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7 Tips and Confessions from Day 2 of CoE E-Commerce

CoE E-Commerce, our CoE event focused on the E-Commerce sector, concluded yesterday after a second day jam-packed with "Wamdat" talks and...

CoE E-Commerce E-commerce COE

CoE E-Commerce Unites MENA with Global Debut of Google Hangouts On Air

During day 2 of CoE E-commerce, Wamda leaped over geographical borders, carrying interested crowds from Beirut, Cairo and Dubai, who could...

CoE E-Commerce COE

Recorded Livestream of CoE E-Commerce

Watch the recorded Livestream on YouTube to see more of the key stats and presentations at CoE E-Commerce (full program here). Thanks to...

COE CoE E-Commerce

Debates and Mentorship at Day One of CoE E-Commerce

Who says a conference has to be an endurance test that makes you crave a coffee break? At Day 1 of CoE E-Commerce, as the Mentors Lunch and...

CoE E-Commerce E-commerce COE

Is Rocket Internet's Entrance into the Middle East a Bad Thing?

With the launch of Zappos clone Namshi two months ago and now Amazon clone Mizado, Rocket Internet has officially entered the Middle East....

E-commerce Rocket Internet

Tomorrow is about Innovation & Scale [Pic of the Week]

Often when building a company, we're so heads down just trying to get day-to-day operations running properly that we forget to look up and...

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Middle East Social Entrepreneurship Faces Challenges, but No Shortage of Volunteers

The Arab Spring brought tumult to the Middle East, but the demonstrations have also ushered in new aspects to civil life in Arab society....

Social Entrepreneurship

Jordanian Entrepreneurs Launch Startup Enabling Global Access to Healthcare

"We want to export U.S.-quality healthcare to the rest of the world," says Ayman Sharaiha, explaining his startup, Clinical Fellows. The...

Medical

Links Are Not Answers: Cairo's Kngine Launches App to Revolutionize Search

Operating with the tagline, "Links are not answers," intelligent search company Kngine (pronounced “kin-gin”) has launched beta versions of ...

Mobile Apps

MBC Ventures Launches, Invests in Falafel Games, Aranim, Supermama

MBC Group announced early this week the launch of a new venture capital arm, MBC Ventures, which will invest in media and entertainment...

Investment

Trends in User-Generated Arabic Content: A Look at d1g's 2012 Shift

Two years ago, d1g and Jeeran were going head to head as two of the region's biggest Arabic language user-generated content (UGC)portals...

Arabic Content

Wixel Studios to Return to Arabic Mobile Games with New Investment

When Wixel Studios was started by Ziad Fehali, Reine Abbas and Karim Abi Saleh in 2007, it was one of the first companies to appear...

Mobile Gaming

The Way Forward for Women Entrepreneurs in Egypt

The fundamental role of women in Egypt’s revolution and growing its economy was the focus of the event “Co-Creation: Women and Ent...

Ecosystem Education Women

Yahoo! Acquires a License to Yamli’s Technologies

Today marks an important milestone in the life of popular Arabic language startup Yamli, as Yahoo! announces its acquisition of a license...

Innovation

6 Essential Tools For User Experience Design On a Budget

You can't any work done without good tools. Yet if you're just starting to learn and work in user experience design, you don't want to...

User Experience Design

Can't Attend CoE E-Commerce? Wamda is Hosting Google Hangout Meetups in Cairo, Beirut and Dubai

If you can't attend CoE E-Commerce in Amman and are based in either Cairo, Beirut or UAE, read on. We will be hosting a meetup with lunch...

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We Are in the Middle of a Revolution [Pic of the Week]

As the Egyptian elections conclude today, and strife in Syria exacerbates tensions in Lebanon recently, it's clear that the region is still...

CoE Cards Pic of the Week

TEDxTanta Delivers Energy and Passion

As a Cairean I tend to think there’s little of interest in Egypt outside Cairo, and maybe Alexandria. So I was pleased to have my p...

Ecosystem Innovation Social Entrepreneurship

Facebook to Target Ad Revenue with New Dubai Office

As we predicted in February, Facebook is indeed entering the MENA region, planning to open an office in Dubai now that its IPO...

Facebook Social Networks

ClinArt's Maha Al-Farhan Strikes a Balance Between Business Success and a Happy Home

Maha Al-Farhan is a pioneer in bringing clinical research to the Middle East. Recently named Entrepreneur of the Year at the third annual...

Women

Facebook Marketing: Why Global Brands Need to Change Strategies in the Middle East [Infographic]

What's unique about the Middle East when it comes to building your Facebook strategy? Even if you're a local company, you might not want to...

Facebook Social Media

How To Prepare for CoE E-Commerce Day 1: Mentorship And Unconference Sessions

Get ready for Day 1 of CoE, where you will experience a unique, attendee-driven agenda.1. First we will have “Lunch with Mentors.”During the...

CoE E-Commerce Conferences COE

Tech Entrepreneurs Prepare for a New Egypt

Sometimes you attend an event expecting one thing, but end up gaining insight into something completely different. Or at least in something...

Conferences Ecosystem Startup Communities

Wamda Announces Partnership with Flat6Labs

During Flat6Lab’s Demo Day in Cairo, CEO Ramez Mohammed announced the accelerator’s partnership with fellow entrepreneurship hub Wamda. Wam...

Accelerators Investment

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