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The Rise of Virtual Currency: A Look at Bitcoin and Ripple

The stunning rise and crash of digital currency Bitcoin last month has created a vast amount of worldwide interest in what could be a...

Financial systems Virtual Currency

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum 2013 - Makkah, Saudia Arabia

The Umm Al Qura University in Saudi Arabia is organizing the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum 2013 to take place from May 14-16. The e...

Saudi Arabia Accelerators Conferences

Accelerator Flat6Labs Jeddah Launches in Saudi Arabia

Bringing the accelerator trend to Saudi Arabia, Flat6Labs Jeddah was just launched by Qotuf AlRiyadah, a company that supports small and...

Flat6Labs Accelerators

STC Ventures Invests $3 Million in Jabbar's Ad Network ikoo

Regional advertising network ikoo has secured $3 million in investment from STC Ventures, a venture capital fund backed by Saudi Telecom...

Jabbar Digital Advertising Digital Marketing

The Mobile Show Middle East 2013 - Dubai, UAE

The Mobile Show Middle East is an opportunity to meet the world’s leaders, disrupters and challengers of the mobile ecosystem and d...

Mobile

Google I/O Extended – Beirut

Google I/O Extended is a local event to get developers who are interested in Google related technologies to mingle and hangout together,...

Developers Conferences Google

GameTako Announces the Winners of the 3rd Annual Game Zanga

This week, GameTako announced the winners of their 3rdannual Game Zanga, which drew over 325 developers to compete across the region to...

Competitions Gaming

iPhone Contacts Made Simple: Introducing ReachFast

iOS application ReachFast started as a weekend vacation project, and ended up a sudden success. When Lebanese serial entrepreneurs...

Mobile

Oslo Business for Peace Award Honors Five Global Business Leaders

The 2013 Oslo Business for Peace Awards recently celebrated the role of economic growth in peace, awarding five business leaders ...

Awards Abraaj Social Change

Egyptian Startup Signs First Game with International Publisher Chillingo

Mobile gaming is on the rise in the region, and the newest startup to join the mobile gaming frey is Spyros Entertainment from...

Mobile Gaming Gaming

Social Media Awards Beirut Honors Lebanon's Bloggers, Startups, and Celebrities

“The most powerful weapon in the Middle East is not sarin gas or nuclear weapons, it’s your smartphone,” asserted Britain’s Ambassador to L...

Social Networks Social Media Competitions

TV Goes Social in the Arab World: 3 Trends

With the growing popularity of social media, TV has become increasingly social. People now communicate and interact extensively about TV...

SmartTV Video On Demand

Algeria Hosts the First All-Women Startup Weekend

The latest in Startup Weekend's new women-focused events, Startup Weekend Algeria was the first event of its kind to feature a...

Startup Weekend Women

Which OS Dominates the Arab Mobile Market? [Infographic]

Android continues to be the world's favorite operating system, accounting for 64% of smartphone sales in the first quarter of 2013. As of ...

Infographic Mobile

Mobile OS Trends in the Arab World [Report]

This short report, by Froot Apps, shows how the 22 million smartphone users in the Arab world are consuming phones and downloading apps in ...

Mobile

Egyptian, Jordanian Startups Take the Day at MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition Awards

Last year, the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business Plan Competition awarded first place to Hind Hobeika of Instabeat, a heart rate...

MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition Competitions

Disruptive Entrepreneurship Part II: Key Takeaways from the Skoll World Forum

After performing my annual pilgrimage to the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University, UK — which gathered almost ...

Social Change Conferences Social Entrepreneurship

Disruptive Entrepreneurship Part I: We’re Going to Change the World

For just three days once a year, I don’t have to explain myself. The notion that business and social impact are in fact m...

Social Change Conferences Social Entrepreneurship

Developing Low Cost, High Quality Education in Egypt

Every year, Egyptian parents face the dilemma of choosing a school to enroll their children in, often debating between a range of...

Egypt Education

Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund launches to support Egyptian startups

Despite the political instability wracking Egypt today, startups have a new source of potential support. But will they take funding from...

Government Investment

Gengo Secures $12 million Investment by Intel Capital, Atomico, STC Ventures, Others

On the heels of STC Ventures’ investment in Acadox last week, Gengo, a global translation platform, has secured $12 million in i...

Translation STC Ventures Investment

Google Acquires Wavii for $30 Million, a Startup Founded by a Lebanese Entrepreneur

In Silicon Valley, the race is on to build a better mobile news summarizer. Google is the latest to make a move, with its...

Mobile Google

Saudi woman entrepreneur rethinks how we make Arabic coffee

Making Arabic coffee is a complicated and delicate process. The coffee beans must be properly roasted, ground, brewed, then boiled before...

Coffeehouses Badir Saudi Arabia

Egyptian Team Delivers a Killer Global App: Ninja SMS

Recently we had an Arab company going head-to-head with Google, now we have the Ninja apps team going head-to-head with...

Thought Leadership

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