Regional Marriott Hotels launches TestBED in Middle East and Africa Marriott Hotels launched today its TestBED programme for the first time in the Middle East and Africa, which will begin its roll-out in the... Staff writer • 07 September, 2017 Marriott TestBED MEA accelerator Marriott Hotels
Regional UX Workshop by Willy Lai Learn how to design great UX from recent Apple UX Design Director and award winner, Willy Lai. At this engaging 2-day workshop,... Wamda • 04 September, 2017 Workshop UX User Experience Design
Regional AI is taking roots in the MENA Even though Artificial Intelligence (AI) is developing at a blistering pace, outside academia and engineering, it remains a bit of a... Tarek Faycal • 30 August, 2017 AI Investment Technology
Regional Tarjama accomplished its Coursera for Refugees Arabization mission Tarjama, a UAE-based translation startup, finished its six-month project with Coursera to Arabize courses specifically targeted at... Staff writer • 29 August, 2017 Tarjama Coursera refugees
Regional Will MENA’s on-demand startups become sustainable businesses? On-demand startups, the so-called ‘Uber for X’ of startups, are those that provide immediate service by dispatching someone to... Dina Alnabulsi • 29 August, 2017 On-demand startups Technology entrepreneurship
Regional What I Know about the right time to crowdinvest: Eureeca’s Chris Thomas Chris Thomas, co-CEO and cofounder of equity crowdfunding platform Eureeca, has sat at both ends of the proverbial funding table. He has... Archana Menon • 28 August, 2017 What I Know eureeca Chris Thomas
Regional What MENA entrepreneurs should know before moving to Europe and the US Expanding your business beyond the MENA region is a challenge. People in the know cite such a venture’s costliness, point out... Aline Mayard • 23 August, 2017 Entrepreneur Europe MENA
Regional When Facebook means business for MENA women If you are a woman, have founded, cofounded, or own a business, and are interested in using Facebook and Instagram to grow it, then you... Archana Menon • 20 August, 2017 SheMeansBusiness Facebook instagram
Regional You are what you wear, 2.0 Wearable smart devices are rapidly changing the face of technology in the 21st century, and the MENA is no stranger to that evolution.... Hamad Almuraikhi • 17 August, 2017 GITEX Future Stars Wearable devices Technology
Regional SourceNow: A digital solution that redefines the industrial services marketplace For several years, the UAE has consistently topped regional rankings of entrepreneurship and innovation. Most recently, the 2017 Global... Michelle Wu • 16 August, 2017 GE SourceNow IT solutions
Jordan This is how Jamalon brought print-on-demand to the MENA Ala Alsallal was still a university student when he perceived a need for high-quality published content in the Arab world. While he was... Tala Salem • 16 August, 2017 Jordan Jamalon e-books
Regional Battle of the finances: venture capital vs. private equity If a business is searching for a source of external funding, it can turn to various sources. Some of these sources may be vastly different,... Tala Salem • 13 August, 2017 Venture Capital private equity Funding models
Regional GITEX Future Stars Competitions In case you haven’t heard yet, we have recently announced our partnership with GITEX Future Stars to create an all-encompassing... Wamda • 10 August, 2017 GITEX GitexFutureStars Innovation
Regional Middle Eastern environmental startups get on the right side of the green line In recent years, the tech sector around the world has come to recognize the importance, the urgent necessity even, of going green. The... Lily Catherine Jabbour • 09 August, 2017 Sustainability Cleantech green
Regional MAD Mentorpreneurs Pitch Competition MAD Mentorpreneurs is a reverse mentoring program that will launch with a pitch competition taking place on September 30, 2017. 5... Wamda • 07 August, 2017 Mentor MAD Talks Entrepreneur
Regional What I know about building ecosystems in emerging countries: Linda Rottenberg It only took Linda Rottenberg a brief conversation with a taxi driver in Buenos Aires to launch Endeavor. Initially an engineer, this... Reine Farhat • 07 August, 2017 What I Know Endeavor Linda Rottenberg
Regional Marriott TestBED Middle East & Africa Marriott TestBED Middle East & Africa is a unique startup accelerator programme focused on transforming the future of travel and... Wamda • 06 August, 2017 Marriott TestBed accelerator
Regional ArabWIC 5th Annual International Conference on Arab Women in Computing This year’s ArabWIC 5th Annual International Conference on Arab Women in Computing will be taking place from August 10-12 at the... Wamda • 03 August, 2017 ArabWIC Computing Technology
Regional New startups on the block: August Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to... Reine Farhat • 03 August, 2017 Startup List startups ecommerce
Regional Middle East NXT Banking Summit Banks are constantly adapting to the changing dynamics of consumers and the needs that come with technological advancements, especially as... Wamda • 27 July, 2017 banking Fintech Technology
Regional A more digital Middle East is in the making [Opinion] Pundits predict that the Internet of Things, or IoT, is going to change the nature of interaction between governments and businesses all... Hamad Almuraikhi • 27 July, 2017 oped Internet of Things IoT
Regional Sports news are the most published on the region’s e-newspapers Arabic news portals are increasingly relying on digital marketing channels, now that people refer to these portals for news. Social... Maya Rahal • 26 July, 2017 Digital Media Index news portals Newspapers
Regional World Green Economy Summit 2017 The World Green Economy Summit (WGES) is one of the leading global forums on the green economy. It brings together world-class experts in... Wamda • 25 July, 2017 green Global Warming Environment
Global Hands off my phone! Since the Wannacry ransomware attack in mid-May, talk of cyber security (and its deficiencies) has skyrocketed. Protecting our computers,... Lily Catherine Jabbour • 25 July, 2017 Phone cyber security privacy