Wamda

Egypt

Mayday's mission to improve roadside assistance in Egypt

By Mostafa Adel In Cairo alone, it is estimated that traffic issues cost Egypt’s economy $7 billion every year. This figure...

mobility

U.A.E

Has the office become a burden?

Life is returning to offices in the UAE and the wider Middle East region as workers go back to their desks wearing masks and attempting to...

Regional

elGrocer: The lessons we learned in the era of Covid-19

Nader Amiri is the founder of UAE-based e-grocery startup elGrocer E-commerce is on everyone’s mind. There’s a lot being...

e-grocery elGrocer covid-19

Regional

What is the future of events?

Last week, after four long months of coronavirus lockdowns, Dubai hosted its first “in-person” event. AI Everything, held at...

STEP Step Conference eventtus

Bahrain

E-sports and gaming: Mena's new global frontier

Yousef Buhazza is the founder of Unreal Bahrain and vice chairman of the Bahrain Internet Society Growth in Crisis All manner of...

Gaming E-sports

Regional

Real to virtual: Buying and selling property online

Real estate is one sector that appears to have resisted the indelible disruption that has redefined other, traditional sectors like...

Real Estate Proptech

Regional

Adopting emerging technologies in a post-Covid-19 world

By Jad Hajj, partner, Imad Atwi, Jean Salamat, principals, and Riazul Raquib, senior associate, with Strategy& Middle East, part of the...

digital transformation

Global

A deep dive into the GCC’s cloud kitchen sector [part two]

Cloud kitchens are the backend equivalent of the food courts found in malls - several offerings all under one roof. They emerged as a...

cloud kitchen Food delivery

Regional

Top five investment deals in the second quarter of 2020

The top five disclosed venture capital (VC) deals in the second quarter of 2020 amounted to $244.6 million, largely down to the $150...

VC investment

Regional

In a world of remote work, will control replace culture?

Marilyn Zakhour, founder and chief executive officer of UAE-based Cosmic Centaurs At the height of the pandemic, I started a company...

company culture remote work

Saudi Arabia

Munch:On - Going beyond lunch

Most food delivery platforms witnessed a slowdown in business once lockdown came into effect. Working from home gave people enough time to...

Lunch:On Munch:On

Regional

Will cash on delivery return post Covid-19?

By Faris Fallouh, Senior Global Express Services at Aramex During this pandemic, consumers globally and in the Middle East and North...

CoD cash-on-delivery

Global

What is the future of human resources?

By Somaya El Sherbini, co-founder and managing partner at RightFoot With global economies facing challenges for the remainder of 2020,...

human resources HR recruitment

Regional

The Middle East's post-pandemic future

A new reality is beginning to emerge as lockdown measures begin to ease amid the Covid-19 outbreak, imposing a dramatic restructure to...

coronavirus sme economy

U.A.E

Raising the bar for women’s healthcare

Investment in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) healthcare sector is booming. Over $144 billion will be ploughed into Mena-wide...

healthtech

Regional

Building a super app for the Middle East

Before smartphones and mobile app stores, the internet was dominated by a handful of web portals that offered their users several services...

super app careem Halan

Global

Fintech has come into its own

Rupert Shaw is the chief commercial officer at Ireland-based Ding, a mobile top-up transfer company As we adjust to a new-normal -...

Fintech remittance

Regional

From the valley of death to the oasis wadi

It has become evident that the Covid-19 crisis is like no other. While its persistence and long-term impact on society as a whole remain...

SME support sme

Regional

A deep dive into the GCC’s cloud kitchen sector [part one]

When Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick sold most of his shares in the mobility giant to launch CloudKitchens, securing a $400 million cheque...

cloud kitchen Kitopi ghost kitchen

Regional

What is the most important lesson we can learn from this pandemic?

Students of history will be familiar with the term “superpower”, countries that wield global influence by means of economic,...

Opinion covid-19

Regional

Beyond Incubation: Universities as agents of startup development

In the 1990s, professors Henry Etzkowitz and Loet Leydesdorff, put forward the idea of the Triple Helix framework, which highlighted...

Education Taqadam startAD

Egypt

Alex Angels: Egypt's latest angel network

Fewer than 6 per cent of pre-seed startups in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) raise investment from angel investors according...

Alex Angels Angel Investment

Global

Hackathons: An opportunity for Mena's tech innovators

Finding solutions for the disruption and devastation of the “new normal” caused by the Coronavirus pandemic has ignited a wave...

hackathon covid-19

U.A.E

How local businesses support the economic fabric of countries

By Miguel Angel Povedano, chief commercial officer at Majid Al Futtaim Retail The magnitude, complexity, and socioeconomic...

Majid Al Futtaim Holding Majid Al Futtaim

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