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Students Imagine Crazy Tech Ideas at Minya's Second Innovation Day in Egypt

Despite a train conductor strike that paralyzed Egypt’s railways in mid-April, the engineering Faculty at Minya University pushed ahead w...

Egypt Competitions

How Hsoub Bootstrapped its Way to Success

It’s not often that an Arab startup goes head-to-head with Google, but Hsoub is trying. In March 2011, Hsoub launched Hsoub Ads, a service t...

Digital Advertising Advertising Egypt

Bader Business Plan Competition in Egypt

The Bader Program recently launched a new business plan competition in Egypt, applications are due on April 15, 2013. The competition looks...

Business Development Ideas Egypt

Dubizzle Seeks to Change Culture of Ownership in Egypt

Global market research firm YouGov recently conducted a survey on the buying and selling behaviors of Egyptian internet users...

Social Change Egypt E-commerce

Alex Balloon Set to Take Flight in Egypt After Competition Win

Coming soon to a sky near you (if you’re in Egypt) is “Alex Balloon,” otherwise known as the Alexandria Balloon Project. To boost to...

Egypt Competitions

Could Digital Documentation Become a Profitable Business in Egypt?

Over the past two years since Egypt ousted Mubarak, several initiatives in Egypt have attempted to document the revolution's history on...

Egypt

Making Humor Profitable: A Look at Egypt's Sarcasm Society

Egyptians are known for their sense of humor, often using sarcasm and irony to describe and get through tough situations. But what if...

Crowdsourcing Egypt Animation

Egypt

How to Invest in Egypt: Tamkeen Takes a Holistic View

There are quite a few people in the Egyptian investment community who talk without delivering results; not so...

Financial management Business Development Expansion

Could a New Model for Scaling Handicraft Artisans Transform Egypt’s Economy?

Year-old initiative Anamel Masriya hopes to transform modest Egyptian artisans into independent entrepreneurs, in a bid to boost their ...

Art Ecosystem Egypt

How Entrepreneurs Are Innovating Their Way Out of Traffic

Sometimes the most innovative ideas come from entrepreneurs who are just fed up. Their ability to make people’s lives just a l...

Crowdsourcing Egypt Transportation

Egypt's Careerise Makes Job Search Simpler, More Social

Even in today’s hi-tech socially-networked world, the best way to find a new job is still through a personal referral. Of course, relying o...

Egypt Job Recruitment

How Egyptians Are Using Social Media [Report]

Inspired by the Egyptian Revolution on January 25, 2011, startup 25trends released their first report today on social media trends in...

Analytics Data Egypt

Blood Donation Goes Online in Egypt

After struggling to find an acceptable blood donor to save the life of one of his relatives, Hisham Kharma took the problem upon himself...

Crowdsourcing Egypt Health

CircleTie: Better than Foursquare, Built in Egypt

Location-based check-in apps are all the rage, especially those that help you discover new venues. In Egypt, however, CircleTie, is...

Egypt Gamification Innovation

Souq and EFE Expand E-Commerce Training in Egypt

E-commerce companies in Egypt now have a better chance of hiring and scaling with the expansion of a new talent training...

E-commerce Egypt

Can Cultural Entrepreneurship Soothe Political Strife? The Nile Project Unites East Africa with Music

Typically we think of entrepreneurship as the creation of new businesses, but working to change public opinion could be called cultural...

Music Egypt Agriculture

How LINKonLINE Weathered the Political Storm in Egypt with New Revenue Models

Until 2002, LINKonLINE was an online publishing section of Link Dot Net. Since it became an independent company,...

Egypt Arabic Content Digital Media

Mobile App Wasalny Tackles Cairo's Traffic, Now in Arabic

Amidst a wave of transportation apps being developed across Cairo, startup Wasalny has worked hard to differentiate itself through some...

Transportation Egypt Mobile

Reviving Egypt's Handmade Paper Industry for a Sustainable Future

Throughout his life, the artist and social activist Mohamed Abou El Naga worked in the handmade paper industry in Alexandria. In 2005, he...

Egypt Environment

Egyptian Startup Offers Push Notification Solution for App Developers [Wamda TV]

During the Flat6Labs Cycle 3 Demo Day, PushBots founder and CEO Amr Sobhy shares the story behind launching PushBots which helps mobile dev...

Developers Egypt Technology

Egypt's Flat6Labs Graduates Cycle 3: Here's What They're Building

Flat6Labs, the Cairo based accelerator, held its 4th Demo Day event, dubbed “Cycle 3 Fall 2013”, this week at the Cairo Marriott, showing of...

Egypt Flat6Labs

Keep Dreaming and Work Hard [Pic of the Week]

Despite the conflicts, instability and misfortunes hitting some Arab countries lately, it is refreshing to note that Arab communities are...

Advice CoE Cards Egypt

Weekly Wrap-Up: January 13-17

This week on Wamda, we covered startups involved in reviving their neighborhoods, and startups using gaming to rev up the regional...

Accelerators Advice E-commerce

Egypt's Tourism Gets Back on Its Feet at Rouqayah's Ranch

You think you're driving into the middle of nowhere, then thoughts of classic horror plots jump to mind. But once you arrive through...

Egypt Environment Food & Beverage

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