StartupYourLife, the community that’s shaking up the Moroccan startup scene “Countries from all around the world look up to Silicon Valley as if it were the heart of innovation; they’re all getting the... Aline Mayard • 24 November, 2013 startupyourlife morocco events
4 trends shaping the future of mobile The future is mobile, and the future for mobile is apps. Advertising, video and image sharing, and mobile retail are all gaining traction... Ahmed Gabr • 24 November, 2013 tech mobile advertising Technology
Weekly Wrap-Up: November 17-21 Join us on the Wamda Plane for a free trip to our Saudi blogger meetup! We're getting closer to our first Mix N' Mentor in Jeddah, and... Wamda • 21 November, 2013 Weekly Wrap-Up
Wamda CEO wins Media Creativity Award In a bit of Wamda news today, our CEO Habib Haddad, founder of translation technology Yamli, was awarded in Media Creativity by NGO Arab T... Wamda • 21 November, 2013
Introduction to Hadoop in Dubai On Monday, November 25th, Dubai Internet City, In5, Axeldata, and Cloudera are hosting an Introduction to Hadoop session focused on... Wamda • 21 November, 2013 big data
Dubai+Acumen Social Enterprise Business Plan Competition Finale On November 23rd, ten aspiring social entrepreneurs will compete to win prizes worth over AED 150,000 at the Grand Finale of the Acumen f... Wamda • 21 November, 2013 Competitions Social Entrepreneurship
Egyptian startup Integreight looks to crowdfund its award-winning Arduino shield In today’s unstable economic and political climate, in which Egyptian entrepreneurs struggle to achieve success, the founders of the ... Eman Mostafa • 21 November, 2013 disrupt techcrunch Integreight
GIST Startup Boot Camp Amman In partnership with Oasis500, the GIST Boot Camp will be held on December 16-17, 2013 and is open to Jordanian entrepreneurs with a tech... Wamda • 21 November, 2013 GIST Seed stage
How are NGOs perceived on social media in the Arab world? [Infographic] Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the Arab world should make good use of social networks to spread their message and increase... Maya Rahal • 21 November, 2013 Nakhweh
Lebanon's Roadie Tuner debuts a device 'three times more accurate than the human ear' Fresh off their stay in China at hardware accelerator HAXLR8R, the Lebanese team behind Roadie Tuner is now set to release its... Glen Dalakian II • 20 November, 2013 haxlr8r china Hardware
GDG Dubai's dbcon In collaboration with MongoBD and Nabbesh, Google Developers Group (GDG) Dubai is hosting dbcon on November 23rd, offering technical and... Wamda • 20 November, 2013 Google
New loyalty program QHat hopes to disrupt marketing in Egypt A new loyalty scheme went live in Egypt that could disrupt the typical model deployed by market leaders like... Omar Aysha • 20 November, 2013
How Lebanon's fashion industry can create the next Elie Saab Krikor Jabotian thinks it started with Halle Berry. Before the beauty won her Best Actress Oscar in 2002, the Lebanese fashion industry... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 20 November, 2013 zuhair murad reem acra rabih kayrouz
Meet the 4 wild hardware startups that won Stars of Science this year Hit pan-Arab reality TV competition, Stars of Science, has just concluded its fifth season after selecting the top four hardware projects... Glen Dalakian II • 20 November, 2013
Startup news ticker: eTobb out of beta; Feeditch launches English version Welcome to Wamda's weekly startup news ticker, which will offer quick announcements and stories relevant to the region. If you have a quick... Wamda • 19 November, 2013 ticker Incubator Egypt
How idea stage entrepreneurs can benefit from startup competitions As entrepreneurship has boomed in the Middle East, startup and business plan competitions have also sprouted up in the region, after... Darine Sabbagh • 19 November, 2013 startup bader ya mammy