Global Facebook adds free peer-to-peer payments in Messenger This article is a crosspost with the Payfort blog. If you’re like most people, you know settling debts or splitting bills between f... Faisal Al Khalidi • 03 May, 2015
Maghreb Inside Hmall's plans to scale Moving from a 150m2 office to a 750m2 office is every startup’s dream. For Hmizate, it’s a dream come true. Earlier this month, the Mor... Aline Mayard • 03 May, 2015 Hmall marketplace Scaling
Lebanon Beirut gets a new accelerator, UK Lebanon Tech Hub now open A giant Twitter deck at the UK Lebanon Tech Hub. (Images via Lucy Knight) Standing on a podium in a carpark in a fast sweltering Beirut,... Lucy Knight • 30 April, 2015 UK Lebanon Tech Hub Beirut Digital District lebanon
Lebanon Zoomaal founder shares tips from $330k Series A round The Zoomaal team at their offices in Beirut. After raising a seed round of $75,000 in Q3 of 2013 (from Wamda, MEVP, and Sawari Ventures),... Maya Rahal • 30 April, 2015 abdallah absi cairo angels zoomaal
Egypt Sun shines on Egypt's solar startups Sarah Mousa eyed the small boys, vigorously hacking at each other with sticks in the narrow backstreet of Cairo’s Al Darb Al Ahmar... Rachel Williamson • 30 April, 2015 MEMakers Roundup solar energy
Regional How animation studio Kharabeesh drew its own success Kharabeesh was one of the first companies to start making animated and video Arabic content, but their success didn’t come... Abdulghani Kataya • 29 April, 2015 Kharabeesh ksa YouTube
Regional How ArabiaWeather leveraged big data and processing power to stay ahead of the competition Hurricane approaches. (Image via symonsez.wordpress.com) The story of ArabiaWeather is one referred to in the Middle East startup... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 29 April, 2015 MEMakers JordanWeather.jo JavaScript
Saudi Arabia This Saudi innovation could be the solution for efficient solar panels in the desert Georg Eitelhuber, an energy efficiency engineer, introduces NOMADD (No water Mechanical Automated Dusting Device) a system... Maya Rahal • 29 April, 2015 MEMakers Solar panels NOMADD
Regional Challenges that spark ideas: GE's CMO meets MENA startups, discusses problems and solutions In January 2015, entrepreneurs from the Middle East and North Africa met with Beth Comstock, GE's Chief Marketing Officer, at Masdar City... Maya Rahal • 29 April, 2015 MEMakers Local vs Global Beth Comstock
U.A.E Wamda and General Electric announce partnership Wamda and General Electric (GE), one of the world’s leading technology companies, are joining hands to enable and support the industrial e... Wamda • 29 April, 2015 MEMakers partnership General Electric
Global How to develop succinct workflow policies Workflow policies, whether for startups or large corporations, are a good way to smooth out work processes and avoid task conflicts... Mohamed Kamal • 28 April, 2015 strategies work practices Workflow
Egypt More options for Cairo startups as coworking spaces multiply Two years ago the number of coworking spaces in Cairo could be counted on one hand, but as their numbers have multiplied they’re now b... Eman Mostafa • 28 April, 2015
Jordan Girls in Tech hosts its first bootcamp in Jordan Participants of the first Girls in Tech bootcamp in Jordan. (Images via Tala El Issa) One month into their existence and... Tala El Issa • 27 April, 2015 MENA Apps Umniah Telecommunications The Tank
Jordan DIY app wins top prize at first ever RedTroops JO Hackathon The developers of Edy, an iOS app that blends the creative photo sharing elements of Instagram with the DIY work of online marketplaces... Melanie Butcher • 27 April, 2015
Regional Bahraini wearable could add a new dimension to social interaction The Feelix is another wearable that may reach the market. The bracelet syncs with a user's smartphone and sends him or her... Raed Khalil • 27 April, 2015 Feelix wearables Bahrain
Regional Don't be afraid to scale This is a crosspost with LinkedIn. The MENA entrepreneurship landscape has come a long way since the days when I was at... Amir Farha • 26 April, 2015 VC investment Amir farha startups
