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 winner of 50,000 Egyptian pounds.
The aim of this competition contribute to the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Egypt by helping the country's next ge...
Shoutit is a social marketplace to trade that is an evolution of classified listing, it takes classified concept to new grounds buy offering social aspect such as folowing of people and stuff that maters to you.
On Shoutit users can post a request (shout) be it a good service or help they need and the amount they request and the local commu...
Flat6Lab’s most recent demo Day l was highlighted by an array of announcements one of which was their official induction into the Global Accelerator Network (GAN). GAN is the largest and most prominent network of accelerators in the world. Championed by TechStars, the Global Accelerator Network was created in 2010 under the management of som...
Queen Rania Center for entrepreneurship (QRCE) a not for profit organization based in Amman, Jordan and aims to spread entrepreneurship in Jordan has announced yesterday that it launched its 5th business plan competition: Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship Competition (QRNEC.)
Unlike last year this year competition is aimed at students at un...
Focus.com has made an informative infographic about startups and how they look like in 2011 and how startup form and grow. The infogrpahic answers questions about : who the startups are? What are they doing? What are they spending? How old are they? What are they doing? Who will break even? What problems are they facing? Here the infographic and...
In the presence of representatives from Sawari Ventures and the American University of Cairo, School of Business, Entrepreneurship & Innovation Program (EIP), Flat6Labs Cairo based startup accelerator celebrated the end of its second cycle with its teams' Demo Day. In line with the startup accelerator's aims, the event was a final opportunity f...
Souq.com and the American University in Cairo’s Entrepreneurs Society have teamed up to launch The Hit 2012, the first product innovation competition for the university’s students, which gives participants the opportunity to win LE 50,000 to start up their business and own a commercial channel through an online store on Souq.com.
The concept ...
E-commerce is hot in the Arab world and now it is taking off after several years. Last year group buying site GoNabit which was founded in UAE was acquired by LivingSocial for a price around $10 million.
Today brings a news of another milestone for e-commerce in the Arab world, MarkaVIP Amman, Jordan based flash shopping site has secured investm...
At AC we have been receiving invites from a site called mawwell.com which says it would be the first crowed-funding platform in the Arab world aimed at creative, artistic, innovative, scientific, sports related, green project.
Though we could not get much information about the platform here what it says:
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Project creators will keep 100% o...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on facebook that his company is acquiring iPhone and Android popular photo sharing startup Instagram.
Mark did not say how much was the price, Update: the price is $1 billion in a combination of cash and shares of Facebook according to facebook announcement. but he said unlike other facebook acquisitions...
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