Wamda

U.A.E

Ro’Ya: Developing the UAE’s female entrepreneurs

2015 applicants attend a Ro'Ya workshop. (Images via Ro'Ya) Women are driving entrepreneurship in the UAE, and the people behind the...

Dubai Business Women Council Baby Arabia VentureFin

Regional

10 ways open source tech is changing the rules of the game

In the last few years, open source software platforms such as Android have established themselves as essential catalysts for technology...

Droidcon Dubai open source Dubai

Regional

How do you build a smart city?

Dubai's smart city, Silicon Park, focuses on six pillars: life, society, mobility, economy, governance and environment.(Image...

Smart Devices Smart Cities IoTx

U.A.E

How UAE’s Mrusta raised an unexpected $351K

When Ibrahim Colak, founder of UAE service providers platform Mrusta, attended a networking event at Dubai’s In5 innovation center,...

mrusta seed investment Dubai

Egypt

Printing money: Spear Ink’s e-waste ambitions

E-waste is a mushrooming scourge of the technology revolution with up to 50 million tons of electronic rubbish generated annually -...

printer cartridge spear ink MEMakers

U.A.E

The Dubai startups at your service

For the money-rich and time-poor white collar workers of Dubai, chores are largely a thing of the past. For several years at least,...

maids.ae helpling service economy

U.A.E

Green is the new black, bringing bamboo sportswear to the UAE

A Baembu t-shirt. The camels approve. (Image via Plhong Flores) Most startup conferences will tell you that perfectionism is an enemy of...

Market OTB PechaKucha Clothing

U.A.E

MEED’s Smart Cities 2015 in Dubai

MEED’s Smart Cities 2015 is a conference that brings together critical partners to promote and invigorate the creation and...

MEED Dubai conference

U.A.E

TURN8 hackathon on Arabic digital content ideas

TURN8 seed accelerator is organizing a hackathon to find innovative digital media and business models that enhance Arabic content online....

Digital Arabic Content turn8 united arab emirates

U.A.E

Can sports help people explore Dubai?

I wrote two years ago about how daily deals websites are fading in Lebanon, inspired by my previous job at GoNabit, the first group...

GamePlaySport seed investment Dubai

Jordan

ZINC and DSOA partnership creates new opportunities for Jordanian startups

Exploring new marketing opportunities has always been an objective for many Jordanian entrepreneurs. In an attempt to help those wanting to...

zinc incubator DSOA Zain Jordan

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Arabnet Digital Summit 2015 in Dubai

Arabnet Digital Summit 2015 is one of the biggest event in MENA, gathering thousands of attendees and hundreds of speakers every year...

arabnet digital summit Dubai Arabnet

U.A.E

Silicon valley’s 500 Startups is organizing a pitching workshop in Dubai

500 Startups is organizing a pitching workshop hosted by AstroLabs in partnership with Nestle and TOP. The event allows entrepreneurs and...

Nestle 500 startups TOP

Regional

Diagnose your market: insights into MENA’s digital health revolution

The health revolution. (Image via CB Insights) As the m-health industry of the Middle East continues to grow, Dubai hosted its first...

Trice Imaging Inc HealthXL Qualcomm Ventures

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Beyond Oil: Tech and Future of Work in MENA

Moving from traditional to knowledge economies is a prickly problem for any country, but especially so for oil-bound Middle Eastern...

Diversification FOW Future of Work

U.A.E

Russian entrepreneurship organization Startup Sabantuy comes to Dubai

The Cribb, an innovative hub based in Dubai, is hosting Startup Sabantuy this June 6, 2015, in Dubai UAE. The event will start at 11:30 AM...

Russia Startup Sabantuy Dubai

U.A.E

Payment solution, online marketplace, and logistics startup top TechCrunch Dubai

On the eve of the Step Conference, (the Middle East’s largest event featuring technology, design, and gaming trends), Innovation360’s acc...

Step Conference Laundry Box Bit Oasis

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Hatcher announces new seed and Series A funding for MENA startups

Hatcher, the Singapore-based ‘B2B venture builder’ connecting startups in emerging markets with investors, is looking to “double down,” as ...

hatcher fund hatcher beirut

U.A.E

AstroLabs Dubai sign on 30 startups ahead of Google tech hub launch

Ahead of its official opening of the Google Tech Hub Space, AstroLabs Dubai has launched a temporary coworking space in the city with 30...

Google Tech Hub Dubai Astrolabs

U.A.E

Two years in, In5's impact on Dubai's entrepreneurship sector

“In5 is a center specialized in supporting the development of private companies and entrepreneurs and in the encouragement of creativity a...

in5 Dubai

Global

Corridor for UK and MENA investment in SMEs opened up further by UK regulation

The Dubai-based international investment platform Eureeca announced today that they have recently received the stamp of approval from the...

FCA eureeca Dubai

U.A.E

Hacka { MENA } 2015, Dubai [DISCOUNT]

Hacka { MENA } is a social impact Hackathon bringing together the most innovative technopreneurs from code and design industries from ...

Dubai

Regional

What KinTrans' Mohammed Elwazer learned at SeedStars International

KinTrans may not have won SeedStars 2015 competition in Geneva in February, but founder Mohammed Elwazer didn’t walk away empty h...

SeedStars International hearing impaired KinTrans

Regional

Future of Work: Middle East

On April 29th 2015, The Economist will be hosting “Future of Work: Middle East” event, which will explore the opportunities and challenges ...

The Economist Dubai

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