Hsoub neutralizes competition, acquires Moroccan digital marketplace Asnad

After hitting the milestone of one billion ads served per month just a couple weeks ago, three year-old web solutions...

Maya Rahal • 23 February, 2014

Customer Service Acquisitions E-commerce

Dubai's Laundrybox, a new cleaning service, eyes global franchising

Bader Al Kalooti quit his job at an international investment bank in Dubai, to launch Laundrybox, automated and smart lockers where...

Pamela Kesrouani • 27 February, 2014

Can Kuwait's Waveline Media disrupt the mobile gaming market by remaking a classic title?

Kuwaiti startup Waveline Media seems to be going from strength to strength lately. First, the media company...

Maya Rahal • 22 February, 2014

Toad Rider Waveline Media Mobile Gaming

What Souq has to say about those rumors, and its new mobile strategy

Just as chatter is sweeping the tech world that Souq.com may be courting Amazon for a potential acquisition, the Dubai-based e-commerce...

Nina Curley • 19 February, 2014

souq

Meet the first class of Saudi startups graduating from Flat6Labs Jeddah

Nine months after its launch, Flat6Labs Jeddah startup accelerator has graduated its first class of startups, which serve markets...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 18 February, 2014

accelerator ksa saudi

Dealmakers' Weekend: a benchmark for Jordanian entrepreneurship

Dealmaking was the name of the game on Saturday and Sunday at the Four Seasons Hotel in Amman as an impressive list of investors...

Hayden Pirkle • 18 February, 2014

Venture Capital Investment Oasis500

Startup Weekend NEXT Baghdad shows what's possible

As a co-organizer of the first and second installments of Baghdad Startup Weekend, I’ve learned first-hand how challenging it can be to c...

Marwan A. Jabbar • 18 February, 2014

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West Bank and Gaza startups pitch together for the very first time in Amman

Until this past Thursday, startups in the West Bank and Gaza had not met under the same roof to pitch to investors. At Oasis500 in...

Hayden Pirkle • 16 February, 2014

gaza sky geeks Oasis500

Algerian entrepreneurs imagine a new future at Fikra Conference

One could be tempted to compare Fikra to an Algerian TEDx, yet the event, which draws it name from the word idea in Arabic, debuted a u...

Aline Mayard • 16 February, 2014

Iranian developers gamify a 1,000 year-old poem

The story of how Amir-Esmaeil Bozorgzadeh first met Hossein Jalali, his partner at their new startup, GameGuise, is “a MAKE Business ...

Nina Curley • 11 February, 2014

Gaming

New data proves Facebook's extensive reach in Morocco

For many in Morocco, it seems that Facebook is the most popular destination on the internet. A healthy 73% of the total population visited...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 11 February, 2014

Data Facebook

Jordan's Bitcoin Meetup Group weighs in on the cryptocurrency's recent crash

  In the world of the internet, a bug is not something to take lightly. So Monday, when MTGox, the first Bitcoin exchange site...

Reine Farhat • 12 February, 2014

Bitcoin

Wamda launches Wamda Debates in Casablanca

When a topic is good, time always runs out. We've seen that first hand at our Mix N' Mentor events where we often are forced to cut c...

Wamda • 11 February, 2014

PAYMENT Wamda Debates mobile payments

Why Hanan Abdel-Meguid stepped down at OTVentures

Hanan Abdel-Meguid will step down from her position as CEO at OTVentures to personally focus more on supporting the startup scene in...

Nina Curley • 10 February, 2014

OTVentures

Na3m Games' latest (accidental) release tops Saudi game charts

An accidental release has been a serious success for Saudi game developer Na3m Games. Harwil Ya Wahsh!, the company’s free-to-play iOS g...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 10 February, 2014

na3m games Saudi Arabia Mobile Gaming

3 apps win big at the Arab Mobile App Challenge

The winners of the 2014 Arab Mobile Learning Challenge have been announced at an event in Doha. The winning team, Loujie, based in the...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 05 February, 2014

arab mobile learning challenge doha

Now serving one billion ads per month, Hsoub looks to the future

Hsoub, the web solutions company based in Egypt and the UK, whose mission is to develop online opportunities for people living throughout...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 05 February, 2014

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Egyptian job site Wuzzuf joins 500 Startups' acceleration program

Wuzzuf, an Egyptian recruiting site launched in 2012 by BasharSoft, was on the verge of closing down two years ago. However...

Reine Farhat • 05 February, 2014

silicon valley Egypt Accelerators

Turkish m-commerce solutions company Pozitron acquired by UK's Monitise

Despite Turkey’s economic struggles, good news is rolling in from its tech ecosystem. Pozitron, the mobile commerce technology company f...

Nina Curley • 04 February, 2014

M-commerce Acquisitions E-commerce

Recyclobekia partners with Jumia and launches individual e-waste recycling

Since its initial launch two years ago, Recyclobekia has succeeded in building a e-waste collection network serving more than 25 big...

Maya Rahal • 04 February, 2014

Recyclobekia Jumia Egypt

Berlin's Pipe makes peer-to-peer transfer on Facebook more secure

Pipe, the peer-to-peer transfer service on Facebook, has released a new version of its application that uses a new WebRTC standard to ...

Nina Curley • 04 February, 2014

Health portal WebTeb partners with famous Egyptian chef

WebTeb, the Arabic health and lifestyle portal launched by Palestinian entrepreneur Mahmoud Kaiyal, has announced a new partnership with...

Nina Curley • 03 February, 2014

Recipe sites

Startup Weekend Damascus launches this month to create a 'paradigm shift' in Syria

It goes without saying that Startup Weekend Damascus will be unlike the other Startup Weekends that have cropped up around the Arab world...

Nina Curley • 02 February, 2014

Startup Weekend

Startup news ticker: Lamudi launches mobile version; e-commerce store accepts Bitcoins

Welcome to Wamda's weekly startup news ticker, which will offer quick announcements and stories relevant to the region. If you have a quick...

Wamda • 30 January, 2014

Real Estate Mobile