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Wamda Announces Partnership with Google for Mix n’ Mentor 2013

Google for Entrepreneurs and Wamda are excited to announced our partnership to foster entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa...

Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility Mix n Mentor Ecosystem

First Startup Weekend Byblos Welcomes Pitches from Lebanon, Jordan, and Cyprus

On March 1-3, Startup Weekend came to Byblos, Lebanon for the first time, bringing together participants from across Lebanon, Jordan, and...

Startup Weekend

Jordan

Quirkat launches first PS3 game from the Arab World

Jordanian game development studio Quirkat recently launched Pro Foosball for the PlayStation 3. With this title, Quirkat is looking to...

Jordan Quirkat

World Bank Pledges $70 million to Boost Jordan's Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurship in Jordan is now getting international support. Yesterday, The World Bank launched a new project to foster job creation...

Business Development

How Entrepreneurs Are Innovating Their Way Out of Traffic

Sometimes the most innovative ideas come from entrepreneurs who are just fed up. Their ability to make people’s lives just a l...

Crowdsourcing Egypt Transportation

Bader Entrepreneurship Program Launches in Egypt, Announces Business Plan Competition

Since the 2011 revolution, Egypt has been witnessing a boom in new projects fueled by the enthusiasm of young people, a renewed sense of...

egyt Competitions Social Entrepreneurship

5 Drawings from Dubai's Creative Community on DrawDeck

When David Hammond launched DrawDeck, he was inspired by a family member who began drawing in a therapeutic manner. “We thought we’d build a...

Art Digital Media E-commerce

Jordanian Developer Harlem Shakes Your Website

If you haven’t seen the Harlem Shake meme, you’ve been working too hard on your startup. It’s not just that Lebanese incubator Seeqnce made...

Art Developers

9 Platforms that Enable Your Search in the Arab Region

Arabic content is often not well indexed on the web, and suffers from poor rankings on Google and other standard search engines orginally...

SEO Top Lists

Social Enterprise Week Draws a Crowd, Sets Goals for the Middle East

At the Capital Club in Dubai Monday night, a group of inspiring entrepreneurs launched the first Social Enterprise Week in the Middle East,...

CSR Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

Fly-Foot Helps Arab Football Fans Attend Matches Without Lifting a Finger

Football fans around the Arab region can now pick a game to attend, pack their bags, and hop on a plane without a second thought, thanks to...

E-commerce

Cairo Transport App Challenge Winners Announced

Last Saturday, the Cairo Transport App Challenge (Cairo TApp) concluded with an awards ceremony announcing the top 3 tech solutions to...

Mobile Mobile Apps Social Change

Egypt's Careerise Makes Job Search Simpler, More Social

Even in today’s hi-tech socially-networked world, the best way to find a new job is still through a personal referral. Of course, relying o...

Egypt Job Recruitment

NYUAD Hackathon Winners Debut Startups for Social Good

Yesterday, Social Enterprise Week in Dubai kicked off with a pre-launch event at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) campus, as part of...

Competitions Conferences Social Change

Building a Hacker Culture in Abu Dhabi

For three days inside New York University Abu Dhabi’s purple campus in the Emirati capital, delegates from universities in sixteen c...

Competitions Ecosystem Social Entrepreneurship

Exclusive Sneak Peek at startupBahrain's New iOS Magazine for Entrepreneurs

A new iPad and iPhone magazine launches tomorrow to showcase, feature, and advise Bahrain’s local startups and e...

Advice Ecosystem Mobile

Lebanese Gaming Startup Debuts Flying Carpet Hero, Prince of Persia Style

Today, Lebanon's Gamabox has made their debut in game development with the launch of their first title, Ali Hood. Ali Hood, a cross between...

Gaming Mobile Mobile Gaming

CircleTie: Better than Foursquare, Built in Egypt

Location-based check-in apps are all the rage, especially those that help you discover new venues. In Egypt, however, CircleTie, is...

Egypt Gamification Innovation

Will Facebook's New Deal with Mobile Operators Help It Take On Whatsapp, Viber, and Skype?

Yesterday, Facebook announced a partnership with telecom operators in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Egypt, to offer discounted access to its...

Facebook Mobile Mobile Apps

PayPal Answers Your Questions: When, Where, and How Will It Expand in the Middle East? [Wamda TV]

After our recent interview with Elias Ghanem, General Manager PayPal Middle East, at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Dubai, several...

E-commerce Payment Gateways PayPal

Careem, the Uber of the Middle East, Launches Mobile App [PROMOTION INCLUDED]

UPDATE: Those who sign up for Careem through Wamda will receive a free 30 AED (~US $8) in credit; click here. For those looking to get ar...

Mobile Mobile Apps Taxi + Traffic

Souq and EFE Expand E-Commerce Training in Egypt

E-commerce companies in Egypt now have a better chance of hiring and scaling with the expansion of a new talent training...

E-commerce Egypt

Can Cultural Entrepreneurship Soothe Political Strife? The Nile Project Unites East Africa with Music

Typically we think of entrepreneurship as the creation of new businesses, but working to change public opinion could be called cultural...

Music Egypt Agriculture

Social Enterprise Week Kicks Off in Dubai Sunday - Register Now!

Social entrepreneurship is one of the most exciting spaces to watch in the Middle East today, as several local pioneers are launching...

Green Energy Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

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