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META, Facebook is one of the giants of the Internet today. Its founders may not have dreamed of this success when they started building it from...
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Google Hangouts is officially shutting down in November 2022. Google is prompting users who still use the Hangouts mobile app to migrate to Chat before it...
Amazon has recently unveiled that it’s working on a new mimicry feature of its voice assistant Alexa that will be able to mimic any human’s voice,...
The cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase is laying off 18 percent of its workforce due to the recent collapse in its stock and crypto prices. Coinbase has...
YouTube has launched critical alerts to notify creators when performance drops significantly, along with an updated format for channel navigation to help channels’ creators boost their...
Apple has unveiled a significant update to the Lock Screen and new sharing on IOS 16, communication, and intelligence features. Users will be able to personalize...
The coffee-centric marketplace COFE app has launched a new Siri feature on Apple devices that makes ordering coffee quicker, funner, and more adaptive for its COFE...
According to an internal memo, Apple will add the 11-inch MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Air, and 13-inch MacBook Pro models, released in early 2014, to its...
The Egyptian digital interior design & build platform, handling the diverse finishing problems in the Egyptian Market, Shatablee has raised a $1.2M funding round to optimize...
Singapore-based B2B SaaS startup Insider has unlocked unicorn status after raising a $121 million Series D round led by Qatar Investment Authority at a $1.22 billion...
UAE-based digital store management platform Dukkantek has raised $5.2 million in a seed round to digitalize traditional retail spaces. The funding round was led by Global...
Chefaa, Egypt’s patient-centered pharmacy benefits platform, has raised a venture round from globally renowned investors Newtown Partners and Global Brain and GMS Capital Partners. The undisclosed...
The global proptech startup Facilio has secured $35 million in its Series B round led by Dragoneer Investment Group. Brookfield Growth and existing investors Accel India...
UAE’s Tech startup for car rental Udrive, providing a pay-per-minute car rental service for UAE residents and tourists, has secured $5M from Cultiv8 and Oman Holding...
TikTok is working on a number of new features including, Bitmoji-like avatars, keyword filtering for the “For You Page”, group chats, audio-only live streams, and more...
Apple has released a new macOS Monterey 12.1 update that adds SharePlay, an entirely new way to have shared experiences with family and friends in FaceTime....
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Aleph Holding, global partner to the world’s biggest digital media players, has today announced its acquisition of 86% of Connect Ads in a cash and shares’...
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...
Laverie, the first dry-cleaning & laundry app, announced securing an undisclosed six-figure (USD) seed round from A15, the leading Egyptian tech investor. The upscale app has...
Access Bridge Ventures is a leading early stage venture capital fund supporting budding entrepreneurs across MENA region & Pakistan. With their current role in funding the...
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...
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,...
Today, ElCoach, MENA’s premier on-demand fitness, and nutrition app released its Year in Review 2020 and we are seriously impressed. With demand on Fitness apps growing...
Update: Whatsapp announced on January 15th, 2021 that it is moving back the date from February 8. It also announced it will ” go to people...
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 case your workflow requires taking frequent screenshots on Mac, you will need to know three widespread keyboard shortcuts and a fourth if you own a...
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,...
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...
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...
In this age, technology can literally be injected into your skin. So don’t expect this to be a far topic. Actually, we’re utilizing technology to fetch...
For early-stage startups, having cash is essential to staying afloat. But it’s one thing to have money and another to know how to spend and manage...
Amber Solutions, a technology innovator creating a modern hyper-intelligent electrical architecture, announced the completion of a $5.5-million Series B and the securement of three new memorandums...
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...
Virtual credit cards are quickly gaining traction around the world in the B2B payment space. Created for online transactions, they enable greater control and security, provide...
In this day and age, there is literally a digital tool for everything. But when you’re a startup with limited resources, you need to choose 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,...
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...
Look at the date on your phone, it might as well be 1920 and COVID-19 might as well be the Spanish Flu, humans are still helpless....
As a business, having 24/7 support from your IT department is a must. Sadly, with current business infrastructures, many IT consultants and support systems clock off...
Aside from the never-ending ancient archeological discoveries, Egypt is one of the fastest-growing startup ecosystems in MENA. A Magnitt report ranks the country as the second...
Tribal Credit closed a $5.5 million Seed round led by BECO Capital and Global Ventures to bank startups in emerging markets and help them break free...
Silicon Valley-based Tribal started private beta testing with MENA startups and is closing a funding round that includes some of the top VCs in the region,...
Google plans to hire a team for its Cairo office, seeking to expand its business in Egypt and implement new investments within an improved investment climate...
Yesterday, Facebook has shared plans for Calibra, a digital wallet for Libra, a new global currency powered by blockchain technology. The wallet will be available in...
Businesses are currently operating in an era where digital incorporation is a critical factor in the success of the entity. As a business leader, you need...
2018 was not bad at all for the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Jordan. It witnessed good news for 36 Jordanian startups in terms of investment. Reported Magnitt....
Facebook has released an individual verification process that enables developers to complete the app review process and continue using Facebook Platform APIs without having a verified...
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...
Company data breaches have gone up a whopping 75% in the past two years, according to a report published in 2018 by risk management firm Kroll....
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,...
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...
After a robust upgrade to version 2.0, the Vivaldi browser continues transforming users’ everyday interactions on the Web – boosting productivity and efficiency and adding fun to...
Snappy, the company revolutionizing corporate gifting, announced that it had secured $9.7 million in funding to date after raising $8.2 million yesterday in Series A funding...
Accept for payments and technology has announced that it has extended its services to the Jordanian market, in partnership with MEPS, a leading local acquirer in Jordan....
Cairo-based buss booking startup Buseet has successfully raised an undisclosed amount of investment in a seed funding round by Cairo Angels, 500 Startups, and other international angel...
Egyptian digital healthcare startup Vezeeta has raised a $12 million Series C funding round led by Saudi Technology Ventures (STV). Vezeeta is a digital healthcare booking...
A15, a leading tech investment fund based in the Cayman Islands; announced today that it has successfully sold 76% stake in its UAE-based fintech company TPAY...
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....
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....
Mobile apps are detecting skin cancer. Drones are delivering aid across continents. Artificial intelligence is disrupting every aspect of our lives. The venture capital world is...
25,000 tech professionals, entrepreneurs, engineers and developers from all around the world gathered in the Moscone Center in San Francisco for the three-day Google Cloud Next...
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...
Famous TV celebrity Chef Manal Al Alem has become the latest investor in the Cairo-based food tech startup Yumamia. The total funding for the company since...
Samsung Research America recently announced its acquisition of Kngine — an artificial intelligence startup from Egypt. The startup, which was co-founded by two brothers Ashraf 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...
Which startups raising funds through ICOs are most likely to succeed? Using Aingel’s AI based Deal Flow Analyzer, we generate an Inception Score™ that helps investors...
Vivaldi has launched version 1.14, celebrating its third anniversary since the browser’s first public technical preview. With this update, Vivaldi becomes the first browser to introduce...
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...
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...
Bahraini national and accenture’s marketing and communications director Jehan Abdulkarim has become the first Gulf national marketer to be named as the first Holmes Report Innovator....
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....
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 telecom industry is approaching a tipping point. Average revenue is falling and many telecom providers are experiencing significant reductions in their basic communication service revenues:...
MENA has over the years cemented its importance as a global tech hub. Of the massive Arab-speakers population of 350 million, 40 percent of the individuals...
Apple has launched a new campaign called “Switch” to showcase the differences between iPhone and other phones in the market. 11 short videos that highlight the...
The last day of May will crown the Camon CX craze in Egypt. What began as a social media activation campaign will see three people win...
Last summer, the release of Pokémon GO in the app store announced the arrival of mainstream augmented reality (or AR) gaming in a big way. Bringing...
The second round of Mobile Developer Career Fair “Egypt’s only mobile developers career fair” will take place on the 18th of March at Helnan Landmark Hotel, New...
Facebook has announced its Bots for Messenger Challenge, a contest to recognize and reward developers who create an innovative new bot in either the Middle East and...
A chance to win 90,000 EGP and receive Acceleration Program/ Consultation Services in Digital Marketing, Marketing, Finance and Technical from The Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC). The competition is brought...
Radio.garden is a free radio aggregator service, that allows users to live streaming radio stations across the globe using map. Select any region in the earth map...
Since floating the pound, Egyptians are more eager to know the dollar exchange rates everyday. But it’s really annoying to open different banks’ websites to get...
