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“Save Now, Pay Later” fintech startup, Sympl has raised $6M following its launch last month. The investment is led by three top Venture Capital firms in...
BitOasis, the Middle East and North Africa region’s leading online crypto-asset trading platform, today announced a significant extension to its offering with the launch of 12...
Talabat, the MENA’s leading technology platform in online food and grocery delivery, has announced the appointment of Mohamed Sekkina, as the new General Manager of Talabat...
After the huge success of Emily in Paris’s first season, Netflix has announced that the second season is coming up on December 22, 2021. Emily in...
This White Friday (The Middle East edition of Black Friday), Shahid VIP is offering 50% off on monthly plans for a lifetime. Shahid VIP platform is...
Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals are flooding the internet, catching the real ones is a tough job. That’s why we’ve gathered prime deals this Black...
B2B payments and financing company Tribal Credit announced its expansion plans in Latin America, with operations starting in Colombia, Peru, and Chile next month. The expansion...
This year, Black Friday and Cyber Monday come sequentially on November 26 and November 29. We’ve brought to you the best amazon deals. Amazon began early...
Web hosting and domain seller giant GoDaddy has reported a data breach that exposed 1.2 million customers’ data to hackers. GoDaddy’s chief information security officer Demetrius...
Dubai-based Extended Reality (XR) Tech startup HyperSpace has secured US $11M inequity and development seed funding round. Introsight and Dubai Financier Mohammed Afkhami led the funding....
Cairo-based EdTech Startup Career 180 has raised $200K from EdVentures.The investment aims to develop a new employment platform and emerge it with the Freelance Yard platform....
Saudi FinTech and InsurTech startup Rasan has secured $24M in its latest funding round led by Impact 46, a Saudi asset manager and advisor. This funding...
The Jordanian EdTech and online learning platform Abwaab has successfully secured $20M in its Series A funding round. The funding was led by existing investor BECO Capital...
UAE-based financial literacy platform Verity has secured $800,000 in pre-seed round. Gearing for the launch of its family banking and financial literacy app in the Middle...
The Egyptian E-grocery platform Rabbit has successfully secured $11M in its Pre-Seed round. The deal was led by Global Founders Capital, Foundation Ventures, Raed Ventures, MSA...
Carrefour has launched a partnership with Meta; to support the group’s digital transformation, and provide more personalized experiences for customers and 320,000 employees. The initiative will be...
Google Analytics (GA) is not working worldwide after reports that it stopped recording real-time hits. Website owners noticed a sudden drop in Google Analytics real-time reports...
Jordanian dental tech startup Eon Dental has successfully secured $26M in its Series B funding round. The round was led by a large international MedTech fund...
South Africa’s Vodacom Group Limited has agreed to buy 55% stake in Vodafone Egypt. The deal captures growth in a fast-growing information communications and technology market....
Bahrain-based CoinMENA has raised $9.5M in its first seed funding round led by BECO Capital, Kenetic, Arab Bank Switzerland, Bunat Ventures, Alameda Research, Rua Growth Fund,...
Cairo-based startup ‘Sympl’ has raised the first funding round from A15 with a regional focus. This first investment marks the platform launch for the FinTech startup...
Dubai-based Real Estate startup and private property manager Short Stay Vacation Homes (Short Stay) has successfully raised $1.96M in its latest funding round led by Africa-based SK Group....
Snap Inc. has announced that it will launch a Creator Studio in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2022 to support its highly engaged local community in delivering new...
Snapchat is not only the platform of choice of Millennial and Gen Z audiences in Saudi Arabia but also incredibly popular amongst parents, according to a...
BasharSoft the parent company of “Wuzzuf and Forasna” recruitment platforms, has announced that the founder, Ameer Sherif has stepped down as CEO and moved to the...
Snap Inc. recently kicked off its new B2B global marketing campaign, ‘Open Your Snapchat’, in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, showcasing the exceptional results and reach that...
The Facebook Family “WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, Ads Manager, Workplace and Facebook” have all gone down in a major outage globally. Facebook app run on shared infrastructure...
We would like to announce that we’ve received US $20,000 in seed investment from family and friends. The investment will help us boost growth in editorial...
Workplace by Facebook will continue to help Vodafone bridge the distance between 90,000+ employees over the next 3 years. Thanks to its 2019 adoption of Facebook’s...
The digital identity program for Jordanian citizens will roll out in the coming few days. Said Jordan’s Minister of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship, Ahmed Al-Hanandeh. The digital...
For starters, Floward launched its operations in Cairo only and will gradually expand to other cities and regions within the country. Floward CEO Mr. Abdulaziz B....
Tribe X, a pioneering digital marketing agency based in the United Arab Emirates with offices in Netherlands and Egypt, has been accredited by Facebook as a...
Cairo-based PropTech startup Nawy has raised an oversubscribed seven-figure Seed round led by the Sawiris family office. Also participating in the investment round was a roster...
Google Cloud has fired Amr Awadallah, VP of developer after “Internal Criticism” following his June 13th article on LinkedIn titled “We are One”. The news first...
FasterCapital, an online incubator and accelerator based in Dubai, is launching a cohort for women entrepreneurs. Recent statistics reveal that as of 2021 that 36% of...
Tribal Credit, a payment fintech specially designed for small and medium-sized businesses in emerging markets, announced today closing a combined Series A and debt round of...
Online payments giant Stripe announced opening an office in the United Arab Emirates financial capital Dubai, its first expansion into the Middle East region. Founded in...
Riyadh-based fintech firm Lendo has successfully secured $7.2 million in a Series A funding round, as announced today. The round, conducted exclusively in equity, was led...
Cairo-based fintech startup NowPay has joined Y Combinator’s Winter 21 batch, following a Memorandum of Understanding agreement with the Export Development Bank of Egypt (EBE). “We...
Dayra is a Cairo-based fintech startup providing unbanked gig-workers and micro-businesses with financial services. The company has joined Y Combinator’s Winter 21 batch, closing the largest...
Egyptian fintech startup NowPay signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Export Development Bank of Egypt (EBE) for a credit facility to fund NowPay’s current salary advances...
The OPEC Fund for International Development (the OPEC Fund) has signed a US$50 million loan with Tanzania to finance the ‘Fourth Tanzania Poverty Reduction Project.’ The project...
XPLOR, the 3D tech, digital twin, and master planning software, has raised a seed fund of US $3 million from Ayana Holding to accelerate its growth,...
Mohamed (Nagaty) Aboulnaga, one of Halan ‘s team of co-founders and its Chief Business Officer announced that today, January 31st, 2021 was his “last working day...
Talabat has appointed Hadeer Shalaby, Careem‘s regional director, as its new Managing Director in Egypt, replacing Sofiène Marzouki, who has been in the interim Managing Director...
Cassbana, a financial identities’ startup, announced raising a pre-seed round of 6 digits USD to revolutionize the financial service industry in emerging markets. Disrubtech, a US$25million Fintech...
In a press release today, Etisalat set to normalize with Israel as the company announced the launch of Israel-based network i24NEWS on eLife and Switch TV....
Google servers are now back online after 45 minutes. Please expect some delays and lags. The majority of Google services went down at 12:00 PM GMT,...
We have previously reported that Google WorkSpace, Youtube, Google Adsense, and some Google Search features are also down. The Story is still developing.
We can confirm Youtube and related services are also down. We have reported earlier that Google Workspace services are also down. Update: Youtube back online after...
While there are still no official announcements at the time of posting, we can report that almost all Google Workspace suite services such as Email, Meet,...
Almost all Google services went down globally on 12:00 PM GMT, Google Business Suite including Email, Meets, Calendar, Drive, etc. In addition to Youtube, Adwords, Adsense...
As its first investment in the market, Lorax Capital Partners Fund II has announced today that it has acquired a significant minority stake in DSQ Group...
Endeavor Egypt welcomes renowned publishing, education entrepreneur, and expert Dalia Ibrahim to its Board of Directors. Dalia Ibrahim is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Nahdet...
After six months of announcing Kotobna’s partial acquisition of the online gifting and stationary platform Autograph, the MIT Pan Arab Award-winning startup is now assigning part...
Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), announced that Ripple, the enterprise blockchain solution for global payments, has established its regional headquarters in the Centre. Ripple has chosen...
Cairo – Foundation Ventures (FV) is a regional venture capital firm founded in 2019 and is managed by Mazen Nadim, Omar Barakat, and Ziyad Hamdy, in...
The pre-acceleration program, StartEgypt, hosted its first virtual forum for female entrepreneurs, the Female Founders Forum. The one-day virtual event attended by over 300 up-and-coming female...
Comscore’s white paper “The COVID-19 Impact on Small Business Credit Card Applications in 2020” revealed that small business card application has improved in June after a...
Having trouble accessing your Twitter account? You’re not alone! Users from all around the world have reported Twitter login outage on Friday. Tweets are not loading...
Cairo-based FinTech startup NowPay, a financial-wellness platform for employees in emerging markets, has announced today that the company has raised US$ 2.1 million in seed investment....
dreevo, a last-mile delivery-focused startup has raised 6 digits USD figure in a bootstrap, pre-seed fund from EF Logistics, a third-party logistic services provider, to introduce...
US-based fintech Tribal Credit has won Juniper Research’s Best B2B Payment Platform Gold Award, recognizing its efforts in helping startups and SMEs in emerging markets gain...
Facebook has teamed up with leading regional creative agency, TBWA\RAAD, for its new campaign, #LoveLocal, an initiative to support local small and medium businesses (SMBs) in...
Facebook has launched a new initiative to offer digital support to local small and medium businesses in the MENA region, which suffered the hardest during the Coronavirus...
The auto parts market in Mexico has seen tremendous growth over the past five years, redefining how the automotive industry operates and how value in the...
Facebook announced early last month the launch of Instagram Reels: a clone of TikTok videos, describing it as a new way to create and discover short,...
SellAnyCar.com, the UAE pioneer and leader in online auto marketplaces for used car sales, announced today it is expanding into Saudi Arabia used car buying market...
Snap launched its first brand-facing marketing campaign under ‘Meet the Snapchat Generation’, targeting marketers and advertisers across the region. Celebrating the unique and special Snapchat community,...
The Egyptian superstar and singing legend Amr Diab will return to acting with an original Arabic series on Netflix. The show will be in the Musical...
Talkwalker, a global social listening and analytics company, announced the acquisition of Nielsen Social, a leading provider of social measurement and audience insights software. Nielsen Social’s...
History has shown us that images are worth more than words. Thanks to the rise of visual-based communication, we are returning to more graphic forms of...
Viber, owned by the Japanese company, Rakuten, and one of the world’s leading apps for free and easy communication, conducted an opinion poll of more than...
In partnership with the World Bank and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Facebook published the Global State of Small Business report based on...
Facebook has announced today that the Egyptian Professionals Network (EPN) has joined the 2020 cycle of the Community Accelerator program, a six-months program designed to help...
On the night of June 30th, 2020, Two instagram accounts (@shadynoor_ and @skhodirr ) started a PSA accusing an ex student of AUC and various other...
Japanese owned Rakuten Viber, one of the world’s leading messaging apps for free and secure communication, announces it will cut all business ties with Facebook. The...
Egyptian chatbot startup WideBot witnessed a surge of Arabic chatbot building requests during the first half of 2020, amounting to a 100% increase, compared to the...
Egyptian Minister of Health, Dr. Hala Zayed, has announced that the ministry’s National Blood Transfusion Service is teaming up with Facebook to launch a campaign to...
Brex founders Pedro Franceschi and Henrique Dubugras wrote in a blog post published yesterday that 62 people would be let go. The corporate credit cards for startups...
US-based startup Tribal Credit, which raised $9.1 million in a series of seed rounds, announced that it had joined Visa’s Fintech Fast Track Program, adding it...
Yesterday, Facebook released a new metric called “distribution score” to measure the performance of Facebook pages. The company defined the new distribution score as: The distribution...
Startup incubators in the UAE are an integral part of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Even for the most experienced of campaigners, building a business from scratch is...
Bodybuilders, gym-goers, and fitness enthusiasts have been scrambled to find alternative ways to sweat after closing gym chains & boutique fitness spots in all the countries...
Having trouble accessing your Netflix account? You’re not alone! Users from all around the world have reported Netflix login outage on Wednesday while accessing their Netflix...
Netflix MENA’s Twitter account has been hacked early today, the hacker replaced Netflix’s profile photo and pinned a tweet confirmed the news. إلقم يالنتفلكس vvv تم...
Yesterday, Facebook users complained that links to news stories and information related to the coronavirus outbreak were blocked by the company’s automated system. It happened to...
Trade Bank of Iraq (TBI), today announced US $5 million in funding to support the Iraqi Ministry of Health’s efforts to combat the threat of COVID-19....
Abwaab, MENA’s latest online learning platform, today announces the closing of its $2.4M pre-seed funding round. The round was kicked off by Adam Tech Ventures and...
Jordanian citizen who was tested positive Covid-19 has been declared healthy today and released from quarantine in Amman, which means that the country is free of COVID-19...
Microsoft has set to discontinue the could-based task management app Wunderlist on May 6th, 2020, to be migrated to its To-Do app. After May 6th, users’...
Global e-commerce giant Amazon has added Palestine to its international shipping destinations in response to #BoycottAmazon Palestinians had to list themselves under Israel to be eligible...
Dubai Lynx’s annual festival in March has been rescheduled on 6-9 September 2020 in light of the coronavirus outbreak in the MENA region. “We have taken...
Dubai Business Events (DBE), the city’s official convention bureau, recorded a total of 301 successful bids for meetings, conferences, and incentives in 2019. Set to attract...
Orascom Development CEO Khaled Bichara, 48, was killed Friday in a car crash in Giza, Egypt. Bichara, a father of two, was driving on Remaya road...
Saudi Telecom Company (STC) has reached a deal with Vodafone Group to acquire its stake in Vodafone Egypt. Vodafone has informed the local authorities in Egypt...
Manchester City has launched CITY+, a brand-new content subscription, which is now available across all Manchester City digital platforms – mancity.com, Man City app and Smart...
JLL, one of the world’s leading real estate investment and advisory firms, has appointed Dana Salbak as the Head of Research for the MENA region. Salbak,...
Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) Ltd. announced today that it has signed a US$300 million 4-year unsecured term loan with China Construction Bank (DIFC Branch) and China...
TikTok has appointed Egyptian agency “Green Mind” to manage its YouTube channel in the Middle East and North Africa region. Green Mind will be also responsible...