Wamda

Dubai Entrepreneurs Debate Startup Challenges at Shelter's New Entrepreneurs Roundtable

In celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week in Dubai two weeks ago, Shelter invited up-and-coming entrepreneurs to share their...

Advice Ecosystem Coworking Spaces

Mashaweer Pioneers Personal Assistance Services in Egypt

Should you happen to get stuck in traffic and not be able to pull off some chores during a hard working day, don’t hesitate to rely on y...

Egypt

Online Review Site Wins Startup Weekend Doha

More than 30 budding entrepreneurs pitched their innovative business ideas at Startup Weekend Doha this past weekend. Forming their...

Job Recruitment Startup Weekend Taxi + Traffic

Visionary Palestinian Startup Goes Global with Touch Technology

Palestinian startup Iris recently launched their “room of senses,” a new therapy medium for children and the disabled. The “room” is a spac...

Health Innovation Social Entrepreneurship

Arabia500 Announces 130 of the Fastest Growing Companies in the Middle East

In anticipation of the Arabia500 gathering on December 10th at the 2012 Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Dubai, the...

Conferences Ecosystem

Beirut Creative Cluster Works to Increase Collaboration Among Local Companies

One year ago, the Beirut Creative Cluster (BCC) was just an idea developed by Berytech. Today, the cluster is set to become a hub for...

Animation Conferences Design

How to Join Arabic Web Days and Post Arabic Content

Last week, Arabic Web Days launched as a new initiative to support Arabic content online, co-created between Yamli and Vinelab and suppo...

Arabic Content Digital Media Media

Jordan's Dakwak Launches Localization Platform to Help Startups Go Global

Dakwak has been in the making for over a year, but it has now finally launched its solution for helping websites localize or go global. For...

Arabic Content Scaling

Global Entrepreneurship Summit Comes to Dubai: Exclusive Discount for WamdaCard Holders

This year, the Global Entrepreneurship Summit comes to Dubai, hosted by Entrepreneurial Ventures of Arabia (EVA), to offer entrepreneurs in...

Competitions Conferences du

Regional

Kids Love Arabic: A New Educational Arabic iOS Story Platform for Kids

Many parents, including myself, invest time and money trying to find an educational application for their children, to keep them from...

Arabic Content Education Mobile Apps

BorsaLink: Bringing the Social Media Paradigm to MENA Financial Markets [Wamda TV]

Ahmad Helal, CEO of Omnivoyance, a software services company dedicated to building financial tools for investors, speaks to Wamda...

Acquisitions Egypt

Meet the Winners of the Harvard Arab Startup Pitch Contest

On November 8-11, the 6thHarvard Arab Weekend brought Arabs from around the world together to network, collaborate, and discuss the future o...

Conferences Competitions

Can Kuwait Learn from Ghana? Lessons from the Second Startup Q8 Event

The startup scene in Kuwait is gaining momentum. On the 7th of November we had the 2nd StartupQ8 event and it was a lot of fun. Over 50...

Accelerators Advice Ecosystem

Nabbesh Wins du's The Entrepreneur, Looks to Expand Regionally

After two months of tense competition, we now know who took home the 1 million AED cash prize after winning reality TV competition...

Competitions du Investment

NYUAD Hackathon for Social Good Deadline November 30th

The NYU Abu Dhabi Department for Computer Science, in collaboration with the NYUAD Institute, is hosting the 2013 NYUAD Annual Hackathon: Bu...

Accelerators

54 Hours Inside Bahrain’s Emerging Tech Startup Scene

Having already touched 200 cities worldwide, the global grassroots Startup Weekend movement recently came to Bahrain’s burgeoning tech s...

Competitions Innovation Startup Weekend

Planting an Eco-Friendly Coworking Space in Cairo

New coworking space icecairo launched this month as the third installation of icehubs, an international coworking space brand...

Coworking Spaces Egypt Environment

Training the Next Generation of Leaders in Jordan with Photography

While entrepreneurship is one tool for helping young people in Jordan find new opportunities, empowering a generation can begin with...

Social Entrepreneurship

SocialWire Launches Optimized Ads for Facebook, Announces $2m in Investment

Online advertising has yet to be proven very effective. Yet SocialWire, a company started in Istanbul by a Turkish entrepreneur, is out to...

Digital Advertising Advertising Social Networks

PayPal Launches Middle East Operations with Aramex Partnership

PayPal, which is already an active payment platform in the region, has announced the official launch of its operations in the Middle East...

Payment Gateways E-commerce Delivery

Think of the People, Not the Money [Pic of the Week]

During episode two of Wamda's Mix N' Mentor in Beirut last Saturday, November 10th, one word kept coming up at the discussion tables...

CoE Cards Pic of the Week

Social Media to the Rescue: Egypt's Splinter Makes Résumés Obsolete

“A year and a half ago my brother asked me to design and update his CV and I remember telling him, this is the social era man, I'm sure we w...

Digital Marketing Egypt Innovation

Wamda and Endeavor Partner to Support Entrepreneurs Globally

Wamda has been busy supporting entrepreneurs on all fronts this fall. Not only has Wamda Capital announced ten investments this year, but...

Endeavor

Anghami Sees Surge in Downloads, Partners with Orange

Just a week after launching, Anghami is taking steps to monetize. Yesterday, the team announced a partnership with Orange, a Jordanian ...

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