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Can Startappz Disrupt the Mobile Space in the Arab World?

The idea of being more committed to learning than to a given product seems appropriate for the wave of young entrepreneurs entering the...

Arabic Content Investment Mobile

What's New at Google in the Arab World? [Wamda TV]

Ever since Google launched Maps with Navigation in beta in the Middle East (in Egypt, the UAE, Saudi, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Lebanon, ...

Google Technology

Inventing The Best Encrypted Chat Client: 21 Year-Old Nadim Kobeissi Shares Story of Cryptocat [Wamda TV]

Lebanese entrepreneur, Nadim Kobeissi, developer and founder of Cryptocat speaks to Wamda at SHARE Beirut, introducing his instant...

Conferences Developers Invention

25 Essential Stats on E-Commerce in the Middle East [Stats]

E-Commerce is Growing 1) There are 72.5 million internet users in MENA. [tweet this stat] 2) 66% of consumers in MENA use...

Top Lists Technology Ecosystem

Michelle Thorne of Mozilla Announces New Mobile Operating System [WamdaTV]

At SHARE Beirut during the first weekend of October, Michelle Thorne of Mozilla speaks about their non-profit organization which puts users ...

Conferences Mobile Software

How to Build a Global Brand: Plamen Russev of Webit Congress [Wamda TV]

Webit Congress kicks off today, bringing over 187 speakers from 72 countries to Istanbul for a conference focusing on the digital, ...

Conferences Digital Media Mobile Apps

Integreight: The First Software Controlled Electronic Breadboard [Wamda TV]

Integreight designs smart electronic solutions, starting with a Smart Breadboard device that shortens the time taken and the effort exerted ...

Competitions Technology

Microsoft Finally Targets Egyptian Developers with BizSpark, Mobile App Competition

“Developers developers developers developers,” a sweaty Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, famously chanted during a Microsoft conference a few y...

Accelerators Cloud Computing Ecosystem

8 Infographics Illustrating Facebook Benchmarks In The Arab World

TOP, a startup out of Endeavor Jordan, and in collaboration with Social Watchlist, identifies and analyzes eight core industries to e...

Technology Social Media Facebook

ArabNet Riyadh Conference

Arabnet announced the dates of its first conference in the gulf region, which will be held in Riyadh, on November 20-21, 2012; at the four...

Competitions Technology Workshops

Monthly Tech Series Launches in Palestine, Unites Community [Wamda TV]

Momentum is building in the Palestinian tech scence. Hi Tech Hub Palestine launched last Wednesday to bring 500 members of Palestine’s tech ...

Competitions Conferences Diaspora

Top 20 Most-Watched TED Talks Of All Time

Today we highlight the most popular TED Talks to date, announced by TED in late August. Whether you think watching TED Talks during the...

Advice Conferences Ecosystem

Egypt's Tech Community to Conquer Cairo's Traffic

We have all heard about, and many of us have experienced, Cairo’s infamous and grueling traffic congestion. This year, the World Bank is p...

Mobile Apps Technology Taxi + Traffic

Top 15 MENA Tech Startups That Are Going Global

Today we highlight some of the region’s most innovative tech startups as they expand their businesses from MENA into global markets. Each o...

Technology Top Lists

Ramallah TT - a Hi Tech Hub event

Wednesday, September 12 will witness the kickoff of the Ramallah TT - Hi Tech Hub events, a series of events that will gather anyone...

Competitions Google Ideas

Dubai E-Commerce Site JadoPado Seizes Growing Opportunity

When we first started off, I kept asking "why hasn't anyone done an Amazon-style site in the region?" says Omar Kassim, founder of...

E-commerce Technology

LinkedIn to Enter Middle East Market in September

On the heels of news that LivingSocial is leaving the region, an email circulating the region reveals that LinkedIn is priming to open an...

Social Networks Technology Trends

Founder of JadoPado Comments on Closure of Rocket Internet's Mizado [Wamda TV]

Omar Kassim, Founder of Dubai-based online electronics store JadoPado, comments on why Mizado, a rival in the electronics e-commerce space...

E-commerce Exits and Sales Technology

RoundMenu Announces $730K Round of Funding to Expand into New Markets

After launching just over a month ago, RoundMenu has closed its first round of investment, for US $730,000, led by HoneyBee Tech Ventures,...

Food & Beverage Mobile Apps Technology

Drawing from Tunisia's Rich History, a Wind Energy Innovation Sets Sail

At the TEDGlobal 2012 conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, Tunisian entrepreneur Hassine Labaied presented Saphon Energy, a wind energy...

Technology Environment Wharton

Growing Pains for Jordan's Tech Entrepreneurs

Jordan has managed to avoid the violence and political upheaval its neighboring countries have experienced with the Arab Spring...

Technology Wharton

Revolutionizing Egypt's Oldest Bank with Cloud Computing

This week, OMS won an award for their role in a different kind of Egyptian revolution, one that took place in its oldest commercial bank....

Technology Software Cloud Computing

U.A.E

Future Technology Week

Future Technology Week is a series of technology and innovation-centric events taking place simultaneously between March 29 and 31, at the...

future technology week Dubai Technology

A chat with the student building an emergency-response robot in Jordan [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting in Jordan, we caught up with Michael Farhat, a student at Al-Balqa' Applied University i...

Technology

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