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Student-Powered Startup Education in Egypt

What do cupcakes, touch technology, and venture capitalists have in common? In truth not much, unless we’re about talking s...

Conferences

At Dubai Forum, Arab Female Entrepreneurs Are Urged to Break from Traditional Choices

There are a number of cultural challenges facing women in the Middle East who want to become entrepreneurs, but those belonging to the...

Conferences

Microsoft Imagine Cup UAE Announces Winner

Microsoft's Imagine Cup, a competition inviting software developers around the world to "imagine a world where technology helps solve the...

Competitions Environment Mobile Apps

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

Building a Social Network for Football Fans in the Arab World: Footballize

Ten days ago, as Christian Ronaldo scored the winning goal for Real Madrid in a match that served archrival Barcelona its first loss...

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

Announcing CoE E-Commerce on June 2nd and 3rd

After the success of Celebration of Entrepreneurship in 2010 and CoE Animate 11 this past fall, Wamda is kicking off the next in its series...

E-commerce COE CoE E-Commerce

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

TourTwist Puts Crowdsourced Spin on Tourism in Lebanon

Some startups don't just create commercial ventures; they work to turn communities of ordinary people into little engines of commerce....

E-commerce Innovation Travel

Zawya's Multimillion Dollar Sale to Close Within 6 Weeks

It's not just the sleek new interface that's evolving at Middle East business news portal Zawya. The media outlet is preparing for a...

How Moroccan Daily Deal Site Hmizate Faced Down Competition

After working for eight years in the tech sector in the United States, Moroccan entrepreneur Kamal Reggad decided to return to his home...

E-procurement Daily Deals Hmizate

Seed Forum Abu Dhabi

Seed Forum Abu Dhabi‭ is taking place‬ on Wednesday the 25th of April 2012‭ ‬at the Emirates Palace‭ ‬Hotel, sponsored by The Belleau Wood G...

Investment

Dokkankom Launches an eBay for the Middle East

E-commerce site Dokkankom launched this weekend, bringing the region an eBay-like platform that allows vendors to create customized online...

E-commerce

Fadi Ghandour to Step Down as Aramex CEO, Focus on Entrepreneurship

In a move that surprised many yesterday at Aramex's annual conference in Dubai, Fadi Ghandour has announced that he is stepping down as CEO...

E-commerce Fadi Ghandour

Will Jordan's My Marbles be the next Angry Birds? TakTek Games Inks Deal with Chillingo

Amman-based TakTek Games has secured a breakthrough deal this week, signing with U.K.-based mobile publishing giant Chillingo, which...

Gaming Mobile Gaming

ImagineCup Calls On MENA's Best Tech Students

This year, Microsoft is once again giving entrepreneurs a chance to launch themselves on a global stage with its Imagine Cup competition....

Competitions

Maroc Numeric Fund Invests In Moroccan Daily Deals Site MyDeal.ma

The first Moroccan group buying website MyDeal.ma announced investment of 2 million Moroccan Dirhams (~$240,000) by the Maroc Numeric Fund...

Daily Deals Mydeal.ma MNF

Nominate a Social Entrepreneur for an Ashoka Fellowship

Ashoka Arab World is looking for social entrepreneurs for its Fellowship program, who are social innovators with “System Changing Ideas” tha...

Innovation Social Entrepreneurship

Creating an Egyptian Economic Miracle at Startup Nation 2.0

“The vision is to get Egypt into the top 10 list of countries by GDP in 5 years time.” This vision brought together around 50 progressive Eg...

Angel Investment Innovation Investment

New Mobile Gaming Studio Game Cooks Launches Facebook Competition

As one half of the team that developed popular mobile game Birdy Nam Nam launched Gamabox, the other half of the team, brothers Lebnan and...

Gaming

12 Mobile Predictions for 2012 from Google at Arabnet

Mobile was one of the biggest buzzwords during Arabnet 2012, and this talk from Ahmad Hamzawi (@ahamzawi), Google’s Head of New Business D...

Arabnet Google Mobile

Inside Istikana's Arabic Video Content Coup

It’s been a good year for Istikana. One year ago at digital media conference Arabnet in Beirut, the Arabic online video company launched a H...

Young People in the Middle East Are Ready to Innovate

Lebanese entrepreneur Habib Haddad is one of the Middle East's biggest cheerleaders for the creation of a vibrant startup culture. As...

Social Entrepreneurship Wharton

Qordoba Launches Arabic ePublishing and eReading Platform

[Diclosure: Wamda has invested in Qordoba]. Authors looking to digitize or self-publish Arabic books online or distribute Arabic...

Digital Media

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