How to gain customer trust: 6 lessons from top Moroccan and Tunisian daily deals sites

In Morocco and Tunisia, daily deals websites have changed the way people use the internet. There was a before, when online purchases were...

Aline Mayard • 22 July, 2014

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How this startup is taking on the region's $15 billion cosmetics market

While Faisal Hakki was working at the Jordanian VC firm Accelerator Technology Holdings, where he screened, evaluated, and helped...

Hayden Pirkle • 20 July, 2014

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Whatever happened to Morocco’s ecommerce pioneer MyDeal.ma?

For a few months now, one question has been on many Moroccans’ lips: is daily deals website MyDeal.ma really “on hold, to rise from its ash...

Aline Mayard • 16 July, 2014

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Namshi's momentum acknowledged with MSN strategic partnership

Major entities striking deals to support economic growth has become a trend in the region. Luxury fashion retail site Namshi, a Rocket...

Eman Mostafa • 21 July, 2014

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Credit cards, internet access, and online bill pay: Moroccan e-commerce is booming

Without a doubt, e-commerce in Morocco is experiencing a peak of interest. Over the last seven years, we’ve seen, at my startup...

Mehdi Reghai • 10 July, 2014

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Payfort report delves into regional payment issues, and looks to the future

During yesterday’s ArabNet Digital Summit, regional e-payment gateway Payfort issued its 2014 State of Payments Report. The report c...

Eman Mostafa • 05 June, 2014

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How niche e-commerce site HobbyGulf doubled its orders in four months

The Gulf aviation industry has been the envy of the world over the last decade with lower costs and an ideal, centralized location that...

Alexander Hawkes • 07 May, 2014

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Ecommerce Show Middle East

The Ecommerce Show Middle East 2014, which advertises itself as the Middle East's number one event dedicated to internet retailing, is a...

Wamda • 14 January, 2014

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Ifrosh tests cardless ecommerce platform in Iraqi Kurdistan

In recent years, the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan has generated headlines for its relative stability and booming...

Eric Reidy • 28 April, 2014

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Halal P2P lending site Liwwa partners with e-commerce site Feesheh

Liwwa, the halal crowdinvestment site launched last November in Jordan, is adding a new facet to its business model: a partnership with...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 21 April, 2014

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A radical solution to the region's payment challenges, from serial ecommerce entrepreneur

At this point, it wouldn’t come as a surprise to learn that Moustafa Mahmoud eats, drinks, and sleeps e-commerce, in addition to having l...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 17 April, 2014

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Iraqi startup Miswag.net helps merchants transition to the internet

Miswag.net, Baghdad’s first internet-based startup with real potential to grow, launched less than a month ago to help local merchants in B...

Ali M. Ismail • 14 April, 2014

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How to raise $18M in the Middle East? 5 tips from MarkaVIP founder Ahmed Alkhatib

How do you raise $18 million USD in the Middle East? It’s not easy. Last week I sat down with Ahmed Alkhatib, the man behind the...

Robert Carroll • 06 April, 2014

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Yamsafer tackles region's payment challenge with cardless bookings

Faris Zaher, CEO and co-founder of hotel bookings site Yamsafer, thinks his team may have come up with a solution to the region’s payment r...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 07 April, 2014

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Palestinian entrepreneur launches e-store and educational blog on sexual health for married couples

“It started one day when I was walking in Ramallah,” Ashraf Alkiswani says. “I was stuck behind these two guys in their late thirties, and ...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 03 April, 2014

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E-commerce Entrepreneurship Program in Egypt

In partnership with Souq.com, Education for Employment Egypt (EEE) launches the E-commerce Entrepreneurship Program to create a group of...

Wamda • 02 April, 2014

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Can lean e-commerce site ShuGeek bootstrap indefinitely?

One month was all it took to launch ShuGeek, the website for so-called geeky products in the UAE. The team, adopting a lean startup...

Pamela Kesrouani • 10 April, 2014

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ShopBuilder hopes to boost e-commerce in Lebanon

After realizing the huge opportunity for e-commerce in Lebanon, Emile Boustani, a Lebanese entrepreneur who spent 20 years in the...

Reine Farhat • 20 March, 2014

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From outer space to fashion e-commerce: New York's Slow Factory

When Celine Semaan, back in 2012, was struck with inspiration based on NASA's images of outer space available to the public via...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 13 March, 2014

Cary! off to a rollicking start on Eureeca; signals an increasingly complex UAE used car market

UPDATE: As of April 17, 2014, Cary! has met its Eureeca goal, having raised $103,400 on the crowdinvestment platform. Eureeca investors...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 11 March, 2014

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Challenges and opportunities abound in the Arabic digital content sector

Ninety percent of people in the Arab World want to read their internet in Arabic, say recent statistics from the Economic and Social...

Hanan Solayman • 02 April, 2014

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Ex-PayPal MD launches Singapore-based payment gateway for the Middle East, Africa, Asia

Can a new payment gateway finally make it easy to transact online?  Elias Ghanem, previously of PayPal, announced today the launch ...

Nina Curley • 06 March, 2014

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4 proposals to develop online payments in Morocco [Wamda Debates]

Entrepreneurs in the coworking space New Work Lab How can you launch e-commerce in a country where internet penetration and credit card...

Aline Mayard • 03 March, 2014

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New mobile app greens coupon-clipping in Kuwait

Kilshay is a 6 month-old mobile app, available for both iOS and Android devices, that provides an environmentally friendly alternative to ...

Ahmed Gabr • 26 February, 2014

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