Kiva, Silatech Launch Microsite for Micro Lending in the Arab World

After partnering to create Kiva Arab Youth in April of this year, Kiva and Silatech have just launched a “microsite” in Arabic alongside a ...

Glen Dalakian II • 15 October, 2012

Arabic Content Crowdfunding Demystifying E-Commerce

Iraq

Startup Weekend Sulaimani, Iraq

For the first time ever, Startup Weekend makes its way to Iraq on January 31-February 2, 2013. SW Sulaimani will take place at...

Wamda • 31 January, 2013

Startup Weekend

Arab World Publishing Platform Tahadi Localizes Korean Game Knight Online

After publishing Age of Titans less than a month ago, Tahadi Games, is releasing another title, this time originally...

Glen Dalakian II • 16 October, 2012

Gaming

Inventing The Best Encrypted Chat Client: 21 Year-Old Nadim Kobeissi Shares Story of Cryptocat [Wamda TV]

Lebanese entrepreneur, Nadim Kobeissi, developer and founder of Cryptocat speaks to Wamda at SHARE Beirut, introducing his instant...

Maya Rahal • 18 October, 2012

Conferences Developers Invention

Interact Egypt Resuscitates Seaside Tourism Using Social Media

Egypt’s revolution has been a godsend for global news channels, and freedom loving Egyptians of course, but it has also scared off t...

Omar Aysha • 15 October, 2012

Social Media Social Networks Travel

Style.com Enters the Arab World to Serve Local Fashion Market

Style.com, one of the world’s most well-read fashion sites, has arrived in the Middle East today, launching as Style.com Arabia (...

Nina Curley • 15 October, 2012

Arabic Content Fashion

Michelle Thorne of Mozilla Announces New Mobile Operating System [WamdaTV]

At SHARE Beirut during the first weekend of October, Michelle Thorne of Mozilla speaks about their non-profit organization which puts users ...

Maya Rahal • 15 October, 2012

Conferences Mobile Software

Crowdfunding Platform Yomken Makes Launching Products Easy in Egypt

While concern in Egypt rises over courting investment and international partnerships intended to improve Egypt’s economy, one initiative h...

Shaimaa El Nazer • 29 October, 2012

Crowdfunding Egypt

Understanding the Arab Digital Generation [Report]

A recent report by Strategy& and Google, Understanding the Arab Digital Generation, reveals interesting facts about how the newest...

Wamda • 10 October, 2012

Booz & Company Digital Media E-commerce

SILA Angel Investment Network Launches to Boost Entrepreneurs in Qatar

Silatech, a social initiative based in Qatar, has announced the launch of a new angel investment network, designed to open new avenues of...

Nina Curley • 15 October, 2012

Angel Investment Ecosystem Investment

Cobone Co-Founder Steps Down, Groupon Announces Expansion: What's Really Going on in Daily Deals?

Arabian Business confirmed today that Cobone's Regional Sales Head and co-founder, Henri Hazoughi, has stepped down, while sources...

Nina Curley • 10 October, 2012

Daily Deals

The State of the Internet in 2012 [Presentation]

Henry Blodget and Alex Cocotas from Business Insider’s BI Intelligence team have assembled a detailed overview of the U.S. and global digita...

Wamda • 10 October, 2012

Advertising Digital Advertising Digital Marketing

Amidst Daily Deals Market Shuffle, Are Major Changes on the Horizon?

After news of changes at Cobone and Groupon UAE yesterday, more is shifting in the daily deals space globally, with eBay's launch...

Glen Dalakian II • 11 October, 2012

Daily Deals E-commerce Expansion

GlamBox: Beauty Product E-Commerce for the Arab World

To tackle the beauty e-commerce space, four young entrepreneurs based in the UAE have self-funded and launched GlamBox, a beauty hub...

Maya Rahal • 21 October, 2012

E-commerce Women

Rocket Tackles Africa: Jumia, Zando Announce Investment from J.P. Morgan

J.P. Morgan is continuing its trend of investing in Rocket Internet clones, today announcing investment in Jumia, Rocket's Amazon-style...

Nina Curley • 10 October, 2012

Investment Rocket Internet Jumia

Maghreb Startup Initiative Announces Winners of Intel Global Challenge

The Maghreb Startup Initiative has now announced the winners from a regional competition who will go on to represent the Maghreb region at t...

Nina Curley • 08 October, 2012

Competitions

Hyperlocal Social Network Nassya Brings Cairo's Neighborhoods Online

In old Egyptian movies, women used to gossip on their balcony with their neighbors throughout the morning. Today, the same scene takes...

Hanan Solayman • 21 October, 2012

Egypt Social Networks

Lebanon

Solvermine: The Region’s First Crowdsourced Problem-Solving Platform [Wamda TV]

Solvermine is the first product from start-up Fekra2 (Idea2). Co-founders Sabrine Assem & Noha Askar explain that although there are...

Omar Aysha • 03 October, 2012

Competitions Crowdsourcing Ecosystem

GamesBond Aims to Develop Educational Games on MS-Kinect [WamdaTV]

GamesBond’s co-founders Alaa Eltayeb & Ahmed Tayseer present their MS-Kinect based educational games. They explain that they will first ...

Omar Aysha • 09 October, 2012

Competitions Egypt Gaming

Digital Freedoms: A Middle East Update

This article is cross-posted from Access. The past week has been a busy one for the evolving world of Middle East digital freedom: a...

Katherine Maher • 13 September, 2012

Censorship

Will an Arab Crowdfunding Platform Ever Be Born?

Hundreds of young men and women are spreading ideas, enriching the Arab entrepreneurial arena, developing the community, serving society...

Hanan Solayman • 17 October, 2012

Crowdfunding

Microsoft Finally Targets Egyptian Developers with BizSpark, Mobile App Competition

“Developers developers developers developers,” a sweaty Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, famously chanted during a Microsoft conference a few y...

Omar Aysha • 08 October, 2012

Accelerators Cloud Computing Ecosystem

Startup Q8 Event Launches to Unite Entrepreneurs in Kuwait

Entrepreneurship in Kuwait may not seem widespread; few Kuwaiti entrepreneurs are well-known regionally and globally outside of Naif...

Abdullah Alshalabi • 02 October, 2012

Conferences Ecosystem Startup Communities

Start Up Weekend Alexandria: Still the Best Entrepreneurship Event in Egypt

The second Start Up Weekend Alexandria (SWA) was held on the 27th to 29th September 2012, and while it’s always nearly impossible to r...

Omar Aysha • 04 October, 2012

Ecosystem Mentorship Startup Communities