Wamda

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Global

Startup Watch: Overfunding kills, cybersecurity smartphones, and Toyota’s AI fund

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Startup Watch Jawbone AI

Jordan

How this chatbot is facilitating food ordering

At some point in 2014, Mark Zuckerberg was disliked by many. Forcing all Facebook app users to migrate to a separate chatting app...

Eila Mindhub Cafe chatbot

U.A.E

What I know about AI: Damu Winston

Ever since he first saw Star Trek as a child Damu Winston has had a lifelong fascination with futuristic technology. The founder and...

What I Know AI WIK

Egypt

Automating HR management in Egypt

Focusing on developing a specialized product allowed Egyptian software company HITS Solutions to enter more than 40 countries, working with...

Egypt HITS Solutions HR

Regional

Aim low, shoot high: AI regional startups are keeping it real

In the past two years, both growth numbers and tech advancements in the AI industry have made it fairly easy for its outsiders to fantasize...

chatbot AI Facebook Messenger

Syria

Votek and Loujee secures $1M investment

Votek Inc, developer of Arabic speech recognition software, governmental intelligent assistants and the first Arabic smart toy (Loujee)...

Votek AI syria

Global

Startup Watch: Facebook live broadcast boo boos, being ‘human’ and the world’s largest incubator

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Facebook AI libya

Jordan

Mawdoo3.com scales into video and AI

In January 2017, Mawdoo3.com reached 33 million views which made it the most popular website in the Gulf according to a report released by...

Mawdoo3 big data AI

U.A.E

Using big data and AI to fill the digital Arabic content void

When it comes to digital content there’s not much out there in Arabic. In fact, according to data released in the 2016 Media in...

narrativa flat6labs abu dhabi AI

Global

Startup Watch: disruption might get you, AI making the diagnosis and so long Yahoo!

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Startup Watch yahoo! AI

Global

Behind Gradberry’s rebirth: it's all about timing

“I don’t look like any other founder in the [Silicon] Valley. I wasn’t born and raised here,” Gradberry founder Iba...

Gradberry TARA uae

Global

What I know about privacy and AI: Rand Hindi

The future holds so many innovations to make our lives easier, but we are often told that it will come at a price. We’ll need to...

privacy AI Snips

Regional

What I know about investing in robotics: Jose Berengueres

To obtain his PhD in bio-inspired robotics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dr. Jose Berengueres studied the movement of a gecko in...

Adasi pal robotics robotics

Egypt

US-based Affectiva raises $14M Series D

Affectiva's software can differentiate between a smirk, a happy smile, and a polite smile. (Images via Affectiva) Emotion...

emotion recognition Rana el Kaliouby Affectiva

Regional

What I know about big data: Ali Rebaie

Ali Rebaie is a data scientist. One of the few data scientists, in fact, in MENA. He’s the founder of Rebaie Analytics Group...

What I Know ali rebaie Le Wagon

Meet the Egyptian entrepreneur trying to build a digital brain

Coauthored with Mazen Aly, Egyptian Artificial Intelligence Ph.D. student at Max Planck Computer Research Institute in Germany. "In order...

Data Egypt Technology

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