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Wahidoon Takes First Place at Conclusion of Start Up Weekend Taif
King Abdulaziz City for Science and technology (KACST) concluded last month, the first Start Up Weekend Taif, which was part of the 10th Annual Souq Okaz that is organized every summer in the city of ...
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...
Japan PM adviser says no gov’t plan to invest in Saudi Aramco
Japan’s government has no plan to invest in state-run oil firm Saudi Aramco’s planned initial public offering, an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday. But Yasutosh...
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...
Bringing Sustainability to the Core of UAE Economy
Dubai Carbon has launched a new version of Sustainability Self-Assessment specifically focused on measuring the risk and exposure towards socio-environmental impacts thus allowing both public and priv...
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...