Maghreb Moroccan smart car app competition to boost local industry The future of cars? (Image via McMaster.ca) Forgetting where you parked your car is an embarrassing problem that’s about to become a t... Yassine Bakir • 06 December, 2015 MagNav self-driving car applications
U.A.E AstroLabs and Google officially open their coworking space AstroLabs audience during the launch. (Images via AstroLabs) Just over a year since AstroLabs first announced they would be... Pamela Kesrouani • 28 October, 2015 DMCC Astrolabs Academy Astrolabs
Regional Where are the gaps in the digital Arabic content sector? [Infographic] In the past several years, the MENA region has witnessed a rapid growth of internet and smartphone penetration - and these trends are... Lucy Knight • 10 June, 2015 Taghreedat DAC Digital Arabic Content
Regional Digital Arabic Content: an industry brief [WRL report] In the past few years, the MENA region has witnessed a rapid growth of internet and smartphone penetration - and these trends are projected... Lucy Knight • 10 June, 2015 Taghreedat DAC Digital Arabic Content
U.A.E A forum for Android lovers, Droidcon comes to Dubai Droidcon Dubai 2015. (Images via Facebook) "A 17-hour flight is how long it took for some of the event speakers to come... Pamela Kesrouani • 05 May, 2015 Dubai Smart City initiative Alljoyn Groupon
Egypt YouTube, the ultimate tool for Arab startups? Despite being around for more than a decade now, the video sharing network YouTube seems to have become a popular model for startups... Eman Mostafa • 19 November, 2014 tarayah Partners YouTube
Global Could Google's Quality Score make or break your startup? Yesterday I wrote about what a Quality Score was and how it was measured; today I’m going to tell you about how you can improve it and let y... Wissam Dandan • 30 September, 2014 quality score Google
Global A quick, current, and crucial guide to Google’s Quality Score Whether you’re brand new to pay-per-click marketing with AdWords, or you’ve been at it for ages, you’ve probably heard others harp on the im... Wissam Dandan • 29 September, 2014 quality score Google
AstroLabs+Google announce plans for Dubai coworking space At San Francisco’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference this week, the entrepreneurship platform AstroLabs announced their collaboration ... Lucy Knight • 11 September, 2014 tech communities MENA Dubai
Women-led startups in Google's #40Forward network have raised $20M USD this year In March, Google for Entrepreneurs launched a campaign called #40Forward, to provide program assistance and $1 million USD in aggregate... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 17 August, 2014 #40Forward google for entrepreneurs Google
Google's top 10 all-time acquisitions Heard of it? Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in 1998, offering their soon-to-be famous search engine to the world of the... AlQiyadi • 27 August, 2014 acquisition Google
Can you build a startup solely based on Google APIs? Some Egyptian startups have offices on world-famous Tahrir Square, while their Dubai-based cousins work from fancy accelerators. But... Aline Mayard • 08 July, 2014 CRM Algérie Google
Announcing the Mix N' Mentor Competition Cairo edition finalist We’re excited to reveal today the name of the first Mix N’ Mentor finalist from Cairo: Codly, a software development company. Watch their s... Stephanie Nour Prince • 02 June, 2014 Mix n Mentor Google
China's largest search engine takes on Google in Egypt The digital media scene – especially that in the Arab region – seems to be an appealing market for competition between China and the U.S., ... Eman Mostafa • 10 April, 2014 Baidu china Egypt
Startup news ticker: Google brings Android to cars; new platform for teachers and students Welcome to Wamda's weekly startup news ticker, which will offer quick announcements and stories relevant to the region. If you have a quick... Wamda • 06 January, 2014 morocco Jordan Google
What You Look Like to a Social Network [Infographic] Facebook makes a lot of us feel warm and fuzzy; if commenting on ‘life event’ photos and smugly stalking friends and family halfway around ... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 24 December, 2013 privacy tumblr twitter
The Middle East's most-searched terms of 2013, from Google Zeitgeist Never has watching an organization pat itself on the back been more fun than Google Zeitgeist. The search engine that has become a part of... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 18 December, 2013 middle east search search terms
5 tips for getting your content on Google's In-Depth Articles search result Whenever Google introduces a new feature to search results, smart businesses will sit up and take note of the new opportunities they might... Wissam Dandan • 17 December, 2013 in-depth articles SEO Google
Why e-commerce site Namshi stopped using 'Sukar' as a keyword In an e-commerce sector that is increasingly competitive in the Middle East, online retailers of all sizes are seeking to enrich their... Eman Mostafa • 26 December, 2013 sukar Namshi Google
GDG Dubai's dbcon In collaboration with MongoBD and Nabbesh, Google Developers Group (GDG) Dubai is hosting dbcon on November 23rd, offering technical and... Wamda • 20 November, 2013 Google
10 lessons for building a startup from the Google for Entrepreneurs Partners Summit Two weeks ago, Muhammed Mekki and I participated – as AstroLabs – in the first Google for Entrepreneurs Partners summit, a two da... Louis Lebbos • 13 November, 2013 silicon valley Advice Google
6 surprising facts about the future of the internet Google is dominating the internet, Business Insider Intelligence reveals in a new presentation on 'The Future of Digital.' While the search... Nina Curley • 13 November, 2013 Internet growth Data Google
5 tips for building the perfect startup pitch, at Google Zurich A week ago, I ventured off on a special roadtrip: StartupBus Europe, a trans-European 3 day-long hackathon on wheels. In the... Aline Mayard • 06 November, 2013 hackathon Startupbus Pitching
Global Google launches Helpouts, a real-time how-to video platform over Hangout Today, Google announced the public launch of debuted Helpouts, a platform designed to help people learn from experts over Google... Reine Farhat • 05 November, 2013 Online video How-Tos Google