Regional Technology is taking over the world (and the Middle East) This is a crosspost with Boostmena. Google was founded in 1998 and Facebook was founded in 2004. Fifteen years ago, businesses had no way... Amir Farha • 23 August, 2015 Smart Devices smartphones Technology
Syria Against all odds, Syrian incubator AfkarPlus launches Cofounder Samer Al-Aswad addresses the audience at the launch of the Afkar+ incubator on August 8. (Images via Afkar+) Syria's... Maysaa Ajjan • 20 August, 2015 syria Challenges Incubator
Regional Augmented reality and medicine, is the Middle East ready? After-surgery care in developing countries or remote locations can often be an unknown quantity, but the use of augmented reality during... Lucy Knight • 20 August, 2015 InGlove VITAAX MEMakers
Jordan Jordan’s Mawdoo3 gets $1.5M in Series A funding The Mawdoo3 team in Amman, soon to grow. (Image via Mawdoo3) Mawdoo3, the Jordanian startup modelling itself on Wikipedia for Arabic... Lucy Knight • 19 August, 2015 EquiTrust Mawdoo3 lifestyle
Iraq Hacking out coworking spaces in Iraq If there’s one country in the region where entrepreneurs need a good coworking space, it’s Iraq. Baghdad’s two coworking spaces are opera... Marwan A. Jabbar • 19 August, 2015 burj babel fikra space hackerspace
Egypt InfoMed digitizes Egypt's family doctors A spate of high-profile deaths in Egypt from medical misdiagnosis has highlighted the need for better all-round medical care in... Eman Mostafa • 19 August, 2015 family medicine ehealth InfoMed
Regional To Lean or not to Lean? The Lean business methodology works for every business – except for those it doesn’t. The model is increasingly... Rachel Williamson • 18 August, 2015 lean startup QBIC Lean Methodology
Global Will wearables be the future of mobile payments? Bank Audi displays its 'Tap2Pay' at ArabNet Beirut earlier this year. (Image via Payfort) In his second piece on mobile payments,... Faisal Al Khalidi • 18 August, 2015 Payfort mobile payments
Lebanon Sweet as honey: how this Lebanese startup founded a thriving business In the middle of Beirut's Achrafieh area is a small boutique with rows and rows of honey jars stacked on top each other. The boutique... Maysaa Ajjan • 17 August, 2015 nature entrepreneurship lebanon
Regional How do you build a smart city? Dubai's smart city, Silicon Park, focuses on six pillars: life, society, mobility, economy, governance and environment.(Image... Pamela Kesrouani • 17 August, 2015 Smart Devices Smart Cities IoTx
Maghreb Apps open political dialogue in North Africa Tunisians are making their voice heard. (Image via The Nation) The Arab spring proved the power of social media. Firstly that it goes far... Aline Mayard • 16 August, 2015 Arab spring democracy politics
Lebanon The connected cooking machine will make sure you eat healthily [Video] There will soon be no reason for students, working moms or busy professionals to become loyal customers of food delivery anymore: there's... Maya Rahal • 16 August, 2015 Tahi MEMakers cooking
Palestine Investors and entrepreneurs preach startups to Palestinian university students It may be hard to believe, but now is the perfect time to start a business in Palestine. “There wasn’t enough [funding] in the pipeline bef... Christina Ganim • 16 August, 2015 entrepreneurship palestine arabreneur
Regional Industrial Internet and energy efficiency in the Middle East When a car’s fuel is running low, a little dial will let you know, and on the average car you can bet you’ve got about 40km at... Lucy Knight • 13 August, 2015 Energy saving Satchnet Chifco
Egypt Dopay does banking for unbanked Egyptians Dopay, one of the early startups to get involved in Egypt's financial technology sector, is hoping to build a web of clients among the... Sara Aggour • 13 August, 2015 unbanked Dopay financial services
Iraq Iraq's startups one year after the rise of ISIS [Opinion] “A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty,” is how Eric Ries d... Marwan A. Jabbar • 12 August, 2015 Ein MAHAW sha6bu5
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