Wamda

U.A.E

MEED’s Smart Cities 2015 in Dubai

MEED’s Smart Cities 2015 is a conference that brings together critical partners to promote and invigorate the creation and...

MEED Dubai conference

U.A.E

Filmmaking, a new landscape for entrepreneurs in the region

The event brought together children and teenage animation-lovers for the film costume competition. (Image via Dana Horska) Esmeralda,...

Dubai Moving Image Museum Film industry Film Tech

U.A.E

Urban mobility, energy and emissions - Decode Dubai tackles big city problems

Teams listening to a speaker midway through the conference. (Images via Dubai Internet City) As Dubai passionately pursues its strategy to...

Barcelona Smart City App Hack hackathons

U.A.E

AngelHack hackathon in Abu Dhabi

The AngelHack hackathon is a platform where participants compete to build, test, and launch their ideas to the world during the two-day e...

AngelHack abu dhabi hackathon

U.A.E

3D printed jewelry and cooling jackets point the way for MENA wearable tech market

Wearable technology is still only a blip on MENA’s fashion calendar but the Abu Dhabi Wearable Tech Show aims to be the runway event for d...

wearable Wearable Tech Show UAE Wearable devices

U.A.E

Dubai’s IoTx summit drives MENA tech forward

The equation is simple: operational technology + information technology = the Internet of Things, the fusion of everyday ‘things’ with tec...

mena commerce The Internet of Things IoT

U.A.E

Can live online tutoring shake up the Arab region's education sector?

Update: Teach Me Now announced moving to Azure, Microsoft's Cloud Computing Platform, and becoming part of Microsoft BizSpark. This...

tutoring MOOCs Education

U.A.E

EU-GCC connects startups and SMEs with European corporates

EU-GCC is organizing a matchmaking event EU-GCC CONNECT where European corporates will meet with participating Gulf-based startups and...

EU-GCC

U.A.E

$11M Series A round from the US for Dubai-based delivery service Fetchr

Dubai-based delivery service Fetchr has successfully closed a Series A funding round worth $11 million. The not-insignificant sum was...

Mena360 Dhabi Holdings New Enterprise Associates

U.A.E

Second edition of the Arab Women in Leadership and Business Summit

MICE Quotient specializes in meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions and is organizing its second edition of the Arab Women in...

business summit MICE Women

U.A.E

Entrepreneur Journey Series on Marketing and Communication

Young Arab Leaders is organizing an Entrepreneur Journey Series session on marketing and communication. This particular session will have...

Hussein Dajani Dany El Eid Entrepreneur Journey Series

U.A.E

Flat6Labs Abu Dhabi debuts freshman class

Flat6Labs Abu Dhabi's first graduates (Images via Pamela Kesrouani) Seven startups from all corners of the globe flaunted their wares over...

flat6labs abu dhabi Demo Day Incubator

U.A.E

How digital loyalty platform Tarifah is using cloud technology to revolutionize customer experience

Tarifah founders Ismail Issa, foreground, and Mostafa Khalifa. (Images via Tarifah) The idea for the mobile application Tarifah was...

customer loyalty tarifah

U.A.E

ArabNet summit focuses on smart government initiative

Attendees of last session of the second day – snapshot of Christidis' Twitter account. Smart government - Dubai's initiative to use i...

arabnet digital summit Dubai Smart City initiative Arabnet

U.A.E

Silicon Oasis organizes TechForum for Film and Animation

For its upcoming TechForum event on June 9, Silicon Oasis TechForum is celebrating the development of technology in one of the most-loved ...

Dubai Silicon Oasis Techforum

U.A.E

Can sports help people explore Dubai?

I wrote two years ago about how daily deals websites are fading in Lebanon, inspired by my previous job at GoNabit, the first group...

GamePlaySport seed investment Dubai

U.A.E

Eureeca webinar on investment strategies

Eureeca is organizing a webinar to give tips and additional knowledge to investors to help them take better informed decisions on their...

Chris Thomas eureeca

U.A.E

Self-made: How Dubai’s Dumyé is in the running to win $1M in funding

Dumyé's dolls were a big hit at a recent workshop for orphans in Lebanon (Images via Dumyé) Big money isn’t an essential requirement to lau...

orphans crafts dolls

U.A.E

Geekonomics: MENA geek culture and the superpower of entrepreneurship

The force is strong in these ones (Image via Flickr) On the occasion of Geek Pride Day, we take a look at geek culture in MENA and see...

ExtraCake Arafaat Ali Khan MEFCC

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MENA, birthplace for a digital health revolution?

Imagine waking up in the morning and checking your watch to see how many hours of deep, restful sleep you obtained, your caloric intake...

Digital Health Live m-health Healthcare

U.A.E

Recyclable gift-wrapping from Japan leads to Emirati startup success

High-end Dubai gift-wrapping concept store Maska is using social media to market its Japanese present decorating techniques. Fatma Al...

U.A.E

“The Impact,” 5-day entrepreneurial boot camp

Ahead of the Curve (ATC) is organizing “The Impact,” a 5-day intensive training boot camp teaching entrepreneurs how to start and develop t...

The Impact Ahead of the Curve bootcamp

U.A.E

Will the UAE’s Bridg revolutionize the way we pay in the Middle East and the developing world?

Bridg cofounders Moussa Beidas, left and Nadim Jarudi, right won a very welcome 20,000 euros at the 2015 GCC Pitch Challenge Final....

nadim jarudi moussa beidas developing world

U.A.E

Productivity app wins AngelHack Dubai 2015

Bring your laptops, hardware, creativity, perseverance and create. (Images via AngelHack Dubai 2015) More than 70 hackers, coders and...

AngelHack Dubai 2015

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