Entrepreneurs of the Week: Marc Dfouni and Nemr Badin from Eastline Marketing [Wamda TV] More than 15 years after starting up Eastline Marketing, a digital media agency based in Beirut, today's Entrepreneurs of the Week,... Maya Rahal • 29 January, 2013 Advertising Digital Advertising Digital Marketing
Why Emerging Market Entrepreneurs Should Look to Silicon Wadis, Savannahs, and Tigers In the innovation hubs and entrepreneurship circles of emerging economies, the term “Silicon Valley” is an extraordinarily potent one, evo... Jonathan Kalan • 24 January, 2013 Ecosystem Innovation
Entrepreneurs Flock to Tamkeen Expo in Bahrain Over 2000 exhibitors and delegates flocked to the inaugural Tamkeen (Labour Fund) Expo in Bahrain earlier this month. Held under... Leena AlOlaimy • 21 January, 2013 Conferences Ecosystem
Meet Bahrain's Newest Startups Graduating from Tenmou Bahrain’s accelerator Tenmou has announced its second round of graduates, three diverse startups aiming to sell to Bahraini markets and q... Nina Curley • 23 January, 2013 Accelerators Gaming
Meet the Winners of the Maghreb Startup Initiative Competition After nine months of pitching sessions and bootcamps during the Maghreb Startup Initiative competition, 13 startups have survived to win... Nina Curley • 21 January, 2013 Competitions Innovation
What Facebook's Graph Search Means for the Middle East When quizzed about Facebook privacy issues in 2010 at D8, Mark Zuckerberg took a halting, nervous stab at convincing us to accept his... Nina Curley • 17 January, 2013 Facebook Social Networks Technology
Why Jordanian Startup TakTek Closed and What it Means for the Gaming Sector “I’ve let everyone go,” Gaith Kawar confessed to me over coffee at Starbucks in Abdoun last month, giving a look of resignation through his ... Nina Curley • 21 January, 2013 Advice Failure Gaming
7 Lessons for Hosting an Offline Event, from Supermama in Egypt A year after it launched, Supermama decided to venture into offline events in Egypt- a new move for the first Arabic online... Maya Rahal • 23 January, 2013 Advice Arabic Content Digital Media
Maysalward Localizes New Mobile Game ShaqDown for the Arab World A new battle is being fought in the Middle East, thanks to Jordanian gaming company Maysalward. Basketball legend Shaquille... Glen Dalakian II • 17 January, 2013 Mobile Mobile Gaming Gaming
Global Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility, by Fadi Ghandour It is a matter of fact that chronic poverty and unemployment have long been the twin hallmarks of most Arab economies. While poverty... Fadi Ghandour • 21 January, 2013 Social Change Ecosystem Fadi Ghandour
Palestine Gets Its First Startup Accelerator Building a startup in Palestine is admittedly tough. At the launch event for Palestine’s newest accelerator, a discussion broke out about t... Nina Curley • 16 January, 2013 Accelerators
Egypt's Flat6Labs Graduates Cycle 3: Here's What They're Building Flat6Labs, the Cairo based accelerator, held its 4th Demo Day event, dubbed “Cycle 3 Fall 2013”, this week at the Cairo Marriott, showing of... Omar Aysha • 15 January, 2013 Egypt Flat6Labs
Keep Dreaming and Work Hard [Pic of the Week] Despite the conflicts, instability and misfortunes hitting some Arab countries lately, it is refreshing to note that Arab communities are... Maya Rahal • 17 January, 2013 Advice CoE Cards Egypt
Jordan’s Nakhweh Relaunches as a Regional Hub for Social Ventures Nakhweh has long been one of Jordan’s darlings in the social entrepreneurship space, a scrappy NGO trying to make volunteerism popular (or a... Nina Curley • 14 January, 2013 Ecosystem Scaling Social Change
Windows Startup Challenge Microsoft, Startup Weekend and DEMO recently announced the Windows Startup Challenge, a global contest offering developers, designers and... Wamda • 15 January, 2013 Competitions Developers Mobile Apps
Egypt's Tourism Gets Back on Its Feet at Rouqayah's Ranch You think you're driving into the middle of nowhere, then thoughts of classic horror plots jump to mind. But once you arrive through... Omar Aysha • 13 January, 2013 Egypt Environment Food & Beverage
Chinese Browser Baidu Targets Middle East Users Baidu, China’s most popular search engine, is targeting the Middle East and Africa this year, partnering with Orange to offer its browser &... Nina Curley • 15 January, 2013 Mobile
HUB Dubai Set to Launch UAE's Newest Co-Working Space On 12/12/12 12:12 PM and precisely 12 seconds Dubai time, HUB Dubai launched virtual operations; the physical space is expected... Maya Rahal • 08 January, 2013 Coworking Spaces Startup Communities
MyMetroTalks Brings Community-Focused Venue Recommendations to Dubai I was feeling pretty relaxed the other night, channel surfing on my own, but I felt like being outdoors without having to get all dressed... Rania Habib • 10 January, 2013 Crowdsourcing Ratings Sites
Discover Digital Arabia Builds a Business with Infographics Infographics and video imagery are clearly one of the hottest trends on the web, and Saudi-backed N2V is hardly one to... Maya Rahal • 22 January, 2013 Arabic Content Digital Media Infographic
212 Capital Partners Invests in Turkish Supply Chain Design Company Solvoyo 212 Capital Partners, one of Turkey’s leading early stage venture capital funds, has announced its first investment of the year in Solvoyo, ... Nina Curley • 10 January, 2013 Investment
Namshi Receives Investment from Summit Partners On the heels of its $20 million investment round from J.P. Morgan and Blakeney Management this past September, Dubai-based fashion... Nina Curley • 10 January, 2013 Rocket Internet Investment Namshi
How 3 Women Entrepreneurs are Creating Opportunities in Morocco, Egypt, and Jordan We often hear that it's difficult for women entrepreneurs to found companies- they face social stigma as founders, or they have difficulty... Hanan Solayman • 22 January, 2013 Egypt Social Entrepreneurship Women
Taskty Launches to Provide Services to Egyptian Startups and Customers While creating platforms for freelancers and project-based jobs has been a popular concept around the globe, now it's becoming one of the... Ahmed Gabr • 20 January, 2013 Flat6Labs Outsourcing
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