Lebanon Lebanon’s Pinpay, ready for the big time In 2013 mobile bill payment platform Pinpay had to make a decision: shut up shop or start again from scratch. They went with the latter.... Lucy Knight • 23 June, 2016 Lebanon Central Bank Regulations Bankmed
Syria Syrians seek refuge in tech For a while, it seemed that the Syrians were running out of options. For the fourth year in a row since 2012, the UN reported a steep... Maysaa Ajjan • 22 June, 2016 community jameel MIT Media Lab syria
Maghreb For a night, Maghreb joined forces to solve their social problems What if Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia joined forces to solve their social problems? It’s a germ of an idea that a small number of... Yassine Bakir • 22 June, 2016 algerian startup initiative espace bidaya Lab'Ess
Palestine Scarcity fuels Gaza hardware invention boom Following the successful Bold Knot crowdfunding campaign* in 2015, Gazan entrepreneurs have started pursuing their own hardware... Rafat Abushaban • 22 June, 2016 Sketch Engineering The Explorer Robot Taawon
Egypt Egypt's Smart Care secures $1.2M from major foreign donor A major foreign donor has invested $1.2 million in Smart Care Medical Services, a digital healthcare management startup. The deal,... Rachel Williamson • 21 June, 2016
Regional How can startups build successful collaborations with corporations? This article was first posted on the Coentrepreneurship platform. Collaborative entrepreneurship initiatives are trending and an... Jana Kassem • 21 June, 2016 Coentrepreneurship Expo 2020 Dubai CE
Global The Facebook factor: hacking social media for growth [Wamda TV] A business today with no social media presence is, frankly, an anomaly. Continuously, surveys show that the use of social media as a... Lucy Knight • 21 June, 2016 Step2016 Advertising Facebook
Regional What I know about investing in robotics: Jose Berengueres To obtain his PhD in bio-inspired robotics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dr. Jose Berengueres studied the movement of a gecko in... Archana Menon • 20 June, 2016 Adasi pal robotics robotics
U.A.E Fare share: Uber and Careem set pace and purpose for MENA’s sharing economy Innovation and regulation can often have a paradoxical relationship. Modern tech history has consistently highlighted the tug of war... Vanessa Khalil • 20 June, 2016 RTA Regulations careem
Egypt Egyptian selfie drone wins $26K Swiss investment Egyptian drone startup Drofie has attracted the attention of the Swiss, securing a 25,000 Swiss francs (US$26,000) investment and a spell... Rachel Williamson • 19 June, 2016 Fame monster Latvia Kickstart Accelerator
Regional How to prepare for post-oil MENA [Wamda TV] This video was first posted on the Coentrepreneurship platform. “We need to figure out what are the things here [in the MENA... Berthe El Aya • 19 June, 2016 Keynote Joichi Ito CE Summit
Egypt Rubber a hot commodity for Egypt startup Retyres Driving Cairo’s ring road or through one of its many poorer outskirts, one often encounters the distinct smell of burned rubber:... Eduard Cousin • 19 June, 2016 tyres rubber Retyres
U.A.E Community Jameel and Wamda host MIT Media Lab Dubai workshop #MLDubai Cities are rising at a fast pace. The MENA region has seen this with Dubai, and shortly after, Masdar City. In the meantime,... Wamda • 16 June, 2016 Redefining Cities MIT Media Lab MIT
Maghreb Karim Jazouani Prize 2016: nominate the advocates of Moroccan entrepreneurship One step forward, two steps backward? Or is it two steps forward, one step backward? If we take a look at the tech sector in Morocco,... Wamda • 16 June, 2016 Karim Jazouani morocco
Regional Don’t ask for change, create change [Opinion] I was asked to give a commencement speech at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Doha on May 1. Below is an edited version of what I said. I... Habib Haddad • 16 June, 2016 change The power of yalla Habib Haddad
Regional MENAT accelerators invest $3.5M, lag global averages Accelerators have become a “rite of passage” for entrepreneurs around the world, and a report on the state of global programs... Rachel Williamson • 15 June, 2016 business acclerator Global Accelerator Report central bank of jordan
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