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StartupYourLife meetup reflects growing vitality of the Moroccan startup scene

On the 7th of March, more than 150 entrepreneurs, investors, developers, designers, and members of the Moroccan startup community attended...

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Arab League moves to support Arab entrepreneurs with forum in Cairo

In an unprecedented move to support entrepreneurs, the Arab League has hosted the first forum for Arab Entrepreneurs and Innovative Ideas,...

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U.A.E

Cary! off to a rollicking start on Eureeca; signals an increasingly complex UAE used car market

UPDATE: As of April 17, 2014, Cary! has met its Eureeca goal, having raised $103,400 on the crowdinvestment platform. Eureeca investors...

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Payfort announces zero security deposit program for e-commerce startups

As more digital startups are seeking to monetize, online payment service provider for the Arab world Payfort has implemented a...

Tunisia's first Entrepreneurship Fair: 3 challenges for 2014

The many challenges facing entrepreneurs in Tunisia did not prevent Tunisians from turning out in droves to the very...

Rails Girls, a Finnish programming workshop for women, brings seminars to Cairo

To mark the opening of a local branch of Girls in Tech, Egyptian incubator The Planet hosted Rails Girls Cairo, the...

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Entrepreneurs work towards healthier communities at SOCENT Dubai 2014

Last week Dubai’s social entrepreneurship week SOCENT 2014 held discussion panels and workshops focused on all i...

socent

Ex-PayPal MD launches Singapore-based payment gateway for the Middle East, Africa, Asia

Can a new payment gateway finally make it easy to transact online? Elias Ghanem, previously of PayPal, announced today the launch ...

Telr Payment Gateways

Equal opportunity a priority for CEO Middle East's 100 Most Powerful Arab Women

It doesn’t come as a surprise that for the fourth year in a row UAE’s first ever female minister, HE Sheikha Lubna Al Qassimi, tops the CE...

Technology

Building on its success in Egypt, eSpace launches elections portal in Turkey

eSpace, the Alexandria-based software developer juggernaut that partnered with the Egyptian government to create elections.eg to...

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Meet PinchPoint, the 7 month-old Palestinian gaming startup that just got funding from Sadara Ventures

“I remember when Apple released its first SDK [software development kit]. I made my first game there,” recalls Khaled Abu Alkheir, CE...

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Ubisoft Abu Dhabi launches Arabic version of hit game The Settlers

Ubisoft Abu Dhabi has released an Arabic beta version of its mega-popular game The Settlers, accessible to all players and free to play,...

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Students develop first Egyptian Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle (ROV) for undersea exploration

Given the rising global demand for equipment to explore and exploit oil resources at sea, there’s been a global boom in the m...

Hardware

The startups that won the Maroc Web Awards

For the past seven years, Moroccans have elected their favorite web players during the Maroc Web Awards. The award ceremony is a...

morocco Awards

Two of Saudi Arabia's leading job recruitment portals partner to boost employment in the Kingdom

Today, two recruitment platforms have joined forces to increase employment levels for local women in Saudi Arabia. Glowork, the Saudi...

Women

Hsoub neutralizes competition, acquires Moroccan digital marketplace Asnad

After hitting the milestone of one billion ads served per month just a couple weeks ago, three year-old web solutions...

Customer Service Acquisitions E-commerce

Dubai's Laundrybox, a new cleaning service, eyes global franchising

Bader Al Kalooti quit his job at an international investment bank in Dubai, to launch Laundrybox, automated and smart lockers where...

Can Kuwait's Waveline Media disrupt the mobile gaming market by remaking a classic title?

Kuwaiti startup Waveline Media seems to be going from strength to strength lately. First, the media company...

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What Souq has to say about those rumors, and its new mobile strategy

Just as chatter is sweeping the tech world that Souq.com may be courting Amazon for a potential acquisition, the Dubai-based e-commerce...

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Meet the first class of Saudi startups graduating from Flat6Labs Jeddah

Nine months after its launch, Flat6Labs Jeddah startup accelerator has graduated its first class of startups, which serve markets...

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Dealmakers' Weekend: a benchmark for Jordanian entrepreneurship

Dealmaking was the name of the game on Saturday and Sunday at the Four Seasons Hotel in Amman as an impressive list of investors...

Venture Capital Investment Oasis500

Startup Weekend NEXT Baghdad shows what's possible

As a co-organizer of the first and second installments of Baghdad Startup Weekend, I’ve learned first-hand how challenging it can be to c...

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West Bank and Gaza startups pitch together for the very first time in Amman

Until this past Thursday, startups in the West Bank and Gaza had not met under the same roof to pitch to investors. At Oasis500 in...

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Algerian entrepreneurs imagine a new future at Fikra Conference

One could be tempted to compare Fikra to an Algerian TEDx, yet the event, which draws it name from the word idea in Arabic, debuted a u...

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