Wamda

Ramadan a new opportunity for gaming startups, if they play their cards right

(Image via ajib.fr) Update 2/9/14: Game Cooks' Haram Al Maarifa, originally slated for release during Ramadan, is now available for...

Ramadan Gaming

U.A.E

Can this Dubai startup revolutionize market research through crowdsourcing?

Late last year, against the backdrop of Dubai’s gilded markets, Karim Aly sold his share of Ecobility, the startup he’d...

consumer data market research uae

Developer Maysalward partners with Zain to accelerate regional gaming industry

It has been a busy couple of months for veteran Jordanian mobile game developer/publisher Maysalward. In May, the company launched...

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Young but growing fast: AUC's V-LAB announces third cycle in a year

The American University of Cairo’s startup incubator Venture Lab, launched just a year ago, is now accepting applications for its t...

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Jordan

What it took for this startup to sign large corporates

Today, app development has become absolutely necessary for entrepreneurs and businesses alike. But many companies have difficulty...

Scaling Developers Jordan

Startup MENA seeks to bridge the gaps between Egyptian startups and European VCs

Startup MENA, the initiative funded in part by the Danish government, will hold a pitch event for Egyptian startups on May 14th, as part...

events

How this Bahraini woman uprooted her successful London creative agency and moved home

I first met Wafa Obaidat at a TEDxYouth event in Bahrain. I was floored by how — at 23 years old — Obaidat was running operations for her S...

Fashion

Palestinian startup AidBits aims to streamline the aid sector

NGOs aren’t known for being the most efficient organizations. The amount of bureaucratic navel gazing, however important, it takes to get d...

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Iraq

Iraqi startup Miswag.net helps merchants transition to the internet

Miswag.net, Baghdad’s first internet-based startup with real potential to grow, launched less than a month ago to help local merchants in B...

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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...

MarkaVIP

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...

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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., ...

Baidu china Egypt

Elance's Dubai hiring announcement signals increased regional focus

Nearly two years after hiring a Startup Mobilizer based in Cairo, multinational online staffing platform Elance has moved to hire a...

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Palestinian software companies merge; set sights on changing U.S. healthcare market

iConnect-Tech and 2i Software, two software development companies with front offices in Chicago and programming teams based in Palestine,...

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Why startups in the Arab world should attend SXSW

If there’s one American event international startups should attend, it’s probably South by South West (SXSW). This movie and music con...

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Can Emirati wedding directory site Yebab successfully pivot to photo sharing?

Since its launch in 2008, Yebab.com, an Emirati platform offering wedding services for Arab women, has been slowly but...

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How Buzzeff monetized the growth of social video advertising

Almost two years after raising a $1.2 million USD round of investment, and one year after launching its Dubai offices, Moroccan...

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Egyptian startup Asly fights counterfeit vaccines to save lives and money

When Tamer Ahmed was a child, his three year-old sister died because she had been given a counterfeit vaccine. Years later, still...

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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...

Hardware

4 lessons from Fishfishme's successful investment round

Some of you may already know that we just closed a $200,000 USD financing round from some angel investors Sim Whatley, Saif Alzarouni,...

Angel Investment Investment

Baraka Bits uses 'good news from the Middle East' to power positive change in the region

“It’s OK if we don’t see thousands of views on our articles,” says Rama Chakaki, founder and CEO of news site Baraka Bits. “We’re willing t...

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Here's why the Arab world needs a startup exchange program

Ten accelerators from around the world have announced the launch of a travel abroad program called Startup Exchanges. During one month, 50...

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Palestine's only startup accelerator Fast Forward announces its second class

Palestine’s first startup accelerator, Fast Forward, announced its second class on January 20th. The new group of startups focuses on t...

Fast Forward accelerator palestine

Here's what Morocco-based video advertising agency Buzzeff learned when opening a Dubai office

Every three weeks, Casablanca-based Jérôme Mouthon makes the seven-hour flight to Dubai to work for one week at his company’s Dubai off...

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