Yahoo! Maktoob's New Geo-Located Events Concept Battuta Revealed at QITCOM Of the pitches that I saw today in the TechZone at QITCOM, Qatar's IT-dedicated conference, one that stood out was Yahoo's forward-thinking... Nina Curley • 05 March, 2012 Digital Media Mobile Mobile Apps
Yahoo! Boosts Arabic Digital Content Creation in Deal with ictQATAR Aspiring digital media entrepreneurs in the region have a new reason fire up projects this year. Yahoo! and ictQATAR announced a strategic... Nina Curley • 16 February, 2012 Digital Media
Wikipedia To Build Arabic Pages with Cairo Initiative Following Yahoo!'s partnership with ictQATAR comes an announcement by Wikipedia that it seeks to generate more Arabic content on its... Nina Curley • 16 February, 2012 Digital Media
Open Diversity: Using tech to help you access the world of media David Haddad and Valencio Cardoso will be holding an educational workshop about tips and ideas on how to use the web to spread the word... Wamda • 16 February, 2012 Digital Media
Looking to Get a Story Out? PressPass Can Help Businesses and citizen journalists looking to break a story now have a new resource in their arsenal (aside from Wamda, that is!).... Nina Curley • 09 February, 2012 Digital Media
Creating a Digital Arabic Comics Market from Egypt [Wamda TV] During the Flat6Labs Cycle 3 Demo Day, Mahmoud Ghoz, founder and CEO of Rawy, discusses his startup, a digital publishing marketplace and se... Omar Aysha • 19 March, 2013 Egypt Media Accelerators
Entrepreneur of the Week: Delphine Edde Co-Founder of Diwanee [Wamda TV] Four years after being in the business of building online portals for women, Delphine Edde, co-founder of Diwanee, thinks that there is not ... Maya Rahal • 12 February, 2013 Arabic Content Digital Media Entrepreneur of the Week
Palestinian Startup Magic Lens Provides Multimedia Solutions in Gaza [Wamda TV] Three young Palestinian entrepreneurs recently launched Magic Lens, a design startup offering multimedia services for clients in Gaza. The s... Mariam Hamed • 31 January, 2013 Animation Arabic Content Digital Media
Gaza Startup Builds Creative Arabic Mobile Apps [Wamda TV] [Arabic] Palestinian entrepreneurs Abed Al Hamid Al Fioumi and Mohammed Belbol started Sanabel to build technical solutions in Palestine, i... Mariam Hamed • 01 January, 2013 Animation Arabic Content Digital Media
How Telecom Company Orange is Creating a Culture of Intrapreneurship David Nahmani, Business Development Director at Orange, discusses how the Jordanian mobile operator is creating a culture of... Nina Curley • 15 November, 2012 Abu Dhabi Media Summit Data Digital Media
Regional The Rise of Women in the MENA Workforce: Chris O'Donoghue of Four Communications [Wamda TV] At the Abu Dhabi Media Summit, Chris O’Donoghue, Chairman of the Four Communications Group, discusses the rise of women in Middle East and N... Wamda • 03 November, 2012 Conferences Acquisitions Digital Media
How to Monetize Digital Content in Emerging Markets: eMarketer’s Geoff Ramsey [Wamda TV] Geoff Ramsey, founder of eMarketer, discusses trends in access and monetiztion of digital content in emerging markets at the 2012 Abu Dhabi... Wamda • 01 November, 2012 Digital Advertising Digital Marketing Digital Media
How Turkish Startups Can Expand Into the Arab World [Wamda TV] Cem Sertoglu of Earlybird Ventures discusses how the MENA and Turkish ecosystems have changed since last year’s Webrazzi Summit. Earlybird V... Wamda • 29 October, 2012 Conferences Digital Media Ecosystem
Ammar Abu Shady Of Egyptian Qabila TV At SHARE Beirut [WamdaTV] [Arabic] Ammar Abu Shady one of the co-founders of Egyptian media startup Qabila TV speaks to Wamda during SHARE Beirut, in early October, ... Maya Rahal • 17 October, 2012 Advertising Animation Arabic Content
The Effect of Social Media on Government and Mainstream Sources: Yousef Tuqan of Flip Media [Wamda TV] Yousef Tuqan of Flip Media, which was recently acquired by Publicis Groupe, chats with us at the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business Plan... Nina Curley • 23 April, 2012 Digital Media MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition Social Media