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Abu Dhabi Media Summit 2012

The Abu Dhabi Media Summit is a gathering of people and companies driving the transition to a more fully networked new world. The three-day ...

Conferences Digital Media

The World of E-Commerce, Beyond Physical Goods, Part 2 [Wamda TV]

At our June event, CoE E-Commerce, Abed Agha, Founder and CEO of Vinelab, moderated a panel on The World of E-Commerce, Beyond Physical ...

COE CoE E-Commerce Digital Media

The World of E-Commerce, Beyond Physical Goods, Part 3 [Wamda TV]

In Part 3 of our CoE E-Commerce panel on The World of E-Commerce, Beyond Physical Goods, moderator Abed Agha, Founder and CEO of Vinelab, ...

COE CoE E-Commerce Digital Media

du's Reality TV Competition The Entrepreneur Launches Tonight

The region's first reality TV show about entrepreneurs is here. "The Entrepreneur," which pits 10 entrepreneurs against each other in ...

Competitions Digital Media

A Peek At Iran’s Digital Consumption In 2012 [Infographic]

E-commerce, online banking and consumption of digital mediums is remarkably advanced in Iran with 67% of respondents using the internet for...

Digital Media E-commerce Infographic

Entrepreneur of the Week: Abdullah Mando of UTURN Entertainment in Saudi Arabia

Before graduating from college, Abdulla Mando, Anmar Fatheldeen, and Omar Murad founded production house UTURN Entertainment in July 2010...

Arabic Content Digital Media Entrepreneur of the Week

Can Saving a Few Dollars Make Society More Stable? Cashy.me Launches UAE Saves Week

Can saving a few dollars a day build a more stable society? Nima Abu Wardeh of Cashy.me thinks so. But when she first came up with the idea...

Digital Media Investment

How Startup Design Agency RBBi Turned a Profit Within a Year in Dubai

How many Dubai startups have turned a profit within a year of launching? User experience design and user interface (UX/UI) agency...

Digital Media User Experience Design

Wamda Hosts Live Twitter Interview With Lebanese Telecom Minister This Friday At 7pm

The Lebanese Ministry of Telecommunication along with Zein Real Estate (ZRE) and Berytech have launched Beirut Digital District yesterday...

Digital Media

How Arab Startups Turned a Slow Ramadan into Quick Success

Although Ramadan can be a slow month for consumption, some startups have found ways to make the most of it throughout the past month....

Digital Media E-commerce Ramadan

Social Media Week Is Coming To Jeddah

This year, Jeddah was chosen to be one of the cities that will host the social media week 2012. Jeddah will organize 5 consecutive days of...

Digital Media Social Media

3 Lessons for Building a Popular Arabic Content Portal

There’s no shortage of demand for Arabic content online today, but building a niche site that will captivate and consistently entertain a l...

Arabic Content Digital Media

Content Delivery & Digital Services-Middle East 2012

Capacity Conferences announced the dates for "Content Delivery & Digital Services-Middle East 2012" taking place on the 10 & 11...

Digital Media Trends

YouTube Launches Ramadan Channel, Bringing Favorite Series Online

In Cairo today, YouTube announced the launch of a new Ramadan-dedicated channel that will feature 50 premium shows during the...

Digital Media Google

Diary of a Google Finalist: Do Arab Entrepreneur Tournaments Help Startups?

Sarah Wali left the U.S. media scene and returned to Egypt to pursue an idea for a citizen journalism platform for the Middle East. With...

Digital Media Google Media

How Egypt Is Discussing the Presidential Elections on Facebook and Twitter

Wamda is not a place for political debate. But the entrepreneurial ecosystem does not live in a separate universe, however much we...

Digital Media Social Media

Istikana Inks Groundbreaking Deal to Offer Videos on Samsung Smart TVs

It remains to be seen whether there is a viable market for video-on-demand services in the Middle East, like those that Hulu provides in...

Digital Media Video On Demand

Democratizing Video Content in Egypt: Crowdsway [Wamda TV]

Mohamed Al-Borno, the CEO & Founder of Crowdsway, a startup that graduated from Cairo-based accelerator Flat6Labs, talks about his ...

Digital Media

Using Digital Innovation, CrowdVoice.org Seeks to Amplify Minority Voices in the Middle East

Esra'a Al Shafei is founder of CrowdVoice.org, a user-powered service that tracks voices of protest from around the world by crowdsourcing...

Digital Media

tasmeemME Continues Palestinian Museum Logo Design Competition

Update: the deadline has now been extended to May 31st! Submit now. It’s probably been a minute since you’ve heard from creative community ...

Design Digital Media

Creating a Culture Shift in Cairo

Fill a room with equal numbers of people from the arts, software developers, NGO volunteers, and business professionals. Now sprinkle some ...

Digital Media Ecosystem Innovation

Meet the Teams that Pitched at Cairo Culture Shift

The British Council Culture Shift event in Cairo this month brought together an interesting mix of teams and ideas: Competing ...

Digital Media Ecosystem Innovation

Shaping the Entrepreneurial Future of Egypt

The 2012 AUC Research Conference, held this past week at the university's New Cairo campus, was an exercise in uniting Egypt's...

Accelerators Angel Investment Arabic Content

Qordoba Launches Arabic ePublishing and eReading Platform

[Diclosure: Wamda has invested in Qordoba]. Authors looking to digitize or self-publish Arabic books online or distribute Arabic...

Digital Media

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