Egypt Offline P2P messenger hacks Apple technology to win Startup Weekend Cairo Startup Weekend novices Voiceless have won the latest competition in Cairo with a potentially game-changing app, based on peer-to-peer... Rachel Williamson • 25 September, 2014 p2p Egypt Startup Weekend
Saudi Arabia In Medina, public and private sectors join forces to boost small business Lately, we’ve been hearing of many new Saudi initiatives that are supporting entrepreneurship in the Kingdom; the most recent of... Reine Farhat • 25 September, 2014 saudi Support Organizations Public-Private Partnerships
U.A.E Sleek smoke alarm chirps its way to Dubai (and funding) An elderly woman using a gas stove to heat her home right after Hurricane Katrina sounds like a recipe for disaster. But in the aftermath... Lucy Knight • 25 September, 2014 birdi smartlivingcity dubai
Maghreb Students swarm Tunisia's first major tech event Over two days last week, Tunisian IT and engineering students, investors, developers and software designers, and representatives of... Courtney Joline • 24 September, 2014 event tunisia
U.A.E TechForum Dubai: how will wearables impact our daily lives? Organizers of the 16th TechForum, held on September 16 at Dubai Silicon Oasis in partnership with the Emirati telecom Etisalat,... Pamela Kesrouani • 24 September, 2014 Dubai Silicon Oasis Techforum Wearable devices
Saudi Arabia 4 ways to tackle Saudi ecommerce, from an Oasis500 mentor Sometimes, you can talk to people for hours and not understand how the time passed so quickly. And then there are those times when a half... Reine Farhat • 24 September, 2014 Saudi Arabia Social Media Marketing
Global Small-batch Pakistani shoes startup launches Kickstarter to target Arab world In 2010, Waqas Ali didn't know that a regular visit to his ancestral village of Okara in the Punjab region of Pakistan, and chance meeting... Pamela Kesrouani • 23 September, 2014 markhor pakistan
Lebanon TheFamily's Oussama Ammar, from entrepreneur to philosopher to investor Over the past few months, Oussama Ammar has become one of the most controversial figure of the French startup scene. A year ago, this... Aline Mayard • 23 September, 2014 TheFamily Diaspora
U.A.E Indian advertising company scaling to MENA on strength of $27M round When Chetan Kulkarni, CEO of Vizury, visited Dubai last month, it wasn’t to check out the Burj Khalifa or hit the malls. Founded in D... Pamela Kesrouani • 23 September, 2014
Jordan Jordan's Beladcom sold a virtual stable for $2,200. What does this mean for Arab gaming? How much would you pay for a virtual stable on a distant planet in a virtual universe? Whatever the number in your head, it’s likely less t... Hayden Pirkle • 23 September, 2014 planet toulan beladcom Gaming
Lebanon Real time traffic info + big data: meet Lebanon's latest traffic app Early this year, Lebanese entrepreneur and iOS developer, Ramy Khawandi launched Tari2ak (‘your route’ in Arabic) a mob... Maya Rahal • 22 September, 2014 Tari2ak traffic beirut
U.A.E Could AbsoluteGeeks.com be the region’s next big tech site? What do you get if you combine three Dubai-based technology lovers, a firm friendship, and the omnipresent World Wide Web? As it turns... Natasha D'Souza • 22 September, 2014 absolutegeeks.com
Saudi Arabia UTURN cofounder launches a platform for outdoor activities in Jeddah This article has been crossposted from Firnas.org. Inspired by his personal struggle with finding out about outdoor activities in Jeddah,... Safar Ayad • 22 September, 2014 Saudi Arabia Entertainment Uturn
Regional The Future Agro Challenge Competition Future Agro Challenge Competition is a gathering of the agri-business entrepreneurs, business leaders and investors that offers a unique... Wamda • 22 September, 2014 competition morocco
Global Could this unusual investment fund/event organizer be the future of seed funding? The launch of TheFamily a year ago shook up the French startup scene in a big way. The organization, falling somewhere between... Aline Mayard • 21 September, 2014 seed investment accelerator France
U.A.E 5 components of a smart ecosystem, from SmartLivingCity Dubai “Dubai is a transit city, a hub for people from all around the world and from all backgrounds.” With these words Kamran Saddique, pre... Pamela Kesrouani • 21 September, 2014 SLC smartlivingcity dubai Dubai
