Entrepreneurs
Ousta Secures Its First Round of Funding
Ousta is an Egyptian ride hailing mobile application, and since its inception, 5 months ago, Ousta has been leading ride expansion in Egypt. The company has been able to maintain its exponential growt...
ArabMoji: A New Fun Emoji App for the Middle East
Millions of people around the world have been fascinated with avatars and stickers using them to communicate in texts in the office, in the dating world, and more. After Snapchat acquired Bitstrips fo...
Alt City and Techstars to Bring the First LAUNCH Summit to Lebanon
AltCity has joined forces with Berytech, Torch Academy, UNICEF, Smart ESA (and ESA), Al Mawarid Bank and a host of more than 40 regional tech influencers to introduce LAUNCH Summit, an earlystage sta...
Beirut-Based Myki Launches Authentication Solution at Techcrunch Disrupt
Take 5,000 plus attendees, a gigantic waterfront pier and some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, and you get Techcrunch Disrupt San Francisco. The conference’s Startup Battlefield was one of the...
Virtual Currencies Unlikely to Crowd Out Fiat Currencies
The SWIFT Institute has published a new research paper analysing whether Bitcoin will crowd out fiat currencies in the global community. The paper, entitled “Virtual currencies: Media of exchang...
Third Global Islamic Economy Summit to Take Place in October 2016
The third instalment of the Global Islamic Economy Summit (GIES) is set to take place on October 11 and 12, 2016, at Madinat Jumeirah to discuss the developments occurring on the Islamic Economy front...
Kaspersky Lab Empowers SMBs with its New Business Solutions
Kaspersky Lab announces a new Software-as-a-Service solution that will provide small and medium-sized businesses with multi-layered IT security – Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud. The solution offers...
The French Tech Pavilion Will Host Startups GITEX 2016
From October 16th to 20th, the French Tech Pavilion will be hosting 22 French exhibitors and startups at this year’s GITEX in DWTC’s Hall 4 and the new Zabeel Hall. These exhibitors and startups speci...
Int@j Announces the Launch of MENA ICT Forum 2016
The Information and Communications Association of Jordan, int@j held a press conference on Wednesday August 24th at the King Hussein Business Park to announce the launch of the Middle East & North...