Startups
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...
Mobility Sets the Stage for SMBs to Compete and Win
Author: Mohsin Shah, Channel Sales Manager at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company The explosion of smartphones and tablets is transforming the way we communicate, work and manage our personal ...
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...
ICT Fund Organises Drones and Robotics Competition
The ICT Fund, the financing tool of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has announced it is organizing the UAE Drones for Good Award and the UAE AI Robotics for Good Award, two different...
Stop doing these 15 things when pitching your startup
Here’s a list of 15 things to stop doing when you pitch a startup to a private investor: 1. Stop drinking your own kool-aid. If you’re not 100% honest with yourself, you won’t make the right cho...