Wamda

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MENA's social media strongholds [Infographic]

Social media has a huge influence on business in the Middle East, be it as a marketing tool or a company platform through which...

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Jordan

First Jordan Connect matches startups with big business

Big business meets the smallest: Jordan Connect brought together large corporations with startups. (Images via VentureScout) Discovering a...

Jordan Connect SWIPT The Tank

Kuwait

Technopreneurship Challenge winners work to reduce car accidents in Kuwait

The winners of the Kuwait Global Technopreneurship Challenge. (Image via Ana Tadic) The big questions were being asked at the Kuwait...

Legacy Kuwait Global Technopreneurship Challenge smart car

Jordan

Jordan entrepreneurs have high hopes for ZINC 2016

Keynote Speaker Steve Johnson signing his book "Where good ideas come from: the natural history of innovation". (Images via...

I3zif.com Zain incubator Coding Circle

Maghreb

How the Tunisian government revived its economy [Opinion]

Tunisia in 2025 is quite different from the Tunisia of the Arab spring (Image via Hongkiat) * This is a hypothetical look-back from the...

revival startups economy

Egypt

Egypt's first FiT payout goes to startup Cairo Solar

Hisham Tawfik's FiT cheque from North Cairo Electricity Distribution Company. (Image via Hatem Tawfik) After much skepticism about...

renewables FiT feed in tariff

Regional

What judges look for in pitches

Judging at the Seedstars Beirut event in November in UK Lebanon Tech Hub. (Image via Maysaa Ajjan) We already covered the exciting...

pitches judging Seedstars World

Regional

Yahoo! closes but Maktoob’s legacy continues

This article is a crosspost with The Black Iris. A few days ago, Yahoo!, which bought Jordanian internet startup Maktoob in 2009,...

takeover Maktoob Jordan

Saudi Arabia

Building Saudi Arabia’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, KAUST

A university with plans for the Saudi Arabian knowledge economy. (Image via Globalhighered.wordpress.com) Saudi Arabia has been an...

Beacon I Saudi Arabia KAUST

U.A.E

Baring all: Dubai entrepreneurs talk failure

Organic Press Juice cofounder Daniel Vahanian talks failure with Moti Roti founder Tahir Shah. (Image via Jacqueline Sofia) The...

Organic Press Juice Digital Labs GlamBox

Regional

Capitalizing on ecommerce: lessons from RiseUp

Ecommerce in MENA is a hot industry as it becomes ever easier to launch an online shop, and with speculation growing that it could be the...

Innovety rise up summit zoomal

Kuwait

Why celebrating failure is important for Kuwaiti startups [Video]

Video has Arabic subtitles. This article is a crosspost with Nuwait. In a country that’s considered one of the...

Parth Tewari Nuwait Kuwait National Fund

Global

What I know about networking: Igor Ovcharenko

Igor Ovcharenko organized his first startup networking event in 2012. (Image via Seedstars World) Before his first ever event with...

Matchmaking Seedstars World Igor Ovcharenko

Saudi Arabia

Youth on show at ArabNet Riyadh

Ben Maher, executive director at EMEA Mashable, speaking about creating Arabic digital content. (Images via Twitter) Saudi Arabia’s young p...

Buildify B8ak Non

Global

How important is the patent?

A patent. ‘Have you got one?’ It’s a question that one startup tells Wamda is asked a lot, too much in fact. So, are...

Band Industries Saba IP Patents

Saudi Arabia

Saudi ecommerce set to soar [Infographic]

The Saudi ecommerce market is growing fast. (Image via Wamda) There are very good reasons why Saudi Arabia is a country of...

Go Gulf JadoPado ksa

Iraq

Iraq's foodie appmakers want to fix the mealtime grind

Sha6bu5 is hoping to profit from the Middle East's foodie trend. (Image via MAHAW) The Middle East’s entrepreneurial newsmakers this year h...

iraq 3d-mapping startup weekend baghdad

Maghreb

Moroccan entrepreneur wants to fix his cities

Urban life could be much nicer if everybody did his or her share. (Image via Amine Elaoui) Damaged roads, defective street...

Twiyar Smart Cities MEMakers

Regional

Harnessing big data for business decision making [Opinion]

It isn't enough to collect data. Making sense of it is vital to the survival of organizations large and small. (Image...

data analysis big data Analytics

Regional

Egypt’s Noongam wins top prize at The Entrepreneur Day

Egyptian comic book publishers, Noongam, have snagged the biggest prize at DSOA’s The Entrepreneur Day with their platform Magnoon. Founder ...

Mea 360 Just Mop Guiddoo World

Regional

PayFort releases two new tools for ecommerce startups

Omar Soudodi during Mix N'Mentor Dubai in December 2015. (Image via Wamda) PayFort announced December 15 the release of two new...

The FORT START Payfort

U.A.E

A mobile growth workshop with a touch of Silicon Valley

Those magic micro-moments. (Image via Nagi Salloum) in5 Innovation Centre hosted the Mobile Growth Academy workshop with Nagi Salloum,...

TangoMe Mobile growth Academy In5 Innovation Centre

Global

7 ways to protect your ecommerce site from security threats

Ecommerce sites can open up a raft of avenues for fraud and hackers.(Image via iStock) A single day doesn’t go by without hearing a...

Online shopping Cbyer security

Egypt

Seeding success at Cairo Innovates

The Cairo Innovates tech fair was held at the historic Baron Palace. (Image via Cairo Innovates) Youth technology fair Cairo Innovates is...

Eqotaqa Beetw Green Battery

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