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8 Infographics Illustrating Facebook Benchmarks In The Arab World

TOP, a startup out of Endeavor Jordan, and in collaboration with Social Watchlist, identifies and analyzes eight core industries to e...

Technology Social Media Facebook

SeedStartup's First Demo Day Reveals Global Products

There was a stark sartorial contrast between investors in suits and the more casually-clad entrepreneurs at the Make Business Hub last week...

Accelerators Angel Investment

Can the Palestinian Diaspora Help? New Ramallah Tech Hub Says Yes

Wearing blue, orange and red t-shirts, over 500 students, entrepreneurs, developers, investors and other tech enthusiasts packed into...

Competitions Ecosystem Pitching

Is Jabbar Looking to Sell One of Its Companies? Rumors Swirl

Rumors are swirling today that Jabbar Internet Group is looking to offload assets. The group- one of the biggest internet-focused...

Acquisitions Daily Deals E-commerce

LinkedIn Enters the MENA Region, Opens Office in Dubai

Following rumors that it might enter the region in September, LinkedIn, the US-based business-networking site, has today announced the...

Social Networks Expansion Job Recruitment

du's Reality TV Competition The Entrepreneur Launches Tonight

The region's first reality TV show about entrepreneurs is here. "The Entrepreneur," which pits 10 entrepreneurs against each other in ...

Competitions Digital Media

A Startup Energy Unique to MENA: Mike Butcher of TechCrunch [Wamda TV]

Mike Butcher, European Editor at TechCrunch, discusses the startup scene at ArabNet and some interesting new technologies coming out of...

Media

Are You the Best Developer in the Arab World? Prove it at the Arabnet Tournament

So you think you can code? Prove it to a regional audience at the Arabnet Developer Tournament this fall. The tournament will put...

Arabnet Competitions Conferences

Egyptian National Competitiveness Council Disappoints: Where Were the Entrepreneurs?

I like to challenge my prejudices every now and then, so I decided to accept an invitation to the eighth annual conference of The Egyptian...

Conferences Ecosystem Egypt

Egyptian Accelerator Flat6Labs Hits Its Stride in Cycle 2 Demo Day

Flat6Labs, the Cairo-based accelerator, held its third demo day event on the 17th September, dubbed the “Cycle 2 Demo Day”. Not only did the...

Accelerators Acquisitions Egypt

Moataz Soliman Of A*Apps Demonstrates The Bug Reporting Platform [WamdaTV]

Co-founder and CEO of AStarApps Moataz Soliman gives us a demonstration of their ground-breaking bug reporting platform for mobile apps,...

Competitions

TellUs the New Way For Customer Service in MENA

“I was talking with a friend when he suggested there should be some sort of solution to solve the [bad] customer service quality in Egypt, a...

Egypt Mobile Apps User Experience Design

UAE’s Tahadi Launches MMO Age of Titans

At first glance, the login screen feels like a familiar U.S.-developed game with stunning visuals, bold graphics, and a dark ethereal...

Gaming

A*Apps Launches Crowdsourced Mobile App-Testing at Flat6Labs Demo Day

In Egypt, A*Apps (“A Star Apps”) is developing a unique platform that allows mobile app developers to test their apps through cro...

Crowdsourcing Mobile Apps

Yemeksepeti to Enter MENA Region After $44M Investment from General Atlantic

As Webrazzi reported today, Yemeksepeti, a leading Turkish food ordering site, has announced a US $44 million round of funding from New...

Food & Beverage Investment

Summer School Takes Controversial Decision to Exclude Lebanese Entrepreneur

Controversy struck Lebanon’s entrepreneurship community this past week, as prominent young Lebanese entrepreneur Abdallah Absi was expelled ...

Competitions Education

MarkaVIP Hits 2 Million Registered Users, Continues to Solve E-Commerce Issues in MENA

Less than two years after its launch in 2010, MarkaVIP has announced today that it has now hit two million registered users. It’s a big mi...

E-commerce

Egyptian Social Gaming Startup FunWave Delivers Football Fun

Egypt is full of football fanatics, and the region is as well. So it made perfect sense that Egyptian social games start-up FunWave’s ...

Accelerators Angel Investment Egypt

Startup Weekend Mansoura

For the first time ever, Startup Weekend makes its way to the Egyptian Nile Delta on November 1-3rd. The event will follow the basic...

Startup Weekend

Namshi Raises $20m Round from JP Morgan, Blakeney Management

Christmas is coming early this year to several of Rocket Internet's clones. The latest in a slew of investments by J.P. Morgan, Namshi, the...

Rocket Internet Investment E-commerce

Make-Movie Wins Incubation Prize At Fekrety [WamdaTV]

The make-movie.com team, won the Flat6Labs incubation prize that includes seed investment of 70k EGP (11k USD), during Fekrety, the ...

Competitions

First Startup Q8 (Kuwait) Event

On Wednesday, September 26th, Startup Q8 (Kuwait) is hosting the first Startup Q8 Event at Think Cafe in Kuwait City. Join this powerful ...

Startup Communities

Egypt's Tech Community to Conquer Cairo's Traffic

We have all heard about, and many of us have experienced, Cairo’s infamous and grueling traffic congestion. This year, the World Bank is p...

Mobile Apps Technology Taxi + Traffic

Nozom Defies Cairo’s Centralization And Boosts Entrepreneurship In Mansoura

Over 120 members of Mansoura-based Nozom all agree on fostering the entrepreneurship culture in this small town, defying several obstacles...

Thought Leadership

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