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Egypt

California calls for 8 ROV robot winners

Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) skimmed underneath the surface of a swimming pool, surrounded by students with joysticks and controllers...

ROV Arab Competition remotely operated vehicles Aquaphoton

Egypt

Cairo’s Maker Faire enchants children, adults, and Minions

Over 11,000 people attended the Maker Faire Cairo over the weekend, making it one of the biggest tech events in the region. The event...

Maker Faire Cairo Fab Lab Egypt makers

Lebanon

How can data science and analytics improve education? [Wamda TV]

The Arab region still lags behind when it comes to mining big data for decision making, especially in the education sector. While...

data science Women in Data Science AUBWIDS

Kuwait

What I know about scaling right: Zaina Albader

This article is a crosspost from Nuwait. For Kuwaiti entrepreneurs looking to scale their startups, Saudi Arabia is very...

Bookr What I Know kuwait

Morocco

Bidaya Space in Morocco searches for seed stars

Casablanca greentech incubator Espace Bidaya has helped 19 startups launch into the world since it began, and 14 are on track to survive...

morocco Bidaya startups

Regional

10 steps corporations must take before investing in startups [Opinion]

Corporations want to innovate, but issues such as tighter R&D budgets and organizational bureaucracy can make tapping outside sources -...

corporate venture capital the cribb

Egypt

Is Egypt finally ready for ride-sharing?

Uber and Careem fares have become unaffordable for many Egyptians, as fuel costs continue to rise following the floatation of the currency...

Buseet Kalax Swvl

Regional

What we learned about the media industry at #STEP2017

The reader is king. After an era of praising content as the supreme power in media, the focus today is shifting towards the...

Step Conference Step 2017 Media

U.A.E

What we learned about the media industry at #STEP2017

The reader is king. After an era of praising content as the supreme power in media, the focus today is shifting towards the...

Step 2017 Step Conference Media

Saudi Arabia

Takamol Holding helping both startups and investors

It’s a common scenario: Saudi entrepreneurs complain about the lack of investment and venture capital put into startups, while...

Saudi Arabia ksa Musharakah

Global

Startup Watch: Another bad re-brand, giving that investment back and robots need emotions

The world of entrepreneurship news is ever growing and sometimes it’s hard to even know where to start when you want to catch up....

Startup Watch yahoo! iran

Regional

New startups on the block: April

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

new startups IoT ecommerce

Global

Tracking skateboard tricks from UAE to LA

Rideblock talks building a product in the UAE with a market in the US It was an argument over who had pulled off a better Ollie - a...

RideBlock uae Flat6Labs

Lebanon

Agri-logistics wins Lebanon's first agritech hackathon

A logistics idea called Sou2 Baladi won Lebanon’s first agritech hackathon on Sunday, taking home $3,000 and a place in the new...

Agrytech Accelerator Berytech agritech

Morocco

Cooking oil can run engines as well [Wamda TV]

Thousand of tons of waste cooking oil is produced around the world every year, with large amounts dumped in rivers and...

Kilimanjaro Environnment youssef Chaqor Cooking Oil

Lebanon

What I know about bad investments: Walid Mansour [Know your VC]

In a debate in 2016 Walid Mansour was keen to shed the image of VCs as “cigar smoking fat cats”. “We have investors...

MEVP Know your VC What I Know

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