The Bedaya Business Angel Network, in cooperation with El Hassan Business Park in Amman Jordan announced its latest start-up business to successfully secure angel investment through Bedaya’s networks.
These investments in Mixed Dimensions, a leading provider of technology and tools for interactive entertainment developers, hope to ensure the ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO) free zone technology park established in 2004 in Dubai for the semiconductor, microelectronic and other high technology-based companies looking to set up their regional headquarters and R'&'D facilities in the Middle East and Africa region.
The free zone said that it has recorded an increase in its profit by 134% n...
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...
A report has surfaced on UAE's English newspaper The National that Arab business portal Zawya! will be sold next month for several tens of millions of dollars.
The National is reporting that several international and regional companies are involved in bidding process to buy the site. Among them Thomson Reuters, Emap whose Middle Eastern sub...
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