Wamda

Which OS Dominates the Arab Mobile Market? [Infographic]

Android continues to be the world's favorite operating system, accounting for 64% of smartphone sales in the first quarter of 2013. As of ...

Infographic Mobile

Mobile OS Trends in the Arab World [Report]

This short report, by Froot Apps, shows how the 22 million smartphone users in the Arab world are consuming phones and downloading apps in ...

Mobile

Egyptian, Jordanian Startups Take the Day at MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition Awards

Last year, the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business Plan Competition awarded first place to Hind Hobeika of Instabeat, a heart rate...

MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition Competitions

Disruptive Entrepreneurship Part II: Key Takeaways from the Skoll World Forum

After performing my annual pilgrimage to the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University, UK — which gathered almost ...

Social Change Conferences Social Entrepreneurship

Disruptive Entrepreneurship Part I: We’re Going to Change the World

For just three days once a year, I don’t have to explain myself. The notion that business and social impact are in fact m...

Social Change Conferences Social Entrepreneurship

Developing Low Cost, High Quality Education in Egypt

Every year, Egyptian parents face the dilemma of choosing a school to enroll their children in, often debating between a range of...

Egypt Education

Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund launches to support Egyptian startups

Despite the political instability wracking Egypt today, startups have a new source of potential support. But will they take funding from...

Government Investment

Gengo Secures $12 million Investment by Intel Capital, Atomico, STC Ventures, Others

On the heels of STC Ventures’ investment in Acadox last week, Gengo, a global translation platform, has secured $12 million in i...

Translation STC Ventures Investment

Google Acquires Wavii for $30 Million, a Startup Founded by a Lebanese Entrepreneur

In Silicon Valley, the race is on to build a better mobile news summarizer. Google is the latest to make a move, with its...

Mobile Google

Saudi woman entrepreneur rethinks how we make Arabic coffee

Making Arabic coffee is a complicated and delicate process. The coffee beans must be properly roasted, ground, brewed, then boiled before...

Coffeehouses Badir Saudi Arabia

Egyptian Team Delivers a Killer Global App: Ninja SMS

Recently we had an Arab company going head-to-head with Google, now we have the Ninja apps team going head-to-head with...

A Look at Egypt's ICT Sector: Growth, Strategy, and Impact on Startups

Note: this piece has been adapted from the Arabic original. To help the Egyptian economy recover from the revolution, the Egyptian...

Advertising Egypt Mobile

Egypt's National ICT Strategy [Report]

The Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (ICT) has just launched a new National ICT Strategy to revamp and boost t...

Egypt

Information and Communications Technology Indicators in Egypt [Report]

Given the role social media and technology played in the Egyptian revolution, it should come as no surprise that Egypt's mobile internet...

Egypt

Social Business Gets a Boost in Tunisia with Launch of Muhammad Yunus's New Holistic Movement

March 13th was a day to remember in Tunisia this year. That day, Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi Noble Prize winner and one of the...

Job Creation Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

6 Reasons to Use Video Advertising

There's no doubt that video is the space to watch in online content; by 2014, it may account for 90% of content consumed on the internet,...

Video Advertising Advertising Video On Demand

Lebanon's Presella Targets the Globe with an E-ticketing and Event Crowdfunding Platform

Watching people entering the We Were Evergreen concert in Beirut a few weeks ago was certainly a show. People were excited to show their...

Crowdfunding E-commerce

Swiss Platform Works to Boost the Arab Film Industry

Arab cinema is gaining popularity across the Arab world, as many young documentary and short film producers are making names for...

Entertainment Arabic Content

Students Imagine Crazy Tech Ideas at Minya's Second Innovation Day in Egypt

Despite a train conductor strike that paralyzed Egypt’s railways in mid-April, the engineering Faculty at Minya University pushed ahead w...

Egypt Competitions

Rocket's HelloFood Launches in Saudi Arabia and Morocco; Can It Tackle the Middle East?

Yesterday, Rocket Internet expanded their HelloFood brand into Saudi, marking the German clone factory's first expansion of its...

Rocket Internet Food & Beverage Delivery

New Q&A Platform Ejaba Offers Entrepreneurs Access to Expert Advice

Entrepreneurs across the Middle East now have a new affordable means of getting advice: Ejaba.me, a Q&A platform that offers...

Advice Mentorship

Would You Be Concerned if Google Bought Out WhatsApp? [Poll Results]

After moving to Beirut, the first thing people ask me when we want to stay in touch is not “Can I have your number?” “What’s your e-ma...

Telecommunication SMS Google

How Companies Manage CEO Turnover across the Globe [Report]

Most companies around the global prefer to hire their CEOs locally or from within, a new study has found. 83% of companies that hired a...

ceo Job Recruitment Programme

GCC Comes Out On Top in Global ICT Network Readiness [Report]

Qatar leads the Arab world in “networked readiness”, showing a huge boom in mobile broadband subscription from 9.6% to an enormous 70.3% ov...

Technology Government

Thought Leadership

All the information you need to navigate Mena's startup ecosystem

Thank you