Wamda

FbStart Dubai emphasizes mobile apps, gaming, and partnerships

Finally, Facebook has turned its entrepreneurship eye to the Arab region, hosting FbStart in Dubai on March 27 in an attempt to help...

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'Internet Revolution' gains steam in Egypt; can it meaningfully challenge Big Internet?

In an attempt to defend citizens’ right to a decent internet connection at a reasonable price, a public campaign called Report an D...

Egypt

Can Emirati wedding directory site Yebab successfully pivot to photo sharing?

Since its launch in 2008, Yebab.com, an Emirati platform offering wedding services for Arab women, has been slowly but...

photo sharing photo album uae

What's new at Yahoo Maktoob

Following the closure of its offices in Egypt earlier this year, Yahoo Maktoob has rolled out some recent...

Yahoo Maktoub

Souq raises an additional $75m from Naspers

Now in its ninth year, Souq.com is getting some real wind in its sails. Now undeniably the largest e-commerce platform in the Middle...

Meet the first six startups to graduate from AUC Venture Labs

In the wake of three years of revolutions and political turmoil, many policymakers- both local and global- have touted...

Incubator

How Buzzeff monetized the growth of social video advertising

Almost two years after raising a $1.2 million USD round of investment, and one year after launching its Dubai offices, Moroccan...

buzzeff morocco Video Advertising

Wamda pledges to support women in partnership with Google #40Forward

In 2013, Wamda reached out to fill a critical gap in the entrepreneurship ecosystem: one for hands-on mentorship that startup founders...

#40women

Lebanon

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...

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StartupYourLife meetup reflects growing vitality of the Moroccan startup scene

On the 7th of March, more than 150 entrepreneurs, investors, developers, designers, and members of the Moroccan startup community attended...

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Arab League moves to support Arab entrepreneurs with forum in Cairo

In an unprecedented move to support entrepreneurs, the Arab League has hosted the first forum for Arab Entrepreneurs and Innovative Ideas,...

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U.A.E

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...

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Payfort announces zero security deposit program for e-commerce startups

As more digital startups are seeking to monetize, online payment service provider for the Arab world Payfort has implemented a...

Tunisia's first Entrepreneurship Fair: 3 challenges for 2014

The many challenges facing entrepreneurs in Tunisia did not prevent Tunisians from turning out in droves to the very...

Rails Girls, a Finnish programming workshop for women, brings seminars to Cairo

To mark the opening of a local branch of Girls in Tech, Egyptian incubator The Planet hosted Rails Girls Cairo, the...

tech Coding Workshops

Entrepreneurs work towards healthier communities at SOCENT Dubai 2014

Last week Dubai’s social entrepreneurship week SOCENT 2014 held discussion panels and workshops focused on all i...

socent

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 ...

Telr Payment Gateways

Equal opportunity a priority for CEO Middle East's 100 Most Powerful Arab Women

It doesn’t come as a surprise that for the fourth year in a row UAE’s first ever female minister, HE Sheikha Lubna Al Qassimi, tops the CE...

Technology

Building on its success in Egypt, eSpace launches elections portal in Turkey

eSpace, the Alexandria-based software developer juggernaut that partnered with the Egyptian government to create elections.eg to...

espace turkey Elections

Meet PinchPoint, the 7 month-old Palestinian gaming startup that just got funding from Sadara Ventures

“I remember when Apple released its first SDK [software development kit]. I made my first game there,” recalls Khaled Abu Alkheir, CE...

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Ubisoft Abu Dhabi launches Arabic version of hit game The Settlers

Ubisoft Abu Dhabi has released an Arabic beta version of its mega-popular game The Settlers, accessible to all players and free to play,...

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Students develop first Egyptian Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle (ROV) for undersea exploration

Given the rising global demand for equipment to explore and exploit oil resources at sea, there’s been a global boom in the m...

Hardware

The startups that won the Maroc Web Awards

For the past seven years, Moroccans have elected their favorite web players during the Maroc Web Awards. The award ceremony is a...

morocco Awards

Two of Saudi Arabia's leading job recruitment portals partner to boost employment in the Kingdom

Today, two recruitment platforms have joined forces to increase employment levels for local women in Saudi Arabia. Glowork, the Saudi...

Women

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