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Saudi Arabia

Making grocery deliveries is hard on Saudi startups

Plenty of Saudi startups are trying to enter the online grocery shopping and delivery market, but they face many diverse...

toDoorstep grocery online grocery

U.A.E

What do MENA telcos want to be when they grow up? Part I

This is the first article of two about telecom companies in MENA and how they should be adapting. In the opening sequence of...

Telcos du anghami

Regional

How to make a good digital media strategy for your business [Wamda TV]

In a region where internet penetration is rapidly growing (60 percent in 2017), having a good digital strategy for your business is...

Jad Yammine content strategies content

Regional

What's your share of the company? [Opinion]

The Souq.com deal was great for the news media cycle, but was it so great for the investors? In tech, these types of events are fraught...

Souq.com investments VCs

Egypt

What I know about fab labs: Sherry Lassiter

Despite two-decades in science journalism, Sherry Lassiter has become part of the technology story rather than a storyteller. After...

Fab Foundation Maker Faire Cairo Fab Lab Egypt

U.A.E

Mobile payments startups on the rise in MENA

A bevy of geolocation startups already exist in Dubai, yet the Dubai and Riyadh-based Proxera is using its technology to help companies...

seamless ecommerce Retail

Saudi Arabia

Uxbert proves startups can make it in Saudi Arabia

The UAE is considered one of the most important startup hubs in the region. Yet the Saudi Nadeem Bakhsh decided to move his user experience...

Saudi Arabia Uxbert UX

Regional

Half of Arab youth visit Youtube every day [Report]

According to the Arab Youth Survey 2017, published by ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller this week, 35 percent of young people in the Arab...

Arab youth Report YouTube

Global

Startup Watch: Wikipedia under attack, the Ja Rule mess-up and the magic of vinegar

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Startup Watch Wikipedia Saudi Arabia

Jordan

#MixNMentor coming to Amman: focus on scalability

It’s that time of the year again! Mix N’ Mentor is back to Amman. While the WRL team has found that the cost structure and...

Mix 'n Mentor mix n mentor Amman

Regional

New startups on the block: May

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to...

new startups Healthcare Travel

U.A.E

Halla Walla, on a mission to represent Arab culture through emojis

It took two months of intense research for Yasmin Rasool and Eriko Varkey to bring the stories of Shaikha, Lula, Waleed and Ahmed to life....

Arabic digital content Emojis halla walla

Kuwait

Instagram, an attractive choice for merchants

This article is a crosspost with Nuwait. In Kuwait, Instagram is an attractive choice for entrepreneurs trying to promote a product or...

instagram kuwait Nuwait

Global

Cutting the waste of your supply chain, Throughput [Wamda TV]

With oil prices falling to record lows in the last few years one typical reaction is to look where to cut costs in order to keep businesses...

throughput rigbasket uae

Saudi Arabia

Wamda's #MixNMentor 2017 in Riyadh [Wamda TV]

“We think the future is Saudi Arabia in the region." This is how Walid Faza, partner at Wamda Capital, opened Wamda’s...

MixNMentor riyadh Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

Gorfah and the seven business models

What do you do when you don’t know which business model suits you? This is what Gorfah faced, a Saudi startup working in an $8...

Saudi Arabia ksa Gorfah

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