MENA
News from the MENA region.
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Endeavor Egypt Welcomes Dalia Ibrahim to the Board of Directors
Endeavor Egypt welcomes renowned publishing, education entrepreneur, and expert Dalia Ibrahim to its Board of Directors. Dalia Ibrahim is the…
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Mohamed Abdulsalam Announced Co-CEO of Kotobna
After six months of announcing Kotobna’s partial acquisition of the online gifting and stationary platform Autograph, the MIT Pan Arab…
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FinTech Ripple Chooses Dubai International Financial Center for Regional Headquarters
Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), announced that Ripple, the enterprise blockchain solution for global payments, has established its regional headquarters…
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Foundation Ventures powers up Egypt’s entrepreneurship ecosystem with 4 new investments
Cairo – Foundation Ventures (FV) is a regional venture capital firm founded in 2019 and is managed by Mazen Nadim,…
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StartEgypt Hosts First Female Founders Forum to Inspire Entrepreneurs
The pre-acceleration program, StartEgypt, hosted its first virtual forum for female entrepreneurs, the Female Founders Forum. The one-day virtual event…
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instaConsult Launches Personal Consultation via Whatsapp
In this age, technology can literally be injected into your skin. So don’t expect this to be a far topic.…
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NowPay Raises US$2.1 Million in Seed Investment
Cairo-based FinTech startup NowPay, a financial-wellness platform for employees in emerging markets, has announced today that the company has raised…
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Cairo-based Last-mile Delivery Startup ‘dreevo’ Raises 6 Digits USD Figure
dreevo, a last-mile delivery-focused startup has raised 6 digits USD figure in a bootstrap, pre-seed fund from EF Logistics, a…
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Facebook teams up with TBWA\RAAD to showcase people behind #LoveLocal
Facebook has teamed up with leading regional creative agency, TBWA\RAAD, for its new campaign, #LoveLocal, an initiative to support local…
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Facebook Launches ‘#LoveLocal’ campaign to support local businesses in MENA
Facebook has launched a new initiative to offer digital support to local small and medium businesses in the MENA region,…
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How Can Startups Use Virtual Credit Cards To Empower Growth?
Virtual credit cards are quickly gaining traction around the world in the B2B payment space. Created for online transactions, they…
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SellAnyCar.com Expands into Saudi Arabia
SellAnyCar.com, the UAE pioneer and leader in online auto marketplaces for used car sales, announced today it is expanding into…
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Snap celebrates its unique community in its first ever B2B marketing campaign
Snap launched its first brand-facing marketing campaign under the name of ‘Meet the Snapchat Generation’, targeting marketers and advertisers across…
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Amr Diab Returns to Drama in Netflix Arabic Original Series
The Egyptian superstar and singing legend Amr Diab will return to acting with an original Arabic series on Netflix. The…
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Iraq’s First ‘marketplace app’ Lezzoo Raises Seven-figure Seed Round
Lezzoo, the Iraqi startup for delivery and payment on-demand, is geared to become the troubled nation’s first super app, following graduation from…
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Facebook Reveals Top Emojis in MENA, Celebrates World Emoji Day
History has shown us that images are worth more than words. Thanks to the rise of visual-based communication, we are…
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60% of Arab users prefer using emojis over words to express emotions
Viber, owned by the Japanese company, Rakuten, and one of the world’s leading apps for free and easy communication, conducted…
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Small business owners optimistic about economic recovery post-COVID
Facebook, in partnership with the World Bank and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), today published the Global…
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Egyptian Professionals Network (EPN) joins the Facebook Community Accelerator Program
Facebook has announced today that the Egyptian Professionals Network (EPN) has joined the 2020 cycle of the Community Accelerator program,…
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Cairo-based Fintech Startup MoneyFellows Raises US $4M in Series-A
Egyptian fintech startup MoneyFellows has raised US $4 million in a Series-A investment round from venture capital (VC) firms Partech and…
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Demand for Arabic chatbots surges in H1-2020 amid COVID-19, WideBot data shows
Egyptian chatbot startup WideBot witnessed a surge of Arabic chatbot building requests during the first half of 2020, amounting to…
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Egypt’s health ministry launches blood donation campaign in cooperation with Facebook
Egyptian Minister of Health, Dr. Hala Zayed, has announced that the ministry’s National Blood Transfusion Service is teaming up with…
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Facebook Rolls Out ‘Messenger Kids’ to MENA
Facebook is rolling out Messenger Kids to countries in Africa and the Middle East to help parents connect their kids…
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Tribal Credit Joins Visa’s Fintech Fast Track to Bridge Equity Gap for MENA Startups
US-based startup Tribal Credit, which raised $9.1 million in a series of seed rounds, today announced that it has joined…
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Trade Bank of Iraq Donates $5M to Iraqi Ministry of Health to help Combat Coronavirus
Trade Bank of Iraq (TBI), today announced US $5 million in funding to support the Iraqi Ministry of Health’s efforts…
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Online Learning Platform Abwaab Raises 2.4M in Seed Funding
Abwaab, MENA’s latest online learning platform, today announces the closing of its $2.4M pre-seed funding round. The round was kicked…
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Jordan declared free of Coronavirus
Jordanian citizen who was tested positive Covid-19 has been declared healthy today and released from quarantine in Amman, which means that…
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Amazon now delivers to Palestine following boycott campaign
Global e-commerce giant Amazon has added Palestine to its international shipping destinations in response to #BoycottAmazon Palestinians had to list…
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Dubai Lynx Postpones Annual Festival Amid Coronavirus Spread in MENA
Dubai Lynx’s annual festival in March has been rescheduled on 6-9 September 2020 in light of the coronavirus outbreak in…
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Manchester City Launches TV Channel in UAE
Manchester City has launched CITY+, a brand-new content subscription, which is now available across all Manchester City digital platforms –…
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JLL appoints Dana Salbak as Head of Research for the MENA region
JLL, one of the world’s leading real estate investment and advisory firms, has appointed Dana Salbak as the Head of…
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TikTok Assigns Egyptian Agency ‘Green Mind’ To Manage Its MENA’s YouTube Channel
TikTok has appointed Egyptian agency “Green Mind” to manage its YouTube channel in the Middle East and North Africa region.…
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Silicon Valley’s Tribal Credit Raises $5.5M in Seed Funding to Bank Startups
Tribal Credit closed a $5.5 million Seed round led by BECO Capital and Global Ventures to bank startups in emerging…
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‘Boost with Facebook’ partners with RiseUp to bring digital skills training to Egyptian startups
Facebook announced on Tuesday its partnership with RiseUp to bring ‘Boost with Facebook’, its global program designed to help small…
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British Council reports high demand for ‘Primary Plus’ its English courses for children in Egypt
British Council, the United Kingdom’s international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations, says demand for Primary Plus—its English course…
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Amman-based POSRocket Takes Cash Registers to the Cloud
The global cloud-based market is forecasted to nearly double from US $29.9 billion in 2019 to US $58.9 billion by 2024…
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Jamalon Brings Books Beyond Borders
Did you know that Arabic is the fifth most spoken language in the world? Doing one for the language is…
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Silicon Valley’s Tribal Credit Eyes MENA, Closing Round to Bank Startups
Silicon Valley-based Tribal Credit started private beta testing with MENA startups and is closing a funding round that includes some…
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‘Vikings’ marks season finale with a blockbuster two-hour premiere
Vikings fans who have been eagerly waiting for the season finale will be delighted to know that the hit drama…
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Jordan Ahli Bank Celebrates Batman Day
As weird as it might seem, Ahli bank, a local bank in Amman-Jordan celebrated the 80th anniversary of Batman on…
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Good People, Kijamii partner to form ‘GP&K’ digital driven network
Good People, the region’s leading creative production house, joined forces with the region’s leading digital agency and 2019’s Independent-Agency-of-the-Year, Kijamii, to form…
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Middle Eastern Female Entrepreneurs Outpacing Other Nations
The number of new startups in the Middle East has risen by more than 42% in the past three years,…
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Mohamed Salah Donates US $3 Million to Egyptian National Cancer Institute
Egyptian football player Mohamed Salah has donated US $3 million (the equivalent of EGP 54 million) to the National Cancer…
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SeedStars visits Baghdad to find promising Iraqi startups
Seedstars World, the largest startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes will land for the first time in…
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Google to Hire Cairo-Based Team
Google plans to hire a team for its Cairo office, seeking to expand its business in Egypt and implement new…
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Egyptian Transportation Startup ‘Swvl’ Raises $42 Million for African Expansion
Swvl, Egypt-based app for booking buses has raised $42 million as it plans to expand into other markets in Africa,…
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CIB, EgyptAir make every mile counts for budget travelers
Overseas travel expenses are on the rise. But Egyptians can still do some adventures without breaking the bank. Commercial International…
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Etisalat buildings to ‘go dark’ for Earth Hour
Etisalat will join major companies around the world on 30th March to mark Earth Hour, the world’s largest movement in…
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Game of Thrones Star Iwan Rheon to Make MEFCC Guest Appearance
The actor who played one of the most villainous characters in Game of Thrones history will make a sensational guest…
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Kijamii Wins Entertainment Grand Prix at 2019 Dubai Lynx, Named Independent Agency of the Year
Leading digital creative content and production agency Kijamii was named the “Independent Agency Of The Year” at the 2019 edition…
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JWT and POD Egypt Win 3 Awards at Dubai Lynx For DHL
JWT and POD Egypt won three awards (one gold and two silver) under the PR and Entertainment categories for DHL…
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