Wamda

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Ecosystem Mentorship Startup Communities

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

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