Saudi Arabia Nana Direct makes grocery shopping easier in Saudi Arabia Sami Al-Helwah took his time to enter the Saudi retail market with his Nana Direct grocery shopping application. The young Saudi... Abdullah Baghawitah • 05 February, 2017 Nana Direct Saudi Arabia ksa
Iraq US travel ban harms Iraqi entrepreneurs For an Iraqi makerspace founder, the repercussions of President Trump’s executive order to put a ban on travelers from seven... Rachel Williamson • 05 February, 2017 Science Camp Basra Nawres Arif
Global Startup Watch: Pac-Man and retreat of the multinational giants The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your... Dana Ballout • 02 February, 2017 Startup Watch Souq.com Pac-Man
U.A.E Adventure2Venture kickstarts investor-entrepreneur retreats [Know your VC] “I am not very happy about how some investors treat startups and are somehow unfair to entrepreneurs.” This is how Rami AlKarmi... Mai Ali • 02 February, 2017 Angel Investment Adventure2Venture Dubai
Regional More tech, more jobs, more growth [Opinion] A new middle class is emerging in ‘growth market’ cities, and it will be technology-enabled businesses that help create new... Faaris Naqvi • 01 February, 2017 Opinion Growth cities jobs
U.A.E Hyphen founder’s gutsy life choice leads to a global adventure “Luck doesn’t exist, it’s created by people taking risks and finding opportunity.” This is what Nigerian serial... Elias Jabbe • 01 February, 2017 hyphen sparks labs flat6labs abu dhabi
Egypt New startups on the block: February Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to... Lucy Knight • 31 January, 2017 new startups Jarra Carriage
Lebanon Innovation Factory fills Lebanon’s hardware development gap [Wamda TV] There aren’t many startups whose entrance is preceded by a long and winding dirt road, an army station across the street, and a... Dana Ballout • 31 January, 2017 lebanon Innovation factory Hardware
United States MENA startup culture shows signs of early Silicon Valley The MENA region is a beacon of largely unchartered technological territory with its potential often stunted by lagging institutional... Raghda Zein • 30 January, 2017 techwadi Techwadi Annual Forum Wamda Capital
Morocco Ketabook turns niche market into a Maghreb bookseller’s dream The story of Ketabook is the one of a historian father and his marketer son. It started 17 years ago when Mohamed El Mansour, a history... Yassine Bakir • 30 January, 2017 Ketabook Amazon culture
Bahrain From adversity to opportunity: Bahrain’s entrepreneurship as economic resilience For some countries, political and economic disruptions have stalled development. But over the past few decades, Bahrain has boasted a proud... Ola Aboukhsaiwan • 30 January, 2017 Bahrain C5 Accelerate Amazon Web Services
Egypt Jordan's POSrocket turns restaurant registers to a thing from the past Four years as the cofounder of a successful food delivery company, acquired by Turkey's Yemeksepet in 2012, Zeid Husban was ready for... Tala El Issa • 29 January, 2017 posrocket ifood.jo POS
Global What does the future hold for wearable technology? The arrival of wearable technology has marked a completely new era. The industry has evolved to a point where we can create devices... Mohsin Syed • 29 January, 2017 wearable Wearable devices google glass
Regional Women rising to the top in MENA [Infographic] This article is a crosspost with Payfort. Female entrepreneurs are founding companies at an ever increasing rate across the world and... Wamda • 29 January, 2017 women entrepreneurs nabbesh mrusta
U.A.E More startups on the scene at Gulf CX Awards “As an SME we can offer an opportunity for personalisation,” said Ayman Al Awadhi, managing director of Dubai’s The... Lucy Knight • 26 January, 2017 gulf cx awards Customer Service User Experience
Saudi Arabia 5 things you need to know about Saudi ecommerce [Opinion] Ecommerce revenues in Saudi Arabia are staggeringly poor compared to countries where the sector is more established. In 2016, ecommerce... Yousef Shanti • 26 January, 2017 ecommerce Trends Opinion
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