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8 (Tweetable) Stats to Know about E-Commerce in Turkey

The Süleymaniye Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey (Image via Travel Busy)As Turkey's economy grew from $200 billion in 2011 to almost $800 billion ...

Facebook Social Media Mobile

How to Optimize Your Facebook Presence for Graph Search

Facebook is gearing up to release its new Graph Search technology. Currently in beta for English speaking users, this will help people find...

Graph Search How-Tos Facebook

9 Stats on Facebook Use in Lebanon [Infographic]

If you are looking to connect with your community on social media, build relationships and interact with them on a...

Social Networks Facebook Social Media

How to Protect Your Privacy Once Facebook's Graph Search Goes Live [Report]

Amidst the global and regional concerns about the usage of Facebook's Graph Search, Social Media Exchange (SMEX) has launched a report in Ar...

Facebook Social Media

Will Facebook's New Deal with Mobile Operators Help It Take On Whatsapp, Viber, and Skype?

Yesterday, Facebook announced a partnership with telecom operators in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Egypt, to offer discounted access to its...

Facebook Mobile Mobile Apps

How to Manage Your Public Image on Social Media

The widespread use of social media has made it easy to access a variety of information about others, such as political views,...

Facebook Social Media Social Networks

Tutorial Platform Facebook Studio Edge Launches in Dubai

After unveiling the platform last spring, Facebook today announced the Dubai launch of Facebook Studio Edge, a tutorial platform designed...

Facebook Marketing Social Media

How to Create Facebook Pages with Impact: A Guide for Arab Organizations

Did you know that the average organization spends two and a half hours a week managing its Facebook site? Wamda spends more than that, but...

Facebook Social Media Social Networks

What Facebook's Graph Search Means for the Middle East

When quizzed about Facebook privacy issues in 2010 at D8, Mark Zuckerberg took a halting, nervous stab at convincing us to accept his...

Facebook Social Networks Technology

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

Middle East Startups Reveal How They Would Spend Investment [Poll Results]

This week, as part of our Facebook Poll series, we asked our Facebook community, “What aspect of your startup would you build up if y...

Facebook Marketing

How Much Does a Facebook Fan Cost in the Arab World? [Report]

The Online Project recently released a report answering the question “How much does a Facebook fan cost in the Arab world?” offering bus...

Advertising Facebook Marketing

Facebook Use by Companies in the Middle East and North Africa [Infographic]

Those looking to advertise on Facebook will be interested in this new infographic from SocialBakers that reveals Facebook trends for c...

Data Technology Social Networks

When is the Right Time to Quit Your Job? [Poll Results]

Following our recent Facebook poll for the Wamda community, we have compiled the answers to give a short readout on what Wamda’s readers a...

Facebook Social Media Social Networks

Facebook's 25 Most Popular Games: Lessons for Arab Developers

Facebook just announced the 25 most popular social games in 2012. Music trivia game SongPop by US developer FreshPlanet tops the chart,...

Facebook Gaming Mobile Gaming

Weekly Wrap-Up: December 02-06

This week has been especially full of advice on what to do and what not to do. Check out our posts for some legal advice as well as what...

Advice Arabic Content CoE Cards

Going Digital: Offline Businesses Moving Online, Part 4 [Wamda TV]

In the last segment of our June CoE E-Commerce panel, Going Digital: Offline Businesses Moving Online, moderator Omar Christidis o...

COE CoE E-Commerce Conferences

The State of the Internet in 2012 [Presentation]

Henry Blodget and Alex Cocotas from Business Insider’s BI Intelligence team have assembled a detailed overview of the U.S. and global digita...

Advertising Digital Advertising Digital Marketing

Going Digital: Offline Businesses Moving Online, Part 3 [Wamda TV]

In Part 3 of our June CoE E-Commerce panel, Going Digital: Offline Businesses Moving Online, moderator Omar Christidis...

COE CoE E-Commerce Conferences

8 Infographics Illustrating Facebook Benchmarks In The Arab World

TOP, a startup out of Endeavor Jordan, and in collaboration with Social Watchlist, identifies and analyzes eight core industries to e...

Technology Social Media Facebook

TOP & Social Watchlist Report: Facebook Benchmarks in the Middle East [Report]

For entrepreneurs looking to see how their performance on Facebook fares against other startups in the MENA region, this downloadable...

Facebook Social Media Social Networks

Egyptian Social Gaming Startup FunWave Delivers Football Fun

Egypt is full of football fanatics, and the region is as well. So it made perfect sense that Egyptian social games start-up FunWave’s ...

Accelerators Angel Investment Egypt

How Internet Users Will Spend Their Time in 2012 [Infographic]

Every moment of our lives nowadays is related to an internet act, a fact clearly demonstrated by this infographic, which examines five...

E-commerce Facebook Gaming

Facebook to Target Ad Revenue with New Dubai Office

As we predicted in February, Facebook is indeed entering the MENA region, planning to open an office in Dubai now that its IPO...

Facebook Social Networks

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