Global The promise of 5G: Digital divide or development pathway? Mark Roden is the founder and chief executive officer at mobile top-up company, Ding ‘Limitless connectivity’ was to be... Thought Leadership • 15 March, 2020 5G Mobile Ding
Global In conversation with Mark Roden of Ding Too often in the GCC, the needs of low-income labourers from emerging economies are overlooked by startups, who instead tend to target the... Triska Hamid • 03 October, 2019 Ireland expat Mobile
Regional Tech startups are disrupting the service sector [Video] Press CC for Arabic subtitles. Entrepreneurs are closer to the trends, and are even setting some. They are also able to cater more... Staff writer • 28 September, 2017 Tourism Hotels Mobile
Regional GSMA Mobile 360 MENA GSMA Mobile 360 MENA is a two-day conference which identifies and addresses key challenges/opportunities for the mobile ecosystem... Wamda • 12 September, 2017 GSMA Mobile conference
Saudi Arabia This is how 3 Saudi female students launched a mobile repair company Fixing electronic devices such as phones and laptops is a field dominated by men, especially in the Arab world. However, a group of young... Maya Rahal • 15 August, 2017 Saudi Arabia Fixtag Mobile
Egypt 'Push' is big business for these Egyptians 2015 was the year of the push notification. App makers discovered that a prompt on a smartphone could remind their users they existed... Rachel Williamson • 06 November, 2016 pushbots push notification Egypt
U.A.E Did the world’s thinnest phone just launch at GITEX Dubai? Carbon Works, a UAE-based startup, launched what they say is the world’s thinnest smartphone at Dubai’s GITEX Summit 2016 on... Maysaa Ajjan • 19 October, 2016 carbon works Carbon fiber Telecommunication
Regional IATA NDC Hackathon IATA invites talented developers, designers, marketers, idea generators, and futurists to transform the travel experience for... Wamda • 20 September, 2016 hackathon Travel Airlines
Maghreb Tiny Tunisian startup cracks open global telco market Roamsmart helps mobile operators manage their roaming operations. (Image via RCR Wireless) Roaming is a pain for business travelers and a... Aline Mayard • 01 May, 2016 BizSpark RoamSmart roaming
Egypt A global fitness platform from the streets of Cairo The Jumpsuite team, left to right, Nabil Rostom, Norshek Fawzy and Kareem Abou Gamrah. (Images via Jumpsuite) We all know working out... Alaa' Odeh • 18 April, 2016 ehealth fitness Health
Lebanon Krimston 'Kickstarts' its dual-SIM iPhone adapter Krimston's cofounders Fouad Fattal (left) and Nabil Nasr (right). (Images via Krimston) In April 2012, Lebanese entrepreneur Fouad Fattal... Samuel Wendel • 06 April, 2016 kickstarter Hardware Crowdfunding
Regional 8 MENA ecommerce predictions for 2016 This is an edited crosspost with LinkedIn. What a year it’s been for ecommerce in the Middle East. Launches of dozens of new startups; the ... Mo Ali Yusuf • 28 December, 2015 Uberization Mo Ali Yusuf Opinion
U.A.E Personal finance app Wally launches on Android, aimed squarely at UAE A year after its initial launch at Arabnet Beirut, personal finance application Wally is now rolling out Wally+, a... Abdulghani Kataya • 12 November, 2014 wally finance Mobile
Regional Mobile dominates even offline shopping in MENA [Report] Shoppers and retailers in the MENA region have long known that consumers have been spending more and more money online. What is new,... Wamda • 21 October, 2014 smartphone penetration Mobile Report
Regional How do Arabic speakers use mobile apps? [Infographic] Last time we checked in, Khaled Swilat’s startup App Mahal, a search engine for Arabic apps, had 40,000 downloads, 39,000 of... Reine Farhat • 07 September, 2014 app mahal arabic infographic Infographic
Lebanon PinPay leads mobile payments trend in Lebanon Mobile phones in emerging markets are still widely used for texting, making phone calls, taking pictures, reading news, and using... Reine Farhat • 14 August, 2014 m-pesa pinpay Beirut Digital District
Arab Mobile App Challenge 2014 The Arab Mobile App Challenge (AMAC) opens its doors to the Pan Arab region teams to compete with mobile solutions in the focus areas of en... Wamda • 18 August, 2014 competition Mobile
Lebanese game developer fights uphill battle despite international recognition Over the past few months, I’ve heard numerous stories from game developers in the Arab world and across Europe looking to target regional c... Glen Dalakian II • 10 July, 2014 indie Competitions Mobile
[SlideShare] The future of the internet is in developing economies The internet may have been born decades ago in the West, but its future might well play out primarily in developing countries. This is, at... Aline Mayard • 11 June, 2014 Slideshare Delivery Mobile
KarTag enters the Cairo carpooling market with a user-generated 'pure carpooling' model Egypt suffers from an astonishing amount of automobile-related pollution, traffic, and parking problems. Egyptian entrepreneurs have... Ahmed Gabr • 09 April, 2014 Car Service Coworking Sharing Economy
Lebanon Lebanese developer overcomes technical challenges to launch Arabic mobile word game After attending a seminar about the lack of digital Arabic content at ArabNet 2012, Samer Hamandi came up with the idea of Charbaka, a... Reine Farhat • 24 April, 2014 Mobile Gaming Arabic Content Mobile
Finnish game developer bets on the Arab region - and wins Developing games for the Middle East, and making current titles available in Arabic, are usually difficult and time-consuming tasks for... Ahmed Gabr • 10 March, 2014 social gaming Social Technology
Why is Indian personal assistant app Shifu taking the Arab region by storm? Smartphones make life a lot easier, socially and professionally. But, thought Indian mobile app developer Prashant Singh, how much easier... Ahmed Gabr • 03 March, 2014 smartphone Technology Mobile
Jordanian mobile business app Applixya to target global executives Having turned a profit since 2011, the founders of Applixya, an iPad app that allows highly mobile business executives to stay in... Ahmed Gabr • 04 March, 2014 Technology Mobile