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Presella first to benefit from BDL's circular gets 300k investment

Inaugurating the Circular 331 initiative, passed by Lebanon’s Central Bank last August as an attempt to make it less risky for banks to i...

Central Bank Lebanon Presella Investment

Zain Jordan embarks on CER with a series of activities

Telecom company, Zain Jordan, has taken a big step into actioning its Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility program and helping e...

Zain Jordan Zain CER

[SlideShare] The future of the internet is in developing economies

The internet may have been born decades ago in the West, but its future might well play out primarily in developing countries. This is, at...

Slideshare Delivery Mobile

Arabic MOOC platform Edraak launches to bring quality education to the region

Massive Open Online Courses – MOOCs as they are more commonly known – are online courses that are offered to large amounts of par...

edraak EdTech Education

Strengthened with a 16M investment, Intilaq stands to transform the Tunisian startup ecosystem

The up-to-now very discreet Startup Factory, a Tunisian accelerator launched a few years ago by telecommunications operator Ooredoo...

Jordanian online music shop Feesheh expands into the UAE

Between positive revenue growth in Jordan, a new partnership with Liwwa, and a victory at Seedstars World Amman, Nur Alfayez and...

Arabnet attendees grapple with changes in the ecosystem, and look to the future

Over three days, from June 3 to 5, more than 110 speakers and 90 partners and sponsors met at the Atlantis Hotel in Dubai for the Arabnet...

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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...

E-commerce

Flat6Labs graduates 10 startups in Cairo; announces new Abu Dhabi accelerator

Last week, Flat6Labs, the largest accelerator in Egypt, announced the graduation of ten startups and their launch into entrepreneurship...

Demo Day TwoFour54 Flat6Labs

Qleek, the wooden hardware that reconciles vinyl and digital music, launches IndieGogo campaign

As I write this, I’m listening to a playlist on Spotify, sitting across from my empty bookshelf, its sparse shelves occupied by a few CDs I...

digital content algeria Music

Lebanese entrepreneurs optimistic after ministry decision to slash telecoms prices

Last week, the Lebanese Ministry of Telecommunication announced a series of measures to lower internet and telephone prices....

internet

Queen Rania of Jordan, in partnership with edX, launches Arabic MOOC platform Edraak

With the launch yesterday of Edraak, a new Arabic MOOC platform, education professionals have made a new stride towards the development of ...

Will the next real challenger to Eventbrite come from Morocco?

While the MENA region lacks many of the web services that the rest of the world has become dependent on, many entrepreneurs in the Arab...

events

Continuing its focus on emerging markets, Seedstars World hosts Dubai round

In 2005, Mohamed Elwazer witnessed a disturbing scene while waiting for a train at a metro station in Egypt. A security officer was...

competition Health

Rebuilding Egypt: how do startups help the economy?

When it comes to start-ups, entrepreneurs face unique challenges in an already difficult economic environment: striking out on their own...

economy Egypt

The Arab Economic Forum in its 22nd round

The 22nd round of the Arab Economic Forum will take place on the 19th and 20th of June 2014, at the Phoenicia Hotel in Beirut. The Arab...

Arab Economic Forum

Egyptian InstaPush adopted by international app integration platform

Zapier, a popular online platform that simplifies the process of connecting web apps and APIs, based on triggers and actions, has just a...

instapush pushbots Technology

Weather-based clothing suggestion app wins Altcity’s 12 hour hackathon

Last Sunday, May 3rd, the Beiruti co-working space Altcity.me organized a DevAppLB Ultralight 12-Hour Hackathon, at the Beirut...

Beirut Digital District Altcity mobile games

Lebanon’s Roadie Tuner is audience favorite at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York

After attending a spur of the moment event earlier this year, the young entrepreneurs behind Roadie Tuner had no idea that they would hit...

Roadie Tuner TechCrunch Disrupt techcrunch

Arab Affiliate Summit in Egypt

Experts & Specialists in online marketing from the Arab world are preparing for the first event in Affiliate Marketing in the Middle...

Reading the future of MENA e-commerce at Dubai's Webit Digital Commerce Summit

On April 30, Webit Digital hosted a commerce summit that gathered prominent speakers and attendees in the field of e-commerce. The...

Conferences E-commerce

Startup MENA seeks to bridge the gaps between Egyptian startups and European VCs

Startup MENA, the initiative funded in part by the Danish government, will hold a pitch event for Egyptian startups on May 14th, as part...

events

How Nabbesh surmounted 3 major regional obstacles to growth

As startups in the Middle East we face barriers every day, whether it’s writing our first business plan, gaining access to capital, f...

WRL Wamda Research Lab nabbesh

Young change agents from the Arab world convene at Stanford

For three years now, Stanford University students, gathered in a student initiative called AMENDS, have invited promising actors of change...

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