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The State of the Internet in 2012 [Presentation]

Henry Blodget and Alex Cocotas from Business Insider’s BI Intelligence team have assembled a detailed overview of the U.S. and global digita...

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Developing Mobile And Web Games: Abdullah Hamed of GameTako [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] Abdullah Hamed, founder and CEO of GameTako, discusses the big move into mobile games, and advises games developers not to start...

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The World of E-Commerce, Beyond Physical Goods, Part 5 [Wamda TV]

In the last segment of our CoE E-Commerce panel on The World of E-Commerce, Beyond Physical Goods, the panel fields audience questions. A...

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GamesBond Aims to Develop Educational Games on MS-Kinect [WamdaTV]

GamesBond’s co-founders Alaa Eltayeb & Ahmed Tayseer present their MS-Kinect based educational games. They explain that they will first ...

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The World of E-Commerce, Beyond Physical Goods, Part 4 [Wamda TV]

In Part 4 of our CoE E-Commerce panel on The World of E-Commerce, Beyond Physical Goods, moderator Abed Agha, Founder and CEO of Vinelab, in...

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The World of E-Commerce, Beyond Physical Goods, Part 1 [Wamda TV]

At our June event, CoE E-Commerce, Abed Agha, Founder and CEO of Vinelab, moderated a panel on The World of E-Commerce, Beyond Physical ...

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Weekly Wrap-Up: September 30 - October 04

This week, we've highlighted a number of startups that keep on setting the bar higher for themselves. What drives you to go further? Pic of ...

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10 Arab Gaming Startups to Watch

This week we highlight some of MENA’s most creative gaming startups. These innovative ventures transport players into new worlds to o...

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UAE’s Tahadi Launches MMO Age of Titans

At first glance, the login screen feels like a familiar U.S.-developed game with stunning visuals, bold graphics, and a dark ethereal...

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Egyptian Social Gaming Startup FunWave Delivers Football Fun

Egypt is full of football fanatics, and the region is as well. So it made perfect sense that Egyptian social games start-up FunWave’s ...

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Dubai-Based Gaming Studio Piranha Byte Launches Its Brainchild: Peek!

Piranha Byte, a game development studio based in Dubai, just released its first title Peek!, inspired by the most successful photo sharing...

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Weekly Wrap-Up: September 16-20

If you were to learn one thing from our posts this week, it's that making that one decision to roll up your sleeves goes a long way....

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Wizards Productions Continues to Go Global, Announcing Partnership with Tapjoy, Acceleration with YetiZen

After announcing a pivot into mobile gaming and a deal with leading international publisher 6waves, Wizards Productions is continuing to...

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Entrepreneur of the Week: Sohaib Thiab of Wizards Productions [Wamda TV]

This week's entrepreneur of the week, Sohaib Thiab, founded game development Wizards Productions along with Hussam Hammo and Afif Toukan in ...

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Weekly Wrap-Up: September 02-06

It’s finally Thursday and time for our Weekly Wrap-Up! If you're game for taking your business to the next level, don't miss this week's to...

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Moroccan Game Based on Palestinian Cartoon Wins in Saudi Arabia

Today, GameTako has announced the winning teams from its second Game Zanga competition, which brought over 240 game developers together...

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Entrepreneur of the Week: Nour Khrais of Jordanian Gaming Studio Maysalward [Wamda TV]

This week's Entrepreneur of the Week is Nour Khrais of Jordanian gaming development studio Maysalward, one of the first game development...

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Pivoting into Social Game Development After Birdy Nam Nam: J.C. Hoelt of Gamabox [Wamda TV]

J.C. Hoelt, one of the original co-creators of popular iPhone game Birdy Nam Nam, discusses the new mobile gaming studio, Gamabox, that he ...

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Trends in Gaming in the Middle East Market: Alex Tho Seeth, Formerly of Travian Games [Wamda TV]

Alexander Tho Seeth of monetizer.com, a company that helps digital content companies enter the Middle East market, discusses why German...

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GameTako Launches Online Game to Benefit Syrian Refugees

This Ramadan, Saudi gaming studio GameTako is launching a new game to assist donation to Syrian refugees. The goal of Kubba, an online...

Gaming

Developers at GameTako's Game Zanga Build 43 Arabic Games in 72 Hours

The second Game Zanga, game development studio GameTako's yearly competition, was organized last weekend...

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How Internet Users Will Spend Their Time in 2012 [Infographic]

Every moment of our lives nowadays is related to an internet act, a fact clearly demonstrated by this infographic, which examines five...

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Does Peace in the Middle East Need Bombs? A Look at Game Cooks' New iPhone Game

Brothers Lebnan and Arz Nader, half of the team behind this year's biggest gaming success Birdy Nam Nam, are releasing a new iPhone game...

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GameTako Launches Its Second Region-Wide Arabic Game Jam

GameTako announced, few days later, that it will be holding its second region-wide “Game Zanga” game development weekend and competition on ...

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