From outer space to fashion e-commerce: New York's Slow Factory When Celine Semaan, back in 2012, was struck with inspiration based on NASA's images of outer space available to the public via... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 13 March, 2014
Bitcoin in the Middle East, explained In a recent talk at the New Think Theatre in Amman, Fouad Jeryes, the cofounder of new payment service CashBasha, the Amman Tech Tuesdays... Wamda • 13 March, 2014 Bitcoin
Afkartoon, a Palestinian startup specialized in educational cartoons [Wamda TV] [English subtitles] After a stint working in drawing and designing, Monzer Matrabie decided to launch Afkartoon to make educational ... Mariam Hamed • 13 March, 2014 palestine
Payfort announces zero security deposit program for e-commerce startups As more digital startups are seeking to monetize, online payment service provider for the Arab world Payfort has implemented a... Eman Mostafa • 12 March, 2014
First all-things-marriage listings site in Egyptian Arabic launches in Cairo When people talk about enriching Arabic online content, they often overlook specialized listings websites that attract large numbers... Hanan Solayman • 12 March, 2014 Egypt Wedding Industry listing
Entrepreneurs work towards healthier communities at SOCENT Dubai 2014 Last week Dubai’s social entrepreneurship week SOCENT 2014 held discussion panels and workshops focused on all i... Pamela Kesrouani • 12 March, 2014 socent
Win $20,000 with Hivos' Women Pioneers Challenge on Zoomaal “Women in the Arab world are greatly in need of support for the promotion and cultivation their entrepreneurial skills and... Wamda • 11 March, 2014
U.A.E Cary! off to a rollicking start on Eureeca; signals an increasingly complex UAE used car market UPDATE: As of April 17, 2014, Cary! has met its Eureeca goal, having raised $103,400 on the crowdinvestment platform. Eureeca investors... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 11 March, 2014 eureeca crowdinvestment crowdinvesting
Students develop first Egyptian Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle (ROV) for undersea exploration Given the rising global demand for equipment to explore and exploit oil resources at sea, there’s been a global boom in the m... Eman Mostafa • 11 March, 2014 Hardware
Egyptian e-books search engine Al Kutub ready to face the competition We could soon be witnessing some fierce regional competition in the field of digital books. Jordanian website Abjjad managed to... Hanan Solayman • 11 March, 2014
Lebanon Demystifying failure at Arabnet 2014 From left to right: Walid Hanna, Afif Toukan, Abdallah Absi, Fadi Bizri, and Mahamad Tanahy. If there was one session at this year’s ... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 10 March, 2014
Finnish game developer bets on the Arab region - and wins Developing games for the Middle East, and making current titles available in Arabic, are usually difficult and time-consuming tasks for... Ahmed Gabr • 10 March, 2014 social gaming Social Technology
New mentorship program JeeranSME expands in Palestine Support for startups in the West Bank and Gaza is continuing to grow, with the launch of JeeranSME, a new mentorship program designed to... Nina Curley • 10 March, 2014 JeeranSME Mentorship
Don't make these 13 critical mistakes on your homepage As an entrepreneur, you’ve got a lot to worry about beyond your web content and design alone. But knowing a bit about best practice when i... Wissam Dandan • 10 March, 2014 User Experience Design
The relocation of geolocation: Syrian startup Rootal finds a home in the UK Last month, Adnan Al-Khatib had a happier reason than usual to follow the news from his home city of Damascus. From his office... Harriet Fitch Little • 09 March, 2014 geolocation syria
Bahrain Young Entrepreneurs Forum: 'Barriers to business need to come down' Attendees of Bahrain's Young Entrepreneurs Forum Jetlagged, I arrived at the Capital Club — a premiere private business club at the i... Leena AlOlaimy • 09 March, 2014 entrepreneurs Bahrain conference
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