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Startup news ticker: Int@j connects Jordanian and Saudi companies; Souq.com launches Cyber Week

Welcome to Wamda's weekly startup news ticker, which will offer quick announcements and stories relevant to the region. If you have a quick...

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New meetup at Morocco's New Work Lab awards MySportner startup of the month

The Moroccan co-working space New Work Lab has launched a new meetup called Pitch Lab, giving entrepreneurs the opportunity to pitch...

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Experienced entrepreneurs battle at Startup Weekend Ramallah

The startup ecosystem in Palestine is maturing, and nowhere was that more evident than at the second Startup Weekend in Ramallah this...

Mentorship Startup Weekend

How are teenagers using social networks? Can Shots of Me surpass Facebook?

Shots of Me, the new social network for selfies (photos taken of oneself), has famously raised $1.1 million USD in a seed-funding round...

shots of me teenagers Social Networks

Ad network ikoo closes offices in Saudi, Kuwait and Egypt for strategic refocusing

Several days ago, we received confirmation that ikoo had closed its offices in Saudi Arabia (Jeddah and Riyadh), Kuwait, and...

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Lebanon's Roadie Tuner debuts a device 'three times more accurate than the human ear'

Fresh off their stay in China at hardware accelerator HAXLR8R, the Lebanese team behind Roadie Tuner is now set to release its...

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Wamda CEO wins Media Creativity Award

In a bit of Wamda news today, our CEO Habib Haddad, founder of translation technology Yamli, was awarded in Media Creativity by NGO Arab T...

StartupYourLife, the community that’s shaking up the Moroccan startup scene

“Countries from all around the world look up to Silicon Valley as if it were the heart of innovation; they’re all getting the...

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Startup news ticker: eTobb out of beta; Feeditch launches English version

Welcome to Wamda's weekly startup news ticker, which will offer quick announcements and stories relevant to the region. If you have a quick...

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Will Qatari startups adopt a more flexible work environment?

Flexibility has been a hot topic in 21st century office culture. In February, Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer controversially curtailed her...

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Join us on the Wamda Plane for a free trip to our Saudi blogger meetup!

On December 5th, Wamda will be flying Saudi tech bloggers, journalists, and entrepreneurs to Mix N’ Mentor Jeddah for free! (Apply below) T...

Mix n Mentor

New tech park launches in Tahrir Square to empower Egypt's entrepreneurs and inventors

[Coauthored by Nina Curley] Cairo’s Tahrir Square, which will forever be known as the epicenter of Egypt’s revolution, is now ground zero fo...

Technology

Egyptian startup makes it easier to consume audio content in Arabic

Although podcasts have became popular the world over, they haven't taken off in Arabic, perhaps thanks to a lack of options for hosting...

Instabeat, the heart rate monitor for swimmers, wins Wearable Technologies award

Instabeat, the heart rate monitor for swimmers developed by Lebanese entrepreneur Hind Hobeika, is continuing to win accolades. The...

Technology Instabeat

Regional

Discover the first Arabic e-book on website SEO

The web is full of articles and videos that explain how to buy a domain, build a website and make it SEO-friendly. However, the...

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Celebrities suit up with online tailoring from Dubai

“We’re effectively ‘stealing’ from the Brooks Brothers and Jos. A. Banks of the world,” says Tarig El Sheikh, cofounder of bespoke online s...

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Why a post-IPO Twitter needs Saudi Arabia, in 3 graphs

[photo from SUSTG.com]. After selling 70 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange last week, Twitter's future is looking...

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Startup news ticker: Russian news website launches regionally; MAKE Ignition announces the winning startup

Welcome to Wamda's weekly startup news ticker, which will offer quick announcements and stories relevant to the region. If you have a quick...

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13 North African events to attend during Global Entrepreneurship Week

Each year, an entire week is dedicated to celebrating entrepreneurship. For its fifth edition, Global Entrepeneurship Week will be hold in ...

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Rise Up Egypt, the country's first entrepreneurial summit, is coming

In two weeks, Cairo will host the "first-ever entrepreneurship summit in Egypt" a stone's throw from Tahrir Square. Rise Up Egypt,...

Ecosystem

4 reasons to join a hackathon

A week ago, I ventured off on a special roadtrip: StartupBus Europe, a trans-European 3 day-long hackathon on wheels. In the...

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Regional

MarkaVIP launches new platform, mobile apps, hints at new verticals to come

MarkaVIP, a leading regional flash sales site, has announced the launch of its new iOS and Android mobile applications, also debuting...

MarkaVIP E-commerce

What it takes to build a billion dollar tech company, and what it means for startups in the Arab world

Yesterday, Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures took an honest look at what it takes to build a billion dollar company in Silicon...

Investment Trends

Global

Google launches Helpouts, a real-time how-to video platform over Hangout

Today, Google announced the public launch of debuted Helpouts, a platform designed to help people learn from experts over Google...

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