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Regional

Network International to acquire Emerging Markets Payments for $340M

Private equity firm Actis confirmed today its agreement to sell EMP (Emerging Markets Payments), a payments business in Africa and the...

Emerging Markets Payments Network International acquisition

Regional

Yahoo! closes but Maktoob’s legacy continues

This article is a crosspost with The Black Iris. A few days ago, Yahoo!, which bought Jordanian internet startup Maktoob in 2009,...

takeover Maktoob Jordan

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

Egypt

Dubai classifieds platform dubizzle acquired by OLX

[Update: September 17th - Dubizzle has invested $1 million in fashion marketplace app Shedd] Dubai’s classified ads website dubizzle has b...

OLX acquisition Dubizzle

U.A.E

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

Abu Dhabi's twofour54 and Ericsson launch new partnership

twofour54, the commercial arm of Abu Dhabi’s Media Zone Authority, has partnered with Swedish multinational telecommunications pr...

Ericsson tech hub Issa Aghabi

U.A.E

Dubai fintech startup Cashnomix acquired by Singapore firm

The Dubai tech startup Cashnomix, a cloud based platform that allows small businesses to collect money early on their invoices, has been...

fin-tech DSO acquisition

Regional

Careem acquires Saudi-based home delivery service Enwani

For the regional entrepreneurship ecosystem the year is starting on an inspiring note. After the recent acquisition of Shahiya by Japanese...

enwani acquisition careem

Lebanon

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Thought Leadership

Network International to acquire Emerging Markets Payments for $340M

Yahoo! closes but Maktoob’s legacy continues

UAE's JadoPado raises $4M Series A

Dubai classifieds platform dubizzle acquired by OLX

HR software Beneple acquired 8 months after launch

Abu Dhabi's twofour54 and Ericsson launch new partnership

Dubai fintech startup Cashnomix acquired by Singapore firm

Careem acquires Saudi-based home delivery service Enwani

Japan's Cookpad to acquire Lebanon's Shahiya for $13.5M to enter the Arab world

Starting up, getting acquired, and shutting down: GoNabit co-founder's advice on the entrepreneurial journey

Google's top 10 all-time acquisitions