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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

Educating the Market and Investors about an Islam-Inspired Superhero Series [Wamda TV]

Dr. Naif Al Mutawa, the creator of comic book and animated series The 99 and parent company Teshkeel Media Group, describes the challenges ...

Animation Arabic Content CoE Animate

My Pillow: A Donor-Matching Platform for the Arab World [Wamda TV]

[Arabic]. Young Palestinian entrepreneur Bayan Bibi, who lives in Lebanon, speaks about the idea she pitched during Startup Weekend Amman,...

Social Entrepreneurship Startup Weekend

Waselny: A Carpooling Service to Reduce Traffic in Amman [Wamda TV]

At Startup Weekend Amman, Anas Saudieh describes his social carpooling service, which is designed to help citizens and workers get to their...

Startup Weekend Taxi + Traffic

How Investors Valuate Media Companies [Wamda TV]

As we get geared up for CoE E-Commerce, happening on June 3rd in Amman, we're releasing more from the archives of September's CoE Animate 1...

Animation Arabic Content CoE Animate

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

What Investors Look for in a Media Company [Wamda TV]

As we get geared up for CoE E-Commerce, happening on June 3rd in Amman, we're releasing more from the archives of September's CoE Animate 1...

Animation Arabic Content CoE Animate

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

Launching a Cartoon Series Focused on Bedouin Culture: Part 2 [Wamda TV]

We're releasing more from the archives of September's CoE Animate 11 this week. Stay tuned for more on CoE E-Commerce! Zaidoun Karadsheh of...

Animation CoE Animate

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