Regional Five 3D prints making MENA proud Gone are the days where printing was reserved for airline tickets, directions, or a favorite picture of your loved ones. Today,... Dana Ballout • 31 August, 2016 3d printing Hardware Dubai
Egypt Egypt's who's who of fintech startups Financial technology has been a slow burn in Egypt as banks swear they understand the need but decline to deliver on basic services such as... Radwa Rashad • 30 August, 2016 Egypt Dopay PayMe
Lebanon Kids Genius: a young makers heaven in Lebanon [Video] At Kids Genius, the boring connotations of the word ‘education’ is masked by a sense of creativity and fun. This classroom... Dana Ballout • 30 August, 2016 Kids Genius lebanon INDUSTRY
Lebanon What I know about lying: Jonathan Choufany Lies fascinate us. Children experiment with them, white lies are essential for smoothing the bumps of everyday life (your grandmother... Rachel Williamson • 29 August, 2016 lebanon lie detection What I Know
Egypt Egypt ride hailing startup Ousta lands $1.25M bridge investment Egyptian ride hailing startup Ousta has raised a $1.25 million investment, five months after its launch. The bridge round was funded by... Rachel Williamson • 29 August, 2016 Egypt Ousta ride hailing
Global 8 ways electric vehicles will change the way we live Electric vehicles, or EVs, haven't really reached MENA yet. But when they do, the impact will be as destructive as everywhere else in... Rachel Williamson • 29 August, 2016 Electric vehicles EVs Bloomberg New Energy Finance
Algeria Is Algeria finally getting a startup ecosystem? Back in January, Algeria had zero coworking spaces. Today it has two easily accessible spaces, in Algiers, where entrepreneurs can meet,... Aline Mayard • 28 August, 2016 algeria Coworking Incubator
U.A.E From finance to food tech: UAE's Chefxchange For most millennials, the art of wining and dining guests at home is increasingly dwindling in the face of a rising on-demand culture that... Natasha D'Souza • 28 August, 2016 lebanon uae food tech
U.A.E All work, all play: the future of tech-powered education in the UAE For many, modern day classrooms look nothing short of an overreaching sci-fi movie scene: children as young as eight talking code, gamified... Vanessa Khalil • 28 August, 2016 GEMS uae itworx education
Global $900M sale for a Dubai HQ’d company Serial entrepreneur Divyank Turakhia's Media.net has been sold for approximately $900 million. Media.net, who have their global... Lucy Knight • 26 August, 2016 media.net Advertising acquisition
Lebanon Quanergy raises $90M in Series B funding Equiped with Lidar technology. (Image via Quanergy). Quanergy Systems has raised $90 million in a series B round, led by Sensata... Maya Rahal • 25 August, 2016 MEMakersGE quanergy systems 3d printing
Palestine Paypal: stop ignoring Palestinians now [Opinion] Paypal, despite its own corporate values of inclusion and equality, is discriminating against Palestinians. A few months ago Paypal CEO... Salah Amleh • 25 August, 2016 palestine PayPal
Lebanon 5 Lebanese food startups Every Arab country likes to call itself the best food culture in the region. We’re not about to start splitting hairs on who... Lucy Knight • 25 August, 2016 bread basket oslo biomass
Global Startup Watch: 5 years of Tim Cook’s Apple, and Gandalf won’t do your wedding The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, but not when you have to explain the difference between AR and VR, that’s easy.... Lucy Knight • 25 August, 2016 Startup Watch
Tunisia Can Yallaread make peer-to-peer work in Tunisia? The peer-to-peer sharing economy never really took off in MENA but some entrepreneurs, like Tunisian Ahmed Hadhri, still believe it’s... Aline Mayard • 24 August, 2016 culture yallaread collaborative consumption
Regional UAE tops MENA countries in Innovation Index 2016 [Infographic] The Global Innovation Index is an annual report that measures the openness and readiness of countries’ economies for innovation. The... Dana Ballout • 24 August, 2016 Global Innovation Index uae Saudi Arabia
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