Wamda

Pakistan

Jabbar Internet Group invests in GrocerApp

Dubai-based Jabbar Internet Group has led in Pakistan-based GrocerApp’s $1 million seed round, marking the group’s first-ever...

Grocery App Online delivery Jabbar Group

U.A.E

Souq becomes Amazon.ae in the UAE

Source: The National Amazon and Souq on Wednesday announced the launch of Amazon.ae, which replaces souq.com in the UAE nearly two years...

news Amazon Souq.com

Regional

Namshi latest e-commerce platform to expand to Egypt as competition heats up

Namshi is set to expand to Egypt and establish a logistics base in Saudi Arabia following Emaar Malls' full acquisition of the...

E-commerce Namshi Noon

U.A.E

Souq.com opens Dubai centre that will create 600 jobs

Source: The National Souq.com, the e-commerce platform Amazon bought for $580 million (Dh2.13 billion) last year, has opened a centre in...

souq Souq.com Amazon

U.A.E

Souq.com to acquire Wing.ae to enhance fast shipping options

Souq.com today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Wing.ae, a marketplace for merchants and couriers in the...

Souq.com Wing.ae ecommerce

Regional

Entrepreneurship is disrupting MENA’s real estate and retail gurus

The first half of 2017 was an exciting one for enterprises and startups in the MENA region with mega deals taking the ecosystem by storm....

acquisition VC investment Real Estate

Regional

Investors, brace yourselves for the aftermath of unprofitable unicorn IPOs [Opinion]

The fundamental idea behind Initial Public Offerings, or IPOs, is that when companies need capital, they get themselves listed on public...

oped IPOs Funding

Regional

Exponential growth wasn’t built in a day [Podcast]

“Everyone has the Middle East at the bottom of their pyramid,” said Fadi Ghandour, Wamda’s executive chairman, and...

Souq.com Namshi careem

Regional

What's your share of the company? [Opinion]

The Souq.com deal was great for the news media cycle, but was it so great for the investors? In tech, these types of events are fraught...

Souq.com investments VCs

U.A.E

The Souq sale is a game changer for MENA ecommerce [Opinion]

We all heard the news: Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer by sales and market capitalization, founded 23 years ago in...

Amazon Souq.com acquisition

Regional

Why Amazon acquired Souq.com

This article is a crosspost with Centric.ae. Seeking global world domination in the ecommerce marketplace, Amazon acquired...

Souq.com acquisition Amazon

U.A.E

Why is the Souq.com acquisition so significant? [Opinion]

For those who have been in the dark, Amazon has acquired Souq.com for over $650 million. The news of an acquisition of this size has...

Souq.com Amazon acquisition

Regional

Amazon acquires Souq.com for over $650 million

Russ Grandinetti, Amazon Senior Vice President, International Consumer and Ronaldo Mouchawar, Souq.com CEO and cofounder (Image via...

Souq.com Amazon Alabbar

Global

You created a store within a marketplace. Now what? [Opinion]

A very common approach for brands and retailers that want to start selling online is to set up a ‘shop-in-shop’, or a branded...

ecommerce marketplace Souq.com

Global

Startup Watch: Pac-Man and retreat of the multinational giants

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Startup Watch Souq.com Pac-Man

Lebanon

Smart scaling: how these MENA companies got it right

The Middle East and North Africa is one of the most difficult parts of the world to grow a business, but it’s even harder to scale...

Scaling lebanon MarkaVIP

U.A.E

Souq raises MENA's largest round of $275M

After almost a year of speculation, MENA’s biggest ecommerce company Souq.com has confirmed that it’s raised a $275 million...

round Unicorn announcement

U.A.E

Souq.com sells CashU

Regional ecommerce site Souq.com has sold its online payment arm CashU. In what is known as a ‘management buyout’ the company was pur...

investments Online payments Genero Capital

Egypt

Lost in the City? LocName wants to find you

Egyptian start-up 'LocName' did not emerge from Cairo’s bustling streets, but in the Spanish city of Barcelona. Two years ago, young E...

Locname Souq.com Jumia

Regional

Souq.com opens API to the public to spur MENA ecommerce

Souq.com announced Friday that it will be making its API (application program interface) available to the public, allowing third party...

api Souq.com ShopGo

Regional

Souq.com dresses Black Friday in white for the MENA

“Our Friday is White,” says the ad campaign for the MENA region’s first Black Friday sales event. Souq.com, one of the region’s bigge...

Souq.com Sales day Black Friday

U.A.E

A look at the winners of the 2013 Gulf Business Industry Awards

Gulf Business, a leading news portal in the Middle East, hosted their annual Gulf Business Industry Awards last night,...

Free zones Gulf Business Industry Awards Awards

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