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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...

Trends LuckyDodo SAAS

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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...

Trends

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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...

Trends

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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...

Trends

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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...

coronavirus Trends

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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...

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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...

ecommerce Trends Opinion

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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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...

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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...

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...

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,...

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...

Data Mobile Trends

More women than men intend to launch new businesses in the Arab world

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Thought Leadership

Trends by LuckyDodo secures $1 million investment

The tech trends that will impact business this year

Trends to expect in 2023

Trends to expect in 2022

Trends to expect in 2021

Trends to expect in 2020

5 things you need to know about Saudi ecommerce [Opinion]

YPO & Wamda live Twitter Chat: What’s Trending Now in MENA? #MENABizTrends

6 of the hottest smartwatches: fashion trend or smartphone alternative?

What it takes to build a billion dollar tech company, and what it means for startups in the Arab world

What are the most popular mobile app categories worldwide?

Can internet giants bring down the cost of connectivity?

Vivek Wadwha: what Silicon Valley can and can't teach emerging markets

A look at Twitter's IPO: what will change?

The rise of online video in the Middle East [Wamda TV]

Why healthcare in the Arab world needs to go mobile

Nokia and Facebook dominate the UAE mobile market

Smartphones are outselling feature phones: a look at the opportunity in the Arab world

More women than men intend to launch new businesses in the Arab world

Must-read of the summer: Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East

How popular are mobile phones across the globe? [Infographic]

5 predictions about the future of digital, from Arabnet Dubai

How digitization spurs economic growth and job creation around the world [report]

The mobile opportunity for startups in the Middle East and Africa [report]

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