Wamda

U.A.E

Cisco Dubai successfully hosts IoT World Forum Hackathon

In first place SmartX team with the judges. (Images via BeMyApp) Right on the heels of the Internet of Things World Forum (IoTWF) in...

IoTWorldForum IoT MEMakers

Maghreb

Moroccan smart car app competition to boost local industry

The future of cars? (Image via McMaster.ca) Forgetting where you parked your car is an embarrassing problem that’s about to become a t...

MagNav self-driving car applications

U.A.E

UAE Innovation Week: 800 activities, hackathons, labs, and workshops

Dubai ranked second globally in government procurement of advanced technology products (Images via GE Hewar blog) From November...

UAE innovation week MEMakers Innovation

U.A.E

Wamda and GE organize closing day of MEMakers Venture Program

GE mentors and MENA entrepreneurs during the mentorship session (Images via Kamel El Asmar) A little over six weeks after launching the GE...

MEMakers GE Venture Program MEMakers

U.A.E

Big Data leading innovation, SmartCon 2015

Bora Arslan believes that big data is overused and exaggerated, creating mistrust in people. (Images via Pamela Kesrouani) Big data “will t...

smartcon Smart Cities MEMakers

Egypt

Egypt pill reminder app sets sights on Germany

Despite having perfect health, Ahmad ElKaragy always dreaded having colds for one reason: he often forgot to take his medication...

MEMakers Healthcare Egypt

Saudi Arabia

The rise of makerspaces in Saudi Arabia

Hackerspaces aren’t new to the region, but they are new to Saudi Arabia. Two years ago we highlighted a number of hackerspaces in...

Fab Lab Beirut Fab Lab Cairo Geeks Valley

U.A.E

What I know about pretotyping: Karina Sotnik

Karina Sotnik explaining the benefits of pretotyping. (Image via Wharton School) For Karina Sotnik, Silicon Valley was just the beginning...

Karina Sotnik What I Know Pretotyping

Regional

Intel's ChallengeME IoT competition announces winners

Intel's ChallengeME competition showcased a diversity of IoT innovation at Berytech in Beirut. (Images via Lina Mubarak) A logistics...

ChallengeME IoT MEMakers

U.A.E

Makersbuilders joins the innovators of the Arab region

Makersbuilders with parents and children filling up In5 in 2014. (Images via Makersbuilders) Gaps in the market, children...

robotics MEMakers the cribb

U.A.E

ArabiaWeather closes a round of $5M

CEO Mohammad Al-Shaker during one of the weather forecasts. (Image via ArabiaWeather) ArabiaWeather announced yesterday a $5 million...

Wamda Capital Jabbar Group MEMakers

U.A.E

GE brings Minds+Machines to the region for the first time

General Electric have made a MENA debut. The event focusing on Industrial Internet, was held for the first time in the region at the...

Ver2 Medicus Scriptr

Jordan

Matching virtual and real in 3D printing

Designing 3D models for screens is very different from designing them for printing. If a screen design is sent for printing so many...

MakePrintable MEMakers 3d printing

Regional

Big data for a big industry: oil and gas

BP technicians in the control room of the Atlantis platform. (Image via BP) The global oil and gas industry is being seduced by...

The Internet of Things IoT MEMakers

U.A.E

Dubai signs data sharing law

Dubai’s goal of becoming the smart city of the Middle East got a little closer this week when they announced the signing of a Dubai...

Dubai Smart City Taskforce data sharing ali rebaie

U.A.E

Alemhealth brings accurate and timely healthcare diagnosis to developing countries

In order to link underserved patients in developing countries with top radiologists from around the world, Alemhealth, provides...

M+M Minds+Machines MEMakers

Egypt

Egypt’s El Noor Geh takes part in GE’s first Minds+Machines event in the region

As Egypt suffers from frequent power cuts, programmers, makers and builders keep trying to find ways to prevent their work from being...

El Noor Geh Minds+Machines MEMakers

Egypt

KarmSolar, first Egyptian company to get license for off-grid solar power plant

Update: This article has been updated to include KarmSolar's largest deal to date, announced on October 18. Solar energy...

solar power MEMakers KarmSolar

Maghreb

Connecting the IoT dots in Tunisia [Opinion]

The industry of connected objects, or what we have come to call the Internet of Things (IoT), has rapidly expanded around the world, but...

IoT MEMakers CONNECTED HOME

Regional

Disrupting lives: how tech is changing us

When it comes to technology changing our lives and revolutionizing the way we do things the examples are endless - from steam engines to...

disruptive technology IoT MEMakers

Regional

5 ways startups should approach smart cities

Dubai's smart city, Silicon Park, aims to improve life, society, mobility, economy, governance and the environment.(Image via...

Dell Smart Cities IoT

Regional

Wamda and GE launch 6 weeks MEMakers venture program between GE mentors and regional startups

GE Mentors and entrepreneurs enjoying the introductory dinner. Wamda and General Electric (GE) have kicked off their latest collaboration,...

MEMakers GE Venture Program MEMakers abu dhabi

U.A.E

Dubai’s smart city goal creeps closer

Dubai wants to be a world-leader in building smart cities and it’s attracting corporate players from around the world clamouring to be i...

Dubai Design District cisco MEMakers

Palestine

This startup wants to modernize vaccination management

While waiting at a vaccination center in Jerusalem, Hafeth Zughayer noticed parents coming in and arguing with the nurses after learning...

Jerusalem Universal Baby Vaccinations digital health care

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