Aliqtisadi launches in Palestine and London, in hopes of becoming the #1 Arabic business news site Aliqtisadi, the business magazine based in Damascus, Syria, announced its launch in Palestine and London last week, at the Abu Dhabi... Nina Curley • 28 October, 2013 content news Arabic Content
Fun logistics game launches in Dubai on a lean budget; can it find distribution? This piece is part of a new series on the challenges of new entrepreneurs who are bootstrapping their startups. “This is a game from ... Glen Dalakian II • 28 October, 2013 Bootstrapping Shipping Mobile Gaming
Startup Weekend Beirut 2013 Startup Weekend comes back to Beirut, Lebanon on November 22-24, 2013. SW Beirut will follow the basic Startup Weekend model, anyone can p... Wamda • 28 October, 2013 Startup Weekend
One woman's quest to get kids reading in the Arab world Very few initiatives originating in the Arab world achieve international recognition: Kitaby Kitabak (my book, your book in English), a... Ahmed Gabr • 28 October, 2013 libraries library reading
One bus, 40 entrepreneurs, a 5-day hackathon: StartupBus comes to southern Africa When an idea is good, it tends to travel across oceans. After successful runs in the U.S. and Europe, the StartupBus has launched... Aline Mayard • 27 October, 2013
Global Could Middle East e-commerce benefit from Pinterest? There was nothing special about the verb ‘pin’ before Pinterest was founded in 2010. Today, online, it's most likely to... Reine Farhat • 27 October, 2013 Funding Social Networks Marketing
Egyptian students shine at Intel Science Competition At an exposition recently held at Intel's Cairo office, eight Egyptian student winners of the Intel Science Competition, between the ages... Ahmed Gabr • 27 October, 2013
Weekly Wrap-Up: October 20-24 6 startup challenges answered at Mix N' Mentor Beirut We recently held our second Mix N' Mentor event in Beirut - this time with a brand... Wamda • 25 October, 2013 Weekly Wrap-Up
Why Nextly, now open to the public, stands to revolutionize content sharing There are several ways to curate content on the web these days, but it’s often a fragmented experience. Now that Google Reader is dead, s... Nina Curley • 24 October, 2013 content
Zain Jordan partners with Wamda to support startups via Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility Telecom company Zain is now the first company in Jordan to partner with Wamda on Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility (CER), an... Nina Curley • 24 October, 2013 Zain Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility Wamda News
12 tips for young entrepreneurs from an Egyptian startup founder Amira Azzouz is the founder and editor-in-chief of Fustany.com, a fashion portal for the Middle East in both Arabic and English, which... Amira Azzouz • 24 October, 2013 fustany amira azzouz Egypt
4 simple reasons why a young digital agency in Lebanon is turning a steady profit Sometimes the startups seeing the most steady returns aren’t the ones that are popping up in the news, but just those with a solid model a... Glen Dalakian II • 24 October, 2013 CER Blog Developers
How a Lebanese telecom sees the local startup scene At our recent Mix N’ Mentor Beirut, we chatted with partner touch about their view of the Lebanese startup ecosystem and how they, as a m... Wamda • 24 October, 2013 Telecommunication Mobile
On-the-ground details on the closure of Yahoo's Egypt office As the Mayer era continues at Yahoo!, its Egypt office is the latest element to be scrubbed out and rethought. Today, Yahoo! announced... Nina Curley • 23 October, 2013 Yahoo Closures
Startup news ticker: Mobibus launches a Do-It-Yourself mobile app maker Welcome to Wamda's weekly startup news ticker, which will offer quick announcements and stories relevant to the region. If you have a quick... Wamda • 23 October, 2013 ticker
Bitcoin passes $200 mark despite Silk Road closure Bitcoin, the peer-to-peer decentralized cryptocurrency, has just broken the US $200 mark, as traded on Mt.Gox, one of the largest... Ola Doudin • 23 October, 2013 Bitcoin
