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Egypt

Lessons from the Tahrir Academy shutdown

Tahrir Academy first announced their closure earlier this summer. News that Egyptian online learning center Tahrir Academy was...

nafham legislations close down

U.A.E

UAE's JadoPado raises $4M Series A

JadoPado CEO Omar Kassim. (Image via ResellerME.com) Online marketplace JadoPado has sold a 14.8 percent equity stake for $4 million,...

JadoPado acquisition Series A

U.A.E

The Gamifiers: making business fun

The Gamifiers participate in Dubai Lynx We've all been there, dragging ourselves through another long day at work doing routine tasks that...

TheGamifiers uae Gamification

Regional

London calling

A Lebanese, a Briton, a Dutchman and an Italian walk into a London investment firm. They bond over hip hop. One year later they launch a...

Braci Hoxton Ventures Slidr

Saudi Arabia

MaterialSolved helps scientists visualize complex data [Video]

MaterialSolved is a startup that provides visualization software and graphical representations of big data allowing scientists to...

MaterialSolved big data KAUST

U.A.E

Alemhealth brings accurate and timely healthcare diagnosis to developing countries

In order to link underserved patients in developing countries with top radiologists from around the world, Alemhealth, provides...

M+M Minds+Machines MEMakers

Egypt

Egypt's Otlob sold for a bargain to Rocket Internet

Egyptian food-ordering website Otlob has been snapped up by Rocket Internet, but at an almost firesale price. The acquisition by...

online food ordering otlob Rocket Internet

Regional

MASHUP MENA Conference in Kuwait [Promo]

MASHUP MENA, now in its 2nd year, is an annual event that brings together an elite group of innovators, marketers and visionaries to one...

digital gathering Mashup kuwait

Egypt

Egypt’s El Noor Geh takes part in GE’s first Minds+Machines event in the region

As Egypt suffers from frequent power cuts, programmers, makers and builders keep trying to find ways to prevent their work from being...

El Noor Geh Minds+Machines MEMakers

Iran

Pioneering PR in Iran: startup links SMEs to media

Digital companies in Iran are flourishing, carving out a space in the local market in spite of the restrictions on foreign trade and...

Akhbar Rasmi PR Newswire iran

U.A.E

UAE's creative entrepreneurs rising

Salsali Private Museum at the Alserkal Avenue Galleries Night. (Image via Alserkal) The ever evolving Emirate of Dubai is welcoming a...

The Dubai Creative Clusters Authority Dubai Media City This Dude Knows Food

Kuwait

Nuwait launches to celebrate entrepreneurs' success stories in Kuwait

This article was originally published on Nuwait. One of the core issues Kuwait is facing at the moment is the need to find more private ...

Nuwait Kuwait National Fund Support

Saudi Arabia

Science at a young age: workshops for innovative Saudis

A new generation of Saudis are relying on themselves to invent stuff instead of buying it, and TalentS is one of a...

children Science Saudi Arabia

Maghreb

Science club to startup: Coursella targets Algerian education

On the 2012 International Day of Pi, four Algerian computer science students launched a geeky science club they wanted to use to change...

SAAS pinnovate coursella

Jordan

Art and business, can they be friends?

“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best...

King Abdullah II Fund for Development Writers Cell Creative Industries Fund

Saudi Arabia

Meet Fatima Batook: the woman who helped make Saudi women’s gyms a reality again

Women in Saudi Arabia who wish to go to the gym can do so once again, thanks to the lobbying and entrepreneurial efforts of one woman:...

Saudi Arabia Health Women

Turkey

Local funding for Turkish startups still lacking

Startup Istanbul attendees vowing to stay true to entrepreneurship. (Image via Startup Istanbul) This year's Startup Istanbul has...

Beenext Etohum startup istanbul

Lebanon

Former Lebanese bakery serves up innovation

The Obsessive Drafter hard at work. (Image via theBakery) Let’s head to theBAKERY, a cozy design lab in Beirut's Mar Mikhael n...

Guillaume Crédoz The Obsessive Drafter theBakery

Palestine

Freelance marketplace Nabbesh helps Palestinians leap borders

Unemployed youth in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank can now find virtual freelance work more easily, following the launch of an...

Fursati west bank Gaza

Lebanon

UK Lebanon Tech Hub’s 15 startups off to London

The startups going to London, and continuing in Beirut received certificates of their achievement. (Images via Lucy Knight) The first 15...

UK Lebanon Tech Hub Banque du Liban Central Bank Lebanon

U.A.E

Melltoo launches premium service

Things are moving fast at Melltoo Marketplace. The Dubai-based mobile classifieds startup has just rolled out a new premium service just a...

Melltoo Marketplace melltoo

Lebanon

Lebanese teens invent urine-powered generator

As Lebanon's environmental woes continue to escalate, with mountains of garbage rotting in the street and power cuts lasting...

urinegenerator lebanon aub

U.A.E

It’s alive! Epygen organisms alter ME oil industry

The oil game is still played very traditionally in the Middle East, but companies such as Dubai’s biotech firm Epygen Labs are slowly...

enzymes filter cake Epygen

Maghreb

Casablanca car share startup accelerates off the starting line

Carmine's cars now have their own parking spots. (Images via Carmine) It’s a safe bet that not many in Casablanca know what car sharing i...

car share Transportation Sharing Economy

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