Wamda

World Bank wants to help Lebanese and Tunisian diasporas give back

As part of a new project, Integrating the Middle East and North Africa (i-MENA) aiming to foster MENA global integration, the World Bank...

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Morocco

Credit cards, internet access, and online bill pay: Moroccan e-commerce is booming

Without a doubt, e-commerce in Morocco is experiencing a peak of interest. Over the last seven years, we’ve seen, at my startup...

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Al Mwajaha launches as the QuizUp for the Arab world

“Online challenge games are very popular in the region. However, most of them are only available in foreign languages. That is why we d...

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Knowing when to start over: Lessons from FailCon Dubai

Photo credit: Varuna Nand Singh In its first Middle East outing, Silicon Valley’s FailCon proved a refreshing departure from the t...

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Developer Maysalward partners with Zain to accelerate regional gaming industry

It has been a busy couple of months for veteran Jordanian mobile game developer/publisher Maysalward. In May, the company launched...

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First West Bank hackathon 'a new step' for Palestinian tech ecosystem

With a growing tech sector and startups starved for talent, there is a need for everyone in the Palestinian technology sector to...

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Zain to match funds with creative Jordanian projects on Zoomaal

Last week, Zain Jordan signed an agreement with Zoomaal, the region’s largest crowdfunding platform, as part o...

Hivos Zain Jordan partnerships

Young but growing fast: AUC's V-LAB announces third cycle in a year

The American University of Cairo’s startup incubator Venture Lab, launched just a year ago, is now accepting applications for its t...

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Wamda announces 2nd annual Karim Jazouani Prize for Entrepreneurship Advocates in Morocco

A year ago, Karim Jazouani, the web and startup ambassador of Morocco, left us far too soon. Since then, Moroccan web lovers and...

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Oasis500 launches new fund to kickstart Jordan's creative scene

Last week’s gathering of 20 Jordanian artists marks what may be an important first step towards investment funding for the country’s art...

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Egypt

Egypt's energy crisis forces increased interest in clean tech

A year ago, Karim Mostafa, CEO of solar energy solutions provider Gaia, was struggling to get anyone to listen to his...

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Could Gaza's fourth Startup Weekend be a turning point for the ecosystem?

Attending Gaza’s fourth Startup Weekend was one of the best experiences I’ve had in the Arab startup ecosystem. Some of the ...

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Jabbar invests in News Group, strengthening regional media-tech ties

Earlier this month, the investment firm Jabbar Internet Group announced a deal with Dubai-based news management company News Group...

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Maghreb

Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus kicks off global accelerator program in Tunisia

As Tunisia begins to overturn years of economic inefficiencies, stagnant creativity, and systemic corruption, entrepreneurship has begun...

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PIVOT, a Palestinian app to preserve historical memory, honored by Harvard

Among the Palestinian diaspora, across the region and world, the danger of forgetting one’s history is very close to the s...

Pivot Competitions

Presella first to benefit from BDL's circular gets 300k investment

Inaugurating the Circular 331 initiative, passed by Lebanon’s Central Bank last August as an attempt to make it less risky for banks to i...

Central Bank Lebanon Presella Investment

Zain Jordan embarks on CER with a series of activities

Telecom company, Zain Jordan, has taken a big step into actioning its Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility program and helping e...

Zain Jordan Zain CER

[SlideShare] The future of the internet is in developing economies

The internet may have been born decades ago in the West, but its future might well play out primarily in developing countries. This is, at...

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Arabic MOOC platform Edraak launches to bring quality education to the region

Massive Open Online Courses – MOOCs as they are more commonly known – are online courses that are offered to large amounts of par...

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Strengthened with a 16M investment, Intilaq stands to transform the Tunisian startup ecosystem

The up-to-now very discreet Startup Factory, a Tunisian accelerator launched a few years ago by telecommunications operator Ooredoo...

Jordanian online music shop Feesheh expands into the UAE

Between positive revenue growth in Jordan, a new partnership with Liwwa, and a victory at Seedstars World Amman, Nur Alfayez and...

Arabnet attendees grapple with changes in the ecosystem, and look to the future

Over three days, from June 3 to 5, more than 110 speakers and 90 partners and sponsors met at the Atlantis Hotel in Dubai for the Arabnet...

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Payfort report delves into regional payment issues, and looks to the future

During yesterday’s ArabNet Digital Summit, regional e-payment gateway Payfort issued its 2014 State of Payments Report. The report c...

E-commerce

Flat6Labs graduates 10 startups in Cairo; announces new Abu Dhabi accelerator

Last week, Flat6Labs, the largest accelerator in Egypt, announced the graduation of ten startups and their launch into entrepreneurship...

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