Wamda

Kenya's Elections #TechFail: What Went Wrong and How Citizen Reporting Won the Day

Last week, Kenya hit the polls to elect the country’s 4th president since its independence 50 years ago. The turnout in Africa’s so-...

Elections Kenya Crowdmapping

Sirb Unites Saudi Arabia's Angel Investors and Entrepreneurs

On March 10, 2013, angel investor network Sirb, in cooperation with Badir Program for Technology Incubators, organized Saudi Arabia’s ...

Can Yahoo! Maktoob's New Football iOS App Compete?

Yahoo! Maktoob have launched a new iPhone application for football lovers in the Arab region. The Arabic iOS app, called Maktoob Football...

Sports Mobile

Can Free Seed Money Build a $1 Billion Company? Welcome to Start-Up Chile

To me, Chile is not just a country located in South America; it’s also one of the biggest startups in the world. The Chilean government has ...

Government Ecosystem Startup Communities

Palestinian Platform Helps Arab Students Find International Scholarships

Improving education is the goal of every government in the Arab world today. Yet rather than wait for governments and political situations...

Education

Business4Change Conference

Bringing together Arab youth, aged 16-30, from across the region, PepsiCo and Al Ahli Holding Group CSR Division are organizing the...

Social Entrepreneurship Conferences Ecosystem

Apply Before April 19: HCT-Wharton Innovation Tournament 2021

The Higher Colleges of Technology in the UAE and Knowledge@Wharton have teamed up to host the second edition of the “Innovation Tournament 2...

Social Change Environment Wharton

Making Humor Profitable: A Look at Egypt's Sarcasm Society

Egyptians are known for their sense of humor, often using sarcasm and irony to describe and get through tough situations. But what if...

Crowdsourcing Egypt Animation

Tiger Global Takes Cobone Over from Jabbar

UPDATE: We have confirmed that Cobone has closed down Abu Dhabi and its product line and thus laid off several employees in Dubai in what...

Tiger Global Jabbar Daily Deals

The Benefits of Doing Business in Casablanca

In Morocco, a huge percentage of the country’s production comes out of the area known as “Greater Casablanca,” which includes the city itsel...

Egypt

How to Invest in Egypt: Tamkeen Takes a Holistic View

There are quite a few people in the Egyptian investment community who talk without delivering results; not so...

Financial management Business Development Expansion

New Incubator Supports Social Ventures in Saudi Arabia

Tasamy, established with the support of Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation, was created to help set up volunteering initiatives across Saudi...

Social Entrepreneurship

Wamda Announces Partnership with Google for Mix n’ Mentor 2013

Google for Entrepreneurs and Wamda are excited to announced our partnership to foster entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa...

Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility Mix n Mentor Ecosystem

First Startup Weekend Byblos Welcomes Pitches from Lebanon, Jordan, and Cyprus

On March 1-3, Startup Weekend came to Byblos, Lebanon for the first time, bringing together participants from across Lebanon, Jordan, and...

Startup Weekend

Jordan

Quirkat launches first PS3 game from the Arab World

Jordanian game development studio Quirkat recently launched Pro Foosball for the PlayStation 3. With this title, Quirkat is looking to...

Jordan Quirkat

World Bank Pledges $70 million to Boost Jordan's Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurship in Jordan is now getting international support. Yesterday, The World Bank launched a new project to foster job creation...

Business Development

How Entrepreneurs Are Innovating Their Way Out of Traffic

Sometimes the most innovative ideas come from entrepreneurs who are just fed up. Their ability to make people’s lives just a l...

Crowdsourcing Egypt Transportation

Bader Entrepreneurship Program Launches in Egypt, Announces Business Plan Competition

Since the 2011 revolution, Egypt has been witnessing a boom in new projects fueled by the enthusiasm of young people, a renewed sense of...

egyt Competitions Social Entrepreneurship

5 Drawings from Dubai's Creative Community on DrawDeck

When David Hammond launched DrawDeck, he was inspired by a family member who began drawing in a therapeutic manner. “We thought we’d build a...

Art Digital Media E-commerce

Jordanian Developer Harlem Shakes Your Website

If you haven’t seen the Harlem Shake meme, you’ve been working too hard on your startup. It’s not just that Lebanese incubator Seeqnce made...

Art Developers

9 Platforms that Enable Your Search in the Arab Region

Arabic content is often not well indexed on the web, and suffers from poor rankings on Google and other standard search engines orginally...

SEO Top Lists

Social Enterprise Week Draws a Crowd, Sets Goals for the Middle East

At the Capital Club in Dubai Monday night, a group of inspiring entrepreneurs launched the first Social Enterprise Week in the Middle East,...

CSR Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

Fly-Foot Helps Arab Football Fans Attend Matches Without Lifting a Finger

Football fans around the Arab region can now pick a game to attend, pack their bags, and hop on a plane without a second thought, thanks to...

E-commerce

Cairo Transport App Challenge Winners Announced

Last Saturday, the Cairo Transport App Challenge (Cairo TApp) concluded with an awards ceremony announcing the top 3 tech solutions to...

Mobile Mobile Apps Social Change

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