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Startup advice: How to avoid cloud application overload

Global

Startup advice: How to avoid cloud application overload

Rayhan Aleem is the founder of Alpha Pro Partners, a UAE-based accounting firm focused on the tech sector. Cloud-based solutions are one...

Cloud Computing

Adrian Cockcroft of Amazon Web Services on cloud tech and how corporate culture is key

Global

Adrian Cockcroft of Amazon Web Services on cloud tech and how corporate culture is key

Last month, Wamda met with Adrian Cockcroft, VP of cloud architecture strategy at Amazon Web Services (AWS), to discuss the importance of...

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Teaching coding will lead digital jobs, and this Jordanian startup is seizing this opportunity

Jordan

Teaching coding will lead digital jobs, and this Jordanian startup is seizing this opportunity

Even though digital talent is still scarce globally, and in the Middle East particularly, the fast-growing digital economy is leading an...

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Five reasons why you should adopt cloud computing

Global

Five reasons why you should adopt cloud computing

We all know that cloud computing has revolutionized the way business is done at Google, Amazon, Apple, and other IT giants. It...

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Jordan’s POSRocket raises $650K from Jabbar Internet Group, Arzan VC, and Propeller Inc.

Jordan

Jordan’s POSRocket raises $650K from Jabbar Internet Group, Arzan VC, and Propeller Inc.

POSRocket, the Amman-based startup that sells cloud-based point-of-sale solutions to SMEs raised $650,000 as seed investment from Jabbar...

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IDC's Cloud Computing and Datacenter Roadshow 2013

IDC's Cloud Computing and Datacenter Roadshow 2013

On October 8, 2013, IDC is hosting a cloud computing and datacenter roadshow to present and discuss the advantages of adding cloud...

Data Cloud Computing

Bahrain's Exa.io Innovates in Cloud-Based 3D Rendering

Bahrain's Exa.io Innovates in Cloud-Based 3D Rendering

3D rendering is the process film studios use to turn the 1’s and 0’s of raw digital data into the images that compose movies with animated c...

3D rendering Cloud Computing

Jordan's MENA ICT Forum: Bigger, Bolder, Now with Mentorship

Jordan's MENA ICT Forum: Bigger, Bolder, Now with Mentorship

Organised by int@j, the MENA ICT Forum returned bigger and bolder this year, to bring many of the region’s tech movers and shakers to t...

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5 Apps for Managing Your Files in the Cloud

5 Apps for Managing Your Files in the Cloud

Many entrepreneurs today need to store, edit and sometimes share their digital files across multiple platforms;...

Cloud Computing Mobile

Jordan's Hashdoc Goes for a Global Market

Jordan's Hashdoc Goes for a Global Market

An entrepreneur at heart and techie in action, Tarek Koudsi learned a lot from his family hardware and software business in Jordan before...

Cloud Computing Innovation Oasis500

Tips from Silicon Valley for Entrepreneurs in the Arab World: MAKE Ignition Welcomes 500 Startups

Tips from Silicon Valley for Entrepreneurs in the Arab World: MAKE Ignition Welcomes 500 Startups

Don’t be an entrepreneur. Keep your day job, spend time with your spouse, play with your children, socialize with your friends, see your p...

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An Emerging Opportunity in the Cloud: Tariq Krim of Jolicloud [Wamda TV]

An Emerging Opportunity in the Cloud: Tariq Krim of Jolicloud [Wamda TV]

Tariq Krim, co-founder of Jolicloud, discusses a global trend towards using the Cloud to store and preserve data. He explains that, “The c...

Cloud Computing Conferences Webrazzi

Cloud Computing For Mobile: Adel Youssef Of Wireless Stars [Wamda TV]

Cloud Computing For Mobile: Adel Youssef Of Wireless Stars [Wamda TV]

Adel Youssef, founder and CEO of Wireless Stars, discusses the idea of his company interested in cloud computing for mobile devices. “we b...

Arabnet Cloud Computing Mobile

Microsoft Finally Targets Egyptian Developers with BizSpark, Mobile App Competition

Microsoft Finally Targets Egyptian Developers with BizSpark, Mobile App Competition

“Developers developers developers developers,” a sweaty Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, famously chanted during a Microsoft conference a few y...

Accelerators Cloud Computing Ecosystem

Cairo's Cloud 11, Raising Cloud Services to New Heights

Cairo's Cloud 11, Raising Cloud Services to New Heights

Cloud 11 is a Cairo based cloud-computing services start-up that provides various Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions to their clients....

Cloud Computing

Revolutionizing Egypt's Oldest Bank with Cloud Computing

Revolutionizing Egypt's Oldest Bank with Cloud Computing

This week, OMS won an award for their role in a different kind of Egyptian revolution, one that took place in its oldest commercial bank....

Technology Software Cloud Computing

Is Online Payment a Solved Issue? Part 5 [Wamda TV]

Is Online Payment a Solved Issue? Part 5 [Wamda TV]

In the 5th and final section of our payment gateway panel at CoE E-Commerce, Marten Waldenstrom discusses the fees that cashU takes as Dan...

CoE E-Commerce Payment Gateways Cloud Computing

Arab World Needs to Catch Up with Cloud-Based Services [Wamda TV]

Arab World Needs to Catch Up with Cloud-Based Services [Wamda TV]

Husni Khuffash, Microsoft's Country Manager in Jordan, talks to Wamda at the World Economic Forum Special Meeting about the IT challenges...

Cloud Computing Government Job Recruitment

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