TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

. “So I was always thinking, how come if we want the e-commerce to grow, and we don’t have any strong company when it comes to last-mile because, in the end, every transaction on an e-commerce platform is a transaction on a courier platform.” “You can use Bosta to get anything to your doorstep.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

The program is managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE), and implemented with a coalition of leading new media experts and local and international partners from the public and private sectors. N2VLabs provides support for the best of the best Arabia geeks who have a promising technology idea or social platform.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Volopay’s platform provides startups and enterprises flexibility by issuing virtual and/or physical prepaid multicurrency corporate cards in their local currency (SGD, AUD, INR, IDR, PHP, etc) with up to 5% cashback on all card transactions. In addition, Volopay will hire aggressively in each of its new markets. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

The startup hopes that the Series A funding will drive its presence in 12 countries, including South Africa, Kenya, Ghana and Saudi Arabia. Bouhlel says the company has local teachers in every country — over 500 in number — and they teach students in over 12 languages. Students on the platform go through two types of programs.

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TechNode

APRIL 28, 2024

Chinas food delivery giant Meituan is hiring Arabic- and English-proficient talent for its likely entry into Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, as the company puts expansion beyond China on its agenda as domestic consumption falls.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Last month, Egyptian B2B e-commerce platform Capiter made headlines after founders Mahmoud Nouh and Ahmed Nouh were ousted by its board as CEO and COO. Egyptian startup Capiter raises $33M to expand B2B e-commerce platform across MENA. What ensued after this led to the current spat between founders and investors.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 28, 2022

But buying a bunch of prepaid debit cards from the local corner store and then surveying the recipients every week to see if it’s helping isn’t a scalable solution, and the lack of data is a major reason why city governments are reluctant to fund it. Truist acquires data governance platform from Zaloni. Fintech for good?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A few years ago, Richard Schrems was working as a human resources consultant in Riyadh, and at one point sought to implement a tech-solution for his clients to help them better their huge teams, but couldn’t find a localized solution. With a similar, but localized approach, we believe that palm.hr For instance, in Saudi Arabia, palm.hr

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

When it raised in September, Jeeves — which describes itself as “an all-in-one corporate card and expense management platform for global startups” — was valued at $500 million. The company says it provides the underwriting, credit in local currency and the payment rails “for any business spend across countries and currencies.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

That has accelerated card acceptance –– with 90% card acceptance rates in the UAE and Saudi Arabia by some estimates — in the region. It is gearing up to formally launch in the UAE and Saudi Arabia in the coming weeks. Egypt’s Paymob closes $18.5M Series A to expand payments services across MENA.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

The platform helps online and offline merchants to accept payments from their customers via several products and solutions. Regional expansion (with an imminent entry into Saudi Arabia this year) is one of Paymob’s objectives following this raise. For Paymob, it claims to have grown its monthly revenue over 5x last year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The exceptional capacity of Langoo in its local business with Riiid Tutor was the main reason for this acquisition,” said co-founder and CEO of Riiid YJ Jang. The company expects to address local remote learning and education in the market. Byju’s acquires coding platform Tynker for $200 million in US expansion push.

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TechNode

MARCH 5, 2025

Meituan, Chinas local services platform, is accelerating its global expansion with a renewed focus on grocery retail, international markets, and artificial intelligence, CEO Wang Xing announced in a recent internal meeting. This has intensified public scrutiny on how the platform balances growth with social responsibility.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Though he had worked on multiple Arabic-language shows previously, they were local projects with nowhere near the scope of Netflixs viewership. As the streaming platform has invested in stories told in Arabic, it has given Arab-led projects global reach by dubbing them in multiple languages.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free speech. Even for one of the richest men in the world, $44 billion is a lot of money to cough up to buy a middling social platform. By October, the platform was his.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

Pink Guards popped up at Sydney Harbor and Bondi Beach, the canals of Venice , Bangkoks Chao Phraya river, Saudi Arabias AlUla , and Beco do Batman in So Paulo. But just like the creative strategy, Lee says local markets were in charge of what brand collabs would work best for their audiences. As of February 14, Season 2 had 14.25

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Elon Musk’s pursuit to buy Twitter continues to have an impact on Tesla, which is why I’m back here writing about a social media platform. Local Motors no longer exists with the exception of one last asset: its domain name. — Rebecca Bellan. Deal of the week. million shares of Tesla worth about $8.5

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