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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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Comscore study: Small Business Owners’ Interest in Credit Cards is Increasing
Comscore’s white paper “The COVID-19 Impact on Small Business Credit Card Applications in 2020” revealed that small business card application…
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Twitter Down: Users cannot log in worldwide, Tweets aren’t loading
Having trouble accessing your Twitter account? You’re not alone! Users from all around the world have reported Twitter login outage…
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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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Tribal Credit Takes Juniper Research’s Best B2B Payment Platform Gold Award
US-based fintech Tribal Credit has won Juniper Research’s Best B2B Payment Platform Gold Award, recognizing its efforts in helping startups…
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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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Mexico’s Auto-parts Startup ‘RIGS’ Teams Up With Tribal Credit
The auto parts market in Mexico has seen tremendous growth over the past five years, redefining how the automotive industry…
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Facebook Clones TikTok, Introduces Instagram Reels
Facebook announced early last month the launch of Instagram Reels: a clone of TikTok videos, describing it as a new…
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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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Social listening and analytics company ‘Talkwalker’ acquires Nielsen Social
Talkwalker, a global social listening and analytics company, announced the acquisition of Nielsen Social, a leading provider of social measurement…
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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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Egyptian Social Media Stirs Countless Rape, Harassment, Blackmail Allegations
On the night of June 30th, 2020, Two instagram accounts (@shadynoor_ and @skhodirr ) started a PSA accusing an ex…
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Viber cuts business ties with Facebook
Japanese owned Rakuten Viber, one of the world’s leading messaging apps for free and secure communication, announces it will cut…
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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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Fintech giant ‘Brex’ lays off 62 of staff despite raising $150M
Brex founders Pedro Franceschi and Henrique Dubugras wrote in a blog post published yesterday that 62 people would be let go.…
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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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Facebook introduces new distribution metric
Yesterday, Facebook released a new metric called “distribution score” to measure the performance of Facebook pages. The company defined the…
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Best Startup Incubators in the UAE 2020
Startup incubators in the UAE are an integral part of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Even for the most experienced of campaigners,…
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Photoshop CC 2020: How To Remove a Background (Easiest Way)
Remove and delete a background in photoshop with the new object selection tool that’s been added to photoshop 2020. In…
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Coronavirus: Fitness App ‘ElCoach’ Gives Away 30-days Free For Everyone
Bodybuilders, gym-goers, and fitness enthusiasts have been scrambled to find alternative ways to sweat after closing gym chains & boutique…
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Netflix Down: Netflix not working Users cannot log in worldwide
Having trouble accessing your Netflix account? You’re not alone! Users from all around the world have reported login outage on…
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Netflix MENA’s Twitter Account Hacked
Netflix MENA’s Twitter account has been hacked early today, the hacker replaced Netflix’s profile photo and pinned a tweet confirmed…
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Why Facebook Blocks Coronavirus News Stories?
Yesterday, Facebook users complained that links to news stories and information related to the coronavirus outbreak were blocked by the…
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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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Wunderlist app is shutting down, switching to Microsoft To Do
Microsoft has set to discontinue the could-based task management app Wunderlist on May 6th, 2020, to be migrated to its…
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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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Dubai to benefit from 1M+ hotel room nights amid major business event wins
Dubai Business Events (DBE), the city’s official convention bureau, recorded a total of 301 successful bids for meetings, conferences, and…
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Orascom CEO Khaled Bichara Killed in Car Crash
Orascom Development CEO Khaled Bichara, 48, was killed Friday in a car crash in Giza, Egypt. Bichara, a father of…
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Saudi Telecom ‘STC’ reaches a deal with Vodafone Group to acquire its stake in Vodafone Egypt
Saudi Telecom Company (STC) has reached a deal with Vodafone Group to acquire its stake in Vodafone Egypt. Vodafone has…
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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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DAE signs new US$300 million 4-year unsecured term loan
Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) Ltd. announced today that it has signed a US$300 million 4-year unsecured term loan with China…
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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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‘The Mandalorian’ finale proved the series really is that good
“The Mandalorian” season 1 finale is out and, boy, does it give viewers of the Disney+ series something to saber…
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Gemini Enterprises Africa and RiseUp LLC join forces for Pyramids Plateau until 2022
Gemini Enterprises Africa, part of Orascom Group, and RiseUp LLC, the MENA region’s connector of startups to local and global…
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RiseUp kicks off its 7th edition at AUC New Cairo Campus
RiseUp Summit 2019, MENA’s leading entrepreneurship event, kicked off Thursday at the American University in Cairo (AUC) New Cairo Campus,…
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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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