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Reflections on Bahrain’s Shifting Entrepreneurship Landscape

After an energetic Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), which included a week-long agenda of entrepreneurship activities organized by the...

Advice E-commerce Ecosystem

Bahrain’s Majaal Makes Warehousing Startup Friendly

Speculating about the rise of tech companies is fun, but with e-commerce on the region on the rise, the seemingly mundane expansion of a...

E-commerce Expansion Innovation

Egypt's Bkam Boosts E-Commerce with Comparison Shopping Site and Mobile App

UPDATE: Bkam won 3rd place in the Vodafone Appstar competition today. With the explosion of e-commerce websites in the past year, it...

E-commerce

Dubai's SwipeZoom Offers Global E-Commerce Payment and Shipment Solution

Amer Qavi was a biomedical engineer designing artificial internal organs before he set up his own medical distribution business. After...

E-commerce Payment Gateways

How a 25-year-old Saudi Entrepreneur is Rethinking the Hijab

Fashion entrepreneurship is one of the fastest growing segments in the world of startups. The clothing industry is estimated to equal more...

E-commerce Fashion

SocialWire Launches Optimized Ads for Facebook, Announces $2m in Investment

Online advertising has yet to be proven very effective. Yet SocialWire, a company started in Istanbul by a Turkish entrepreneur, is out to...

Digital Advertising Advertising Social Networks

PayPal Launches Middle East Operations with Aramex Partnership

PayPal, which is already an active payment platform in the region, has announced the official launch of its operations in the Middle East...

Payment Gateways E-commerce Delivery

Empowering Artists after the Tunisian Revolution: eArtvolution

The connection between art and business has always been a complicated one, and the debate on whether so-called “pure” art can be mar...

Art E-commerce

Emirates Avenue: Turning a Steady Profit Without Ambition to Scale

Unlike many of the interviews I've done lately with entrepreneurs who are very aware of their own spin, chatting with Julien...

E-commerce

Weekly Wrap-Up: November 11-15

If you were part of Mix N' Mentor Amman or Beirut last week, you know that the events hosted a number of enriching conversations between...

Advice Animation CoE Cards

Wamda Face Off: MarkaVIP vs. Souq on Challenges in E-Commerce in the Arab World [Wamda TV]

We hosted the first installment of our new Face Off video series last Thursday, hosting Ahmed Khatib, Founder and CEO of MarkaVIP, the...

Demystifying E-Commerce E-commerce Face Off

Ex-Sukar CEO to Launch Fab.com Clone for the Middle East

UPDATE: Desado went live today, Monday, December 10th. Their press release states that Desado is now the "largest platform...

Design E-commerce

Wamda TV Face-Off, Souq. com and MarkaVIP [Wamda TV]

Watch an unedited version of our first "Face Off!" that just aired on Wamda TV! We are hosting two of the biggest names in MENA e-commerce...

E-commerce Ecosystem Face Off

Wamda Chats with Gilt's Founder on the Future of Flash Sales [Wamda TV]

Alexis Maybank, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of the Gilt Groupe, discusses expansion into emerging markets such as the Arab World...

Advice Conferences E-commerce

Watch Souq and MarkaVIP Face Off on Wamda This Thursday! Live Google Hangout

Wamda TV is launching a new video series called "Face Off!", hosting two of the biggest names in e-commerce, Souq.com and MarkaVIP, for our...

E-commerce Face Off

Bringing a Turkish High Heel Brand to the Arab World [Wamda TV]

Harun Güner and Berk Alevi of Butigo, a Turkish women’s high heel company, discuss the creation of their own unique brand of high heel sh...

Conferences E-commerce Fashion

VIP-Only.ma Aims to Own Flash Sales in North Africa

If you thought MarkaVIP and Sukar were the only major flash sales site in the region, think again- others are cropping up to carve out...

E-commerce Ecosystem Expansion

Exclusive Interview: Souq Confirms New Investment from Naspers and Tiger Global

After rumors continued to circulate over the past couple of weeks, Souq.com has today confirmed that it is announcing a new round of...

E-commerce Investment

Can a Young E-Commerce Logistics Startup Take On Aramex in the UAE?

"Typical courier companies are not built to handle the logistics of e-commerce", says entrepreneur Robin Antony, founder of Powergistix, a...

Delivery E-commerce

Adnan Haque and Mahmoud Fouz of Rocket Internet, Mizado at CoE E-Commerce

At our June CoE E-Commerce Event, Adnan Haque, Managing Director of Mizado and Mahmoud Fouz, Managing Director of Marketing at Mizado, a...

COE CoE E-Commerce E-commerce

10 Startups in the Arab World that Parents Will Love

This week we highlight 10 startups that parents (and their children) will love. From education to clothing, social communities to gadgets,...

E-commerce Ecosystem Education

Spotify’s Axel Bringeus at Webrazzi 2012

At the Webrazzi conference earlier this month Axel Bringéus, Director of International Growth at Spotify, discussed Spotify’s goal to in...

Conferences Digital Media E-commerce

Michael Trueschler of Citruss TV at CoE E-Commerce [Wamda TV]

At our June CoE E-Commerce Event, Michael Trueschler, owner of Citruss TV, briefly discusses the lessons he learned at the event and gives...

Arabic Content COE CoE E-Commerce

Souq Fashion Launches to Boost High-End Online Retail in the Arab World

Middle East fashionistas rejoice! The launch of Souq Fashion in Dubai last week not only means more trendy brands hanging in our...

E-commerce Fashion

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