Startups
Krimston ‘Kickstarts’ its dual-SIM iPhone adapter
In April 2012, Lebanese entrepreneur Fouad Fattal went on a five-day business trip to the United States, during which he checked his email a few times on his iPhone with data roaming turned on. When h...
Bahrain SMEs Development Society Discusses 2016 Plan
Bahrain Small and Medium Enterprises Development Society discussed the plans of its sub-committees for the year 2016, during its fourth board of directors meeting which was held recently in its office...
GE Works on Efficiency Through a New Energy Start-Up ‘Current, powered by GE’
GE is strengthening operations of its new energy start-up Current in the Middle East region with the goal of supporting its partners to scale up energy efficiency and diversifying the energy mix. To d...
Fetchr Enters Bahrain Market
Fetchr, the UAE-based shipping and logistics start-up, has announced it is rolling out its service to Bahrain. Using cutting edge technology, Fetchr aims to overcome shipping challenges where the lack...
Microsoft to Showcase Modern Workplace Solutions at SME World Summit 2016
As part of its ongoing mission to become the solutions provider of choice for small and medium businesses in the UAE, Microsoft Gulf has taken on the role of exclusive technology partner at the SME Wo...
General Motors Buys Self-Driving Car Startup for More Than $1 Billion
General Motors (GM) is continuing its self-driving car push with the news that it has acquired Cruise Automation. Cruise is a San Francisco-based self-driving car company that develops an autopilot sy...
“TechnoArt” Incubator to be Launched in Tel Aviv
The digital media ways of distribution have brought on many opportunities for independent artists, but also left them with minimal tools to generate revenue from their art. The main challenge of the a...
The Entrepreneur Club for Start-ups in Africa and the Middle East
Orange is launching the Entrepreneur Club, a new space for information in French and English devoted to entrepreneurs in Africa and the Middle East. The website (entrepreneurclub.orange) is a source o...
Verbat Has Digital Technology Services on Mind
My Startup World speaks to Jijo Olassa, the CEO at Verbat Technologies, about his company, the services it offers and the future plans How did Verbat start its journey and what was the objective to st...