Wamda

LivingSocial Rumored to Pull Out of the Middle East: Comment From Competitor On Regulation

The National has reported today that global daily deals company LivingSocial is priming to sell its assets in the Middle East and shut down...

Trends

SeedStartup Demo Day in Dubai

SeedStartup, Dubai-based international startup accelerator and seed fund, announced details of the Startup Demo Day event to be held at...

Investment

Challenges And Opportunities For Start-Ups

"Challenges And Opportunities For Start-Ups" is a round table event organized by the INSEAD Alumni Lebanon and hosted by Bader. During the...

Workshops

A Look at Turkish E-Commerce Site Lidyana.com's $3M Investment from Ru-net [Wamda TV]

As in almost all emerging economies, Turkey’s e-commerce market is presenting very attractive growth opportunities. In 2011, with a growth r...

E-commerce Investment

Can Facebook Spice Up Place Reviews? Jeeran Launches Social Update

Today, Jeeran is making location reviews in the Arab World a more social experience, by launching an updated iPhone app and website that...

Ratings Sites Endeavor

Announcing Wamda's Ramadan Daily Video Series [Wamda TV]

Beginning this Ramadan, Wamda will be launching a video series, offering daily videos of our footage from this year's Arabnet...

GameTako Launches Online Game to Benefit Syrian Refugees

This Ramadan, Saudi gaming studio GameTako is launching a new game to assist donation to Syrian refugees. The goal of Kubba, an online...

Gaming

Facing the Legal Challenges of an Art Startup: Draw Me a Song

When Lebanese entrepreneur Nour Tohme started posting musical illustrations of songs for fun on her blog, she had no idea that she was...

Competitions Design MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition

Endeavor Launches in Saudi Arabia

Endeavor has announced the launch of a new office in Saudi Arabia that will bring its global support for high-impact entrepreneurs to the...

Endeavor

Lebanese Entrepreneur Invents Lego For Electronics, Raises $3.65M from US VCs

Lebanese entrepreneur Ayah Bdeir will now be able to bring snap-together electronics toys littleBits to a wider audience, thanks to a new...

Investment

Silicon Valley Fund 500 Startups Invests in Jeeran

Silicon Valley-based seed fund and accelerator 500 Startups has today announced investment in Jeeran, the popular Amman-based user review...

Investment Endeavor

Animated Superhero Series The 99 Launches in the Middle East for Ramadan

This Ramadan, Islam-based superhero series THE 99 is finally launching in its region of origin, the Middle East. Starting on the...

Animation

Jeeran Co-Founder Leaves to Venture into Product Reviews

Ever since co-founder Laith Zraikat left Jeeran earlier this year, the Jordanian tech scene has been curious what he’ll do next. He’s not...

Mobile Mobile Apps

YouTube Launches Ramadan Channel, Bringing Favorite Series Online

In Cairo today, YouTube announced the launch of a new Ramadan-dedicated channel that will feature 50 premium shows during the...

Digital Media Google

Can Entrepreneurship Bring Change Where the Arab Spring Has Not?

Gathered together around a wide table, the group of entrepreneurs in Dubai for this year's MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business...

Social Entrepreneurship Wharton

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

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