Wamda

Startup Tob Turba Wins Fikrati Competition in Egypt

Tob Turba Madghout (Madghout stands for compressed) won the first prize in the 'Fikrati' (my idea) competition organized by the...

Competitions

Does “Class” Matter in Entrepreneurial Success? A Call to Eric Ries

In a recent article on racism and meritocracy, Eric Ries calls for Silicon Valley investors to pay more attention to diversity...

Trends

Game Cooks Hits #1 Around the Globe with New Mobile Game Deja Vu

Lebanese-based gaming startup Game Cooks recently launched Deja Vu, a new mobile game designed to test a gamer’s memory and reaction t...

Mobile Gaming

Every Big Company Starts Small [Pic of the Week]

Every big company starts small. It seems obvious and even cliché, but often young startups lose sight of this reality. It’s easy to get ca...

Advice CoE Cards Ecosystem

HCT Vice Chancellor Tayeb Kamali on Innovating Education for the Emirates

In less than half a century, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has gone through extraordinary change. Today, work progresses on world-class...

Education Innovation

Dubai-Based Gaming Studio Piranha Byte Launches Its Brainchild: Peek!

Piranha Byte, a game development studio based in Dubai, just released its first title Peek!, inspired by the most successful photo sharing...

Gaming

MarkaVIP Hits 2 Million Registered Users, Continues to Solve E-Commerce Issues in MENA

Less than two years after its launch in 2010, MarkaVIP has announced today that it has now hit two million registered users. It’s a big mi...

E-commerce

A*Apps Launches Crowdsourced Mobile App-Testing at Flat6Labs Demo Day

In Egypt, A*Apps (“A Star Apps”) is developing a unique platform that allows mobile app developers to test their apps through cro...

Crowdsourcing Mobile Apps

Yemeksepeti to Enter MENA Region After $44M Investment from General Atlantic

As Webrazzi reported today, Yemeksepeti, a leading Turkish food ordering site, has announced a US $44 million round of funding from New...

Food & Beverage Investment

Summer School Takes Controversial Decision to Exclude Lebanese Entrepreneur

Controversy struck Lebanon’s entrepreneurship community this past week, as prominent young Lebanese entrepreneur Abdallah Absi was expelled ...

Competitions Education

Egyptian Social Gaming Startup FunWave Delivers Football Fun

Egypt is full of football fanatics, and the region is as well. So it made perfect sense that Egyptian social games start-up FunWave’s ...

Accelerators Angel Investment Egypt

Is Social Media important for Social Good in Arabia? 5 Examples from Jordan

It’s been three years since we launched Nakhweh (@nakhweh) to match volunteers in Jordan with local opportunities. As it evolved i...

Social Entrepreneurship Social Media

Egypt's Tech Community to Conquer Cairo's Traffic

We have all heard about, and many of us have experienced, Cairo’s infamous and grueling traffic congestion. This year, the World Bank is p...

Mobile Apps Technology Taxi + Traffic

Weekly Wrap-Up: September 09-13

The season of entrepreneurship events is just around the corner, so make sure you catch up on the latest news, and check out what...

Crowdfunding Food & Beverage Health

Digital Freedoms: A Middle East Update

This article is cross-posted from Access. The past week has been a busy one for the evolving world of Middle East digital freedom: a...

Censorship

10 Tasty Food & Beverage Startups In The Arab World

Today we look at some of MENA’s most delicious and inspired food startups. From falafel to cupcakes, watermelon to shawarma, these tasty n...

Food & Beverage

Think Big [Pic of the Week]

It's been a week for big news - both regionally and globally. The first early-stage VC deal in Palestine was closed, to the tune of US $1...

CoE Cards Pic of the Week

Goodbye Mizado, Hello Jumia: Inside Rocket Internet's Newest Gamble in Egypt

Jumia, the new online mall, launched with little fanfare in Egypt just over two months ago, the progeny of the German behemoth...

Rocket Internet Egypt Ecosystem

Saudi 3eesho brings healthy living to the Arab world

Saudi Arabia

Thought Leadership