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Latest news and headlines about the tech industry, startup scene, creative work, advertising, and marketing from across the middle east and north Africa.
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Egyptian Food Bank’s Ramadan 2022 Ad Invites Egyptians to Share Happiness
Urging people to donate to feed fasting needy people this year, the Egyptian Food Bank put up a great ad…
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Telecom Egypt Steals The Ad-Show in Ramadan 2022
Telecom Egypt launched its Ramadan 2022 commercial TVC on social media and Youtube, starred by Yasmine Abdel Aziz and Karim…
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Orange Egypt Debuts Ramadan 2022 With A Real Delight
Orange Egypt kicked off the Ramadan media race with the late star Soad Hussny’s “Egypt sweetheart” movies themes, starred by…
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Egypt Post, Amr Diab kick off Ramadan 2022 Advertising Race
Egypt Post kicked off Ramadan’s advertising race with a brand TVC, the ad theme “it’s your time” urging that the…
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Saudi eCommerce platform Haseel raises $6.6M in series A
Saudi-based fresh produce eCommerce startup Haseel has raised $6.6M in a Series A funding round. Vision Ventures led the round.…
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DailyMealz Raises US$5 Million in a Pre-Series A Round
Saudi Arabia-based healthy food delivery app DailyMealz has raised SAR 20 million ($5 million) in a pre-Series A round. Saudi…
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Netflix to end multiple account sharing
Netflix is testing a new feature that will charge a fee to its subscribers who share their accounts with other…
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Sokowatch raises $125M, rebrands to Wasoko
Nairobi-based B2B company that connects informal retailers to manufacturers, Sokowatch, has raised $125 million in Series B funding from Tiger…
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ChannelEngine raises $50M to help retailers sell through marketplaces
ChannelEngine, a platform that helps retailers connect with and sell through more than 200 marketplaces, raises $50M for an operating…
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Perlego raises $50M, aims to build ‘Spotify for textbooks’
The London online startup Perlego has picked up $50 million to expand its business after seeing its platform boom through…
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YouTube takes down channels linked to Russian state media
YouTube took down channels linked to Russian state media such as RT and Sputnik; the company has also suspended all…
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Starlink stops taking pre-orders in India, following warning from DoT
Elon Musk-backed Starlink stopped taking pre-orders in India after the Department of Telecommunications had warned that the company has not…
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Marriott pauses opening new hotels in Russia to condemn Ukraine Invasion
The Marriott Hotel chain said today it has decided to pause the opening of upcoming hotels and all future hotel…
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Sony suspends PlayStation in Russia following Ukraine invasion
Sony has stopped selling its PlayStation consoles and software in Russia, becoming the latest major brand to withdraw business in…
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East African Antler closes $13.5M fund to support early-stage tech startups
Early-stage investor Antler has closed its oversubscribed East Africa investment fund today at US$13.5 million to continue to support early-stage…
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Egypt’s interior design & build platform Shatablee raises $1.2M
The Egyptian digital interior design & build platform, handling the diverse finishing problems in the Egyptian Market, Shatablee has raised…
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Instagram warns users who share Russian state media
Instagram is warming users who share Russian state media in stories, to dampen Russian government propaganda and protect user privacy…
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McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Starbucks suspend business in Russia
McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, and Starbucks have suspended operations in Russia Tuesday, following public pressure and calls to boycott because of not…
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B2B SaaS startup ‘Insider’ raises $121M series D, unlocks Unicorn status
Singapore-based B2B SaaS startup Insider has unlocked unicorn status after raising a $121 million Series D round led by Qatar…
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List of brands that pulled out of Russia following Ukraine war
Over the past 13 days, major brands have suspended their operations in Russia following the war in Ukraine. While the…
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UAE store management platform ‘Dukkantek’ raises $5.2M seed
UAE-based digital store management platform Dukkantek has raised $5.2 million in a seed round to digitalize traditional retail spaces. The…
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Coca-Cola, McDonald’s face boycott threats for not suspending operations in Russia
Calls get louder for boycotting McDonald’s and Coca-Cola as they are still operating in Russia after invading Ukraine. The two…
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Apple Suspends App Store Search Ads in Russia
Apple has suspended advertising on its App Store in Russia to join a large list of companies and brands that…
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Zara, Paypal, Samsung suspend business in Russia
Zara, Paypal, and Samsung have suspended operations in Russia over the Ukraine invasion joining a long list of western companies…
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Dubai-based BNPL platform tabby raises $104M in series B
Dubai-based FinTech and buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) platform tabby has raised $54M in an extension round to the $50M series B round,…
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Saudi Taker Acquires Brisk Delivery
Taker, the Saudi-based Tech startup and fleet management solutions provider, has acquired its local counterpart, Brisk Delivery, to enhance its…
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Ukraine war: Cannes Lions suspends award entries from Russia
Cannes Lions has banned award submissions and delegations from Russian organizations for this year’s Festival of Creativity, in response to…
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WPP Withdraws Operations in Russia to condemn Ukraine Invasion
WPP is shutting down its operations in Russia due to the country’s invasion of Ukraine, a move that will affect…
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Egyptian mother, baby online shop Mumerz raises $1.2m
Egyptian Mumerz.com announced that it has successfully secured $1.2m in a pre-seed round led by local fund Disruptech. Launched recently, Mumerz.com is a…
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Capital Bank of Jordan Launches ‘Blink’ digital-only Neobank
Capital Bank of Jordan partnered with Codebase Technologies to build Blink, the first digital-only neobank in Jordan for individuals and…
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Funding Souq raises $2.5m in a seed round
Saudi Arabia-based crowdfunding platform Funding Souq has closed a $2.5m seed round with contributions from various angel investors. Investors include…
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Yasmin Ezz stirs controversy on social media
Egyptian TV presenter Yasmin Ezz has sparked controversy on social media because of her comment on Friday, Feb 18, in…
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RECAPP launches recycling bins on UAE Tour Route
RECAPP, the UAE’s first free-of-charge door-to-door recycling service, has launched recycling bins on UAE Tour Route to collect thousands of…
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Facebook rolls out reels and new monetization methods for creators
Meta is expanding the availability of Facebook Reels for iOS and Android to more than 20 countries across sub-Saharan Africa.…
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6,000 tourists celebrate sun alignment at Abu Simbel temple
Today, more than 6,000 tourists celebrated sun alignment on King Ramses II in front of Abu Simbel Temple in Aswan.…
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Jambo Raises $7.5 Million To Create Africa’s Web3 app
Jambo, a three-month-old company, building a Web 3 super app for Africa, has raised $7.5 million in seed funding from…
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Global Proptech Facilio Secures $35M in Series B
The global proptech startup Facilio has secured $35 million in its Series B round led by Dragoneer Investment Group. Brookfield…
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Oil prices surge as Ukraine-Russia tension climb
Oil and gas prices are climbing on fears that the Ukraine-Russia crisis will disrupt supplies across the world. U.S. West…
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UAE’s Tech Udrive Startup for Car Rental Secures $5M
UAE’s Tech startup for car rental Udrive, providing a pay-per-minute car rental service for UAE residents and tourists, has secured…
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Snap Allows Users to Change their Usernames
Snap Inc. is planning to launch a new feature to allow Username Change effective Feb 23, a highly anticipated feature…
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Vodafone plans to cut cost by shifting UK jobs overseas
Beleaguered telecoms giant Vodafone plans to shift UK jobs overseas in a cost-cutting drive. According to an internal memo and…
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Trump’s Truth Social is Available on Apple App Store
The U.S. Former President Donald Trump has launched his own social media app, “Truth Social,” on the Apple App store…
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EgyptAir’s pilot historic landing during Eunice fires up social media
EgyptAir’s pilot Walid Murad’s historic landing at Heathrow airport in London during the storm Eunice on Friday, February 18 fired…
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New Chinese regulations hit food delivery giants’ profit model
Chinese authorities announced new regulations that will reduce the food delivery platforms’ service fees charged to restaurants to lower the…
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Saudi’s B2B Fintech EdfaPay Raises $1.6M Pre-seed
KSA-based B2B Fintech EdfaPay has raised $1.6M in a pre-seed round to overcome the physical payment process moving away from…
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Earnpay raises $4M to facilitate access to salaries in Nigeria
Earnpay, a fintech startup that provides flexible and on-demand salary access, has raised $4 million in seed financing to facilitate…
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DocuSign and Zoom team up to sign docs during meetings
Zoom and DocuSign announced a new integration that lets users review and sign documents right within a Zoom meeting to…
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UAE-based Fintech Startup ‘Qashio’ Raises $2.5M Pre-seed
Qashio, a UAE-based fintech startup for expense management and corporate cards has raised US $2.5M in its Pre-seed funding round…
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AWstreams ‘You Own it’ A Creative Take on Fashion Advertising
Awstreams, one of the top digital marketing agencies in the Middle East and North Africa, has offered a new take…
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South African API startup Stitch raises $21M in series A
Stitch, an API infrastructure company that enables simple, easy access to user financial accounts, has raised $21M in a Series…
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Lost Ark becomes second hit game in history in 24 hours
Lost Ark has become the second most played game in Steam history after it passed one million concurrent players in…
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Anghami becomes first Arab company listed on NASDAQ
The music streaming platform, Anghami has been officially listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange as it begins trading on February…
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What’s coming on Netflix in February 2022
February is going to be a prosperous month on Netflix. The streaming platform will air a new show based on…
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Morocco fails to rescue boy trapped in well alive
Moroccan rescue teams failed to extract Rayan alive late on Saturday. A 5-years old boy trapped in a well for…
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Tribal Raises $60M Series B Funding Round
Tribal Credit, business-to-business payments and financing platform for emerging markets, has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round…
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Netflix and Disney+ battle heats up for content in 2022
Netflix and Disney+ are battling each other with around 750,000 subscribers on the line as Netflix loses a handful of…
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Disney+ is coming to the MENA region this summer
The giant streaming service Disney+ is planning to expand to 42 countries and 11 new territories, including 16 markets across…
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Amman turns white as snow storm hits
Snow has covered Amman late evening on January 26, as a polar snowstorm originating from Cyprus hit the Levant region,…
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TikTok to introduce avatars, live audio, new creator tools, more
TikTok is working on a number of new features including, Bitmoji-like avatars, keyword filtering for the “For You Page”, group…
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UAE’s Neobank Savii Closes Pre-Seed to Launch in Bahrain
Savii Banking, the first female-founded neobank in the GCC, has raised a Pre-Seed fund to launch its services in Bahrain.…
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Another winter ‘polar’ storm hits Jordan, Syria and Turkey
Another polar storm will hit Syria and Jordan on Sunday throughout the week until Saturday, resulting in shallow temperatures, heavy…
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Best Restaurants and Steakhouses in Amman
Dining out day is an unforgettable day of the week. It’s the day that we hang out with our good…
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CARE rescues displaced Syrians as winter storms hit
ِWhile winter storms pleasured many people in Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon as rain is a good source of water which…
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Winter storm drops snow in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
A snowstorm pummeled parts of Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria on early Wednesday, leaving thousands of Syrian refugees without shelters. According…
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10 places to visit in Jordan during winter
The kingdom of Jordan is one of the countries where you can inhale the smell of time, feel the magic…
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Netflix raises monthly prices in the U.S., Canada
Netflix has raised its monthly subscription prices in the U.S. and Canada by $1 and $2, depending on the plan.…
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Apple releases a new macOS Monterey 12.1 update, more
Apple has released a new macOS Monterey 12.1 update that adds SharePlay, an entirely new way to have shared experiences…
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UAE’s logistics startup Shorages secures $700K in seed
Shorages, UAE’s logistics startup, has closed its Seed funding round of $700,000, led by Mayfair Holdings. Founded by Rayan Osseiran…
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Meta rolls out ‘Lock Your Facebook Profile’ to MENA region
Meta is reinforcing the security and privacy options available to Facebook users to further underline the company’s commitment to user…
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Egypt’s online grocery Tawfeer secures $500K investment
Alex-based Tawfeer Market, the Egyptian online grocery retail startup, has raised US $500K in a seed round. Alexandria Business Angels…
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Kwik Delivery hits 100K customers, +400% revenue growth in 2021
Kwik Delivery, a Lagos-based delivery startup announces today that its GMV and revenue for 2021 grew by over 400% year…
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New administrative Megacity rises-up in Egypt’s desert
The New Administrative Capital’s project phase one has been accomplished, planning to be centered on a new administrative megacity that aims…
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UAE-based startup Fit On Click raises $1.5M Pre-Series A
Fit On Click, a fitness and wellness startup based in the UAE, has closed a $1.5M Pre-Series A funding round…
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‘VO’ acquires majority stake in Kuwait’s ‘Duwaween Games’
VO, the first Kuwait-based integrated youth platform for incubating young talents, has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake…
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Mauritius lifts travel ban on Southern African travelers
As of Friday 7 January 2022, the Covid-19 travel ban imposed by the Republic of Mauritius on the Republic of…
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Snapchat celebrates Spotlight’s first anniversary, pays out $250 Million to creators
Snap continues to reward Snapchatters for their creativity. Over the past year, more than 12,000 creators have collectively been paid…
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Egypt’s Gahez Market secures US $2M in pre-seed
Cairo-based Gahez Market, a B2B E-commerce startup, has secured US $2M in its pre-seed round. Disruptech Ventures led the funding…
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Dubai-based Nice to Meet You secures US $1M Seed
The Dubai-based digital authentication startup Nice to Meet You (NTMY) has secured a $1M seed funding round. Saudi investors participated…
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Amman Best Hotel Prices on New Year’s Eve 2022
What’s better than a luxurious stay at a five stars hotel? If you haven’t planned for anything yet for New…
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Amman Weather: foggy, rainy New Year’s Eve 2022
Amman is witnessing a slight rise in weather temperatures this week. However, on New Year’s Eve, it will be rainy…
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Hello World Kids, ed-tech startup raises pre-series A
Hello World Kids, a Jordanian Ed-Tech company, has raised an undisclosed pre-Series A funding round. Vision Ventures participated in the…
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Snowstorm hits Jordan for 72 hours
Jordan is expecting a snowstorm to hit the kingdom for three days starting Monday and fade out on Thursday, according…
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Egypt’s Sympl raises $6M in seed round by Beco Capital, Global Ventures, A15
“Save Now, Pay Later” fintech startup, Sympl has raised $6M following its launch last month. The investment is led by…
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BitOasis to add 12 New Tokens to its Exchange Platform
BitOasis, the Middle East and North Africa region’s leading online crypto-asset trading platform, today announced a significant extension to its…
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Talabat Mart Egypt appoints Mohamed Sekkina as general manager
Talabat, the MENA’s leading technology platform in online food and grocery delivery, has announced the appointment of Mohamed Sekkina, as…
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Emily in Paris season 2 is coming up on Netflix, here’s all what we know
After the huge success of Emily in Paris’s first season, Netflix has announced that the second season is coming up…
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White Friday Deals: Shahid Offers 50% Lifetime
This White Friday (The Middle East edition of Black Friday), Shahid VIP is offering 50% off on monthly plans for…
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Black Friday, Cyber Monday 2021 Best Deals
Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals are flooding the internet, catching the real ones is a tough job. That’s why…
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Tribal Expands Financing, Payment Services to SMBs in Peru, Chile, Colombia
B2B payments and financing company Tribal Credit announced its expansion plans in Latin America, with operations starting in Colombia, Peru,…
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Black Friday 2021 Best Amazon Deals
This year, Black Friday and Cyber Monday come sequentially on November 26 and November 29. We’ve brought to you the…
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Hack Alert: GoDaddy data breach exposes 1.2 million user accounts
Web hosting and domain seller giant GoDaddy has reported a data breach that exposed 1.2 million customers’ data to hackers.…
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Dubai-Based HyperSpace Secures $11M in Seed Round
Dubai-based Extended Reality (XR) Tech startup HyperSpace has secured US $11M inequity and development seed funding round. Introsight and Dubai…
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Cairo-Based EdTech Startup Career 180 Raises $200K
Cairo-based EdTech Startup Career 180 has raised $200K from EdVentures.The investment aims to develop a new employment platform and emerge…
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Saudi FinTech, InsurTech Rasan Secures $24M
Saudi FinTech and InsurTech startup Rasan has secured $24M in its latest funding round led by Impact 46, a Saudi…
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Jordan’s EdTech Startup ‘Abwaab’ Secures $20M in Series A
The Jordanian EdTech and online learning platform Abwaab has successfully secured $20M in its Series A funding round. The funding was…
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UAE-based financial literacy platform Verity secures $800K
UAE-based financial literacy platform Verity has secured $800,000 in pre-seed round. Gearing for the launch of its family banking and…
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Egyptian E-grocery Rabbit Raises $11M in Pre-Seed
The Egyptian E-grocery platform Rabbit has successfully secured $11M in its Pre-Seed round. The deal was led by Global Founders…
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Google Analytics is not working worldwide
Google Analytics (GA) is not working worldwide after reports that it stopped recording real-time hits. Website owners noticed a sudden…
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Vodacom buys 55% stake in Vodafone Egypt
South Africa’s Vodacom Group Limited has agreed to buy 55% stake in Vodafone Egypt. The deal captures growth in a…
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CoinMENA Raises $9.5M Seed Fund
Bahrain-based CoinMENA has raised $9.5M in its first seed funding round led by BECO Capital, Kenetic, Arab Bank Switzerland, Bunat…
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