Dubai's Innovation Mirage
From a distance, Dubai seems to have all the ingredients needed to become the region’s innovation hub. It has more than enough capital, except during the economic crisis of 2008,…
From a distance, Dubai seems to have all the ingredients needed to become the region’s innovation hub. It has more than enough capital, except during the economic crisis of 2008,…
Not for the first time, Iran is reportedly stepping up its website-blocking efforts, on the eve of the anniversary of the revolution that overthrew the country’s monarchy and replaced it…
An Israeli commercial may be on the verge of causing Samsung’s products to be banned entirely in Iran, as well as bringing an end to Iran’s trade ties with South…
According to Haaretz, international hacking team known as Team Poison has launched a new round of cyber attacks, this time targeting Israeli sites. Launched under the banner, #OpFreePalestine, the hackers…
Early last month, Google announced its 200 finalists for the Start with Google (Ebda2) initiative in which it will be giving one lucky Egyptian entrepreneur up to $200,000 in seed capital….
Last May, we told you about SeedStartup, a Dubai-based incubator that has since gone on to become a member of the TechStars network, and has mentored 3 startups, after receiving over 70…
With exactly one year having passed since the uprising in Egypt began, unseating former president Hosny Mubarak, the streets of Cairo, and beyond, have seen a renewal of the movement’s…
Books.com.eg, a Cairo-based e-commerce site which was one of the first startups to benefit from the Silicon Valley accelerator, Plug and Play, has now made its products available worldwide and…
According to Monsters and Critics, despite pro-Israeli hacker Hannibal’s call for a ceasefire of sorts on January 21, yet another cyberattack has been launched on an Israeli website. This time, hackers…
Maikel Nabil, the first Egyptian blogger to be jailed after former Egyptian president Hosny Mubarak stepped down from power, has been released. Today, Maikel Nabil’s brother, Mark, announced via Twitter that Maikel…
Mobile network Orange is teaming up with the Wikimedia Foundation to make Wikipedia available for free on mobile phones to more than 70 million Orange customers in Africa and the…
Today, Egyptian blogger and activist Ramy Raoof shared a post on his blog in which he called Google out for censoring one of his Blogger posts, based on what they…
While most of the attacks between Arab and Israeli hackers seem to have quietened down, a pro-Israeli hacker who goes by the name Hannibal has released log-in details of what…
Back in July we told you about 18DaysInEgypt, an initiative coming out of Cairo, in which a four-man team was taking on the mammoth project of crowdsourcing the story of…
Iran’s stranglehold on Internet use in the country is no secret. From monitoring its users to blocking sites quicker than you can say Ahmadinejad, Iranian authorities will stop at nothing to…