Wamda

U.A.E

Under the hood of the HyperSport: the $3.4M Arab star of Furious 7

All images via W Motors' website. “This time it ain’t just about being fast,” growls Vin Diesel in the newly released, box office record b...

w motors furious 7 fast & furious

Egypt

NASA hackathon sheds light on Egypt’s growing interest in outer space

The growth of scientific minds in Egypt. (Images via Nasa Space Apps Cairo) With so many problems on the ground, why would we want to...

PSC-BA CubeSat Space Apps Challenge NASA

Regional

What if it all came together?

This article is a crosspost in partnership with Huffington Post. To outside observers the Arab world looks anything but happening;...

Nafez Al Dakkak online education Huffington Post

Regional

MEVP announces first round of $30M MEVF II fund

Yesterday, Middle East Venture Partners announced the first round of investments as part of its $30 million Middle East Venture Fund II....

yougotagift The Luxury Closet AlTibbi

Regional

MENA online market to soon create billion dollar companies

The iMENA Group has published, in partnership with Kauffman Fellows Press, a report outlining how the MENA region’s online sector will r...

Khaldoun Tabaza growth iMENA

U.A.E

A forum for Android lovers, Droidcon comes to Dubai

Droidcon Dubai 2015. (Images via Facebook) "A 17-hour flight is how long it took for some of the event speakers to come...

Dubai Smart City initiative Alljoyn Groupon

Iran

10 digital startups debut at a demo day first in Tehran

Witnesses to the next big startups out of Tehran? [Images via AvaTech]. Since launching in 2014 the Tehran-based accelerator AvaTech...

Tehran AvaTech iran

U.A.E

Dubai's Pixelbug launches highly anticipated edutainment app Colorbug

The coloring is taken to a whole other level. Are you a child between 4 and 10? Do you want to meet Patrick the Horse, Pablo the...

PixelBug Colorbug edutainment

Global

GoNabit’s cofounders reunite to embark on a new journey

Having been a part of Dan Stuart and Sohrab Jahanbani’s team back when they cofounded GoNabit, the first online group buying website...

livingsocial gonabit Q&A

Egypt

More options for Cairo startups as coworking spaces multiply

Two years ago the number of coworking spaces in Cairo could be counted on one hand, but as their numbers have multiplied they’re now b...

Maghreb

Big plans in little Djerba: coworking Cogite is heading to the island

In mid-March, after visiting Gafsa and Kairouan, the team behind Tunis-based coworking space Cogite brought their Cogite...

Cogite Coworking Spaces

Egypt

2 Egyptian startups heading to Germany’s Pirate Summit

Winners of the event, Germany bound. Two Egyptian startups are heading off to Germany. Crowd Analyzer, a platform analyzing social...

Coterique Crowd Analyzer Greek Campus

Jordan

Innovative thoughts at the Arab youth Employment Conference in Jordan

The Arab youth Employment Conference: Promoting Innovative Solutions to Longstanding Challenges, will be held from April 28-30,2015, in...

International Youth Foundation Silatech Arab youth Employment Conference

U.A.E

Cardiac emergency services app takes first prize at Dubai’s Hacka{MENA}

Finding ways to change the world in seventy-two hours sounds close to impossible, but Hacka {MENA}, Dubai’s first social impact hackathon d...

PwC Hacka EXPO Hacka MENA

Lebanon

Lebanese designers converge to the Disrupt!/Design!/ ideathon

Disrupt!/Design!/ is a focused event organized by Mideast Creatives where designers from a wide variety of fields come together to bring...

disrupt design Mideast Creatives zoomal

Lebanon

USAID launches MENA-II in Lebanon amidst growing landscape of support

Last week, representatives of USAID, the Berytech Foundation (a Lebanese incubator and VC fund), and the United States...

im capital Circular 331 Berytech

Maghreb

Girls in Tech to launch in Morocco to support women entrepreneurs

When I asked Fatim-Zahra Biaz to give me a name of a Moroccan woman tech entrepreneur, she struggles. “This is why we’re launching Girls ...

Girls in Tech women entrepreneurs New Work Lab

Regional

Inspiration, community-building and unicorns at #STEP2015

The STEP Conference, in its fourth year, is quickly becoming one of the most anticipated events in the Arab region when it comes...

STEP2015 Step Conference STEP

Regional

Hatcher announces new seed and Series A funding for MENA startups

Hatcher, the Singapore-based ‘B2B venture builder’ connecting startups in emerging markets with investors, is looking to “double down,” as ...

hatcher fund hatcher beirut

Jordan

liwwa announces seed round led by DASH Ventures, hints at new product launch

liwwa, the Amman-based peer-to-peer Sharia-compliant lending site, has closed a seed round led by DASH Ventures, with participation from...

crowd economy liwwa DASH Ventures

Regional

New fund to invest $10M in idea-stage startups

In order to bridge the funding gap between the early stages of a startup, a new fund lead by Prince Kojo Onioni Zalani from Nigeria is...

fund

Regional

Facebook launches Blueprint for startups; and main announcements from #F8

In one of its biggest conferences so far, Facebook revealed this week a slew of services, products, and features tailored to almost all...

F8 blueprint Facebook

Regional

Souq.com opens API to the public to spur MENA ecommerce

Souq.com announced Friday that it will be making its API (application program interface) available to the public, allowing third party...

api Souq.com ShopGo

Global

Corridor for UK and MENA investment in SMEs opened up further by UK regulation

The Dubai-based international investment platform Eureeca announced today that they have recently received the stamp of approval from the...

FCA eureeca Dubai

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