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The Law: 3 legal concerns of UAE startups and how to solve them

The law and startups - an essential partnership. (Image via wrike.com) When it comes to setting up a business in the UAE, entrepreneurs...

Copyright Free zone law

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Dubai’s smart city goal creeps closer

Dubai wants to be a world-leader in building smart cities and it’s attracting corporate players from around the world clamouring to be i...

Dubai Design District cisco MEMakers

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Al Ahli Group acquires US based social media company theAudience

Oliver Luckett during an interview with TheWrap UAE based conglomerate Al Ahli Holding Group has acquired theAudience, a social-media and...

Al Ahli Holding Group al-ahli theaudience

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Compareit4me closes Series A round of $3M

Compareit4me, the Dubai-based price comparison site for financial products has closed a Series A round of $3 million, lead by STC...

uae Investment Financial price comparison

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Overhauling MENA's biodiesel industry [Q&A]

Karl Feilder believes he’s designed the first biodiesel system in the world that really works, and is willing to explain down to the...

Neutral Fuels Karl Feilder biofuel

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HR software Beneple acquired 8 months after launch

Putting the fun back into HR admin. When HR management startup, Beneple announced this week that they were acquired by a regulated...

Acqui-hire Health Insurance Beneple

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Ro’Ya: Developing the UAE’s female entrepreneurs

2015 applicants attend a Ro'Ya workshop. (Images via Ro'Ya) Women are driving entrepreneurship in the UAE, and the people behind the...

Dubai Business Women Council Baby Arabia VentureFin

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A new addition to MENA's hardware facelift

When Prashant Gulati (also known as PK) was 10 he asked his father for a carpenter’s kit. In those days child-friendly kits wouldn’t hav...

The Assembly MEMakers Maker space

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Global Innovation Summit: embracing change is key to growth

The busy crowds at registration were indicative of what was ahead. (Image via Global Innovation Summit) The Global Innovation Summit 2015,...

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UAE-based online property sites get Series A from iMENA

Apartment hunting online - a growing sector for the Middle East. (Image via JustProperty.com) JRD Group, parent company to UAE-based sites...

online classifieds iMENA Group JustRentals.com

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Skateboarding gets a wearable

Wearables, especially those for fitness and healthcare, are getting a lot of attention, from athletes looking to improve their performance...

Flip Technologies RideBlock wearable

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Green Truck: a UAE private recycling service

The Green Truck warehouse. (Image via Green Truck) The UAE has one of the highest per capita waste generation rates in the world. Putting...

Green Truck MEMakers waste

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Gulf Customer Experience Awards 2015

The importance of digital customer experience is greater than ever before. Digital technology has become part of everyday life for the...

Gulf Customer Experience Award digital uae

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How UAE’s Mrusta raised an unexpected $351K

When Ibrahim Colak, founder of UAE service providers platform Mrusta, attended a networking event at Dubai’s In5 innovation center,...

mrusta seed investment Dubai

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UAE creates future female robotics entrepreneurs

The UAE could produce MENA’s next wave of female robotics and hardware entrepreneurs, as technology programs throughout the Emirates...

robotics uae abu dhabi

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To compare, or not to compare?

When Welshman Jon Richards started his price comparison site in the UAE in 2011, he quickly found a gap in the market. Finding that just...

Mulverhill Associates Bayzat.com Moneycamel.com

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Innovation 4 Impact Competition

Thomson Reuters has thrown its considerable weight in a partnership with Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA) and launched the Innovation 4...

Thomson Reuters DSOA competition

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The Dubai startups at your service

For the money-rich and time-poor white collar workers of Dubai, chores are largely a thing of the past. For several years at least,...

maids.ae helpling service economy

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Arab Future Cities Summit Dubai 2015

The second installment of the annual Arab Future Cities Summit Dubai will be held under the patronage of the Government of Dubai after...

smart city Arab Future Cities Summit Dubai Dubai

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Art for everyman, a startup’s democratization of the art world

Any kind of art you like. (Image via Pavilion 33) No longer the playground of the elite, art galleries and auction houses are becoming...

Pavilion33 Flat6Labs

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Green is the new black, bringing bamboo sportswear to the UAE

A Baembu t-shirt. The camels approve. (Image via Plhong Flores) Most startup conferences will tell you that perfectionism is an enemy of...

Market OTB PechaKucha Clothing

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Payfort acquires White to build dead simple payment solutions to startups

White Payment's Yazin Alrihayem (left) and Payfort's Omar Soudodi. (Image via PAYFORT) PAYFORT, announced today the...

White Payments Payfort online payment

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Banking and insurance comparison startup Bayzat raises $1M led by BECO Capital

Bayzat, a UAE-based comparison site for health insurance services, banking products and car insurance has received a $1 million round...

Bayzat investement Funding

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TURN8 hackathon on Arabic digital content ideas

TURN8 seed accelerator is organizing a hackathon to find innovative digital media and business models that enhance Arabic content online....

Digital Arabic Content turn8 united arab emirates

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