Wamda

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

Istikana Inks Groundbreaking Deal to Offer Videos on Samsung Smart TVs

It remains to be seen whether there is a viable market for video-on-demand services in the Middle East, like those that Hulu provides in...

Digital Media Video On Demand

Vodafone Egypt Launches EGP 20m Investment Fund and Incubator

We've received word that Vodafone Egypt is launching an EGP 20 million (US $3.3 million) investment fund that will focus on small, web and...

Investment

Vote for the Future You Want

In the Sustainable Development Dialogues, or Rio+20 Dialogues, over 10,000 experts, stakeholders, and academics from a variety of ...

Ecosystem Social Entrepreneurship

7 Tips and Confessions from Day 2 of CoE E-Commerce

CoE E-Commerce, our CoE event focused on the E-Commerce sector, concluded yesterday after a second day jam-packed with "Wamdat" talks and...

CoE E-Commerce E-commerce COE

Links Are Not Answers: Cairo's Kngine Launches App to Revolutionize Search

Operating with the tagline, "Links are not answers," intelligent search company Kngine (pronounced “kin-gin”) has launched beta versions of ...

Mobile Apps

The Way Forward for Women Entrepreneurs in Egypt

The fundamental role of women in Egypt’s revolution and growing its economy was the focus of the event “Co-Creation: Women and Ent...

Ecosystem Education Women

MBC Ventures Launches, Invests in Falafel Games, Aranim, Supermama

MBC Group announced early this week the launch of a new venture capital arm, MBC Ventures, which will invest in media and entertainment...

Investment

Jordanian Entrepreneurs Launch Startup Enabling Global Access to Healthcare

"We want to export U.S.-quality healthcare to the rest of the world," says Ayman Sharaiha, explaining his startup, Clinical Fellows. The...

Medical

Facebook to Target Ad Revenue with New Dubai Office

As we predicted in February, Facebook is indeed entering the MENA region, planning to open an office in Dubai now that its IPO...

Facebook Social Networks

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