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Saudi Arabia

Saudi's MyCN makes shopping in China simple

"From China to your doorstep... In just a couple clicks". The MyCN homepage. If you found something you wanted on Amazon for $5, but its...

WorldShip MyCN china

Regional

Capitalizing on ecommerce: lessons from RiseUp

Ecommerce in MENA is a hot industry as it becomes ever easier to launch an online shop, and with speculation growing that it could be the...

Innovety rise up summit zoomal

Egypt

This Egyptian fashion startup has its eyes on Europe

Online luxury sales are projected to grow by an unprecedented 20 to 25 percent over the next five years, according to a Boston Consulting...

maria munoz slickr Clothing

U.A.E

Social selling: The future of ecommerce in the Middle East?

Within the space of a few years, social media has become an integral part of everyday life. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other...

Shedd EZHeights Social selling

Regional

Cash is not king [Opinion]

The reliance on COD payments is hurting MENA's ecommerce sector. (Image via sharktankblog.com) This is a crosspost with Mo Ali Yusuf’s L...

cash epayment PAYMENT

Regional

London calling

A Lebanese, a Briton, a Dutchman and an Italian walk into a London investment firm. They bond over hip hop. One year later they launch a...

Braci Hoxton Ventures Slidr

Regional

The problem with e-payments

What traditional payment solutions look like. Google ‘payment solutions Middle East’ and you’ll see tens of solutions, which can lead...

e-payments fin-tech Payfort

Regional

Prepaid cards still filling MENA's epayment gaps

Prepaid cards are a strong contender for filling the gap between the unbanked and ecommerce in MENA, says PayPal’s Francis...

prepaid cards epayment PayPal

Saudi Arabia

How this Saudi app developer is nurturing talent

[Update]: Ibtikar released a new trivia game called HEXA, with tens of thousands of questions in more than 15 different fields...

Egypt

Dopay does banking for unbanked Egyptians

Dopay, one of the early startups to get involved in Egypt's financial technology sector, is hoping to build a web of clients among the...

unbanked Dopay financial services

Regional

An ecommerce startup reducing returns in the region

If there’s one industry worth taking a chance on in the region, it’s ecommerce. Arguably still in its infancy in MENA, the...

Return on delivery Virtusize Miella

Global

Google, Apple and Samsung, pitching the mobile wallet

Bye to coins and receipts, hello to the phone? (Image via issaasad.me) What will the wallet of the future look like? This question...

samsung android Payfort

Maghreb

Who will be king of Morocco's real estate portals?

Samsar ads plastered around the city could be a thing of the past. (Image via Aline Mayard) If you want to understand Morocco’s d...

lamudi selektimmo mubaweb

Maghreb

Moroccan automobile classifieds platform Moteur.ma announces Malaysian investment

Moteur.ma lets Moroccans buy cars online. Car classifieds website Moteur.ma announced late last week that they raised an investment via...

Moteur.ma car classifieds

U.A.E

The Dubai startups at your service

For the money-rich and time-poor white collar workers of Dubai, chores are largely a thing of the past. For several years at least,...

maids.ae helpling service economy

Palestine

Goodbye San Francisco loyalty card, hello Ramallah startup

When Mohammed Amleh left a well paid job in the loyalty card business, in San Francisco, to return to Palestine to launch a startup, people...

SWIPT ramallah palestine

Global

Never miss a price drop again, ever

So you bought some hotpants online for $400. Yes, you knew it was a steep price but you also knew that if you bought them your life was...

Lebanese Diaspora YCombinator Paribus

Egypt

Egypt's ecommerce entrepreneurs break new ground

Egypt has an alarmingly high population density which is a major cause of social and economic problems. But if you look at an ecommerce map...

DealGamed Saboba edfa3ly

Egypt

Lost in the City? LocName wants to find you

Egyptian start-up 'LocName' did not emerge from Cairo’s bustling streets, but in the Spanish city of Barcelona. Two years ago, young E...

Locname Souq.com Jumia

U.A.E

Art for everyman, a startup’s democratization of the art world

Any kind of art you like. (Image via Pavilion 33) No longer the playground of the elite, art galleries and auction houses are becoming...

Pavilion33 Flat6Labs

Regional

Searching for success in MENA's postal address sector

"Yes, I will sign for that package." (Images via Aramex) “So you take the main street, you turn at the pharmacy after the streetlight, t...

addy enwani Boxstop

Regional

Elusive success: a closer look at MENA's potentially lucrative travel sector

The potential of MENA’s travel and tourism sector is staggering. Some 352 million air travelers in the Arab world generated more than $480 ...

hotelscombined.com hotelscombined travelervip

Global

Facebook adds free peer-to-peer payments in Messenger

This article is a crosspost with the Payfort blog. If you’re like most people, you know settling debts or splitting bills between f...

Maghreb

Inside Jumia Maroc, a well-oiled machine

It may be an ordinary building in the residential neighborhood of Socrate in Casablanca, but the discrete design doesn’t lie, we’re sta...

Jumia morocco Rocket Internet

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