Wamda

N2V Announces First StartAppz Investment in Mobile App Startup iAraby

N2V has announced investment in Arabic mobile developer company iAraby, via its mobile investment vehicle and accelerator,...

Accelerators Mobile Mobile Apps

Seems Awkward, Ignores the Rules, but Brilliant: Meet the Maverick Job Candidate

In a paper recently published in the British Journal of Psychology, Elliroma Gardiner, an organizational psychologist at the London School...

Innovation

Regional

10 Video Resources Every Entrepreneur Should Know

It's always best to get tailored advice from hands-on mentors, but in your "free time" it also pays to get inspired by content around the...

Education

The Journey of a Food & Beverage Entrepreneur in Amman

Nickolas Neibauer's friendliness at Caffé Strada seemed out of place at first in Amman. With his warm toothy smile, and American accent, I ...

Food & Beverage

Startup Merges with Dinosaur to Create Egyptian Job Search Site Wuzzuf

In the job search market in the Middle East, new sites are always looking to solve the signal-to-noise problem, plucking useful applicants...

Job Recruitment

A Look at Oasis500's 5th Angel Event: Are Accelerators in the Middle East Doing Their Job?

Jordanian tech accelerator Oasis500 hosted its 5th Angel Investment event in Amman last night, bringing together 100 members of the...

Accelerators Oasis500

5 Simple Ways Startups Can Defend Against Hackers

The hacking of the Lebanese government websites two weeks ago, for the second time in two months, as well as the discovery of the Flame...

Egyptian Mobile App Dokani Links Shoppers to Offline Deals

For the mobile app-savvy shopper in Egypt, Dokani offers the chance to a check information online about new products and sales...

Mobile Apps

Winners of the MIT Enterprise Arab Business Plan Competition '12 Announced

The winners of the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business Plan Competition '11-'12 have been chosen. After winnowing the top 50 teams down to...

MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition

How a Dubai Entrepreneur Built and Funded the Year's Hottest Hardware Innovation Garage Style

"It's hard to be a tech entrepreneur in the Middle East," says Ahmad Zahran of Infinitec. Yet by shutting down his previous...

An Old Soldier's Advice on Leadership and How to Conquer Your Challenges

British Army Rt. Major General Tim Toyne Sewell not so secretly known as Big Tim to his subordinates at the Royal Military Academy...

Wharton

Does Peace in the Middle East Need Bombs? A Look at Game Cooks' New iPhone Game

Brothers Lebnan and Arz Nader, half of the team behind this year's biggest gaming success Birdy Nam Nam, are releasing a new iPhone game...

Gaming Mobile Gaming

Moroccan Web Entrepreneurs Gather, Pitch Ideas at g|maroc

Following a promising first edition of the g|Maghreb event organized in 2011 in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, Google returned to Morocco...

Conferences Google

7 Ways to Create a Healthy Indoor Environment at Your Business

Perhaps the first thing that comes to mind when someone says “air pollution” is the image of car exhaust filling the streets, industrial chi...

Environment

Women and Gaming in the Middle East

In April 2012, 1600 women gathered in Saudi Arabia for the second annual all-female Gaming Convention. “There was huge demand and many said ...

Gaming Women

Bringing Middle East Freelancers the Job Search They Need: Nabbesh

For freelancers looking for work, the Middle East can be a tricky market. While several sites, allow you to search for freelance work, only...

Job Recruitment

Zawya Acquired by Thomson Reuters

On the heels of rumors in April that Zawya was preparing for a multimillion dollar acquisition, majority shareholder Saffar Capital...

Acquisitions

Egyptian E-commerce Site OpenDayz Helps Small Businesses Sell Products Online

A shopping trend that’s been growing in Egypt recently is the “Open Day.” Someone, usually a female, buys or creates a batch of niche ...

Accelerators

Building a 2020 Vision of Entrepreneurship in Lebanon

There is an emergency in Lebanon. Not the emergency you may think; beyond the political debates and divides, beyond the clashes and the...

Ecosystem Trends

Demystifying E-Commerce: How to Offer Competitive Customer Service

A customer service strategy for an online store is as critical as it is for a brick and mortar. Some may start with the misguided...

Demystifying E-Commerce E-commerce

Lebanese-Egyptian Entrepreneur Fadi Chehade to Lead Internet Expansion as New ICANN CEO

It may come as no surprise to entrepreneurs in the Arab World that a successful Lebanese-Egyptian IT entrepreneur will now lead the...

Trends

A Good Deal: Dubizzle Seeks to Dominate the Middle East's Online Classified Market

Like the thousands of expats who find their way to this glitzy sheikhdom, Sim Whatley and J.C. Butler came to Dubai several years ago...

E-commerce

3 Things that Investors and Entrepreneurs Can Do to Avoid An Eternal War

Apple is the most valuable company around the world. Google is the search titan and the innovative platform in the tech industry. Microsoft...

Investment

Foota Towels - Making Egyptian Towels Famous

Egypt is famous for its cotton. The best towels in the world are also manufactured here, but there isn’t a recognised Egyptian towel b...

Design Marketing Fashion

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