Global A quick, current, and crucial guide to Google’s Quality Score Whether you’re brand new to pay-per-click marketing with AdWords, or you’ve been at it for ages, you’ve probably heard others harp on the im... Wissam Dandan • 29 September, 2014 quality score Google
Egypt Cairo's streets get a makeover, beginning with sponsored kiosks While the Egyptian government might be spending the most effort (and EGP) to beautify the streets of Cairo, private entities are also... Eman Mostafa • 29 September, 2014 venture lab auc venture lab kiosk
Regional The Middle Eastern startup blind spot: an obsession with money This article was co-authored by Melltoo founders Sharene Lee and Morad Irsane “How do you make money?” is a question everyone asks about Mel... Sharene Lee • 29 September, 2014 monetizing Funding
Lebanon Diaspora mentorship can unlock Lebanon's potential, says LIFE chairman Marc Malek Marc Malek, Chairman of the Board of the Lebanese International Finance Executives (LIFE) network, believes that the reach, influence, and... Anwar Aridi • 29 September, 2014 marc malek life life network
Regional Dubai's listings site Melltoo on the hunt for investors The world of classified ads has moved a long way from one having to trawl through the back sections of local newspapers looking for... Alexander Hawkes • 28 September, 2014 listings meltoo uae
Regional 7 coolest office spaces in the Arab world For a few years now, famous American startups like Google and Foursquare have been using their office as a communication and marketing... Aline Mayard • 25 September, 2014 At7addak Nezal game cooks
Egypt Offline P2P messenger hacks Apple technology to win Startup Weekend Cairo Startup Weekend novices Voiceless have won the latest competition in Cairo with a potentially game-changing app, based on peer-to-peer... Rachel Williamson • 25 September, 2014 p2p Egypt Startup Weekend
Saudi Arabia In Medina, public and private sectors join forces to boost small business Lately, we’ve been hearing of many new Saudi initiatives that are supporting entrepreneurship in the Kingdom; the most recent of... Reine Farhat • 25 September, 2014 saudi Support Organizations Public-Private Partnerships
U.A.E Sleek smoke alarm chirps its way to Dubai (and funding) An elderly woman using a gas stove to heat her home right after Hurricane Katrina sounds like a recipe for disaster. But in the aftermath... Lucy Knight • 25 September, 2014 birdi smartlivingcity dubai
Maghreb Students swarm Tunisia's first major tech event Over two days last week, Tunisian IT and engineering students, investors, developers and software designers, and representatives of... Courtney Joline • 24 September, 2014 event tunisia
U.A.E TechForum Dubai: how will wearables impact our daily lives? Organizers of the 16th TechForum, held on September 16 at Dubai Silicon Oasis in partnership with the Emirati telecom Etisalat,... Pamela Kesrouani • 24 September, 2014 Dubai Silicon Oasis Techforum Wearable devices
Saudi Arabia 4 ways to tackle Saudi ecommerce, from an Oasis500 mentor Sometimes, you can talk to people for hours and not understand how the time passed so quickly. And then there are those times when a half... Reine Farhat • 24 September, 2014 Saudi Arabia Social Media Marketing
Global Small-batch Pakistani shoes startup launches Kickstarter to target Arab world In 2010, Waqas Ali didn't know that a regular visit to his ancestral village of Okara in the Punjab region of Pakistan, and chance meeting... Pamela Kesrouani • 23 September, 2014 markhor pakistan
Lebanon TheFamily's Oussama Ammar, from entrepreneur to philosopher to investor Over the past few months, Oussama Ammar has become one of the most controversial figure of the French startup scene. A year ago, this... Aline Mayard • 23 September, 2014 TheFamily Diaspora
U.A.E Indian advertising company scaling to MENA on strength of $27M round When Chetan Kulkarni, CEO of Vizury, visited Dubai last month, it wasn’t to check out the Burj Khalifa or hit the malls. Founded in D... Pamela Kesrouani • 23 September, 2014
Jordan Jordan's Beladcom sold a virtual stable for $2,200. What does this mean for Arab gaming? How much would you pay for a virtual stable on a distant planet in a virtual universe? Whatever the number in your head, it’s likely less t... Hayden Pirkle • 23 September, 2014 planet toulan beladcom Gaming
