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Developers Face Off in Beirut Coding Battle

On Saturday, ArabNet brought over 40 young Lebanese developers together in Beirut to compete in an intense coding tournament. The winners...

Arabnet Competitions Developers

Cloud Computing For Mobile: Adel Youssef Of Wireless Stars [Wamda TV]

Adel Youssef, founder and CEO of Wireless Stars, discusses the idea of his company interested in cloud computing for mobile devices. “we b...

Arabnet Cloud Computing Mobile

Developing Mobile And Web Games: Abdullah Hamed of GameTako [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] Abdullah Hamed, founder and CEO of GameTako, discusses the big move into mobile games, and advises games developers not to start...

Arabnet Gaming Mobile Gaming

Customized Medical Advices: Adnan Abou Sharar of Axein [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] Adnan Abou Sharar, Managing Director of Axein, talks about the mobile app that gives medical advices tailored for each user, based...

Advice Arabnet Medical

Video On Demand: Samer Abdin of Istikana [Wamda TV]

Samer Abdin, co-founder and CEO of Istikana, discusses the idea beyond Istikana, the VOD (Video On Demand) platform dedicated for Arabic...

Arabnet Digital Media

Realizing Dreams Via Social Media: Ali Chehadeh Of DreamMatcher [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] Ali Chehadeh, CEO of DreamMatcher, discusses the idea that inspired him to create his company aiming to let people transform...

Arabnet Social Media Social Networks

Helping Entrepreneurs To Pitch Their Ideas: Fay Niewiadomski Of ICTN [Wamda TV]

Fay Niewiadomski, founder and CEO of ICTN, discusses how she helped entrepreneurs to pitch at ArabNet conference and to enhance their...

Advice Arabnet Tips

Are You the Best Developer in the Arab World? Prove it at the Arabnet Tournament

So you think you can code? Prove it to a regional audience at the Arabnet Developer Tournament this fall. The tournament will put...

Arabnet Competitions Conferences

Arab Twitter Apps Developer: Saleh Al Zaid of LunarApps [Wamda TV]

Arabic. Saleh Al Zaid, co-founder and CEO of LunarApps, speaks about the start of the company specialized in developing applications for...

Social Media Arabnet

Pivoting into Social Game Development After Birdy Nam Nam: J.C. Hoelt of Gamabox [Wamda TV]

J.C. Hoelt, one of the original co-creators of popular iPhone game Birdy Nam Nam, discusses the new mobile gaming studio, Gamabox, that he ...

Arabnet Gaming

Launching a Citizen Journalism Application: Mark Malcon & Emile Khatar from Sign.al [Wamda TV]

Mark Malcon and Emile Khatar speak about Sign.al, a citizen journalism application they built and developed since more than a year. Sign.al...

Arabnet Social Media

Building an Apartment Rental Site in Saudi Arabia: Hattan Ahmed of ArabRooms.com [Wamda TV]

Hattan Ahmed of Arabrooms.com describes how his Jeddah-based company launched to provide economy lodging and furnished short-term lease...

Arabnet

Localizing Comparison Shopping for Financial Products: Ambareen Musa of Souqalmal [Wamda TV]

Mauritian entrepreneur Ambareen Musa, who started her first company at 21, explains at Arabnet 2012 how she built Souqalmal by localizing...

Arabnet

Twitter Wars, Turks, and Tipping Points: Where We Are After ArabNet

Over a week after Beirut tech conference ArabNet, I’m still reflecting on the event. While managing editor Maya and I together c...

Arabnet Startup Communities

The Web is Darwinian: Lessons from Arabnet 2012

Today, many satisfied entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, companies, officials and others can look back at a successful third edition of...

Arabic Content Arabnet Conferences

12 Mobile Predictions for 2012 from Google at Arabnet

Mobile was one of the biggest buzzwords during Arabnet 2012, and this talk from Ahmad Hamzawi (@ahamzawi), Google’s Head of New Business D...

Arabnet Google Mobile

8 Hot New Trends at Arabnet Digital Summit 2012

"It's not a conference. It's a festival," Arabnet founder Omar Christidis corrected me when we discussed the Arabnet Digital Summit 2012....

Conferences Arabnet

Get Ready Egypt, Women Winners Took Arabnet Cairo

Cairo played host to its first ArabNet conference for internet and mobile entrepreneurs on the 19th & 20th October. “We’re glad to...

Arabnet

Would You Rather Pay for Music Streaming or Downloads? We Ask the Crowd [Wamda TV]

At the “Mobile Music” panel at Arabnet Beirut, panelists from Anghami, Yala, Deezer, and Vinelab discussed their competing strategies for ta...

Music Arabnet

Is 3 Months of Startup Acceleration Enough? We Ask the Crowd [Wamda TV]

At Arabnet Beirut's first panel, titled “The Entrepreneurship Ecosystem - Measuring Our Progress”, panelists discussed the challenges that e...

Accelerators Arabnet

What is the Best Pitch You Heard at Arabnet? We Ask the Crowd [Wamda TV]

During day one of Arabnet Beirut, 20 entrepreneurs from the Arab region participated in the Ideathon and the Startup Demo, offering up a...

Pitching Arabnet

Marwan Ziadat from Darebni TV Talks about the First Online Training Program in the Region [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] During the ArabNet 2012, we spoke to Marwan Ziadat, CEO and co-Founder of Darebni TV, about how the idea started, what are their...

Arabic Content Arabnet Art

GlamBox Brings Beauty Products to Doorsteps in the Arab World [Wamda TV]

At Arabnet 2012, Monica Debowski and Sonia Sultan of GlamBox.me discuss how they came up with the idea for GlamBox and how the company...

Arabnet Conferences E-commerce

Enabling E-Commerce: A Chat With Iyad Kamal of Aramex [Wamda TV]

At Arabnet 2012, Iyad Kamal, COO of Aramex International, explains how Aramex is enabling e-commerce throughout the Arab World and...

Arabnet Conferences Data

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