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Announcing CoE E-Commerce on June 2nd and 3rd

After the success of Celebration of Entrepreneurship in 2010 and CoE Animate 11 this past fall, Wamda is kicking off the next in its series...

E-commerce COE CoE E-Commerce

RealTime Weather From Real People On Dubai-Based Metwit.com

Are you wondering what the weather is like now in a certain location you are headed to? Are you trying to avoid carrying that umbrella and...

Why Middle East E-Commerce Site Souq.com Acquired Sister Site Sukar.com

Leading Middle East e-commerce site Souq.com has acquired flash sales site Sukar.com today, as The Next Web and others reported, as part...

Acquisitions E-commerce

Palestinian iPhone App for Prayer Launches

This week, those looking to connect with their community have a new tool at hand. AnaBasalli, a mobile application and web platform...

Mobile Apps

Nafham: A Learning Management Platform to Enhance Education in Egypt

At Cairo tech-focused accelerator Flat6Labs, four entrepreneurs, including Ahmad El Alfi, the head of parent fund Sawari Ventures,...

Education

MarkaVIP's $10 Million Series B Funding to Boost Logistics

Middle East flash sales sites MarkaVIP is on its way to becoming a true success story with its latest gambit to tackle the hydra that is...

E-commerce Investment

Crokodeals: A Moroccan E-Auction Monster Heads to the UAE

A new way of tackling e-commerce and e-auction is coming to the Middle East from the heart of Morocco, through Crokodeals, the...

E-commerce

Hold the Vegetables: How 'Now vs. Later' Affects Customer Choice

If people typically watch a kung-fu flick or a trashy teen comedy on DVD before the documentary they rented several days earlier, it only...

E-commerce Marketing

Demystifying E-Commerce in MENA: What Goes Wrong? Part 1

This content series, "What Goes Wrong?" is part of our new "Demystifying E-Commerce in MENA" series, which will explore the challenges...

E-commerce Demystifying E-Commerce

Defining Small and Medium Enterprises in Oman

As Oman’s Third Economic Forum came to a close on Monday, the question of how to define small and medium enterprises SMEs came to a h...

Conferences Ecosystem Startup Communities

The Road to Crowdfunding Ruin

Editor's Note (NC): Daniel Isenberg's latest article addresses the "Jumpstart Our Business Startups" (JOBS) act that President Obama...

Legal Trends

Announcing Wamda's Entrepreneur of the Week Series

Today we are launching a new video series on Wamda: Entrepreneur of the Week. Each Tuesday, we'll be posting an interview with startup ...

Entrepreneur of the Week

Beware of Praise [Pic of the Week]

Fadi Ghandour said it. Arif Naqvi said it. A previous entrepreneur turned VC and blogger told his story. And maybe Chuck D said it best:...

CoE Cards Pic of the Week

The Rise of Arabic on the Web [Infographic]

It took 30 years for 2 billion people to come online, but 1 billion more will come online in the next 4 years, according to...

Arabic Content

Shaping the Entrepreneurial Future of Egypt

The 2012 AUC Research Conference, held this past week at the university's New Cairo campus, was an exercise in uniting Egypt's...

Accelerators Angel Investment Arabic Content

4 Reasons Why Smart Businesses Go Green

So green is now a trend in the Middle East – even though it’s still to catch on in Saudi Arabia. It's also a term that's been going ar...

Green Energy

How to Create Banner Awareness (Or Bypass Blindness)

User-friendly design guru Jakob Nielsen held out a finding in one of his studies for 10 years, but finally finally to publish it in 2007....

User Experience Design

Building a Learning Management System in Saudi Arabia: Acadox

During our undergraduate studies in King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) we, Mohammad Al-Hareeqi, and Nedal Mourad, and...

MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition Accelerators MIT

Journey to Amman Part 2: Impressions of Jordan's Tech Startups

When I visited Oasis500 on my recent trip to Jordan, I had the opportunity to meet with 14 startups incubated there, for around 15-20...

Ecosystem Oasis500 Startup Communities

Journey to Amman: 5 Tips from Startups in the Arab World's Tech Capital

At the end of last month, Fadi Ghandour talked about the 8 different steps Jordan took to create an enabling environment for tech...

Accelerators Ecosystem Oasis500

James Nakagawa of Mobile Healthcare: 'Entrepreneurship Is about Sacrifice'

James Nakagawa never studied medicine, and until 2003, he headed a company that helped financial firms deliver online trading services. But...

Health

TourTwist Puts Crowdsourced Spin on Tourism in Lebanon

Some startups don't just create commercial ventures; they work to turn communities of ordinary people into little engines of commerce....

E-commerce Innovation Travel

How Moroccan Daily Deal Site Hmizate Faced Down Competition

After working for eight years in the tech sector in the United States, Moroccan entrepreneur Kamal Reggad decided to return to his home...

E-procurement Daily Deals Hmizate

Can Policy Makers Create an Ecosystem for Entrepreneurship?

This piece is cross-posted and adapted slightly from The Economist, November 16, 2010. Zebras are beautiful. They are powerful. They...

Ecosystem

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