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Meet the Winning Teams at Startup Weekend Beirut [Wamda TV]

Meet some of the winners of Startup Weekend Beirut below. The winners of the competition pitched a mobile application for the deaf named ...

Startup Weekend

What Stood Out at Startup Weekend Beirut

This past Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, entrepreneurs gathered at Berytech in Mansourieh, Lebanon, overlooking a scenic view of Beirut as...

Startup Weekend

Moroccan Startup Taxi Counter Wins Global Competition BeMyApp

Last week was an exciting time for all mobile Moroccan entrepreneurs and developers as it happened to be the BeMYApp WeekEnd...

Competitions Mobile Mobile Apps

N2V Announces First StartAppz Investment in Mobile App Startup iAraby

N2V has announced investment in Arabic mobile developer company iAraby, via its mobile investment vehicle and accelerator,...

Accelerators Mobile Mobile Apps

Diary of a Google Finalist: Do Arab Entrepreneur Tournaments Help Startups?

Sarah Wali left the U.S. media scene and returned to Egypt to pursue an idea for a citizen journalism platform for the Middle East. With...

Digital Media Google Media

What Inspired Arab Entrepreneurs at Google I/O 2012

Google's yearly developer tech conference, Google I/O, brought developers and techies together from around the world to witness the latest...

Ecosystem Google

Internet Outage In Lebanon Caused By Cable Upgrade

Update: Minister Nicholas Sehnaoui announced today, Friday the 6th of July, that the internet got back to normal in all Lebanon, after...

Entrepreneur of the Week: Bassam Jalgha, Inventor and Hackerspace Pioneer [Wamda TV]

Our entrepreneur of the week today is Bassam Jalgha, the founder of Douzan, a hardware solution that automatically tunes any stringed...

Entrepreneur of the Week

A Look at Oasis500's 5th Angel Event: Are Accelerators in the Middle East Doing Their Job?

Jordanian tech accelerator Oasis500 hosted its 5th Angel Investment event in Amman last night, bringing together 100 members of the...

Accelerators Oasis500

Does Peace in the Middle East Need Bombs? A Look at Game Cooks' New iPhone Game

Brothers Lebnan and Arz Nader, half of the team behind this year's biggest gaming success Birdy Nam Nam, are releasing a new iPhone game...

Gaming Mobile Gaming

Winners of the MIT Enterprise Arab Business Plan Competition '12 Announced

The winners of the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business Plan Competition '11-'12 have been chosen. After winnowing the top 50 teams down to...

MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition

Egyptian Mobile App Dokani Links Shoppers to Offline Deals

For the mobile app-savvy shopper in Egypt, Dokani offers the chance to a check information online about new products and sales...

Mobile Apps

Moroccan Web Entrepreneurs Gather, Pitch Ideas at g|maroc

Following a promising first edition of the g|Maghreb event organized in 2011 in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, Google returned to Morocco...

Conferences Google

Lebanese-Egyptian Entrepreneur Fadi Chehade to Lead Internet Expansion as New ICANN CEO

It may come as no surprise to entrepreneurs in the Arab World that a successful Lebanese-Egyptian IT entrepreneur will now lead the...

Trends

Geekfest Beirut 5.0: Where Geeks, Fashion And Music Will Gather

This year Beirut hosts the 5th edition of Geekfest, subtitled “Fashion & Music”, which will take place at The Alleyway Group, Gemmayze o...

Entertainment Fashion

Foota Towels - Making Egyptian Towels Famous

Egypt is famous for its cotton. The best towels in the world are also manufactured here, but there isn’t a recognised Egyptian towel b...

Design Marketing Fashion

Egyptian E-commerce Site OpenDayz Helps Small Businesses Sell Products Online

A shopping trend that’s been growing in Egypt recently is the “Open Day.” Someone, usually a female, buys or creates a batch of niche ...

Accelerators

Entrepreneur of the Week: Ala'a AlSallal of Amman-Based Online Book Seller Jamalon

This week's entrepreneur of the week is Ala'a AlSallal, who has a unique story. When he started Jamalon, an online bookstore selling ...

E-commerce Entrepreneur of the Week

Jordanian Gaming Studio Wizards Productions Pivots into Mobile

2012 marks a new era for Wizards Productions, which today announced a publishing agreement with 6waves, a leading international social and...

Gaming Mobile Mobile Gaming

Zawya Acquired by Thomson Reuters

On the heels of rumors in April that Zawya was preparing for a multimillion dollar acquisition, majority shareholder Saffar Capital...

Acquisitions

A Good Deal: Dubizzle Seeks to Dominate the Middle East's Online Classified Market

Like the thousands of expats who find their way to this glitzy sheikhdom, Sim Whatley and J.C. Butler came to Dubai several years ago...

E-commerce

Game Developers, Looking for a Challenge? Create the First Aramex Game

Gamers interested in making a name for themselves might want to check out Aramex's first Game Development Competition, which is...

E-commerce Gaming

The 5th Dubai World Game Expo

On November 27th-28th, the 2012 Dubai World Game Expo (DWGE) will take place at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition...

Conferences Gaming

How Egypt Is Discussing the Presidential Elections on Facebook and Twitter

Wamda is not a place for political debate. But the entrepreneurial ecosystem does not live in a separate universe, however much we...

Digital Media Social Media

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