Regional Can data regulation be Mena's competitive advantage? Khaled Lababidi is vice president and general manager of the Middle East, Africa and Turkey, for InCountry – a data... Thought Leadership • 02 September, 2021 Fintech Data regulation
Saudi Arabia Quant secures pre-series A investment Saudi Arabia-based Quant, a startup specialised in data science and artificial intelligence (AI), has secured $1.2 million in a pre-series... News • 17 March, 2020 Data Analytics Artificial intelligence
U.A.E Group 42 acquires Bayanat Source: Emirates News Agency Group 42, an Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence and cloud computing company, announced today that it... News • 14 January, 2020 uae Data Acquistion
Regional Just 7% of Middle East companies are tapping into $575 billion market By Xavier Anglada, managing director and Accenture Digital lead in the Middle East In today’s business landscape, innovation is... Thought Leadership • 14 October, 2019 Data Innovation
U.A.E Not a hardware, not a software, this startup looks to partner with CCC to improve construction efficiency Hassan Albalawi, the cofounder of on-site data tracking helmet WakeCap Technology, would like to believe he can digitize the construction... Reine Farhat • 20 March, 2018 WakeCap Hardware sensors
Lebanon Improving electricity and fake news detection through data #AUBWiDS2018 Data desert is a term often used to describe certain areas, whether unprivileged or not, where data is not regularly collected to form a... Reine Farhat • 07 March, 2018 aub Women in Data Science Data
Regional Investing in tech enhances guest experience A BLP MENA hotel market survey, revealed that 67 percent of hotels and industry professionals have plans to spend more on technology in the... Rana Freifer • 15 November, 2017 Data Customer Service Hotel tech
U.A.E YAL Entrepreneur Workshop: Digital Globalization & Global Data Flows Entrepreneur Workshop Series presents unique topics and thought-provoking ideas to the startup community. Mentors and speakers from the... Wamda • 06 September, 2017 Workshop uae Dubai
Tunisia How this Tunisian startup is digitizing cash registers There are over 250,000 neighborhood grocery stores in Tunisia. Many of those can’t afford the usual cash registers which cost between... Maya Rahal • 05 September, 2017 cashing device cloud management service Scaling
Tunisia Tunisian startup Datavora raises $470K Tunisian startup Datavora, a specialist in ecommerce big data, has raised just over 1 million Tunisian dinars (US$467,000) in seed... Lilia Blaise • 23 March, 2017 Tunisie Data ecommerce
Regional AUB Stanford Women in Data Science Conference In a joint effort between the American University of Beirut and Stanford Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering at... Wamda • 11 January, 2017 Data data analytics data science
Regional Can democracy stand a better chance with civic tech? “The region’s tech startups may not be setting up tents in public squares or painting their messages on street walls but they... Tala El Issa • 08 January, 2017 Civic tech E-government Government
Global 4 ways human data can help plan a city If you can overcome the paranoia of your online data being collected and mined by companies like Google or Facebook, and instead focus on... Lucy Knight • 20 September, 2016 MIT Media Lab Dubai Data
Regional MENA by the numbers: what do they really mean? Internet penetration, media consumption or ecommerce spending rates all tell one piece of a broader story about how the internet is being... Rachel Williamson • 03 July, 2016 Payfort infographics Data
Regional Opportunities in the risk intelligence market [Opinion] A map of countries facing the greatest risk of terrorism. (Image via The Telegraph) One basic law of economics dictates a... Johnny Matta • 14 January, 2016 Risk intelligence data analysis MEMakers
Saudi Arabia Saudi startup Meshlytics uses data to help universities keep in touch with alumni In the age of e-classrooms and e-schools, traditional universities have begun to compete with the free tools and flexibility of the... Ahmed Gabr • 16 April, 2015 Meshlytics Saudi Arabia Data
Regional How ArabiaWeather battles the forces of nature Residents of the Middle East don't need me to tell them that this year so far has been a doozy in terms of weather. First, we had... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 26 February, 2015 yohan windy huda
New data proves Facebook's extensive reach in Morocco For many in Morocco, it seems that Facebook is the most popular destination on the internet. A healthy 73% of the total population visited... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 11 February, 2014 Data Facebook
6 surprising facts about the future of the internet Google is dominating the internet, Business Insider Intelligence reveals in a new presentation on 'The Future of Digital.' While the search... Nina Curley • 13 November, 2013 Internet growth Data Google
5 graphs that explain the ICT sector in Jordan Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is often lauded as one of Jordan's most promising- and fastest growing- sectors. Last year,... Nina Curley • 30 October, 2013 Report ict Data
IDC's Cloud Computing and Datacenter Roadshow 2013 On October 8, 2013, IDC is hosting a cloud computing and datacenter roadshow to present and discuss the advantages of adding cloud... Wamda • 18 September, 2013 Data Cloud Computing
Smartphones are outselling feature phones: a look at the opportunity in the Arab world You saw the news yesterday: smartphones are outselling feature phones globally. As of Q2 2013, smartphone sales now account for... Nina Curley • 16 August, 2013 Data Mobile Trends
Meet the Egyptian entrepreneur trying to build a digital brain Coauthored with Mazen Aly, Egyptian Artificial Intelligence Ph.D. student at Max Planck Computer Research Institute in Germany. "In order... Ahmed Gabr • 29 May, 2013 Data Egypt Technology
How Egyptians Are Using Social Media [Report] Inspired by the Egyptian Revolution on January 25, 2011, startup 25trends released their first report today on social media trends in... Glen Dalakian II • 28 February, 2013 Analytics Data Egypt