The first DComm Summit MENA in Dubai this month The first DComm Summit MENA will take place in Madinat Jumeirah, in Dubai on 30 April 2014, with 200 invitation only thought leaders, as g... Wamda • 14 April, 2014
How can the Arab world break barriers to scale? Editor’s note: Fadi Ghandour is the the Chairman of Wamda, the founder of Aramex, and board member of Endeavor, an international non... Fadi Ghandour • 13 April, 2014 Fadi Ghandour
'Internet Revolution' gains steam in Egypt; can it meaningfully challenge Big Internet? In an attempt to defend citizens’ right to a decent internet connection at a reasonable price, a public campaign called Report an D... Hanan Solayman • 13 April, 2014 Egypt
China's largest search engine takes on Google in Egypt The digital media scene – especially that in the Arab region – seems to be an appealing market for competition between China and the U.S., ... Eman Mostafa • 10 April, 2014 Baidu china Egypt
Fresh off Kickstarter glory, Integreight gears up for 1Sheeld due date $85,210 USD. That’s how much funding the Egypt-based startup Integreight attracted for its award-winning product 1Sheeld during its 30-day ... Hayden Pirkle • 10 April, 2014 1sheeld arduino Hardware
Can lean e-commerce site ShuGeek bootstrap indefinitely? One month was all it took to launch ShuGeek, the website for so-called geeky products in the UAE. The team, adopting a lean startup... Pamela Kesrouani • 10 April, 2014 Technology E-commerce
Lebanon SLUSH+Startup Sauna Pitching & Networking in Beirut For the first time, startups and tech companies in Lebanon have an opportunity to join the world-class one-month accelerator program at... Wamda • 09 April, 2014 Altcity co-working space
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
Social entrepreneurship incubator in Tunisia seeks to foster civic engagement In Tunisia, the revolution has lead to a real revival of civic engagement. To help this movement bear fruit and be sustainable, a... Aline Mayard • 09 April, 2014 Incubator Social Entrepreneurship
Regional What your ideal term-sheet should look like As promised, in this post I will focus on the term-sheet. First let’s get some definitions straight. A term-sheet is the document that n... Abdullah Alshalabi • 09 April, 2014 seed investment term-sheet Investment
Palestinian startup offers online Arabic children's stories [Wamda TV] [English subtitles] To add an Arab touch to the world of children’s online education, Palestinian entrepreneur Asma'a A. Abu Tailkh has e... Mariam Hamed • 08 April, 2014 children Arabic Content
Yamsafer tackles region's payment challenge with cardless bookings Faris Zaher, CEO and co-founder of hotel bookings site Yamsafer, thinks his team may have come up with a solution to the region’s payment r... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 07 April, 2014 yamsafer payment solutions cardless bookings
Oasis500 launches Omraan, a funding competition for startups working to solve urban problems As it intensifies its effort to spread entrepreneurial culture in the region, Jordanian tech-focused incubator Oasis500 launches its first... Maya Rahal • 07 April, 2014 Competitions
How can the Arab world’s startup ecosystem work against gender discrimination? If the global financial system had had more women in decision-making positions, would history have taken a different course? Women at the... Kia Davis • 06 April, 2014 discrimination equality gender
Regional How to raise $18M in the Middle East? 5 tips from MarkaVIP founder Ahmed Alkhatib How do you raise $18 million USD in the Middle East? It’s not easy. Last week I sat down with Ahmed Alkhatib, the man behind the... Robert Carroll • 06 April, 2014 MarkaVIP
Why registering as a startup in Dubai is getting easier Lately, we often hear startups from Casablanca to Cairo asking us how they can get a foothold in Dubai, the market with the region’s ... Nina Curley • 06 April, 2014 in5 Incubator