U.A.E Souq.com sells CashU Regional ecommerce site Souq.com has sold its online payment arm CashU. In what is known as a ‘management buyout’ the company was pur... Lucy Knight • 28 December, 2015 investments Online payments Genero Capital
Global Then and now: how accelerators have evolved This article is a crosspot with Nuwait. As Kuwait is welcoming soon one of the top five accelerators in the world, TechStars, we... Ahmad Takatkah • 28 December, 2015 crosspost oped data growth
Regional 8 MENA ecommerce predictions for 2016 This is an edited crosspost with LinkedIn. What a year it’s been for ecommerce in the Middle East. Launches of dozens of new startups; the ... Mo Ali Yusuf • 28 December, 2015 Uberization Mo Ali Yusuf Opinion
Regional MENA's social media strongholds [Infographic] Social media has a huge influence on business in the Middle East, be it as a marketing tool or a company platform through which... Rachel Williamson • 27 December, 2015 google plus snapchat Payfort
Jordan First Jordan Connect matches startups with big business Big business meets the smallest: Jordan Connect brought together large corporations with startups. (Images via VentureScout) Discovering a... Maya Rahal • 27 December, 2015 Jordan Connect SWIPT The Tank
Kuwait Technopreneurship Challenge winners work to reduce car accidents in Kuwait The winners of the Kuwait Global Technopreneurship Challenge. (Image via Ana Tadic) The big questions were being asked at the Kuwait... Ana Tadic • 27 December, 2015 Legacy Kuwait Global Technopreneurship Challenge smart car
Jordan Jordan entrepreneurs have high hopes for ZINC 2016 Keynote Speaker Steve Johnson signing his book "Where good ideas come from: the natural history of innovation". (Images via... Tala El Issa • 24 December, 2015 I3zif.com Zain incubator Coding Circle
Maghreb How the Tunisian government revived its economy [Opinion] Tunisia in 2025 is quite different from the Tunisia of the Arab spring (Image via Hongkiat) * This is a hypothetical look-back from the... Bilel Bouraoui • 24 December, 2015 revival startups economy
Egypt Egypt's first FiT payout goes to startup Cairo Solar Hisham Tawfik's FiT cheque from North Cairo Electricity Distribution Company. (Image via Hatem Tawfik) After much skepticism about... Sara Aggour • 24 December, 2015 renewables FiT feed in tariff
Regional What judges look for in pitches Judging at the Seedstars Beirut event in November in UK Lebanon Tech Hub. (Image via Maysaa Ajjan) We already covered the exciting... Maysaa Ajjan • 23 December, 2015 pitches judging Seedstars World
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,... Samih Toukan • 23 December, 2015 takeover Maktoob Jordan
Saudi Arabia Building Saudi Arabia’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, KAUST A university with plans for the Saudi Arabian knowledge economy. (Image via Globalhighered.wordpress.com) Saudi Arabia has been an... Bérénice Magistretti • 23 December, 2015 Beacon I Saudi Arabia KAUST
U.A.E Baring all: Dubai entrepreneurs talk failure Organic Press Juice cofounder Daniel Vahanian talks failure with Moti Roti founder Tahir Shah. (Image via Jacqueline Sofia) The... Jacqueline Sofia • 22 December, 2015 Organic Press Juice Digital Labs GlamBox
Regional Capitalizing on ecommerce: lessons from RiseUp Ecommerce in MENA is a hot industry as it becomes ever easier to launch an online shop, and with speculation growing that it could be the... Ahmed Gabr • 22 December, 2015 Innovety rise up summit zoomal
Kuwait Why celebrating failure is important for Kuwaiti startups [Video] Video has Arabic subtitles. This article is a crosspost with Nuwait. In a country that’s considered one of the... Reine Farhat • 22 December, 2015 Parth Tewari Nuwait Kuwait National Fund
Global What I know about networking: Igor Ovcharenko Igor Ovcharenko organized his first startup networking event in 2012. (Image via Seedstars World) Before his first ever event with... Lucy Knight • 21 December, 2015 Matchmaking Seedstars World Igor Ovcharenko
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