Wamda

U.A.E

Social selling: The future of ecommerce in the Middle East?

Within the space of a few years, social media has become an integral part of everyday life. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other...

Shedd EZHeights Social selling

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

Mix N' Mentor's 2015 roadshow brings the Marketplace Edition to Dubai

Mix N' Mentor serves up deep expertise in a casual atmosphere. (Images via Wamda) Dubai will host Wamda’s fifth and final Mix...

Mix n Mentor Marketplace Edition mix n mentor dubai

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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

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AstroLabs and Google officially open their coworking space

AstroLabs audience during the launch. (Images via AstroLabs) Just over a year since AstroLabs first announced they would be...

DMCC Astrolabs Academy Astrolabs

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Dubai signs data sharing law

Dubai’s goal of becoming the smart city of the Middle East got a little closer this week when they announced the signing of a Dubai...

Dubai Smart City Taskforce data sharing ali rebaie

U.A.E

Coding for kids classes from the Coding Circle in Dubai

Tech education company The Coding Circle has opened registrations for a new beginners’ course and for the first module of an intermediate c...

Coding for Kids Coding Circle

U.A.E

May the funds be with you

Tom Cruise famously scaling the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. (Image via Paramount Pictures) It is nearly four years since the release of...

AlKatraz Production Abu Dhabi Film Commission SANAD

U.A.E

MIT Radical Innovation Program [Discount]

MIT Professional Education and Eruditus Executive Education invites you to a 2-day program by MIT Professional Education on Radical...

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

U.A.E

Pretotyping and Beyond: Building the Right ‘It’ Before You Build ‘It’ Right

'Pretotyping and Beyond: Building the Right ‘It’ Before You Build ‘It’ Right', the first pretotyping workshop in the region, will be held i...

Pretotyping startups silicon valley

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TechWadi MENA Roadshow: Dubai

The TechWadi Roadshow, a ten-day traveling roadshow powered by Google for Entrepreneurs, is coming to Dubai, UAE on October 27 -...

Dubai techwadi MENA

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

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Taskspotting app raises $1.2M Series A round

Market research app Taskspotting has announced the closing of their Series A round, to the tune of $1.2 million, led by Mena Venture...

Mena Venture Investments Series A Investment

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Global Islamic Economy Summit 2015

In 2013, the inaugural Global Islamic Economy Summit introduced to the world the idea of a cohesive global Islamic Economy. This year's...

GIES Islamic economy Dubai

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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

U.A.E

Mini Exchange secures over $1M in seed funding

Screenshot of MiniExchange for Eid sale. Mini Exchange, an outlet for childrens retailers' and an online marketplace for parents to buy...

Mini Exchange investement

U.A.E

The Law: 3 legal concerns of UAE startups and how to solve them

The law and startups - an essential partnership. (Image via wrike.com) When it comes to setting up a business in the UAE, entrepreneurs...

Copyright Free zone law

U.A.E

Dubai’s smart city goal creeps closer

Dubai wants to be a world-leader in building smart cities and it’s attracting corporate players from around the world clamouring to be i...

Dubai Design District cisco MEMakers

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Al Ahli Group acquires US based social media company theAudience

Oliver Luckett during an interview with TheWrap UAE based conglomerate Al Ahli Holding Group has acquired theAudience, a social-media and...

Al Ahli Holding Group al-ahli theaudience

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Compareit4me closes Series A round of $3M

Compareit4me, the Dubai-based price comparison site for financial products has closed a Series A round of $3 million, lead by STC...

uae Investment Financial price comparison

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Overhauling MENA's biodiesel industry [Q&A]

Karl Feilder believes he’s designed the first biodiesel system in the world that really works, and is willing to explain down to the...

Neutral Fuels Karl Feilder biofuel

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HR software Beneple acquired 8 months after launch

Putting the fun back into HR admin. When HR management startup, Beneple announced this week that they were acquired by a regulated...

Acqui-hire Health Insurance Beneple

U.A.E

Ro’Ya: Developing the UAE’s female entrepreneurs

2015 applicants attend a Ro'Ya workshop. (Images via Ro'Ya) Women are driving entrepreneurship in the UAE, and the people behind the...

Dubai Business Women Council Baby Arabia VentureFin

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