e-Commerce industry has had a lot of mixed messages for the region over the last few years. Many players entered the market while a few took the exit door. We have been running a series of interviews with existing e-Commerce players in the region asking them how do they manage their business and what...

Image by Rick Harris via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution With 31 million Egyptians surfing and shopping online, EFE-Egypt and Arab E-commerce leader Souq are expanding Egypt’s first dedicated e-commerce training program to provide skilled young talent for a growing industry. Launched three years...

e-Commerce industry has had a lot of mixed messages for the region over the last few years. Many players entered the market while a few took the exit door. We have been running a series of interviews with existing e-Commerce players in the region asking them how do they manage their business and what...

Within the next five years, more customers in the United Arab Emirates will go online, and that can trigger a 95% growth in internet sales, according to new research from Euromonitor International. The report says that as consumers become more sophisticated and confident that online orders offer quality...

With the Internet transforming many aspects of life, it has also brought along opportunities to shop for goods and services online. Online shopping allows one to choose from the wide variety of goods that are available on the internet, which range from fashion, to gadgets, clothes, books and other household...

e-Commerce sites need to be very active on various channels in the evening if they want to sustain business in the UAE. A recent study conducted by JadoPado, one of the e-Commerce websites in UAE,  gave some interesting insights. A total of 2052 respondents from UAE were covered in the survey. The...

e-Commerce industry has had lot of mixed messages for the region over the last few years. Many players entered the market while a few took the exit door. Today we start a three part interview series with some upcoming and established e-Commerce players in the region. The first one is Namshi.com which...

A new e-commerce startup has gone live in UAE which offers new and exciting design items online. Founded by Muhammad Chbib, ex-CEO of Sukar.com, Desado is trying to reach out to a niche segment in the market that prefers to buy products that cannot be found easily on the shelf. The website offers product...

UAE’s online retailer Souq.com announced that it has received a new round of funding from Nasper Limited a South Africa based media group. The investment amount was undisclosed, however the rumors are that the funding was approximately $40 million. Souq.com is funded by Jabbar Internet Group and Tiger...

Chimigi, Iran’s first online research panel, has released the results of Digital Iran 2012, a survey which benchmarks Iranian consumers on their Internet and mobile usage. The sample included 750 respondents who currently live in Iran and was fielded between September 20th and 23rd, 2012. Researching...