Wamda

Why Jordanian Startup TakTek Closed and What it Means for the Gaming Sector

“I’ve let everyone go,” Gaith Kawar confessed to me over coffee at Starbucks in Abdoun last month, giving a look of resignation through his ...

Advice Failure Gaming

7 Lessons for Hosting an Offline Event, from Supermama in Egypt

A year after it launched, Supermama decided to venture into offline events in Egypt- a new move for the first Arabic online...

Advice Arabic Content Digital Media

Maysalward Localizes New Mobile Game ShaqDown for the Arab World

A new battle is being fought in the Middle East, thanks to Jordanian gaming company Maysalward. Basketball legend Shaquille...

Mobile Mobile Gaming Gaming

Global

Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility, by Fadi Ghandour

It is a matter of fact that chronic poverty and unemployment have long been the twin hallmarks of most Arab economies. While poverty...

Social Change Ecosystem Fadi Ghandour

Palestine Gets Its First Startup Accelerator

Building a startup in Palestine is admittedly tough. At the launch event for Palestine’s newest accelerator, a discussion broke out about t...

Accelerators

Egypt's Flat6Labs Graduates Cycle 3: Here's What They're Building

Flat6Labs, the Cairo based accelerator, held its 4th Demo Day event, dubbed “Cycle 3 Fall 2013”, this week at the Cairo Marriott, showing of...

Egypt Flat6Labs

Keep Dreaming and Work Hard [Pic of the Week]

Despite the conflicts, instability and misfortunes hitting some Arab countries lately, it is refreshing to note that Arab communities are...

Advice CoE Cards Egypt

Jordan’s Nakhweh Relaunches as a Regional Hub for Social Ventures

Nakhweh has long been one of Jordan’s darlings in the social entrepreneurship space, a scrappy NGO trying to make volunteerism popular (or a...

Ecosystem Scaling Social Change

Windows Startup Challenge

Microsoft, Startup Weekend and DEMO recently announced the Windows Startup Challenge, a global contest offering developers, designers and...

Competitions Developers Mobile Apps

Egypt's Tourism Gets Back on Its Feet at Rouqayah's Ranch

You think you're driving into the middle of nowhere, then thoughts of classic horror plots jump to mind. But once you arrive through...

Egypt Environment Food & Beverage

Chinese Browser Baidu Targets Middle East Users

Baidu, China’s most popular search engine, is targeting the Middle East and Africa this year, partnering with Orange to offer its browser &...

Mobile

HUB Dubai Set to Launch UAE's Newest Co-Working Space

On 12/12/12 12:12 PM and precisely 12 seconds Dubai time, HUB Dubai launched virtual operations; the physical space is expected...

Coworking Spaces Startup Communities

MyMetroTalks Brings Community-Focused Venue Recommendations to Dubai

I was feeling pretty relaxed the other night, channel surfing on my own, but I felt like being outdoors without having to get all dressed...

Crowdsourcing Ratings Sites

Discover Digital Arabia Builds a Business with Infographics

Infographics and video imagery are clearly one of the hottest trends on the web, and Saudi-backed N2V is hardly one to...

Arabic Content Digital Media Infographic

212 Capital Partners Invests in Turkish Supply Chain Design Company Solvoyo

212 Capital Partners, one of Turkey’s leading early stage venture capital funds, has announced its first investment of the year in Solvoyo, ...

Investment

Namshi Receives Investment from Summit Partners

On the heels of its $20 million investment round from J.P. Morgan and Blakeney Management this past September, Dubai-based fashion...

Rocket Internet Investment Namshi

How 3 Women Entrepreneurs are Creating Opportunities in Morocco, Egypt, and Jordan

We often hear that it's difficult for women entrepreneurs to found companies- they face social stigma as founders, or they have difficulty...

Egypt Social Entrepreneurship Women

Taskty Launches to Provide Services to Egyptian Startups and Customers

While creating platforms for freelancers and project-based jobs has been a popular concept around the globe, now it's becoming one of the...

Flat6Labs Outsourcing

Egypt's Revolutionaries Take to the Streets, To Improve Neighborhoods

“Change starts in the streets," was a slogan coined during the Egyptian revolution, as demonstrators took pride in cleaning the streets i...

Egypt Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

First Book Exchange Social Network Launches in Egypt

On December 27, 2012, Badl Kitabk officially launched the first book exchange social network in Egypt, offering their service for...

Book Reviews Egypt

How Unfair Competition Caused an Egyptian Startup to Fail

Sometimes a lack of money is the reason behind the failure of a certain project; other times a moment of cultural disconnect might be a...

Egypt Failure

Wellnesia to Indulge Dubai with New Spa and Beauty Hub

In the Arab world, the web has been buzzing lately with sites offering flash sales, low prices and online booking, often for restaurants,...

Digital Marketing Ecosystem Health & Beauty

Entrepreneur of the Week: Mansour Mansour Co-founder of Javna in Jordan [Wamda TV]

Entrepreneur of the week today on Wamda is Mansour Mansour, an Endeavor Jordan entrepreneur, CEO of Javna in Jordan offering mobile media...

Advertising Digital Advertising Digital Media

Facebook Use by Companies in the Middle East and North Africa [Infographic]

Those looking to advertise on Facebook will be interested in this new infographic from SocialBakers that reveals Facebook trends for c...

Data Technology Social Networks

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