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The opportunity of an inclusive sharing economy in MENA

It’s 9am. A commuter leaves home heading for her office in the local tech business hub. After 30 seconds a car has arrived to take...

lebanon uae Egypt

Syria

Votek and Loujee secures $1M investment

Votek Inc, developer of Arabic speech recognition software, governmental intelligent assistants and the first Arabic smart toy (Loujee)...

Votek AI syria

U.A.E

Why telehealth is so attractive to investors [Opinion]

In his book ‘Healthcare Disrupted’, Jeff Elton comments that ‘until recently, the world changed and healthcare –...

Opinion Healthcare telehealth

U.A.E

Jadopado is acquired by Mohamed Alabbar

Editor's note: this story has been update May 11 to include the acquirers of Jadopado and a comment from Omar Kassim. In a statement...

JadoPado uae noon.com

Global

Cutting the waste of your supply chain, Throughput [Wamda TV]

With oil prices falling to record lows in the last few years one typical reaction is to look where to cut costs in order to keep businesses...

throughput rigbasket uae

U.A.E

Cybersecurity in UAE: more education, less speculation

According to a promotional video for the inaugural OPCDE (Operational Code) conference, 75 percent of all legitimate websites have...

uae cyber security Comae Technologies

U.A.E

What I know about starting up in Dubai: Will Hutson

Originally from Florida, Will Hutson was first introduced to the Middle East while working on one of Disney’s initial global social...

What I Know LMTD will hutson

U.A.E

Sheraa and Air Arabia to launch ‘Travel and Tourism’ track

Coming on the heels of its successful inaugural accelerator showcase day, Sheraa - a launch pad for aspiring entrepreneurs in the United...

Sheraa sharjah uae

U.A.E

ATECH World

ATECH World is a combination of events, exhibitions and conferences that will bring the latest cutting-edge technology into the MENA...

abu dhabi uae Technology

U.A.E

MENA's Agile community is on the rise

When it comes to building a movement organically, a sense of community often plays an instrumental role. Think of the startup scene in...

agile uae

U.A.E

startAD Angel Rising 2017

The development of a broad, sophisticated class of investors is a necessity in a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem, and can be a critical...

uae Seed funding startup

Global

Tracking skateboard tricks from UAE to LA

Rideblock talks building a product in the UAE with a market in the US It was an argument over who had pulled off a better Ollie - a...

RideBlock uae Flat6Labs

U.A.E

Business for Better

UAE-based university students and graduates between the ages of 18 and 35 will have the chance to pitch their innovative ideas for...

sharjah uae entrepreneurship

U.A.E

New platform for healthy food launched from Dubai

Plotos, a digital nutrition and wellness platform and app, launched today with funding of $100,000 to address the UAE’s growing...

uae Plotos Eniverse Technologies

U.A.E

Is a marketplace enough to penetrate UAE’s laundry services?

A woman gazes at her new purchase. ‘Lucky me’, a 1959 advert for washing machines says. And indeed lucky her. Rather than...

marketplaces get laundry Washmen

U.A.E

Young Emiratis use technology to improve quality of life in Dubai

The UAE entrepreneurial ecosystem is full of expats. Not hard to believe when taking in account the country’s population is...

innovation arabia uae emiratis

U.A.E

Sending money home with ease, Now Money [Wamda TV]

Expatriates in the UAE send a lot of money home. A lot. According to the World Bank’s migration and remittances factbook for 2016,...

Fintech now money uae

Bahrain

Fetchr buys Bahrain courier company in expansion push

Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo Group (YBA Kanoo), one of the largest family-owned multinational businesses in the Middle East, has announced that...

Fetchr acquisition uae

U.A.E

Load-Me keeps on trucking

Load-Me, the Dubai startup that connects regional truckers with delivery loads through a marketplace app, has come a long way since its...

telematics uae load-me

U.A.E

Lawyering up getting easier with Dubai startup

When Armenian-Ukrainian Suzanna Kalendzhian started practicing as a lawyer in the Middle East in 2011, she saw a gap in the market....

uae law lawyers

U.A.E

Going postal in Dubai, finally

When Mohamed Al Araimi and Bello Abubakar built a grocery delivery startup they weren’t expecting it to create the backdrop for their...

gps pointr uae

U.A.E

Minds on a Mission gets Emirati students thinking

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn” were the wise words from Benjamin Franklin that inspired the win...

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Bahrain

Startup Watch: breaking stuff, pain = gain, and working for the man

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...

Google Startup Watch Uber

Jordan

Tarjama bridges language gap

Medieval Arabic translations preserved the cultural heritage of ancient Greece and Rome. Today the same knowledge transfer continues and...

Joran uae Tarjama

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