Game Cooks Hits #1 Around the Globe with New Mobile Game Deja Vu Lebanese-based gaming startup Game Cooks recently launched Deja Vu, a new mobile game designed to test a gamer’s memory and reaction t... Glen Dalakian II • 20 September, 2012 Mobile Gaming
Every Big Company Starts Small [Pic of the Week] Every big company starts small. It seems obvious and even cliché, but often young startups lose sight of this reality. It’s easy to get ca... Glen Dalakian II • 20 September, 2012 Advice CoE Cards Ecosystem
HCT Vice Chancellor Tayeb Kamali on Innovating Education for the Emirates In less than half a century, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has gone through extraordinary change. Today, work progresses on world-class... Knowledge @Wharton • 20 September, 2012 Education Innovation
A Startup Energy Unique to MENA: Mike Butcher of TechCrunch [Wamda TV] Mike Butcher, European Editor at TechCrunch, discusses the startup scene at ArabNet and some interesting new technologies coming out of... Wamda • 20 September, 2012 Media
Cashing In on Business: The Enterprise Opportunity for MENA Telecom Operators [REPORT] This report, published by Strategy&, highlights the growing opportunity for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) telecom operators to... Booz and Company • 19 September, 2012 Booz & Company
Dubai-Based Gaming Studio Piranha Byte Launches Its Brainchild: Peek! Piranha Byte, a game development studio based in Dubai, just released its first title Peek!, inspired by the most successful photo sharing... Maya Rahal • 19 September, 2012 Gaming
Building Public Arabic Content on the Web: Barry Newstead of the Wikimedia Foundation [Wamda TV] Barry Newstead, Chief Global Development Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, discusses Wikipedia’s Arabic language projects. Wikipedia has ... Wamda • 19 September, 2012 Arabic Content
Investing in E-Commerce: Part 2 [Wamda TV] In the second segment of the second panel at our June event CoE E-Commerce, Show Me The Money, Part 2: Investing in E-Commerce, moderator... Wamda • 18 September, 2012 CoE E-Commerce E-commerce Investment
MarkaVIP Hits 2 Million Registered Users, Continues to Solve E-Commerce Issues in MENA Less than two years after its launch in 2010, MarkaVIP has announced today that it has now hit two million registered users. It’s a big mi... Nina Curley • 18 September, 2012 E-commerce
A*Apps Launches Crowdsourced Mobile App-Testing at Flat6Labs Demo Day In Egypt, A*Apps (“A Star Apps”) is developing a unique platform that allows mobile app developers to test their apps through cro... Glen Dalakian II • 18 September, 2012 Crowdsourcing Mobile Apps
Entrepreneur of the Week: Hassine Labaeid of Saphon Energy in Tunisia This week's Entrepreneur of the Week is Hassine Labaeid, the co-founder of Tunisian Startup Saphon Energy, which focuses on research and ... Wamda • 18 September, 2012 Green Energy Saphon
Adapting an Indian Travel Site to MENA: Tarique Khatri of Cleartrip.com [Wamda TV] Tarique Khatri, Senior Vice President at Cleartrip.com, discusses his company’s expansion from India to the Middle East. Khatri discusses t... Wamda • 18 September, 2012 Travel
Yemeksepeti to Enter MENA Region After $44M Investment from General Atlantic As Webrazzi reported today, Yemeksepeti, a leading Turkish food ordering site, has announced a US $44 million round of funding from New... Nina Curley • 17 September, 2012 Food & Beverage Investment
Summer School Takes Controversial Decision to Exclude Lebanese Entrepreneur Controversy struck Lebanon’s entrepreneurship community this past week, as prominent young Lebanese entrepreneur Abdallah Absi was expelled ... Nina Curley • 17 September, 2012 Competitions Education
Monthly Tech Series Launches in Palestine, Unites Community [Wamda TV] Momentum is building in the Palestinian tech scence. Hi Tech Hub Palestine launched last Wednesday to bring 500 members of Palestine’s tech ... Nina Curley • 17 September, 2012 Competitions Conferences Diaspora
Translating High Fashion for the Arabic-Speaking Consumer: Rasha Khouri of DIA-Style [Wamda TV] Rasha Khouri, CEO at DIA Style, discusses the launch of her two companies, DIA Boutique, a showcase environment for independent and... Wamda • 17 September, 2012 Fashion