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4 technology predictions for the Middle East in 2014

“As we move into 2014, work is no longer a place, it’s something you do wherever inspiration strikes,” says Johnny Karam, regional vi...

2014 citrix Predictions

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...

mobile payments Payment systems Kenya

Aliqtisadi partners with Harvard Business Review to offer management content in Arabic

Aliqtisadi, the Arabic business news portal launched out of Damascus, is continuing to expand despite the challenges of the Syrian...

Aliqtisadi Content Portals Arabic Content

Are you driven by your heart, brain, guts, or luck?

What drives you professionally: your heart, your brain, your guts, or your luck? Tony Tjan, a serial entrepreneur-turned-VC, gave his test...

entrepreneurship Expert Advice LeWeb

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...

africa Mobile messaging Mobile Penetration

UrbanBuz announces Series A round of investment for its customized loyalty program

Most of the time, when customers become loyal to a business, it’s not because they’ve been offered benefits via a loyalty card or shown up...

Series A Loyalty Programs

Nuqat Creative Conference creates 'culture shock' in Kuwait

When I arrived in Kuwait and settled into a chair at the Nuqat Creative Conference last month, the young man next to me immediately turned,...

Ecosystem

Turbines bring winds of change to the West Bank

In 2010, Fadi Quran came back to Palestine during winter break from his senior year at Stanford University, where he was studying Physics...

independent wind west bank palestine

MySportner founder Kenza Bennani on her greatest challenges, and big plans for the future

The New Work Lab, a Moroccan co-working space based in Casablanca, recently held the first edition of Pitch Lab won by MySportner....

mysportner new work labs morocco

Gaza's startups offered outside acceleration and funding for the first time

For the first time ever, startups from Gaza have been accepted to receive mentorship and seed investment from regional accelerators. After...

Gaza palestine Funding

Can Bitcoin transform Africa?

If there is one thing to know about payments in Africa, it’s that digital money is poised to disrupt transactions on the continent. Now t...

Bitcoin

Global Entrepreneurship Week Benghazi goes ahead despite unstable situation

For the first time, the Libyan city of Benghazi participated in the Global Entrepreneurship Week between November 18th and 24th, despite...

GEW

Gamification startup KidzWeekend wins Startup Weekend Dubai

Startup Weekend Dubai is quickly becoming a rite of passage for many serious startups, who come to the weekend like a band of travelers...

Startup Weekend

Looly's takes home Startup Cup Maroc

It’s official: the Moroccan startup of the year is Looly’s! At least, it’s the startup that won the first edition of Maroc Start...

events Competitions

Global

littleBits, led by a Lebanese founder, releases Synth Kit, secures $11.1M investment

Lebanese entrepreneur and maker Ayah Bdeir’s startup littleBits, which has been hailed as the LEGO of electronics, has just released its n...

Electronics Hardware littlebits

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4 technology predictions for the Middle East in 2014

PayPal brings new mobile payment option to rapidly developing East Africa

Aliqtisadi partners with Harvard Business Review to offer management content in Arabic

Are you driven by your heart, brain, guts, or luck?

Africa: an untapped opportunity for Middle Eastern startups

UrbanBuz announces Series A round of investment for its customized loyalty program

Nuqat Creative Conference creates 'culture shock' in Kuwait

Turbines bring winds of change to the West Bank

MySportner founder Kenza Bennani on her greatest challenges, and big plans for the future

Gaza's startups offered outside acceleration and funding for the first time

Can Bitcoin transform Africa?

Global Entrepreneurship Week Benghazi goes ahead despite unstable situation

Gamification startup KidzWeekend wins Startup Weekend Dubai

Looly's takes home Startup Cup Maroc

littleBits, led by a Lebanese founder, releases Synth Kit, secures $11.1M investment

A co-working space to develop the Tunisian entrepreneurial ecosystem

Startup news ticker: ArabNet announces the three winners; Bayt launches People Search

How an Egyptian traffic app partnered with the Kuwaiti government [Wamda TV]

Dubai SME debuts the first World Entrepreneurship Forum in the Middle East

PayPal announces regional discounts for Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Can a private equity firm seed a viable startup ecosystem in Tunisia?

Wamda's Mix N' Mentor is coming back to Dubai!

The Middle East gets its first peer-to-peer lending site, with Sharia compliance

Startup Weekend Baghdad reveals an early but growing Iraqi ecosystem

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