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Update: Facebook resolves Tor issues

UPDATE: Tor has posted that Facebook is not blocking Tor. "A high volume of malicious activity across Tor exit nodes triggered...

Internet Freedom Technology Censorship

Desado announces investment from iMENA Holdings; how does it stack up in flash sales?

It’s been said that there needs to be more linguistic creativity when it comes to branding in the Arab world. The announcement of D...

Flash Sales Scaling Investment

AUC launches new incubator for startups across Egypt

“In Egypt, we need to create 800,000 jobs every year, but you have to start somewhere,” says Dr. Sherif Kamel, Dean of the American Uni...

Incubator Egypt Accelerators

Sketch In Motion Founders Launch BeeLabs to Build Educational Apps for Kids

After spending almost ten years producing interactive media and cartoon animation for television and the web,...

Mobile Gaming Arabic Content Education

LeWeb says the sharing economy is going to change everything

Every year, the European startup scene awaits the new theme of LeWeb, the popular two day web conference based in Paris, that now boasts a...

Sharing Economy

Twitter now offers free account analytics. How does it benefit users?

With 6.5 million users in the Arab world, Twitter is easily the second most popular social network in the region, and the world,...

Networking Social Social Networks

Kick-start your mobile app by developing on these alternative platforms

As of last April, the number of smartphones and tablets sold in the Middle East reached 22 million and continues to grow. The...

Developers Mobile Gaming Competitions

What does a Saudi investment firm look for in a startup?

While most startups in the Arab world are aiming to enter the Saudi market, its own entrepreneurial scene is slowly emerging. One of the...

Venture Capital Investment

Wysada announces investment from MENA Venture Investments; here's how it plans to build loyalty

Wysada, a flash sales site based in Amman, Jordan, has announced investment from MENA Venture Investments (MVI), a Jordan-based angel...

Flash Sales Scaling Marketing

Are employees in the UAE satisfied with their salaries? [Report]

It’s not very surprising that only 3% of employees in the UAE are satisfied with their salaries. This doesn’t necessarily mean that com...

Financial management

Qordoba launches social media translation service as Arabic web use grows [Infographic]

Arabic is the fastest-growing language on the internet. Not only are the majority of users (22 million out of 44 million) in the Arab world...

Qordoba Translation

Mix N' Mentor Casablanca

The next stop on Wamda's 2013 Mix N' Mentor Roadshow, Mix N’ Mentor Casablanca, will take place on July 6, 2013. MnM Casablana will be a o...

Mix n Mentor Mentorship

A look at Mediaquest’s acquisition of AME Info: is advertising alone a viable model?

As various sites have reported, UAE news portal AME Info, along with sister site SME Info, have been acquired by Dubai-based media...

Acquisitions Digital Media

You left us so soon! To Karim Jazouani, Champion of Moroccan entrepreneurship

I was getting so excited to finally see you again at Mix N' Mentor Casablanca after the time we met in 2009. At the time, I was working on...

Goodbyes Leadership

How to market a digital publication: Advice from the founder of startupBahrain [Wamda TV]

During Wamda's Mix N’ Mentor event in Manama, we chatted with Ahmed Sawafiri, the founder of startupBahrain, the first interactive tablet ma...

Bahrain Mix n Mentor

Social media usage in the Middle East [Infographic]

Facebook is far and away the most popular social network in the Middle East, with 58 million users, around 18% of the total population of...

Social Infographic Social Networks

Will free VoIP apps disappear from the Middle East? A look at Saudi Arabia's Viber ban

While VOIP (Voice over IP) applications facilitate over represent more than 34% of the total time spent on international...

Skype VOIP Saudi Arabia

Movement builds in Jordan to reverse media censorship

Yesterday, just three days after the Jordanian government moved to block around 300 websites, leaders of media sites met with members of...

Internet Freedom Censorship

Women's content publisher Diwanee raises $3.25 million in investment, facilitated by MedSecurities

Arabic content for women is quickly becoming a very popular sector in the Middle East. Now, a large investment has validated the sector,...

Investment Women Arabic Content

Will this French startup attract Arab travelers with its trip recording app?

Though it’s been tried by Arab companies before, and failed, French startup Trekea Media, Inc. is expanding their real-time mobile t...

Travel Mobile

A look at the IFC's new $400m fund for SMEs in the Arab world

Support for small businesses continues to pour into the Arab world. Last month, the International Finance Corporation...

Funding models Financial management Jordan

Middle East Venture Partners invests $1.9 million in three scaling companies

With a history of investing in tech and e-commerce ventures, Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) is now diversifying a...

Venture Capital MEVP Scaling

The Arab World Competitiveness Report 2013: how the region can build more effective economies [Report]

Qatar is the most competitive economy in the Arab region according to the the Arab World Competitiveness Report 2013, which was just...

Report World Economic Forum

Dubai's entrepreneurs reflect on MAKE Business Hub's acquisition by CeeCee Holding

From its inception, MAKE Business Hub has been a co-working space built for startups. With artfully curved seating, electrical jacks next...

MAKE Business Hub Coworking Spaces Acquisitions

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