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The wait is over! The Egyptian pop-star Mohamed Hamaki‘s 2019 album “Kol Youm Mn Da” has been released today exclusively on Youtube. Nogoum Records, the production company...
Productivity at the workplace depends on several elements one of which is a flexible working environment. This has been confirmed with several studies with the most...
It’s without the shadow of a doubt that video content is here to stay across digital. Here at Digital Boom and Metrics, we were interested in...
In a global first, Bahrain has enacted the Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (MLETR), developed by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)....
The hardest part of running a small business is using the right software to help it run. The right software can take care of tedious and...
America relies on trucking, which means this industry isn’t dying down anytime soon. If you’re looking for a career change, it’s time to consider the trucking...
There are many employees that have been forced to work the same mundane job day in and day out. An employer may feel like there’s something...
Vodafone Egypt held the first Hackathon of its kind in Egypt and in the region, inviting developers to innovate in software development. The company awarded three...
For those who still haven’t settled on anything yet for New Year’s Eve, there’s a chance it will be the last minute low-key stay at one...
The Saudi Telecom Company (STC) closed all of its branches across the Kingdom for one day (Wednesday, December 19th), activating the official Digital Day. All of...
Connect Ads launched “Villa30 Studio” – its own creative digital studio, a move that will further enhance the dynamics of the digital agency ecosystem across the...
A communication is in plain language if its wording, structure, and design are so clear that the intended readers can easily find what they need, understand...
Careem, the region’s leading ride-hailing app has launched “Careem Bus”, to help solving daily transportation struggle of 40 percent of Egyptians. The company is launching the...
The hackathon is an open invitation to software developers and innovators… those tech enthusiasts who are excited to shape the future of Egypt with Vodafone. Can...
Today Snapchat is launching a global Lens Creative Partners program designed to connect brands with augmented reality (AR) experts and Lenses creators. The program certifies 30+ creators, from...
Flat6Labs Cairo, the leading Startup Accelerator in Egypt, now offers startups joining its 12th Accelerator Cycle launching in January 2019 a minimum of EGP 500,000 to...
20,000 tech professionals, mentors, investors and entrepreneurs from all around the world are gathering in Helsinki, Finland on Dec 4–5, for the famed two-day Slush 2018,...
HolidayMe, the Middle East’s leading Online Travel Agency, has raised $16m in Series C funding from Gobi Partners, Algebra Ventures, Accel Partners, and Global Ventures. Launched...
Top brands Hardee’s, Lipton, Mercedes-Benz Cars Middle East, Mountain View, Samsung Gulf Electronics, The Coca-Cola Company, and Western Union partner with the ad-supported free Spotify service...
Music streaming platform Spotify had launched its service in the Middle East and North Africa last night. The company made its mobile app available on Google...
Spotify, the music streaming service, has launched in the Middle East and North Africa. The app is now available for download on ios and android in...
Louvre Abu Dhabi announced that it welcomed more than one million visitors in its first year, establishing itself as one of the leading cultural institutions on...
Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2018 fourth quarter ended September 29, 2018. Apple services revenue reached an all-time high, as it grew from $7.9...
Nokia 7.1 – the first smartphone to come with a PureDisplay screen is now available in Jordan. Said HMD Global – the company with the Nokia...
iCommunity, Egypt’s mobile community platform for the real estate industry, has announced $600K in Series A funding from Algebra Ventures. Founded in 2016, iCommunity is a...
Snapchat is launching the next phase of e-commerce advertising on the platform, following the launch of an advanced performance marketing suite this June. The new update...
last 24th of June 2018, women in Saudi Arabia started driving for the very first time in the Kingdom. It was a day of celebration, anxiety...
53% of senior executives in the MENA region named artificial intelligence (AI) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) as the most prominent technologies on their boardroom agenda....
If you commute long distances every day and your car breaking down on the road is the nightmare you’ve always feared, worry no more, for MAYDAY...
Startups Galaxy is currently on a journey of “Road to 500 Startups” and we think this is a great chance for all entrepreneurs out there to...
Excited about Blockchain technology? ConsenSys, a blockchain software technology company will held a 3-day blockchain developer training followed by a 2-day Hackathon in Lebanon on 17 October 2018....
Facebook has introduced new video creation tools that enable advertisers to easily convert existing images and text assets into mobile-first video ads. To help small and...
Natasha Ighodaro, Digital Strategy Director, Newslab at J. Walter Thompson Worldwide in Dubai is one of the keynote speakers at the Marketing Kingdom Cairo 4, scheduled...
Crowd Analyzer, the Arabic-focused social media monitoring tool, has received pre-Series A funding of $1.1 million from a group of venture capital firms in Kuwait, Saudi...
CNN rates higher than any other TV news source in the UK for quality, accuracy, trustworthiness and impartiality, according to a new report from UK communications...
Jordanian startup Mawdoo3.com, the world’s most visited Arabic website with more than 45 million unique users per month, has completed a US $13.5 million Series B round....
It’s time to revamp your wardrobe, alright! Specially curated by the fabulous fashion team at Namshi, this season’s trend edit unveils a selection of contemporary outfits...
Farawlaya.com is the fastest growing specialty online retailer of women’s home wear in Egypt; serving women of all shapes and sizes. Farawlaya has a mission, which...
Tom Webster, Global Social Media Strategy Manager – Retail, Lubricants & Motorsport at Shell in the UK is one of the keynote speakers at the fourth...
On the historic day that women begin driving in Saudi Arabia, Careem reveal their new fleet of female drivers. The drivers – referred to as...
The national media council’s law to regulate influencer marketing industry has came into effect on Jun 1. UAE-based social media influencers who are making commercial gains...
After the success of “Dark Humor” campaign in March, Elios Egypt has decided to continue with the same concept in Ramadan by producing three more copies. The...
New York University Libraries, a leader in digital library development, today announced that the philanthropic foundation Carnegie Corporation of New York has made a grant of...
Facebook Carousel ad format has recently proved successful with many global advertisers; hence, here is a new way to impress the audience with this conversion generator...
Silicon-Valley based 500 Startups, the most active early-stage Venture Capital Fund in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, has announced it is gearing up...
Egypt’s leading real-estate company, Madaar Development has started digitalizing its operations using a real estate solution known as Microsoft Dynamics 365 which is developed and customized...
La Reina, Egypt’s first online fashion rental platform, announced $1 million in a Series A funding round led by Egypt’s largest venture capital fund, Algebra Ventures, with...
WUZZUF, Egypt’s number one online recruitment platform is revealing its newly revamped platform during “Unlock’18”, an exclusive event that gathers top employers, government officials, media and...
Featuring popular Egyptian proverbs, Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait – Egypt (ABK-Egypt) launched a new advertising campaign that promises to transform people’s relationship with money. ‘A...
P World, the organizers of the Marketing Kingdom, Egypt’s most innovative marketing event, have just announced that the fourth edition of the event will take place...
Every minute Mohamed Salah scores, a reverberation of football fans in the streets is heard. This is not Liverpool or Anfield. This is Cairo and Egypt...
Telecom giant Vodafone Egypt set foot in the digital marketing industry, launching a new service called “Vodafone Ready Digital” – that promises to help small businesses...
Facebook now tells you whether your information was compromised by Cambridge Analytica’s personality test app “This Is Your Digital Life” or not – This move comes...
Facebook introduced Profile Picture Guard and Design features in Egypt, empowering people to have more control over the way others engage with their profile photo to...
The annual Dubai Lynx International Festival of Creativity concluded this evening with an Awards Ceremony following three days of talks, workshops, networking and creative inspiration. Jose...
Mobile users sent around 4.9 million donation text messages to charity, generating EGP 24,625,700 million for 52 local organizations in 2017, said TA Telecom, a Cairo-based...
Half of British women have no long-term financial plan and almost a third have no pension, according to a recent study. The alarming research, commissioned by...
The FIFA World Cup trophy has landed in Dubai yesterday as part of the global FIFA World Cup™ Trophy Tour by Coca-Cola. The arrival of the...
Today, Facebook in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) announced the launch of the Facebook Community Leadership programme, a global initiative to support, recognize and...
Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, is supplying Cairo International, the second busiest airport in Africa, with automated document readers that will enable faster border...
Uber Egypt today signed a contract with MS Commercial to feature Mohamed Salah as its brand ambassador for 2018, making him the first sports player to...
The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) has listed Koorabia.com as among the 25 official Arab media outlets to accompany Arab teams during Russia World Cup...
Scripps Network Interactive (SNI) has today announced that four of its world leading lifestyle channels – Food Network, Fine Living, HGTV and Travel Channel – will...
The two top challenges facing today’s leaders are employee engagement and effective strategy execution, according to a survey of 1248 senior directors and executives of which...
TechWadi Annual Forum, taking place on 27 Jan in Plug and Play Tech Center, Sunnyvale, California has been a frequent topic of discussion between tech entrepreneurs in...
Dubai Lynx has announced its top speakers who join a Festival programme comprised of world-leading experts from the international creative communications industry. Building on the Dubai...
Mohamed Salah, the Egyptian football star has been named as brand ambassador of Vodafone Egypt for 2018, announced the mobile operator today. “The future is exciting,...
Grey Group has acquired a majority stake in hug digital – a leading independent regional digital marketing agency, based in the Middle East. Founded in 2009...
Anghami, the leading music streaming company in the MENA region, announced the appointment of Paul Akiki as Chief Brand Officer. With over 18 years of experience...
LaLiga has managed to surpass 4,735,000 Facebook followers in Arab countries. The Spanish competition, which is currently fully immersed in a brand internationalization program, has been...
Ten African ventures were awarded for excellence in mobile and tech at the annual AppsAfrica Innovation Awards 2017 held in Cape Town, where Mazady, a TA...
15 winners were crowned at Egypt’s first programming competition “A2OJ’s Code Battle”, organized by WUZZUF.com on Saturday, Oct 28 at the Golden Tulip Flamenco Hotel in Cairo....
The global ridesharing app, Uber, appointed Vodafone Group‘s regional head of customer value management as its new director of marketing in Egypt. With over a decade...
Egyptians mocked McDonald’s on social media platforms over misspelled Arabic words seen on donation boxes for Ezbet Khairallah’s education development project. The fast food giant made...
Facebook is the most positively talked about brand among millennials in Egypt, ahead of Pepsi and the National Bank of Egypt according to brand new data...
Connecting startups with more than 450 top-notch experts, the Take Answers App was recently launched to help entrepreneurs find expert answers to their questions from the...
THE COLOUR OF CORRUPTION RECLAME AQUI | GREY BRAZIL “To fight corruption is to make it visible.” The Colour Of Corruption is a simple browser plugin...
With a celebration song by the super star Amr Diab, Vodafone and Pepsi celebrated Egypt’s qualification to the 2018 World Cup. See also: Most Popular World Cup...
Google has announced a new set of products today at a special event in San Francisco. Including the new Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL smartphones, PixelBook laptop,...
The Dubai headquartered finance comparison website, Souqalmal.com, raised USD $10 million in Series B funding from GoCompare, a UK based financial services provider. GoCompare Group plc,...
Priya Patel, Brand Development Lead at Instagram and Ian Manning, Head of Agencies, Middle East, Africa and Pakistan at Facebook are both presenting at the third...
Encouraging a wave of positivity in workplaces across Egypt, Mumm, the homemade food platform, initiated a unique campaign urging employees to share photos of their inspirational...
Government of Dubai has launched The first test flight of the Autonomous Air Taxi by RTA Dubai. Reported Government of Dubai Media Office today on Facebook. Here are...
A new online platform from Wonderlists solves the unwanted gifts dilemma, making couples and gifters in Lebanon very happy. The service is reinventing the traditional wedding gift...
Twitter announced today a partnership with El Gouna Film Festival (@ElGounaFilm), which is set to take place from September 22-29 in El Gouna Red Sea, Egypt....
A recent YouGov study focused on issues related to food wastage has found that the top source of food wastage in the UAE, Egypt and Saudi...
Google tops the first-ever global brand health rankings released by YouGov BrandIndex. In a list dominated by online brands, the search giant comes in just above...
Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) and KPMG have come together to launch the first ever FinTech Abu DhabiInnovation Challenge on 22 October 2017 in Abu Dhabi...
Christian Andersen, Director of Portfolio Marketing, Middle East and Africa, at IBM is presenting this coming October at the third edition of Marketing Kingdom Cairo (15-16 October)...
TPay, the MENA region’s first and biggest Direct Carrier Billing platform, and one of A15’s portfolio companies, announced today that it acquired 100% of DCBEgypt, the...
The British Council and FutureLearn have collaborated to develop Understanding IELTS Techniques for English Language Tests. This is an interactive, elaborate and free online course that is...
Vodafone Egypt has launched “Vodafone Smart Turbo 7” the newest phone in the telecommunications giant’s line up to the Egyptian market, to enable youth who cannot...
Pierandrea Quarta, Global Digital Brand Manager at Head&Shoulders is one of the international speakers at the third edition of the Marketing Kingdom Cairo, Egypt’s only global...
The rising online homemade food platform, Mumm, received an investment worth $200,000 from 500 Startups, possibly one of the world’s most active venture capital funds. Earlier...
OLX Egypt, the leading online classifieds platform, reveals the first of its kind report after monitoring user’s activities throughout the holy month of Ramadan. OLX platform...
SAN MATEO, CA – Incorta, the real-time analytics platform has announced that it hired international sales executive Wael Fakharany as vice president and general manager of...
Egypt’s Fintech startup PayMob, and one of A15’s portfolio companies, launched a new product today called Accept – a payment aggregator that provides online and offline...
Bassem ElHady from KIjamii, Amal Homosany from Initiative Media, Ahmed Abbas from DigiSay and Amr El Kalaawy from FP7/CAI will discuss the role of agencies in...
Entrepreneurs and SMEs can now rely on talented employees who believe in their mission and form a team on a single mission. On May 31, 2017,...
Connecting hundreds of social media and digital marketing professionals, Social Media Day Jordan will take place on July 8 at Zain Innovation Campus (ZINC) in Amman. Organized...