U.A.E Trends by LuckyDodo secures $1 million investment UAE-based analytics platform Trends, backed by LuckyDodo, has secured $1 million in funding from several investors at the DIFC... News • 19 December, 2023 Trends LuckyDodo SAAS
Regional The tech trends that will impact business this year Dr Ross Curran is an assistant professor at Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University Dubai Digital transformation will reach... Thought Leadership • 08 January, 2023 Trends
Regional Trends to expect in 2023 When in February 2022 the war in Ukraine broke out, its impact on the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) at the time remained unclear, but... Wamda • 02 January, 2023 Trends
Regional Trends to expect in 2022 After two years of ongoing uncertainty, the investor hesitancy that defined the beginning of the pandemic has dissipated entirely, as... Wamda • 03 January, 2022 Trends
Regional Trends to expect in 2021 Last year we outlined several trends we expected would take place in 2020 – rise in foodtech, growth of e-commerce and the year that... Wamda • 03 January, 2021 coronavirus Trends
Regional Trends to expect in 2020 With each passing year, the Middle East and North Africa’s (Mena) entrepreneurship ecosystem develops and cements itself as a core... Wamda • 05 January, 2020 Trends entrepreneurship MENA
Saudi Arabia 5 things you need to know about Saudi ecommerce [Opinion] Ecommerce revenues in Saudi Arabia are staggeringly poor compared to countries where the sector is more established. In 2016, ecommerce... Yousef Shanti • 26 January, 2017 ecommerce Trends Opinion
Regional YPO & Wamda live Twitter Chat: What’s Trending Now in MENA? #MENABizTrends What industries are ready for disruption in MENA? What is trending in the business world? Got anything you’d like to learn about... Wamda • 22 July, 2016 twitter Chat entrepreneurship
Global 6 of the hottest smartwatches: fashion trend or smartphone alternative? In 1973, Motorola introduced the first wireless "hand-held cell phone." Twenty years later, in 1993, IBM and American... Reine Farhat • 25 November, 2013 wearables smartphones Trends
What it takes to build a billion dollar tech company, and what it means for startups in the Arab world Yesterday, Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures took an honest look at what it takes to build a billion dollar company in Silicon... Nina Curley • 04 November, 2013 Investment Trends
What are the most popular mobile app categories worldwide? AppAnnie, the app metric tracker, has released its quarterly market index to reveal how mobile app sales are evolving... Aline Mayard • 05 November, 2013 Trends Gaming
Can internet giants bring down the cost of connectivity? Update: Egypt's internet penetration rate is currently around 44%. Today, nearly two thirds of the world’s population does not have access ... Glen Dalakian II • 10 October, 2013 Internet growth Telecommunication Trends
Vivek Wadwha: what Silicon Valley can and can't teach emerging markets A recent discussion between Vivek Wadwha, Vice President of Innovation and Research at Singularity University, and Dick Costolo, CEO of... Gulay Ozkan • 10 October, 2013 Diversity Expert Advice Advice
A look at Twitter's IPO: what will change? Twitter’s IPO, which it announced last week, is one of the most hotly anticipated IPOs since Facebook. After announcing via tweet that t... Nina Curley • 16 September, 2013 twitter IPOs Social Networks
The rise of online video in the Middle East [Wamda TV] The rise of online video creation is one of the year’s biggest stories in the Middle East. With the region boasting 300 million views on Y... Zeina Tabbara • 10 September, 2013 Online video Entertainment Digital Media
Regional Why healthcare in the Arab world needs to go mobile This piece was originally published on the Huffington Post. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) should take advantage of its... Jamil Wyne • 01 September, 2013 Health Mobile Trends
Nokia and Facebook dominate the UAE mobile market At the end of last week, we took a look at the fact that smartphones are outselling feature phones worldwide. In the Arab world,... Nina Curley • 21 August, 2013 Statistics Mobile Penetration smartphones
Smartphones are outselling feature phones: a look at the opportunity in the Arab world You saw the news yesterday: smartphones are outselling feature phones globally. As of Q2 2013, smartphone sales now account for... Nina Curley • 16 August, 2013 Data Mobile Trends
Regional More women than men intend to launch new businesses in the Arab world “Lack of Confidence, Fear of Failure Hold Women Back From Being Entrepreneurs,” Entrepreneur magazine recently wrote. Yet a closer look at ... Nina Curley • 14 August, 2013 W4Women Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs Trends
Must-read of the summer: Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East After over three years of traversing the Middle East, interviewing over 150 investors, entrepreneurs, and startup leaders, D.C.-based... Nina Curley • 13 August, 2013 Trends Book Reviews
How popular are mobile phones across the globe? [Infographic] Since the days of the clunky first Motorola DynaTAC handheld phone released in 1983, cellphone sales have progressively exploded across ... Maya Rahal • 23 July, 2013 Mobile Trends
5 predictions about the future of digital, from Arabnet Dubai Arabnet’s first Digital Summit in Dubai brought together the startup community and the digital media and marketing industries to hash out ... Kia Davis • 07 July, 2013 Digital Advertising Arabnet Innovation
How digitization spurs economic growth and job creation around the world [report] Globally, digitization is accelerating economic growth and facilitating job creation, providing a $193 billion boost to world... Wamda • 26 June, 2013 Report Booz & Company Trends
The mobile opportunity for startups in the Middle East and Africa [report] “Even though we have a mobile penetration rate of 109% in the Middle East, I still see room for growth,” says Amr Shady, the founder of TA ... Glen Dalakian II • 23 June, 2013 Report Mobile Trends