Gaming studio stops developing games, pivots into do-it-yourself platform Alaa-eddine Kaddouri has a dream: to create the first MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) in HTML5. It sure is an... Aline Mayard • 19 June, 2014 Pivot games
Partnerships, VCs and content: best practices from experts at Mix N’ Mentor Amman Last week, Wamda organized its 14th Mix N’ Mentor and its fourth in Amman, Jordan. The event was supported by our strategic partners Zain J... Maya Rahal • 18 June, 2014 partnerships content Mix n Mentor
Regional Why and when should your startup outsource offshore? [Part 1] Despite the controversy, offshore outsourcing is attracting more attention than ever from companies worldwide looking to streamline. It... Aline Mayard • 17 June, 2014 Off-shore Developers Outsourcing
Meet the 18 startups that MITEF and TechWadi flew to Silicon Valley Many startups from the Arab region dream of conquering the world; not an easy task when you’re based in the Middle East and North Africa. T... Aline Mayard • 17 June, 2014 silicon valley Mentorship MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition
Four tactics to make niche Arabic content work, from health platform Anakeef The web is teeming with forums and platforms tackling a wide range of health, nutrition, fitness, lifestyle, beauty, fashion and... Maya Rahal • 17 June, 2014 lifestyle anakeef Health & Beauty
Strengthened with a 16M investment, Intilaq stands to transform the Tunisian startup ecosystem The up-to-now very discreet Startup Factory, a Tunisian accelerator launched a few years ago by telecommunications operator Ooredoo... Aline Mayard • 16 June, 2014
Presella first to benefit from BDL's circular gets 300k investment Inaugurating the Circular 331 initiative, passed by Lebanon’s Central Bank last August as an attempt to make it less risky for banks to i... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 16 June, 2014 Central Bank Lebanon Presella Investment
Arabic MOOC platform Edraak launches to bring quality education to the region Massive Open Online Courses – MOOCs as they are more commonly known – are online courses that are offered to large amounts of par... Hayden Pirkle • 15 June, 2014 edraak EdTech Education
Insider advice on doing business in the Middle East and North Africa This article has been reposted from Knowledge@Wharton. To anyone who has done business in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region,... Knowledge @Wharton • 15 June, 2014
Egypt's new media startups are multiplying - but is the trend sustainable? Since Egypt’s 2011 revolution unleashed exponential growth in social media engagement and internet penetration rates, an increasing number ... Daria Solovieva • 12 June, 2014
Jordan What it took for this startup to sign large corporates Today, app development has become absolutely necessary for entrepreneurs and businesses alike. But many companies have difficulty... Reine Farhat • 12 June, 2014 Scaling Developers Jordan
[SlideShare] The future of the internet is in developing economies The internet may have been born decades ago in the West, but its future might well play out primarily in developing countries. This is, at... Aline Mayard • 11 June, 2014 Slideshare Delivery Mobile
Regional developers code through the night for love (and money) at AngelHack Dubai Signs were encouraging for Dubai’s start-up community as the Al-Quoz industrial district played host last month to this y... Alexander Hawkes • 11 June, 2014
Why your startup needs a great mentor, and how to land one At age 26, Hind Hobeika is the founder of the Arab World's hottest hardware startup, Instabeat, and has been successfully driving it... Maya Rahal • 10 June, 2014
Arabnet attendees grapple with changes in the ecosystem, and look to the future Over three days, from June 3 to 5, more than 110 speakers and 90 partners and sponsors met at the Atlantis Hotel in Dubai for the Arabnet... Pamela Kesrouani • 10 June, 2014 events Arabnet
Chris Schroeder: Witnessing the Middle East's Entrepreneurial Revolution This article has been reposted from Knowledge@Wharton. When Yahoo! acquired Arabic internet portal Maktoob.com in 2009 for $165 million... Knowledge @Wharton • 09 June, 2014
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