

Facebook Social Media Mobile

Egyptian Team Delivers a Killer Global App: Ninja SMS

Recently we had an Arab company going head-to-head with Google, now we have the Ninja apps team going head-to-head with...

New Business Consultancy Helps Startups Get On Their Feet in Egypt

New entrepreneurs in Egypt come up against a variety of challenges: registering a company, finding legal help, renting an office,...

Startup Services Consulting

Lebanon

The Arab World's Hottest Hardware Startup this Year? Instabeat Raises $11K in 5 Days

Swimmers, says Lebanese entrepreneur Hind Hobeika, have it tough when it comes to technology. To measure their performance, they’ve been f...

Stars of Science Hardware Sports

A Look Inside Lebanon's Game Cooks as They Launch a New iOS Game

The development studio for Game Cooks is set on a hill in Mansourieh, Lebanon overlooking a sprawling Beirut. After its two...

Developers Mobile Gaming Gaming

Wamda Announces Partnership with LebNet to Connect the Diaspora with Entrepreneurs in Lebanon

As part of Wamda's vision for connecting entrepreneurs in the Arab world to experts in the diaspora, Wamda has signed a partnership with...

Mentorship Diaspora

How Entrepreneurs Are Innovating Their Way Out of Traffic

Sometimes the most innovative ideas come from entrepreneurs who are just fed up. Their ability to make people’s lives just a l...

Crowdsourcing Egypt Transportation

The First Startup Weekend Ramallah Awards a Job Application Screening Platform

Note: this piece is adapted from the Arabic original.Startup Weekend Ramallah almost didn't happen. The organizers- Jaafar Houjair, ...

SWRamallah Startup Weekend

6 Reasons to Use Video Advertising

There's no doubt that video is the space to watch in online content; by 2014, it may account for 90% of content consumed on the internet,...

Video Advertising Advertising Video On Demand

Weekly Wrap-Up: April 14-18

How do you make sure you stay at the top of your game? Listening to your clients, benchmarking your features against work that inspires...

Weekly Wrap-Up

STC Announces First Investment in Saudi-Based Education Platform Acadox

STC Ventures, the venture capital arm of Saudi Telecom Company (STC), has announced investment in Acadox, a Saudi Arabia-based...

STC Ventures E-Learning Investment

New Incubation Project Supports Non-Profits in Saudi Arabia

I recently wrote about major challenges that startups are facing in Saudi Arabia, but as support programs at KAUST and...

Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

Social Business Gets a Boost in Tunisia with Launch of Muhammad Yunus's New Holistic Movement

March 13th was a day to remember in Tunisia this year. That day, Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi Noble Prize winner and one of the...

Job Creation Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

How Reviews Convince Customers to Buy E-commerce Products [Infographic]

With Arab users often not trusting online payment, e-commerce platforms in some markets in the Middle East have struggling to move away...

Reviews E-commerce

Could Digital Documentation Become a Profitable Business in Egypt?

Over the past two years since Egypt ousted Mubarak, several initiatives in Egypt have attempted to document the revolution's history on...

Egypt

Meet the Coffeehouse Inspiring Youth in Eastern Saudi Arabia

Last year, Wamda contributor Oubei Elkerdi asked whether coffeehouses could boost creativity in the Arab World. He argued that...

Coffeehouses Creativity Innovation

Why Entrepreneurs Ignore Networking Events, and How to Spark Their Interest

At eClub’s Weekly Entrepreneurs Brunch last week, the discussion focused on networking, asking entrepreneurs what they get out of n...

Networking Advice

Lebanon's Presella Targets the Globe with an E-ticketing and Event Crowdfunding Platform

Watching people entering the We Were Evergreen concert in Beirut a few weeks ago was certainly a show. People were excited to show their...

Crowdfunding E-commerce

Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Cross-posted and adapted from the original version published on the Harvard Business Review on April 10, 2013. I met Slovenian...

Public-Private Partnerships Government Legal

5 Timeless Offline Principles for Online Startups

As technology continues to enable a more virtual office experience, it’s important to remember that offline principles still apply in m...

Tips Advice

The Rise of Video Advertising [Infographic]

Did you know that 70% of digital media marketers use video as a means of advertising, while 58% use webinars and webcasts?A new infographic...

Would You Be Concerned if Google Bought Out WhatsApp? [Poll Results]

After moving to Beirut, the first thing people ask me when we want to stay in touch is not “Can I have your number?” “What’s your e-ma...

Telecommunication SMS Google

PitchFest Supports App Development in Lebanon

Last week at AltCity in Beirut, an online education platform beat out 10 competitors to win the co-working space's first mobile...

BiD Network Invites Women Entrepreneurs to Apply for Support: Deadline April 30th

Women entrepreneurs in emerging markets now have a new opportunity to apply for support from a network of over 46,000 entrepreneurs,...

Training Investment Competitions

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