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Windows Startup Challenge

Microsoft, Startup Weekend and DEMO recently announced the Windows Startup Challenge, a global contest offering developers, designers and...

Competitions Developers Mobile Apps

A Look at the Most Popular Arabic Apps for iOS

Developing smartphone apps has been a dominant trend in the Middle East market. Thanks to low costs and the appeal of quick returns, many...

Mobile Mobile Apps

Entrepreneur of the Week: Mansour Mansour Co-founder of Javna in Jordan [Wamda TV]

Entrepreneur of the week today on Wamda is Mansour Mansour, an Endeavor Jordan entrepreneur, CEO of Javna in Jordan offering mobile media...

Advertising Digital Advertising Digital Media

Palestinian SMS Platform Souktel Raises $1 Million from Sadara Ventures

Souktel, one of the fastest growing startups in Palestine today, is set to enter a new era with a round of $1 million in investment from...

Investment Mobile Mobile Apps

Weekly Wrap-Up: December 16-20

This has been a week of looking back and planning ahead. What are you excited about for next year? What are the most valuable experiences...

Arabic Content CoE Cards Conferences

Arabic Cooking Community Shahiya Expands into English, Considers Tablet App

Fresh off of a round of Series A investment from MEVP, Shahiya is looking into new growth models as it continues to tackle the...

Arabic Content Food & Beverage Mobile

AskNative Looks to Boost Tourism in Egypt with Local Know-How

Who’s the best person to ask for advice about a destination? A native local resident, of course. This straightforward concept is the b...

Egypt Mobile Travel

iOS App Abjad City Teaches Kids the Arabic Alphabet

What happens if you find yourself living in a foreign country where no one speaks your native language, and you are try to teach...

Arabic Content Education Mobile Apps

Beirut Creative Cluster Works to Increase Collaboration Among Local Companies

One year ago, the Beirut Creative Cluster (BCC) was just an idea developed by Berytech. Today, the cluster is set to become a hub for...

Animation Conferences Design

iFood's Mobile App Rises to the Top of the Food Delivery Pack in Jordan

Jordan has changed in a variety of ways since I lived there a year ago; perhaps a small win given the recent turmoil is that it’s become m...

Food & Beverage Mobile Mobile Apps

Regional

Kids Love Arabic: A New Educational Arabic iOS Story Platform for Kids

Many parents, including myself, invest time and money trying to find an educational application for their children, to keep them from...

Arabic Content Education Mobile Apps

Weekly Wrap-Up: November 18-22

This week was all about looking outside to identify and adapt solutions to problems within local ecosystems. What are your thoughts about...

Advice CoE Cards Conferences

Can Startappz Disrupt the Mobile Space in the Arab World?

The idea of being more committed to learning than to a given product seems appropriate for the wave of young entrepreneurs entering the...

Arabic Content Investment Mobile

Heated Debates and Fresh Startups: What Stood Out at the Arabic Digital Content Conference in Amman

Two weeks ago more than 43 internet and business geeks spoke to a large audience of Arabic content enthusiasts in the Jordanian capital of...

Arabic Content Digital Media Ecosystem

Morocco's Masarat App Aims to Conquer the Islamic Mobile App Market

During my frequent discussions with my business partners or friends, I usually share some milestones about the digital evolution in...

Arabic Content Mobile Mobile Apps

Cashless in Kenya: A Mobile Money Experiment Using M-PESA

Walking home from the office late one night, Amrit Pal, an Indian student working with a Nairobi-based mobile money startup for the summer,...

Mobile Mobile Apps Payment Gateways

Making Music a Social Experience: SoundCloud's Thom Cummings at SHARE Beirut [Wamda TV]

At SHARE Beirut 2012, Thom Cummings of SoundCloud discusses how their platform is making music and other audio files a more interactive and ...

Conferences Digital Media Media

Lebanon’s Anghami Launches the First Music Streaming Platform for the Middle East: PROMOCODE Included

Forget Spotify. Anghami is here! Launching today for iPhone, the platform is bringing the Arab world its first mobile and web music...

Mobile Mobile Apps Music

Fatooosh Offers Mobile and SmartTV Video Streaming Tailored for the Arab World

Amidst a rise in available Arabic content online, a new cross-platform SmartTV app has launched to offer seamless video viewing and...

Arabic Content Digital Media Entertainment

Can Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Solve Addressing Problems in the Arab World?

When Khaled Naim started building Addy.co in January, it was a side project conceived during a Startup Weekend. But after he debuted Addy...

Innovation Mobile Mobile Apps

Interactive Applications Platform: Motea Alwan of Tatbeeqat [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] At ArabNet 2012, Motea Alwan, Founder and CEO of Tatbeeq.at, speaks about the applications reviews provided by his company, where...

Arabic Content Arabnet Conferences

The Future Of Smart Devices And Apps: Ziad Matar of Qualcomm [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] At ArabNet 2012, Ziad Matar, Head of Middle East region at Qualcomm, discusses the trends in mobile phones and how smart phones...

Arabnet Conferences Mobile

Vodafone Ventures Egypt Announces Investment in Eshtery, Ogra, and GyroLabs

After sponsoring and participating in the Euromoney conference in Egypt earlier this month, Vodafone Ventures Egypt has announced...

Accelerators Investment Mobile

Entrepreneur Of The Week, Elie Gregoire Khoury Of Panorama Mobile App: Dermandar [Wamda TV]

Entrepreneur of the week today on Wamda is Elie Gregoire Khoury co-founder of Dermandar, a mobile application to create and share panoramic ...

Digital Media Entrepreneur of the Week Mobile Apps

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