Why Nextly, now open to the public, stands to revolutionize content sharing

There are several ways to curate content on the web these days, but it’s often a fragmented experience. Now that Google Reader is dead, s...

Nina Curley • 24 October, 2013

content

Foodonclick enters Saudi and Lebanon. Can they replicate their success in Turkey and UAE?

Who will own online food delivery in Saudi Arabia? With Foodonclick, the Arab arm of Turkish giant Yemeksepeti, announcing expansion into...

Aline Mayard • 22 October, 2013

Food delivery Food & Beverage

Bitcoin passes $200 mark despite Silk Road closure

Bitcoin, the peer-to-peer decentralized cryptocurrency, has just broken the US $200 mark, as traded on Mt.Gox, one of the largest...

Ola Doudin • 23 October, 2013

Bitcoin

Zain Jordan partners with Wamda to support startups via Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility

Telecom company Zain is now the first company in Jordan to partner with Wamda on Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility (CER), an...

Nina Curley • 24 October, 2013

Zain Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility Wamda News

On-the-ground details on the closure of Yahoo's Egypt office

As the Mayer era continues at Yahoo!, its Egypt office is the latest element to be scrubbed out and rethought. Today, Yahoo! announced...

Nina Curley • 23 October, 2013

Yahoo Closures

Meet the business network that's empowering women in Saudi Arabia [Wamda TV]

CellA is a network for professional Saudi women. Founded in Riyadh, it’s quickly spreading to the rest of the kingdom’s commercial and edu...

Ahmed Al Majid • 22 October, 2013

ksa saudi Networking

LINE readies for a $28 billion IPO; could it overtake Whatsapp in the Arab world?

While the tech world is hotly anticipating Twitter's IPO, which could happen before the end of the year at a valuation of around $16...

Maya Rahal • 21 October, 2013

Social Networks Mobile

Startup news ticker: Mobibus launches a Do-It-Yourself mobile app maker

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 • 23 October, 2013

ticker

Dubai's Emaar launches $100 million fund for emerging designers

As a series of glamorous events this week in Dubai attract the fashion world’s heavyweights, Emaar, the Middle East’s biggest developer, ha...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 16 October, 2013

Startup news ticker: Women’s portal Ounousa reaches 2m FB fans; Arab startups to pitch in San Francisco

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 • 16 October, 2013

ticker

Hadafi competition offers Saudi women the chance to fund business ideas

Last week, Dubai-based social enterprise Potential launched Hadafi, a women’s entrepreneurship program designed to empower women in Saudi A...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 15 October, 2013

Women Hadafi Saudi Arabia

Egyptian students shine at Intel Science Competition

At an exposition recently held at Intel's Cairo office, eight Egyptian student winners of the Intel Science Competition, between the ages...

Ahmed Gabr • 27 October, 2013

Is Algeria ready for an online supermarket?

Despite significant challenges for e-commerce sites in Algeria – including the fact that only 14% of Algerians are internet users – t...

Aline Mayard • 20 October, 2013

algeria

One woman's quest to get kids reading in the Arab world

Very few initiatives originating in the Arab world achieve international recognition: Kitaby Kitabak (my book, your book in English), a...

Ahmed Gabr • 28 October, 2013

libraries library reading

Egyptian event platform Eventtus goes premium after investment from Vodafone, Cairo Angels

  After meeting at Startup Weekend Cairo in 2011, the founders of event organizing platform Eventtus launched their startup in...

Glen Dalakian II • 07 October, 2013

Funding Venture Capital Angel Investment

Startup news ticker: apps2you launches new app; Khalifa Fund organizes an SME event; new training program for women entrepreneurs

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 • 10 October, 2013

ticker

WhatsApp hacked by Palestinian group via another DNS hijack

After a group of four hackers took down Google Palestine last month by redirecting visitors to a different website, AVG and WhatsApp were...

Reine Farhat • 08 October, 2013

Hackers

Aramex, Google, PayPal, and ShopGo launch EZStore.me to help offline retailers go online

With 30 million people shopping online today in the Middle East and North Africa, in a market expected to reach $15 billion by 2015,...

Nina Curley • 07 October, 2013

E-commerce

Egyptian entrepreneur Amira Azzouz fights back against content theft

Last week, Amira Azzouz, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Fustany.com, the fashion and lifestyle site for Arab women, was doing some...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 03 October, 2013

theft content scraping

i360 offers mentorship for pay at new coworking space The Cribb

In the past year, Dubai has seen several coworking spaces open to enable entrepreneurs, freelancers and traveling professionals to work...

Aline Mayard • 01 October, 2013

Coworking Spaces

Healthcare portal WebTeb closes Series B round from Siraj Palestine Fund

On top of reaching over 3.5 million unique visitors per month, Arabic medical content portal WebTeb just announced new investment from...

Glen Dalakian II • 03 October, 2013

Healthcare Content Portals Health & Beauty

Scientific research competition in Egypt

The Academy of Scientific Research and Technology in Egypt recently launched initiatives in several sectors for those interested in...

Hanan Solayman • 08 October, 2013

Competitions

New Egyptian conference will support science R&D; applications open Saturday

Linking universities to local industry is becoming increasingly important for transforming scientific research into projects that can...

Hanan Solayman • 03 October, 2013

Research R&D Egypt

AUC launches its first spinoff startup, healthcare tech pioneer D-Kimia

Even though there is a law in Egypt that allows universities to build companies and invest in projects, many important academic inventions...

Hanan Solayman • 03 October, 2013

Egypt