A startup demands much more than just a great idea. It demands a lot of time, discipline, dedication, and most importantly, funding. Most startups go through various funding stages as they grow and try to become successful. Each startup funding stage has different requirements, conditions, and maximum amount of ...
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The Blogs
Media is a powerful tool that has the potential to significantly shape our world. With the advent of social media and digital platforms, it is now easier to have a presence or influence. However, with this increased accessibility comes an obligation to use the power of media responsibly and ...
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Threads might harm Twitter, but replacing in it is not very likely. The Threads project, aims to leverage Instagram’s users base to take down Twitter, but here is the problem with this:
Google tried this before when they launched their social media network Google+ in 2011, believing, the vast number ...
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Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah visited the Jordanian offices of the regional startup accelerator Flat6Labs on April 26, where Her Majesty interacted with a group of young entrepreneurs as they spoke to her about the challenges and opportunities faced by their emerging businesses.
Upon her arrival at Flat6Labs Jordan's ...
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Entrepreneurs from third countries will be eligible to acquire residency in Malta and even acquire residency in this country through the new Startup Residence Scheme that attempts to bring a large number of internationals to the country.
According to Eturbo News report, the new program grants a three-year residence permit ...
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The Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO), the international organization to promote digital prosperity for all, has successfully concluded its second General Assembly today in Riyadh with a Ministerial Declaration calling for open collaboration among nations to bridge the digital divide.
The DCO Ministerial Call for Action, which was issued on ...
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Humans have been content creators since as far back as the history of humankind goes. Long before the term “content” existed, people produced it in the form of stone carvings and shadow puppetry.
It has since evolved to books, movies, television programs and, most recently, TikTok videos. The snowball ...
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One of the core objectives of the MENA ICT Forum is to facilitate a friendly environment for startups and venture capital firms operating regionally to network and share insights in today’s markets. The startups are featured according to the diversity of services offered. Based on the editor’s choice, these ...
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The 2022 Global Startup Ecosystem Report (GSER2022) Shows $6.4 Trillion in Global Startup Economy Value Creation.
Fitch Solutions sees a brightening outlook for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in 2022, as the region begins to shake-off some of the worst effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and moves toward greater economic normalisation.
Indeed, as oil production picks up, in line with a recovery in ...
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Private equity set a remarkable new standard for itself in 2021. Buyout deal value reached an all-time high of $1.1 trillion, doubling 2020’s total of $577 billion and shattering the previous record of $804 billion set in 2006 during the exuberant run-up to the global financial crisis. Deal size, not deal count, ...
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Simon Manley, UK Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, delivered the statement on behalf of a cross-regional Core Group of France, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Qatar, Turkey, the USA, and the UK.
UN Human Rights Council 49: UK cross-regional Core Group statement introduce Item 4 resolution on ...
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In Jordan, talking about the issue of water scarcity continues to be commonplace. Actually addressing it is still another matter entirely.
In fact, many residents of the Kingdom, visitors from abroad and researchers from faraway are accustomed to hearing Mohammad Al Najjar, Minister for Water and Irrigation, and his thoughts ...
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Joint Op-Ed by the Ambassador of France, H.E. Ms. Véronique Vouland-Aneini, and the Ambassador of Germany, H.E. Mr. Bernhard Kampmann, on the War in Ukraine.
Three weeks after Russia launched its brutal invasion, violence is raging in Ukraine. Three million people have already been forced to flee. France and Germany ...
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A recent tweet by Saudi journalist Khalid Almatrafi contained a thought-provoking article on "How does the Ukrainian crisis end?" An article written by Henry Kissinger in 2014 after Russia's annexation of Crimea. As if the article was written for these days, as expressed by the journalist.
Below is the ...
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The Metaverse Could Shape the Future of the Financial Sector, Suggests Hasan Al Fardan, CEO at Al Fardan Exchange L.L.C
The question ‘Where do you see the future of the industry in ten years’, is one that most business leaders have been asked at some point. And with good reason. ...
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Excessive positivity, also known as toxic positivity, has been defined by the Psychological Group-Fort Lauderdale as the "Overgeneralization of a happy optimistic state that results in the denial, minimization and invalidation of the authentic human emotional experience.”
Toxic positivity is becoming somewhat of a phenomenon that is hypnotizing large groups ...
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Forbes Middle East released a list of the "50 Most-Funded Startups in MENA," which collectively raised approximately USD83 billion in funding.
Five Jordanians, three of whom are co-founders of the same company, made it onto the list including Ola Doudin from BitOasis, Abdullah Abu Sheikh from Rizek, as well ...
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Have you ever heard of the success depression? Why do we sometimes feel unhappy after reaching our goals? We all ask ourselves these type of questions after getting promoted, buying a new car or perhaps getting married. In reality, happiness is an end product of chemical reactions in the ...
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Why the advent of decentralized finance (DeFi) and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) will usher the dawn of finance 2.0, and how this will affect traditional finance spelling a possible end for commercial banks’ monopoly over money markets.
Can You See What is Happening?
Now, it gets interesting. DeFi will provide ...
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Why the advent of decentralized finance (DeFi) and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) will usher the dawn of finance 2.0, and how this will affect traditional finance spelling a possible end for commercial banks’ monopoly over money markets.
Enter DeFi
Decentralized finance, DeFi for short, is a term used to ...
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