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Egyptian startup Asly fights counterfeit vaccines to save lives and money

When Tamer Ahmed was a child, his three year-old sister died because she had been given a counterfeit vaccine. Years later, still...

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New mobile app greens coupon-clipping in Kuwait

Kilshay is a 6 month-old mobile app, available for both iOS and Android devices, that provides an environmentally friendly alternative to ...

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Revolutionizing job training from Nairobi to Amman with SMS

The trouble with skill trainings in Kenya is that the workers who need it the most don’t have time to attend, Evanna Hu tells me o...

SMS Mobile

Egyptian pharmacist creates Dawaa, a digital pharmaceutical drug index

Designed to bridge the gap between the conventional hard copy drug reference manual and the digital lives of today's physicians, Dawaa is...

Healthcare Health Mobile

Startup news ticker: Lamudi launches mobile version; e-commerce store accepts Bitcoins

Welcome to Wamda's weekly startup news ticker, which will offer quick announcements and stories relevant to the region. If you have a quick...

Real Estate Mobile

An Emirates-developed screenshot sharing app makes a flashing success

Smartphone users are becoming increasingly addicted to sharing screenshots from their mobile devices, as opposed to links that require...

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Two successful Saudi game developers eye the international market

“We felt like aliens,” says Bandar Al Mashari, on how he and his friend Sultan Al Sharif related to the mobile gaming industry four years a...

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Saudi startup Feelit provides teenage girls with a forum to express their feelings

The rise of social networks has shown just how much people like to express themselves. Feelit, as the name implies, is one social...

teenagers Bootstrapping Saudi Arabia

Can Egypt's first online medical community succeed?

As technology becomes integral to everyday life more than ever before, the need for digitizing healthcare is ever increasing. While the...

Egypt Mobile Medical

How will Instapush make it easier for entrepreneurs to monitor their businesses?

At a time when the digital technology sector’s growth is skyrocketing, PushBots, an Egyptian startup, has launched Instapush, a service t...

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The future is mobile: here are the 3 things you need to build an app

According to mega-successful VC Bill Gurley, “we are in the midst of a critical platform transition,” from browsers to mobile app...

VC Mobile

PayPal brings new mobile payment option to rapidly developing East Africa

M-PESA, a mobile payment scheme launched in 2007 by Kenyan mobile network operator Safaricom, has fundamentally changed the way Kenyans...

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Africa: an untapped opportunity for Middle Eastern startups

Cellular penetration in Africa is growing at a rate of around 4.2 percent – a rate unequalled anywhere else in the world. In terms of m...

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Mobile advertising more vital than ever to marketers in the Arab world [Infographic]

With more than 366 million mobile phone users in the region, penetration rates and usage data are attracting more attention every day....

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Digital music app Zambaleeta launches in Egypt, offering access via prepaid cards

New music app Zambaleeta intends to corner the mobile music market in an old-fashioned way: by taking the fight offline. As...

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4 trends shaping the future of mobile

The future is mobile, and the future for mobile is apps. Advertising, video and image sharing, and mobile retail are all gaining traction...

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Arab Mobile App Challenge Acceleration Workshops

As part of the Arab Mobile App Challenge, Accelerator Workshops will be held in Qatar, the UAE, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia to allow...

Competitions Mobile

Startup news ticker: Russian news website launches regionally; MAKE Ignition announces the winning startup

Welcome to Wamda's weekly startup news ticker, which will offer quick announcements and stories relevant to the region. If you have a quick...

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Whatsapp goes down worldwide; can it stay on top in mobile messaging?

As of an hour ago, app messenger Whatsapp went down around the world; at time of print, it had just started working again. The outage...

Mobile messaging Chat Mobile

LINE readies for a $28 billion IPO; could it overtake Whatsapp in the Arab world?

While the tech world is hotly anticipating Twitter's IPO, which could happen before the end of the year at a valuation of around $16...

Social Networks Mobile

How does the Arab world's mobile market compare to the rest of the world? [Infographic]

Smartphones are undoubtedly the future of the internet. Around the globe, smartphone penetration has been increasing by 10% each year since...

Mobile Penetration mobile advertising Mobile

Arab Mobile App Challenge

The Arab Mobile App Challenge, organized by Silatech, invites teams from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Tunisia to compete with mobile...

Competitions Mobile

Egyptian event platform Eventtus goes premium after investment from Vodafone, Cairo Angels

After meeting at Startup Weekend Cairo in 2011, the founders of event organizing platform Eventtus launched their startup in...

Funding Venture Capital Angel Investment

Moms love mobile ads more than you do [Report]

It has become somewhat of a cliche to say that the future of the internet is mobile. And even though smartphone users say that mobile ads...

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