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Wharton's First Innovation Tournament in the Middle East: A Competition of Ideas, and a Comparison of Challenges

[Meet all the Karmsolar team in a Wamda recorded quick interview, and learn more about the finalists here] Ahmed Zahran couldn't have been...

Environment

Creating a Culture Shift in Cairo

Fill a room with equal numbers of people from the arts, software developers, NGO volunteers, and business professionals. Now sprinkle some ...

Digital Media Ecosystem Innovation

Meet the Teams that Pitched at Cairo Culture Shift

The British Council Culture Shift event in Cairo this month brought together an interesting mix of teams and ideas: Competing ...

Digital Media Ecosystem Innovation

Egyptian Company KarmSolar Wins HCT-Wharton Innovation Tournament 2021

The HCT-Wharton Innovation Tournament, held this past Monday and Tuesday in Dubai, challenged entrepreneurs to produce innovative...

Green Energy Innovation Environment

Moroccan Site Asnad Offers Online Market for Arabic Digital Content

Those looking to become creative entrepreneurs have a new avenue for monetizing their products, with the launch of e-commerce...

E-commerce

Woopra's New Interface Assists Quick Decision-Making

Web analytics platform Woopra, which launched a sleek iPhone and iPad interface this fall, has updated their web app dashboard as well,...

Analytics

M&A's Overlooked Pitfall: The False Negative

Plenty of merger deals should never happen: Buyers are too often attracted to "false positives" in targets that are overvalued. Less...

Acquisitions

Student-Powered Startup Education in Egypt

What do cupcakes, touch technology, and venture capitalists have in common? In truth not much, unless we’re about talking s...

Conferences

At Dubai Forum, Arab Female Entrepreneurs Are Urged to Break from Traditional Choices

There are a number of cultural challenges facing women in the Middle East who want to become entrepreneurs, but those belonging to the...

Conferences

Microsoft Imagine Cup UAE Announces Winner

Microsoft's Imagine Cup, a competition inviting software developers around the world to "imagine a world where technology helps solve the...

Competitions Environment Mobile Apps

Why Middle East E-Commerce Site Souq.com Acquired Sister Site Sukar.com

Leading Middle East e-commerce site Souq.com has acquired flash sales site Sukar.com today, as The Next Web and others reported, as part...

Acquisitions E-commerce

Building a Social Network for Football Fans in the Arab World: Footballize

Ten days ago, as Christian Ronaldo scored the winning goal for Real Madrid in a match that served archrival Barcelona its first loss...

Crokodeals: A Moroccan E-Auction Monster Heads to the UAE

A new way of tackling e-commerce and e-auction is coming to the Middle East from the heart of Morocco, through Crokodeals, the...

E-commerce

Announcing CoE E-Commerce on June 2nd and 3rd

After the success of Celebration of Entrepreneurship in 2010 and CoE Animate 11 this past fall, Wamda is kicking off the next in its series...

E-commerce COE CoE E-Commerce

MarkaVIP's $10 Million Series B Funding to Boost Logistics

Middle East flash sales sites MarkaVIP is on its way to becoming a true success story with its latest gambit to tackle the hydra that is...

E-commerce Investment

TourTwist Puts Crowdsourced Spin on Tourism in Lebanon

Some startups don't just create commercial ventures; they work to turn communities of ordinary people into little engines of commerce....

E-commerce Innovation Travel

Zawya's Multimillion Dollar Sale to Close Within 6 Weeks

It's not just the sleek new interface that's evolving at Middle East business news portal Zawya. The media outlet is preparing for a...

How Moroccan Daily Deal Site Hmizate Faced Down Competition

After working for eight years in the tech sector in the United States, Moroccan entrepreneur Kamal Reggad decided to return to his home...

E-procurement Daily Deals Hmizate

Seed Forum Abu Dhabi

Seed Forum Abu Dhabi‭ is taking place‬ on Wednesday the 25th of April 2012‭ ‬at the Emirates Palace‭ ‬Hotel, sponsored by The Belleau Wood G...

Investment

Dokkankom Launches an eBay for the Middle East

E-commerce site Dokkankom launched this weekend, bringing the region an eBay-like platform that allows vendors to create customized online...

E-commerce

Fadi Ghandour to Step Down as Aramex CEO, Focus on Entrepreneurship

In a move that surprised many yesterday at Aramex's annual conference in Dubai, Fadi Ghandour has announced that he is stepping down as CEO...

E-commerce Fadi Ghandour

Will Jordan's My Marbles be the next Angry Birds? TakTek Games Inks Deal with Chillingo

Amman-based TakTek Games has secured a breakthrough deal this week, signing with U.K.-based mobile publishing giant Chillingo, which...

Gaming Mobile Gaming

ImagineCup Calls On MENA's Best Tech Students

This year, Microsoft is once again giving entrepreneurs a chance to launch themselves on a global stage with its Imagine Cup competition....

Competitions

Maroc Numeric Fund Invests In Moroccan Daily Deals Site MyDeal.ma

The first Moroccan group buying website MyDeal.ma announced investment of 2 million Moroccan Dirhams (~$240,000) by the Maroc Numeric Fund...

Daily Deals Mydeal.ma MNF

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