Wamda

U.A.E

What we learned about the media industry at #STEP2017

The reader is king. After an era of praising content as the supreme power in media, the focus today is shifting towards the...

Step 2017 Step Conference Media

Global

Tracking skateboard tricks from UAE to LA

Rideblock talks building a product in the UAE with a market in the US It was an argument over who had pulled off a better Ollie - a...

RideBlock uae Flat6Labs

U.A.E

The Souq sale is a game changer for MENA ecommerce [Opinion]

We all heard the news: Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer by sales and market capitalization, founded 23 years ago in...

Amazon Souq.com acquisition

U.A.E

Business for Better

UAE-based university students and graduates between the ages of 18 and 35 will have the chance to pitch their innovative ideas for...

sharjah uae entrepreneurship

U.A.E

Why is the Souq.com acquisition so significant? [Opinion]

For those who have been in the dark, Amazon has acquired Souq.com for over $650 million. The news of an acquisition of this size has...

Souq.com Amazon acquisition

U.A.E

Amazon buys Payfort

Not only is Amazon buying Souq.com, but it has also today bought Payfort. “Today as part of Souq Group Inc. we are pleased to...

Amazon Payfort souq

U.A.E

New platform for healthy food launched from Dubai

Plotos, a digital nutrition and wellness platform and app, launched today with funding of $100,000 to address the UAE’s growing...

uae Plotos Eniverse Technologies

U.A.E

Is a marketplace enough to penetrate UAE’s laundry services?

A woman gazes at her new purchase. ‘Lucky me’, a 1959 advert for washing machines says. And indeed lucky her. Rather than...

marketplaces get laundry Washmen

U.A.E

Sending money home with ease, Now Money [Wamda TV]

Expatriates in the UAE send a lot of money home. A lot. According to the World Bank’s migration and remittances factbook for 2016,...

Fintech now money uae

U.A.E

Load-Me keeps on trucking

Load-Me, the Dubai startup that connects regional truckers with delivery loads through a marketplace app, has come a long way since its...

telematics uae load-me

Bahrain

Fetchr buys Bahrain courier company in expansion push

Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo Group (YBA Kanoo), one of the largest family-owned multinational businesses in the Middle East, has announced that...

Fetchr acquisition uae

Global

Pixelbug looks to take Silicon Valley

Pixelbug, the augmented and virtual reality pioneer founded in Dubai, has gone from dominating the MENA market to turning heads in Silicon...

PixelBug silicon valley accelerator

U.A.E

Jamalon signs agreement with Lulu.com in a Middle East publishing expansion

Jamalon.com, MENA's online bookstore, signed a Print-On-Demand (POD) agreement with Lulu.com, a global self-publishing platform,...

Jamalon partnerships news watch

U.A.E

What I know about starting up too soon: Loulou Khazen Baz

When Loulou Khazen Baz launched Nabbesh in 2012, she found herself introducing a strange concept to the Middle East and North Africa. In...

What I Know WIK nabbesh

U.A.E

Lawyering up getting easier with Dubai startup

When Armenian-Ukrainian Suzanna Kalendzhian started practicing as a lawyer in the Middle East in 2011, she saw a gap in the market....

uae law lawyers

U.A.E

Going postal in Dubai, finally

When Mohamed Al Araimi and Bello Abubakar built a grocery delivery startup they weren’t expecting it to create the backdrop for their...

gps pointr uae

U.A.E

Dubai’s Carswitch.com raises $1.3M

Carswitch.com has secured $1.3 million investment from Glowfish Capital, the early stage incubator, after achieving a solid 30 percent...

carswitch.com Transport news watch

U.A.E

What I know about data science in the UAE: Baghdad Gherras

Data science in the UAE is just beginning to the scratch the surface of what’s possible. That’s one of the key points...

What I Know WIK data science

U.A.E

Minds on a Mission gets Emirati students thinking

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn” were the wise words from Benjamin Franklin that inspired the win...

minds on a mission uae MBZFutureGen

U.A.E

Gulf Capital SME Awards 2017

For the 6th year in a row, the Gulf Capital SME Awards continues to celebrate and recognize outstanding SMEs from the UAE that have shown...

sme Gulf Capital SME Awards Dubai

Turkey

Modest fashion site Modanisa closes new round

Modanisa, the Turkey-based modest fashion site, has closed a fourth round of funding. Led by Dubai-based VC Wamda Capital for an...

modanisa Wamda Capital modest fashion

U.A.E

Integreat Center serves Dubai's special needs youth

Millions of disabled people in the Middle East face exclusion, and almost certainly discrimination. A survey conducted by Dubai’s...

Integreat Center social enterprise Social Entrepreneurship

Regional

New startups on the block: March

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to...

new startups blinkapp instacar

U.A.E

Lean and Agile Middle East Summit 2017

Lean and Agile Middle East (Agile ME) and Heriot-Watt University Dubai (HWUD) are organizing the third annual Lean and Agile Middle East...

agile summit Dubai

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