A leading Arabic medical online platform, Altibbi.com, recently closed a round of financing from a number of leading regional investors including Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP), a pan Arab fund, and DASH Ventures from Jordan, among others. Altibbi is the largest Arabic medical online platform, which...

Dubai based start-up Careem, which operates an online chauffeur-driven car booking service, announced that it has raised about $10 million investment in a round led by Saudi’s Al Tayyar Travel Group, STC Ventures and other regional investors. The company said that it will use the cash infusion to expand...

How many times have you been to a doctor and regretted the visit because of his/her bad bedside manner. Had you been given an opinion earlier on about the doctor or if you could have looked up the doctor’s credentials you could have avoided the bad experience. Meddy is aimed to solve the problem...

Middle East Venture Partners (Mevp) would be investing in more than a dozen digital media companies in the UAE in the next three years with an investment of $30 million (Dh110 million). The Dubai-based venture capital firm plans to invest in internet start ups focusing on e-commerce, edutainment and...

As part of its vision to become the leading premium content provider and streaming service in the Middle East, Telly teamed up with Telfaz 11, Saudi Arabia’s primary Internet television network, to deliver the Telfaz 11 most popular and unrivaled online video entertainment to its subscribers across...

Using the Internet is the most popular method of house-hunting in the Middle East, trumping traditional means including newspaper classifieds and word of mouth, according to a new report into the region’s property market. The findings are contained in research from leading property website Lamudi,...

Has my child arrived at school safely? This is one of many concerns parents are talking about online. One of most popular topics is how to achieve a child’s independence when a child starts going to school on their own. Most children get easily distracted on the street or have a tricky journey to...

Aspiring entrepreneurs at London Business School can now benefit from a new mentoring scheme launched in Dubai following a successful 18-month run with the School’s MBA students in London. Launched at an event in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) by Kamalini Ramdas, Professor of Management...

T-PayTM offers over 200 million mobile subscribers in the Arab region the ability to pay for their purchases through their mobiles A unique local ecosystem covering 100 % of mobile subscribers in Egypt and Saudi Arabia Direct Operator Billing expected to triple globally by 2022, to reach US$12 billion...

The Middle East region’s first video review mobile application, travall, has revealed it will go live in the UAE market, on the country’s national day – 2nd December. Designed specifically to support the travel, tourism, entertainment and leisure industries, travall will offer popular Dubai-based...