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The Web is Darwinian: Lessons from Arabnet 2012

Today, many satisfied entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, companies, officials and others can look back at a successful third edition of...

Arabic Content Arabnet Conferences

12 Mobile Predictions for 2012 from Google at Arabnet

Mobile was one of the biggest buzzwords during Arabnet 2012, and this talk from Ahmad Hamzawi (@ahamzawi), Google’s Head of New Business D...

Arabnet Google Mobile

4 Ways to Innovate in Online Travel in the Middle East

The regional behemoth airlines, Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways, continue to inspire us with their global dominance. Yet despite...

Innovation Mobile Travel

Top 5 Trends from Mobile World Congress 2012

Every year in February, the brightest minds of the wireless industry meet in Barcelona to take part in the Mobile World Congress. This year...

Mobile

Prayer, Media, and Gaming Apps Win at the Innovation Theatre Competition at QITCOM

After 10 teams pitched their ideas yesterday at the Innovation Theatre, in a competition hosted by Potential at QITCOM, the 5 team that...

Education Gaming Mobile

Diabetes Prevention App for Qatar Wins Vodafone Appathon at QITCOM

Over the past 48 hours, 13 teams hustled to build working mobile apps during the Appathon hosted by Vodafone Qatar and supported by...

Mobile Mobile Apps

African Startup Launches SMS Marketing Platform For Businesses

Three months ago, African entrepreneur Natalino Mwenda launched Rasello, the first platform allowing African small businesses to...

Mobile Marketing SMS

Yahoo! Maktoob's New Geo-Located Events Concept Battuta Revealed at QITCOM

Of the pitches that I saw today in the TechZone at QITCOM, Qatar's IT-dedicated conference, one that stood out was Yahoo's forward-thinking...

Digital Media Mobile Mobile Apps

Which Mobile OS Dominated 2011?

If you're looking to build mobile applications for export to a global market, take a look at iCrossing's recent infographic detailing the...

Mobile Trends

Going Mobile: Are You Ready to Put the “m” in “www”?

Looking for recent movie information? If you go to imdb.com on a smartphone to research this information, you’ll be welcomed by a mobile o...

Mobile Mobile Apps

U.A.E

Gulf Enterprise Mobility Expo & Conference (GEMEC) 2016 Dubai

GEMEC 2016 brings the world’s leading mobility experts to Dubai World Trade Centre, providing the ideal platform to discuss, debate an...

GEMEC 2016 Gulf Dubai World Trade Centre

Recently launched Egyptian app aims to help eliminate fake media reports

During a heated political debate that took place in Cairo after the events of June 30th 2013, three Egyptians, freshly graduated from...

news Mobile

How a Lebanese telecom sees the local startup scene

At our recent Mix N’ Mentor Beirut, we chatted with partner touch about their view of the Lebanese startup ecosystem and how they, as a m...

Telecommunication Mobile

This Algerian woman needs your vote to win a Harvard competition today

Algerian college student Meriem Chehih wasn’t taught how to code in high school. “Here in Algeria, we don’t study computers in high ...

Healthcare Health Mobile

Jordanian student entrepreneurs build mobile sign language translator for the deaf [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting, we caught up with Sofiane Abed El Jalil and Ahmed Aboughunam, both students at A...

Mobile

Scaling an online reviews platform in Saudi Arabia [Wamda TV]

We met up with Jihad Alammar, the founder of Qaym, at Mix N’ Mentor Riyadh to discuss how his restaurant review site is scaling in Saudi Ar...

Reviews Mix n Mentor Mobile

Tunisia's MobiSpot serves up video advertising to users without smartphones

It's clear that the Arab World is hungry for video content. In 2012, the Middle East and North Africa had the second largest number of...

Digital Advertising Advertising Mobile

Gazan Startup Wasselni Seeks to Solve Traffic Issues Across the Region [Wamda TV]

Mariam Atoui recently founded Wasselni, a startup specialized in developing mobile and web applications tackling traffic and transport p...

Mobile Transportation

Mobile App Startup Localizes Daily Deals in Malaysia [Wamda TV]

In an interview at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Fadzli Anuar, the founder of Voucheres, a mobile app for local ad promotion based in ...

Daily Deals Mobile Mobile Apps

A Chat with Kaveh Gharib of Twitter: Revolutions, Mobile, and Monetization [Wamda TV]

At the Abu Dhabi Media Summit last month, Kaveh Gharib, the localization project manager at Twitter specializing in the Middle East and ...

Abu Dhabi Media Summit Mobile Social Media

Can an Egyptian Mobile App Make Daily Deals Smarter? AlZwad Launches Dealazion

As the region witnesses the departure of LivingSocial and rumors that Jabbar is looking to sell Cobone, one startup in Egypt is pushing...

Daily Deals Mobile Mobile Apps

Young Cairo Startup Eventtus Reaches a Global Market for Event Discovery

Events of all types are becoming a big deal in Egypt, especially amongst the younger age range. More disposable income, more free...

Mobile Mobile Apps Women

Arabic Speech Now Recognized by Google

Developers throughout the Arab World should be excited- Google's quiet rollout of Arabic voice recognition continues to create new...

Mobile Mobile Apps

Mobile vs. Internet vs. TV: Who Wins in the Arab World? Part 5: The Arab Uprisings [Wamda TV]

In the fifth semgent of the panel discussion on "Mobile vs. Internet vs. TV: Who Wins?" at CoE Animate 11, our animation-focused event held...

Animation CoE Animate Mobile

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