How Lebanese recipe portal Shahiya is empowering women in Saudi Arabia and abroad Since we last checked in, Shahiya, the Beirut-based community recipe board, has made some serious strides. The site has grown to over... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 26 September, 2013 expat cooking Saudi Arabia
Gulf consumers optimistic about their economies; Levant uncertain [Report] Despite the prevalence of intense conflict in Syria and Egypt, consumers in the Arab world are feeling more optimistic about regional... Wamda • 26 September, 2013 Report
Borrowing $1 billion a day? A look at debt in Saudi Arabia A surprising headline recently caught our eye: Arabian Business suggested that Saudi consumers are borrowing almost US $1 billion per... Glen Dalakian II • 25 September, 2013 Statistics Loans Banks
Google for Entrepreneurs & Community Outreach Meetup in Dubai On October 1st, Google for Entrepreneurs will be connecting with the entrepreneur community in MENA to share resources that Google can... Wamda • 25 September, 2013 Workshops Google
Watch the livestream of Flat6Labs' 6th Demo Day Check back at 6:30pm Cairo time! Want to see the latest round of startups coming out of Cairo's accelerator Flat6Labs? Tune in to this... Wamda • 25 September, 2013 Incubator Flat6Labs Pitching
India's largest IT company outsources to women in Saudi Arabia Forget outsourcing to India. India’s largest IT company is now planning to outsource to Saudi Arabia, debuting its first “all-female ser... Nina Curley • 25 September, 2013 Employment Saudi Arabia Government
Morocco's FollowLetter: an alternative to Google Reader for newsletter lovers? Trying to collect and read news during the day is often an essential part of work, and yet it can also be massively distracting; an email,... Aline Mayard • 25 September, 2013 Task management Slow-reading Media
What Mashrou' Leila's crowdfunding success means for the Arab music scene Last month, 543 fans of the Lebanese indie rock band Mashrou' Leila gave a combined total of over $66,000 USD to fund the release of the... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 25 September, 2013
U.A.E A look at the winners of the 2013 Gulf Business Industry Awards Gulf Business, a leading news portal in the Middle East, hosted their annual Gulf Business Industry Awards last night,... Reine Farhat • 24 September, 2013 Free zones Gulf Business Industry Awards Awards
Learning how to focus your startup with the Mini Entrepreneur When trying to build you startup, it’s easy to get distracted by popular trends or a project with quick returns. But if they’re outside you... Wamda • 24 September, 2013 Mini Entrepreneur Advice
What did startups learn at Astrolabs' recent workshop in Amman? After their first Scaling Online Startups (SOS) workshop in Dubai this past May, and subsequent workshops in Riyadh and Beirut,... Glen Dalakian II • 24 September, 2013 Astrolabs Workshops Marketing
What are the most surprising e-commerce trends in the Middle East this year? After PayPal released its Insights report yesterday, which details trends in e-commerce in the Middle East, we chatted with Elias Ghanem,... Nina Curley • 24 September, 2013 PayPal Payment Gateways E-commerce
Addy raises $320K in Silicon Valley, launches address system for Middle East e-commerce When we last checked in with Addy last summer, the startup was generating buzz after debuting at Stanford’s StartX Demo Day for its... Nina Curley • 23 September, 2013 Addressing Mobile E-commerce
Meet the 6 social startups joining virtual incubator i2i from across Pakistan [Note:this photo is of i2i's first class of startups, which graduated this January]. When Plan9 began incubating its first class of... Nina Curley • 23 September, 2013 Incubator Support Organizations Accelerators
Can new media site Beacon create good revenue streams for longform journalists? Beacon, billing itself as a new kind of media outlet, launched last week to considerable fanfare. The site works on a subscription... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 23 September, 2013 revenue streams Citizen Journalism
PayPal Insights e-commerce report reveals trends in mobile, travel in the Middle East The idea that mobile is the future of e-commerce isn’t new, but it may surprise some to learn that shoppers in the Gulf already p... Nina Curley • 23 September, 2013 Mobile Penetration Travel Mobile
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