Win 50,000 EP with Fekraty Business Idea Competition For Egypt
The American University in Cairo’s School of Business – Entrepreneurship & Innovation Program is organizing Fekrati a national business idea competition open for Egyptians with a prize for top...
View ArticleGoogle Celebrates Egypt’s Presidential Elections with a Doodle and Launches a...
Google has celebrated today’s Egyptian presidential election with a doodle at google.com.eg the doodle features each letter of Google participating in the election by standing in line then writing the...
View ArticleMixed Dimensions raises a funding round from several Jordanian investors
The Bedaya Business Angel Network, in cooperation with El Hassan Business Park in Amman Jordan announced its latest start-up business to successfully secure angel investment through Bedaya’s networks....
View ArticleUpdated: After Being Blocked For Years Google Offers Google Earth, Picassa...
As A U.S companies Google has been in compliance with US export controls and sanctions programs against countries that does not follow the US policy. In Syria all google software and google code was...
View ArticleSocial Media Research Indicates Egypt heading for Elections Run-off Between...
Edited Data analyzed by News Group, the region’s leading media intelligence group, shows that voting in Egypt will conclude in a run-off between Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsy and the...
View ArticleFacebook is opening an office in Dubai this week
Facebook is set to open its first office in the Arab world this week. The company sent invites to journalists to attend an event in May 30s according to LA Times. The California based company -based...
View ArticleEgypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Twitter account hacked
Muslim brotherhood official English Twitter account @Ikhwanweb , has been hacked also the account of the Freedom and Justice Party @FjpartyOrg (the Brotherhood’s political arm) After the hack, the...
View ArticleYamli Sells Licensing Deal to Yahoo!
We covered Yamil since our first days about 4 years ago, the service allows users to type in Latin characters to get their equivalent Arabic terms. Yamli was founded by Lebanese entrepreneur Habib...
View ArticleTapping in growing untapped market: N2V Invests in Arabic E-commerce Platform...
E-commerce was often a neglected sector in the Arab region by both investors and entrepreneurs, as factors such as payment systems were not a match to those in the west while others cited that the...
View ArticleJordanian startup VitalTronix develops iPhone app that can detect heart pulse...
Jordanian startup accelerators Oasis500 is doing well, one of their recent startups is VitalTornix which is developing mobile personal medical solutions. The startup has developed an app that can...
View ArticleAl Jazeera launches magazine app for Android devices
Yesterday Aljazeera announced that it launched two magazine apps for android devices geared towards Arabic readers. The two magazines allow readers to follow what aljazeera Arabic website and...
View ArticleFollow Euro 2012 on your iPhone with Euro 2012 app
Euro 2012 has started, and if you are a football fan you must be excited. Batoul apps which is known for its iOS and Mac Islamicd apps and Khaled Al Sudairy launched an app that helps you stay up to...
View Article63.6% of Lebanese smartphone users use applications
A new Arab Advisors Group’s survey of cellular users in the Lebanon reveals insightful details on the smartphones adoption and usage patterns. The survey also probed general cellular usage habits,...
View ArticleVodafone launches Investment fund of 20 million EGP
Vodafone Egypt has announced that it is launching an investment fund aimed at Internet startups of 20 million EGP. The company said in the a statement according to Egyptian Arabic newspaper Addustor...
View ArticleYahoo! Maktoob and propertyfinder.ae Launch Co-branded Real Estate Destination
Yahoo! Maktoob, and a real estate property portal propertyfinder.ae, announced today the launch of a new co-branded real estate destination. The destination will be part of the Yahoo! Maktoob network...
View ArticleBasharjobs merge with Careermideast Forming Wuzzuf.com
A year and a half after its launch, Basharjobs.com merged with Careermideast.com, ( here is our past review of Bashar jobs) bringing together the former’s job matching algorithm and the latter’s...
View ArticleICANN names Lebanese descent Fadi Chehade as new CEO
The organization that oversees Internet domain names has appointed Lebanese descent Fadi Chehade as new CEO. Fadi will start his new job at ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and...
View ArticleFour Jordanian students to participate in the U.S. Government Science...
Four Jordanian girls left to the United States today to join 25 teenage girls from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to participate in the “TechGirls” program. This three-week program will focus...
View ArticleMight be the Second Largest Internet Exit in the Arab world: Thomson Reuters...
Following the news last April that Zawya is expected to be sold in a multi million dollar deal, Thomson Reuters announced today that it has acquired Arab world business portal and financial...
View ArticleGameTako Launches Its Second Region-Wide Arabic Game – a Gaming Hackthon for...
GameTako announced today that it will be holding its second region-wide “Game Zanga” game development weekend and competition on 12-14 July 2012. and will be held in four cities: Amman, Beirut, Cairo...
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