Wamda

OPIC and Abraaj Capital Commit $150M to Boost SMEs in MENA

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Egypt now have even more opportunities to for growth, as Sunday the Overseas Private...

Government Investment

Froot Encourages Joking, Reading on Mobiles in the Arab World

In Saudi Arabia, where smartphone penetration has reached 60% according to Google, pivoting into the mobile app market seems a...

Mobile Apps Mobile

How Startup Design Agency RBBi Turned a Profit Within a Year in Dubai

How many Dubai startups have turned a profit within a year of launching? User experience design and user interface (UX/UI) agency...

Digital Media User Experience Design

Lebanese Telecoms Minister Interviewed by Wamda on Twitter - Here is How It Went

On Friday, Wamda hosted a Twitter interview with Lebanese Telecoms Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui to discuss entrepreneurship, innovation, and...

Government

The Cairo Angels Are Looking For a Few Good Startups

The Cairo Angels are here. No, it’s not a local remake of Charlie’s Angels (can you imagine), but a group of business angels based in Cairo ...

Angel Investment Investment

Game Minion Seeks to Level the Playing Field for Indie Game Developers

Independent developers have long competed with large publishing houses in the realm of game development, often outmatched by greater...

Gaming Mobile Apps Mobile Gaming

Teshkeel Media Group Equity Stake Acquired by Crescent Enterprises

Crescent Enterprises, a subsidiary of the UAE-based Crescent Group, announced the acquisition of an equity stake in the Teshkeel Media...

Acquisitions

MIT TR35 Awards Top 5 Arab Innovators Under 35

Last night in Beirut, amid an excited crowd of peers, family, and friends, five young Arab innovators were announced as winners of TR35 Pan...

MIT Technology Woopra

Weekly Wrap-Up: September 02-06

It’s finally Thursday and time for our Weekly Wrap-Up! If you're game for taking your business to the next level, don't miss this week's to...

Crowdsourcing Fadi Ghandour Gaming

Building Government-Startup Alliances [Pic of the Week]

Entrepreneurs and governments are often at odds, leery of working with each other and afraid to reach out to build an uncommon alliance....

Government Startup Communities Pic of the Week

Cairo's Cloud 11, Raising Cloud Services to New Heights

Cloud 11 is a Cairo based cloud-computing services start-up that provides various Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions to their clients....

Cloud Computing

Fadi Ghandour's Next Investment: Building a Future for Arab Social Entrepreneurship

Fadi Ghandour's name has been synonymous with Arab entrepreneurship. In 1982 he established Aramex as an express operator for the Middle...

Investment Social Entrepreneurship Wharton

Wizards Productions Continues to Go Global, Announcing Partnership with Tapjoy, Acceleration with YetiZen

After announcing a pivot into mobile gaming and a deal with leading international publisher 6waves, Wizards Productions is continuing to...

Gaming Mobile Mobile Gaming

Top 15 MENA Tech Startups That Are Going Global

Today we highlight some of the region’s most innovative tech startups as they expand their businesses from MENA into global markets. Each o...

Technology Top Lists

Dubai's Aflamnah Offers MENA-focused Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding is the latest buzzword making the rounds in the entrepreneurial world, and a UAE initiative is out to show there’s more to it t...

Crowdfunding Investment

Cairo Workspace The District Celebrates Six Months of Success

Six months is usually too soon to celebrate a birthday, but things had been going so well for The District recently that celebrations were...

Accelerators Coworking Spaces

RecycloBekia Transforms Egypt’s E-Waste into a Commodity

Can recycling e-waste really be profitable? Twenty Tanta University students say yes, as they work to build an electronic waste...

Environment

Are You Ready for the Digital Revolution? [Infographic]

Did you know that 37% of customers are influenced by word-of-mouth, and 10-25% use social media to help them make purchasing decisions? Or...

Digital Marketing

Iraq to Be Reborn as Art & Science Hub Through Baghdad Hackerspace

A young leader is bringing his passion for collaboration to create a hackerspace in Baghdad this October. Bilal Ghalib, an expat who...

Trends

Sawari, Union Capital Announce $1.2m Investment in Egyptian Financial Services Company

Sawari Ventures and Union Capital have announced $1.2 million in investment in Financial Services Company (FSC), an Egyptian company that...

Investment Loyalty Programs

How to Generate and Assess Good Entrepreneurial Ideas

You may think that entrepreneurs have the ability to produce better and more efficient streams of ideas than ordinary people. While it’s b...

Innovation Ideas

Looking For A Repairman? Mjarrab Launches to Crowdsource Home Repairs in Jordan

Mjarrab is launching a new twist on a traditional service: household repairs. The concept makes sense; sourcing your own repairmen in ...

Crowdsourcing Job Recruitment Ratings Sites

Weekly Wrap-Up: August 26-30

At Wamda, we've decided to bundle up some of our top content for you every week. So every Thursday, look out for our Weekly Wrap-Up if you...

Weekly Wrap-Up Tips Competitions

Provide Structure and Freedom for Innovation [Pic of the Week]

This week, activists participated in a blackout to protest ICT censorship in Jordan, a move aimed to prevent two amendments from...

Government Pic of the Week

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