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Weekly Wrap-Up: October 27-31

Sleep-deprived, failing fast, and pivoting smartly: Day 1 on StartupBus Europe Our very own French Editor Aline has joined StartupBus...

Weekly Wrap-Up

Women's portal HawaaWorld spins out new iPad recipe magazine

HawaaWorld is one of the oldest and most popular user-generated content portals targeting women in the Arab region. The platform,...

Food & Beverage

How one Saudi woman entrepreneur found success through Instagram [Wamda TV]

When 26 year old Sarah Al Dabbagh graduated with a degree in early childhood education from Simmons College in Boston she returned to...

Event Planning instagram

7 tips for launching a successful guerrilla marketing campaign

We all see tons of emails each week with subject lines like, “Top 10 Advertising Ideas for this Year” or “What Are Some of the Most Creat...

Advertising Marketing

Sleep-deprived, failing fast, and pivoting smartly: Day 1 on StartupBus Europe

They say travel makes you wiser, meeting people opens your mind, and succeding involve trying - and even failing. What happens when the...

hackathon Startupbus

5 graphs that explain the ICT sector in Jordan

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is often lauded as one of Jordan's most promising- and fastest growing- sectors. Last year,...

Report ict Data

Can media marketplaces disrupt traditional news outlets?

The statistics are by now familiar: newspaper and magazine subscriptions are in free fall, Facebook and Twitter are on the rise, and what...

marketplace news Media

What are Saudi consumers hungry for? A look at search trends in the Kingdom [Infographic]

The online ordering sector is heating up this year with Foodonclick, the Arab arm of Turkish online delivery giant Yemeksepeti, announcing e...

Food & Beverage

Global

This young Jordanian entrepreneur bootstrapped a funky gadget e-commerce site from home

Loay Malahmeh loves funky gifts. While shopping for one recently, he became frustrated with the overpriced products that he found...

cash-on-delivery Shipping E-commerce

Startup news ticker: MIT connecting Arab startups to Silicon Valley; Bitcoin launches its first ATM

Welcome to Wamda's weekly startup news ticker, which will offer quick announcements and stories relevant to the region. If you have a quick...

ticker news

4 reasons why game developers should consider crowdfunding

Update: The campaign mentioned at the end of the piece is updated to show a more realistic representation of an unknown developer raising...

Developers Crowdfunding Mobile Gaming

12 initiatives working to empower women in the Middle East

Bahraini women weaving. Photo courtesy of Sophie Middleton. Women’s economic integration and empowerment is a global issue that has a...

W4Women Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs Women

Why startups should focus on strong customer service [Infographic]

As the saying goes, “the client is king” and, just like kings, customers expect to be well-served. While some companies may shrug off the im...

Customer Service

5 ways to compete with Amazon, and why its model isn't 'profitless'

After almost two decades in online retail, Amazon is still the punchline to jokes about profitability. “Amazon, as best I can tell, is a ...

Amazon Scaling Payment Gateways

Aliqtisadi launches in Palestine and London, in hopes of becoming the #1 Arabic business news site

Aliqtisadi, the business magazine based in Damascus, Syria, announced its launch in Palestine and London last week, at the Abu Dhabi...

content news Arabic Content

Fun logistics game launches in Dubai on a lean budget; can it find distribution?

This piece is part of a new series on the challenges of new entrepreneurs who are bootstrapping their startups. “This is a game from ...

Bootstrapping Shipping Mobile Gaming

Thought Leadership