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Do you love blogging? Have you been waiting for the right opportunity to go public with those notes piling up in Word files on your...

Digital Media Media

Egypt's Startup Reactor Powers Up its First Acceleration Cycle

The Innoventures’ Startup Reactor (SR) accelerator launched recently, with a pitching session at the luxury Kempinski hotel by the Nile. O...

Accelerators Angel Investment Ecosystem

Palestinian SMS Platform Souktel Raises $1 Million from Sadara Ventures

Souktel, one of the fastest growing startups in Palestine today, is set to enter a new era with a round of $1 million in investment from...

Investment Mobile Mobile Apps

Entrepreneurs from Indonesia, Lebanon, Egypt, and Malaysia Win GIST Tech-I Competition 2012

The Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) Tech-I 2012 Competition came to a close yesterday at the...

Competitions Ideas Innovation

Egypt's Angels Get Serious: Behind the Scenes at a Cairo Angels Pitch Event

The Cairo Angels (CA) business angel group has been going for about a year now, and I was happy to attend their latest regular pitch...

Angel Investment Egypt

KnowElectricity Teaches Pakistan About Energy Efficiency: Can It Become a Sustainable Business?

Scores of Pakistanis are curious about the potential for solar and wind energy to cut costs in a country where continuous power is at a...

Digital Media Environment Green Energy

8 Tips for Building a Wildly Successful Arabic Website

After Arabic women's portal Nawa3em grew to one million monthly unique visitors during its first year, its CEO Rodolph Jabr...

Arabic Content Digital Media Team

Lebanon's Myschoolpulse Brings Education to Children in Hospitals

Not every startup idea begins with a happy epiphany. Daniele Diab was first inspired to start Myschoolpulse when her cousin was...

Education Medical

Jordan

Jordan's Quirkat releases first game from the Arab World for PlayStation Mobile

Alongside PlayStation’s recent launch of PlayStation Mobile (PSM), Jordanian gaming startup Quirkat recently released a new game,...

Quirkat

Dubai's Game Minion Acquired by Corona Labs in Silicon Valley

Yesterday, Dubai-based mobile app development platform Game Minion was acquired by Corona Labs in Palo Alto, California. Combining to...

Acquisitions Developers Gaming

Wamli Launches Quirky New E-Commerce Platform in Dubai

Wamli, a funky new e-commerce platform for geeks and those looking for an unorthodox shopping experience, launched today in Dubai. The...

E-commerce Fashion Loyalty Programs

Geek Express in Beirut

Geek Express is a new concept space in Beirut, where you can ‘learn and unleash the geek in you’. It’s a place for children and grow-ups to ...

Innovation Invention Technology

Entej Works to Connect Egypt's Entrepreneurship Ecosystem

What do you do when you come up with a great project idea? Of course, you start looking for partners and team members, probably through...

Ecosystem Egypt Job Recruitment

Launching the First Arabic Platform for Expert Electronics Reviews in Egypt [Wamda TV]

At Reviewzat’s website launch event, Managing Director Karim Akram discusses how the startups plans to offer both video and written reviews ...

Reviews

Entrepreneur of the Week: Taline Assi Co-founder of Mosaic Marble [Wamda TV]

Entrepreneur of the week today on Wamda is Taline Assi, who co-founded along with her husband Mosaic Marble in 2003, an online and offline...

E-commerce Entrepreneur of the Week

ICT Use and Social Network Adoption in the Arab World [Report]

The Madar Research and Development Center, based in Dubai, recently released this report on Arab ICT Use and Social Network Adoption, s...

Digital Media Mobile Technology

PPR Invests $13 Million in Rocket Internet to Support Namshi, Fashion Sites

Luxury group PPR has invested € 10 million (US $13 million) in Bigfoot I, the Rocket Internet holding company that controls Dubai-based r...

Rocket Internet Investment Namshi

Facebook's 25 Most Popular Games: Lessons for Arab Developers

Facebook just announced the 25 most popular social games in 2012. Music trivia game SongPop by US developer FreshPlanet tops the chart,...

Facebook Gaming Mobile Gaming

Arabia500 Announces the Fastest Growing Companies in the Middle East

Yesterday, the AllWorld Network hosted a successful pre-event to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Dubai where they announced the...

Conferences

Gaza's First Incubator Ramps Up, Giving New Hope to Local Entrepreneurs

A timely answer to the ongoing strife and instability in Palestine, the first incubator in Gaza is continuing to make strides, training...

Mentorship Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

iOS App Abjad City Teaches Kids the Arabic Alphabet

What happens if you find yourself living in a foreign country where no one speaks your native language, and you are try to teach...

Arabic Content Education Mobile Apps

Wamda and Mowgli Foundation Announce Partnership to Bring Mentorship to Entrepreneurs

To assist entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa in their efforts to launch and scale, Wamda, an enabling platform for...

Ecosystem Mentorship

How to Create an Efficient Virtual Team Office: Hsoub's Solution

Is it necessary to have a team working in one office in order to coordinate effectively? If I were writing this article 10 years ago, I...

Advice Ideas Social Networks

Morocco's Stagiaires Makes Intern Recruitment Simple

Until recently, job offers on the Internet in Morocco were confined to general classifieds websites or amateur job boards. It was not until...

Job Recruitment

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