Vital Voices calls women entrepreneurs to apply to a skill-building fellowship by March 15th Vital Voices, the international NGO that works to empower women, has launched the VV GROW Fellowship Program, to help growth-oriented women... Nina Curley • 25 February, 2014 Fellowship Women
The startups that won the Maroc Web Awards For the past seven years, Moroccans have elected their favorite web players during the Maroc Web Awards. The award ceremony is a... Aline Mayard • 25 February, 2014 morocco Awards
Startup Weekend Damascus attracts young entrepreneurs despite strife At long last, Startup Weekend, the global entrepreneurial competition, has found its way to Damascus, in spite of the three-year war... Muhanad Sabha • 25 February, 2014 3d printer robot competition
Green projects take the day at the Dubai+Acumen competition “People believe that innovation thrives in every other part of the world… but it also exists here, and we want to be a platform to support ... Pamela Kesrouani • 24 February, 2014 Acumen+Dubai Competitions Social Entrepreneurship
Online Arabic music school i3zif kicks off the year with 3 ambitious new goals Just over a year after launch, the team at i3zif, the online Arabic music school, has kicked off 2014 with three ambitious new goals, says... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 24 February, 2014 oud Music Jordan
CARE Clothing wins first place at January’s Pitchlab competition in Casablanca Casablanca co-working space New Work Lab organizes monthly pitch competitions titled the Pitch Lab that... Fatim Zahra Biaz • 24 February, 2014 Pitch pitch lab Social Entrepreneurship
Saudi Arabia Former Rocket Internet employee launches a Pinterest for travelers “Rocket Internet has inspired many people to launch their own startups,” says Anirudh Gupta, a former employee... Reine Farhat • 24 February, 2014 Crowdsourcing Travel
Parisian accelerator Startup42 welcomes startups from the Arab world for its third batch Lately, we’ve reported on a growing number of European and American initiatives aimed at startups in the Arab world. Needless to say, w... Aline Mayard • 23 February, 2014
Startup Bahrain online magazine seeks to revolutionize the ecosystem I ran into Bader Kamal, a freelance graphic designer and photographer who is part of the Startup Bahrain team, after the online magazine... Leena AlOlaimy • 23 February, 2014 magazine content
Hsoub neutralizes competition, acquires Moroccan digital marketplace Asnad After hitting the milestone of one billion ads served per month just a couple weeks ago, three year-old web solutions... Maya Rahal • 23 February, 2014 Customer Service Acquisitions E-commerce
Can Kuwait's Waveline Media disrupt the mobile gaming market by remaking a classic title? Kuwaiti startup Waveline Media seems to be going from strength to strength lately. First, the media company... Maya Rahal • 22 February, 2014 Toad Rider Waveline Media Mobile Gaming
Weekly Wrap-Up: February 16-20 5 ways you can participate in our MIT Media Lab workshop next week We’re gearing up for four days of intensive workshop sessions with some o... Wamda • 21 February, 2014 Weekly Wrap-Up
Facebook's bid to take on Google The $19 billion USD that Facebook spent to acquire WhatsApp yesterday has delivered one of the world’s most stunning stories of wealth c... Nina Curley • 20 February, 2014
Euromed Business Opportunities Roadshow in Lebanon Berytech, Beirut Creative Cluster and Anima Investment Network will be organizing from March 20th till 22nd a cross-border innovative... Wamda • 20 February, 2014 beirut VC
Is Morocco ready to become the regional capital of game development? The video games market is a flourishing industry that has, over the past few years, gained more financial revenue and made more of a... Mehdi Reghai • 20 February, 2014
How to successfully crowdfund your next game Cross-posted from Cloud Games on February 10, 2014. Continuing its streak as the most successful crowdfunding campaign to date, upcoming... Glen Dalakian II • 20 February, 2014 zoomaal kickstarter indiegogo
