3 ways the Arab tech diaspora can stimulate regional development From the Rise Up Summit (a conference dedicated to innovation and Egyptian startups), to the MENA Innovation DemoDay (a series of... Samir Abdelkrim • 12 December, 2013 silicon valley Diaspora
Are you driven by your heart, brain, guts, or luck? What drives you professionally: your heart, your brain, your guts, or your luck? Tony Tjan, a serial entrepreneur-turned-VC, gave his test... Aline Mayard • 12 December, 2013 entrepreneurship Expert Advice LeWeb
MySportner founder Kenza Bennani on her greatest challenges, and big plans for the future The New Work Lab, a Moroccan co-working space based in Casablanca, recently held the first edition of Pitch Lab won by MySportner.... Fatim Zahra Biaz • 12 December, 2013 mysportner new work labs morocco
PayPal brings new mobile payment option to rapidly developing East Africa M-PESA, a mobile payment scheme launched in 2007 by Kenyan mobile network operator Safaricom, has fundamentally changed the way Kenyans... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 11 December, 2013 mobile payments Payment systems Kenya
What's distracting the Middle East's workers? [Infographic] Work-hours flexibility is not the only problem threatening employee productivity and efficiency in the work environment; 59.3% of... Ahmed Gabr • 11 December, 2013 workplace work distraction
Meet SafirLab, a French accelerator for entrepreneurs from the Arab world In Paris, it's not often that you’re sitting in a room with entrepreneurs from across the entire Arab world, listening to them pitch s... Aline Mayard • 11 December, 2013 accelerator events
5 tips for building a successful mobile game, from 2013's biggest app success story There’s no secret to building a good game, especially in the Middle East. Despite the fact that people in the region – especially the Gulf ... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 11 December, 2013 trivia game app
UrbanBuz announces Series A round of investment for its customized loyalty program Most of the time, when customers become loyal to a business, it’s not because they’ve been offered benefits via a loyalty card or shown up... Nina Curley • 10 December, 2013 Series A Loyalty Programs
Africa: an untapped opportunity for Middle Eastern startups Cellular penetration in Africa is growing at a rate of around 4.2 percent – a rate unequalled anywhere else in the world. In terms of m... Ahmed Gabr • 10 December, 2013 africa Mobile messaging Mobile Penetration
10 amazing holiday gifts from innovators in the Middle East Whatever your religious beliefs, we all worship at the altar of buying new things, especially at this time of year. We compiled a list of... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 10 December, 2013 gift gift guide morocco
Why Transterra moved to Lebanon This piece is part of our series on expat entrepreneurs. As we wrote in October, Transterra is one of the latest global startups... Aline Mayard • 10 December, 2013 Expatriate entrepreneurs Media
Enigma thinks big data can change the world "Dad, the president retweeted my database!" "Well, it’s great that your boss appreciates your work." "No Dad, I’m talking about the Pre... Aline Mayard • 09 December, 2013 open data big data Diaspora
Yellow Pages Egypt opens avenue for low-cost, high-quality marketing videos Many television commercials and videos produced by startups are of low quality due to new entrepreneurs’ often-limited funds, o... Hanan Solayman • 09 December, 2013 Egypt Digital Marketing
Women's entrepreneurship and social media: the two hottest trends at Arabnet Riyadh On December 3rd and 4th, the Arabnet Digital Summit took place in Riyadh for the second time, kicking off with a session on... Manal Assaad • 09 December, 2013 Arabnet
5 tips for small businesses on Facebook Jonathan Labin is Facebook's Head of Middle East, Africa, and Pakistan. He contacted us with some tips, based on Facebook's own research,... Jonathan Labin • 09 December, 2013 small business sme Facebook
Nuqat Creative Conference creates 'culture shock' in Kuwait When I arrived in Kuwait and settled into a chair at the Nuqat Creative Conference last month, the young man next to me immediately turned,... Ramzi Jaber • 08 December, 2013 Ecosystem
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