Maintaining a Startup Atmosphere in a Growing Business: JC Butler of Dubizzle [Wamda TV]

JC Butler, Co-Founder of Dubizzle, discusses his company’s evolution from a startup to a medium-sized business. He explains that it takes r...

Wamda • 05 September, 2012

Team Tips Trends

LinkedIn to Enter Middle East Market in September

On the heels of news that LivingSocial is leaving the region, an email circulating the region reveals that LinkedIn is priming to open an...

Nina Curley • 23 August, 2012

Social Networks Technology Trends

UPDATED: Rocket Internet Exits Turkey, Mizado, Expands Amazon Clone in Egypt and Morocco

[UPDATED: We have received confirmation that Rocket is launching Jumia, an Amazon clone, in Egypt, extending a site initially launched in...

Nina Curley • 26 August, 2012

Rocket Internet Trends E-commerce

Rise Of The Startups - Seeqnce Accelerator Program

Seeqnce announced the details of its accelerator program’s closing event: “Rise of the Startups” that will take place at the Seeqnce Rooft...

Wamda • 15 August, 2012

Investment Trends

LivingSocial Rumored to Pull Out of the Middle East: Comment From Competitor On Regulation

The National has reported today that global daily deals company LivingSocial is priming to sell its assets in the Middle East and shut down...

Nina Curley • 13 August, 2012

Trends

Content Delivery & Digital Services-Middle East 2012

Capacity Conferences announced the dates for "Content Delivery & Digital Services-Middle East 2012" taking place on the 10 & 11...

Wamda • 09 August, 2012

Digital Media Trends

Lebanese Recipe Sites Localize for Ramadan

To cater to cooks during Ramadan, two Arabic recipe sites have recently taken steps to make content their content more local and...

Nina Curley • 23 July, 2012

Food & Beverage Trends

The Intel Berytech Innovation Challenge (IBIC)

The Intel Berytech Innovation Challenge (IBIC), is a program established by Intel and Berytech, to enable Young entrepreneurs to...

Wamda • 20 July, 2012

Trends

TEDxBeirut Salon in Tripoli

TEDxBeirut want to spread inspiration all over Lebanon, not only in Beirut. This time TEDxBeirut Salon will be in Tripoli. Through...

Wamda • 18 July, 2012

Trends

Building a 2020 Vision of Entrepreneurship in Lebanon

There is an emergency in Lebanon. Not the emergency you may think; beyond the political debates and divides, beyond the clashes and the...

Antoine Abou-Samra • 24 June, 2012

Ecosystem Trends

Lebanese-Egyptian Entrepreneur Fadi Chehade to Lead Internet Expansion as New ICANN CEO

It may come as no surprise to entrepreneurs in the Arab World that a successful Lebanese-Egyptian IT entrepreneur will now lead the...

Nina Curley • 24 June, 2012

Trends

Wamda Leaders Rank on 2012 List of Most Influential Arabs

Both Wamda Chairman Fadi Ghandour and Wamda CEO Habib Haddad made the 2012 list of the world's most influential Arabs, published today by...

Nina Curley • 10 June, 2012

Trends

Facebook Use in the Arab World in 2012

Just in time for Facebook's IPO tomorrow, @Shusmo has created an infographic detailing data from the Dubai School of Government's Arab...

Wamda • 17 May, 2012

Trends

KAUST Announces Startup Showcase Winners

The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has announced the two winners in its second round of VentureLab, a startup...

Nina Curley • 10 May, 2012

Competitions Mobile Apps Trends

The Road to Crowdfunding Ruin

Editor's Note (NC): Daniel Isenberg's latest article addresses the "Jumpstart Our Business Startups" (JOBS) act that President Obama...

Daniel Isenberg • 25 April, 2012

Legal Trends

12 Mobile Predictions for 2012 from Google at Arabnet

Mobile was one of the biggest buzzwords during Arabnet 2012, and this talk from Ahmad Hamzawi (@ahamzawi), Google’s Head of New Business D...

Fernande van Tets • 02 April, 2012

Arabnet Google Mobile

A Chat with an Imaginary Small Business CEO in Saudi Arabia

Being an entrepreneur in Saudi Arabia is relatively easy. According to the World Bank’s Doing Business 2010 data, Saudi Arabia ranks 1...

Bushra Azhar • 25 March, 2012

Innovation Trends

Social Media Trends in Saudi Arabia and the UAE [Infographic]

Did you know that 3 out of 7 internet users in the Arab World are on social media? And that in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, logging on to...

Wamda • 22 March, 2012

Trends

Which Mobile OS Dominated 2011?

If you're looking to build mobile applications for export to a global market, take a look at iCrossing's recent infographic detailing the...

Wamda • 02 March, 2012

Mobile Trends

What Makes An Entrepreneurship Ecosystem?

The question of how to build a fully fledged entrepreneurship ecosystem in the Middle East is one that we look to address daily at Wamda....

Nina Curley • 21 February, 2012

Trends Ecosystem

U.A.E

Cards and Payments Middle East 2016

Commerce is constantly evolving and technology continues to transform the way consumers, businesses, citizens and governments connect, ...

Wamda • 23 March, 2016

ecommerce middle east Cards and payment 2016

Build relationships before you do business: a chat with Keith Ferrazzi, Part 1 [Wamda TV]

This March, Wamda contributor Nafez Dakkak wrote a piece on tips for networking, drawn from Keith Ferrazzi's famous book Never Eat Alone,...

Nafez Dakkak • 02 June, 2013

Keith Ferrazzi Never Eat Alone Networking

Rethinking Economic Growth: The Full Report

The International Labour Organization, along with UNDP, has released a new report, titled Rethinking Economic Growth: Towards Productive...

Wamda • 05 February, 2013

Government Trends

Does “Class” Matter in Entrepreneurial Success? A Call to Eric Ries

In a recent article on racism and meritocracy, Eric Ries calls for Silicon Valley investors to pay more attention to diversity...

Gulay Ozkan • 20 September, 2012

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