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Oasis500 Launches New Investment Track for Growing Companies

Oasis500, the region’s biggest startup accelerator, is now targeting growth stage companies with a new investment vehicle. Oasis500 is k...

Accelerators Investment

SeedStartup Takes Applications for its Third Round: Deadline Feb 15th

Tech startups around the globe have two more weeks to apply to the next round at Dubai-based accelerator SeedStartup. The tech-focused...

Accelerators

Exclusive Sneak Peek at the Middle East’s Newest Crowdfunding Platform: Zoomaal

For entrepreneurs in the Middle East seeking investment, a new platform is launching in February to offer crowdfunding for creative...

Crowdfunding Investment

10 Tips for Moroccan Entrepreneurs from a Maroc Web Awards Co-Founder

In Morocco, the Maroc Web Awards (MWA) have become the event to look to in the web and mobile space- our LeWeb, if you will, bringing...

Advice Conferences Ecosystem

Tutorial Platform Facebook Studio Edge Launches in Dubai

After unveiling the platform last spring, Facebook today announced the Dubai launch of Facebook Studio Edge, a tutorial platform designed...

Facebook Marketing Social Media

Sallaty Brings Online Grocery Shopping to Jordan

When Samia Jarrar first met her husband, she had no idea that she would end up starting a company with him. But in 2011, six years after...

Delivery E-commerce Food & Beverage

Twitter Finally Expands Ad Products To The Arab World. Is It Preparing for an IPO?

Startups in the Middle East now have a new ad channel on the world’s favorite micro-blogging platform. In an event in Dubai yesterday, T...

Digital Advertising Digital Marketing Expansion

Business Leaders Place Confidence in the Middle East Tech Sector [Report]

Business leaders in the Middle East and North Africa showed the largest increase in confidence in the technology sector in 2012,...

Ecosystem Infographic

Yala Music Announces Ad-Based Downloads: Pushing Back Against Anghami

Mobile application Anghami has received a lot of buzz since it launched its music streaming service this November, leaping to the top...

Advertising Mobile Mobile Apps

Entrepreneurs of the Week: Marc Dfouni and Nemr Badin from Eastline Marketing [Wamda TV]

More than 15 years after starting up Eastline Marketing, a digital media agency based in Beirut, today's Entrepreneurs of the Week,...

Advertising Digital Advertising Digital Marketing

Why Emerging Market Entrepreneurs Should Look to Silicon Wadis, Savannahs, and Tigers

In the innovation hubs and entrepreneurship circles of emerging economies, the term “Silicon Valley” is an extraordinarily potent one, evo...

Ecosystem Innovation

Entrepreneurs Flock to Tamkeen Expo in Bahrain

Over 2000 exhibitors and delegates flocked to the inaugural Tamkeen (Labour Fund) Expo in Bahrain earlier this month. Held under...

Conferences Ecosystem

Meet Bahrain's Newest Startups Graduating from Tenmou

Bahrain’s accelerator Tenmou has announced its second round of graduates, three diverse startups aiming to sell to Bahraini markets and q...

Accelerators Gaming

Meet the Winners of the Maghreb Startup Initiative Competition

After nine months of pitching sessions and bootcamps during the Maghreb Startup Initiative competition, 13 startups have survived to win...

Competitions Innovation

What Facebook's Graph Search Means for the Middle East

When quizzed about Facebook privacy issues in 2010 at D8, Mark Zuckerberg took a halting, nervous stab at convincing us to accept his...

Facebook Social Networks Technology

Why Jordanian Startup TakTek Closed and What it Means for the Gaming Sector

“I’ve let everyone go,” Gaith Kawar confessed to me over coffee at Starbucks in Abdoun last month, giving a look of resignation through his ...

Advice Failure Gaming

7 Lessons for Hosting an Offline Event, from Supermama in Egypt

A year after it launched, Supermama decided to venture into offline events in Egypt- a new move for the first Arabic online...

Advice Arabic Content Digital Media

Maysalward Localizes New Mobile Game ShaqDown for the Arab World

A new battle is being fought in the Middle East, thanks to Jordanian gaming company Maysalward. Basketball legend Shaquille...

Mobile Mobile Gaming Gaming

Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility, by Fadi Ghandour

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Thought Leadership