Egypt's Bkam Boosts E-Commerce with Comparison Shopping Site and Mobile App UPDATE: Bkam won 3rd place in the Vodafone Appstar competition today. With the explosion of e-commerce websites in the past year, it... Nina Curley • 26 November, 2012 E-commerce
Can a Sharing Economy Take Root in the Middle East and Turkey? (Can AirBnB Clones Find Success?) Increasingly competitive economic conditions and growing social concerns force us to search for new ways of living and connecting with one... Gulay Ozkan • 26 November, 2012 Scaling Crowdsourcing
How a 17-Year-Old Launched a Profitable Web Design Company in Lebanon Andy Abi Haidar is not your average 17-year old. In addition to doing his daily homework, he runs his own award-winning web design ... Fernande van Tets • 26 November, 2012 Design Developers
Jordan's Dakwak Launches Localization Platform to Help Startups Go Global Dakwak has been in the making for over a year, but it has now finally launched its solution for helping websites localize or go global. For... Nina Curley • 25 November, 2012 Arabic Content Scaling
Startup Weekend Doha Qatar is hosting another startup weekend between November 29th and December 1st, 2012. The event will take place at Carnegie Mellon U... Wamda • 25 November, 2012 Startup Weekend
Tenmou Gathers and Trains Arab and European Angel Investors in Bahrain Tenmou, Bahrain's first business angels company, is quickly establishing itself as a leading player in Bahrain's entrepreneurship scene, as... Leena AlOlaimy • 25 November, 2012 Accelerators Angel Investment Arabic Content
Global Entrepreneurship Summit Comes to Dubai: Exclusive Discount for WamdaCard Holders This year, the Global Entrepreneurship Summit comes to Dubai, hosted by Entrepreneurial Ventures of Arabia (EVA), to offer entrepreneurs in... Wamda • 25 November, 2012 Competitions Conferences du
Meet the Winners of the Harvard Arab Startup Pitch Contest On November 8-11, the 6thHarvard Arab Weekend brought Arabs from around the world together to network, collaborate, and discuss the future o... Wamda • 25 November, 2012 Conferences Competitions
European Game Developer Looks to Enter the Arab World, Seeks Publisher As gaming studios worldwide eye the Arab market, German game developer and distributor GoodGame Studios is the latest to... Glen Dalakian II • 25 November, 2012 Developers Gaming
Weekly Wrap-Up: November 18-22 This week was all about looking outside to identify and adapt solutions to problems within local ecosystems. What are your thoughts about... Wamda • 22 November, 2012 Advice CoE Cards Conferences
NYUAD Hackathon for Social Good Deadline November 30th The NYU Abu Dhabi Department for Computer Science, in collaboration with the NYUAD Institute, is hosting the 2013 NYUAD Annual Hackathon: Bu... Wamda • 22 November, 2012 Accelerators
Look for International Perspectives [Pic of the Week] It can be pretty easy to get caught up in the challenges and opportunities in your local surroundings, never taking a moment to look... Glen Dalakian II • 22 November, 2012 CoE Cards Ecosystem Pic of the Week
Nabbesh Wins du's The Entrepreneur, Looks to Expand Regionally After two months of tense competition, we now know who took home the 1 million AED cash prize after winning reality TV competition... Nina Curley • 22 November, 2012 Competitions du Investment
Dubai's SwipeZoom Offers Global E-Commerce Payment and Shipment Solution Amer Qavi was a biomedical engineer designing artificial internal organs before he set up his own medical distribution business. After... Rania Habib • 22 November, 2012 E-commerce Payment Gateways
Planting an Eco-Friendly Coworking Space in Cairo New coworking space icecairo launched this month as the third installation of icehubs, an international coworking space brand... Hanan Solayman • 22 November, 2012 Coworking Spaces Egypt Environment
Pivoting to Solar Energy: India's Hind High Vacuum Company [Case Study] This is the fourth installment of a new series on Wamda featuring companies in emerging markets around the world. Launched in 1965, the ... Wamda • 21 November, 2012 Aureos Aureos Case Studies Business Development
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