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Glowork Glows the Careers of Saudi Women

Mohamad Hammoud — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:28:02 +0000

Glowork is the first portal of its kind to empower women in the labor force of the Gulf region. It all started in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia when Khalid Al Khudai, an enthusiastic young man, who was alerted to the problem of women finding jobs in Saudi Arabia. Khalid who holds a Bachelor in [...]

5 Inspiring and Motivational Videos for Entrepreneurs from 2012

Mohamad Hammoud — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 04:00:47 +0000

I have selected 5 inspiring and motivational videos for entrepreneurs and startups in 2012: Best Motivational Video for Startups and Entrepreneurs Do you dare create and believe and achieve all you want in life? Inspiring Women in Technology: Eric Ries (Author of Lean Startup) Eric Ries talk to the Technovation students about the lessons learned [...]

Adapt your Website to Mobile Devices with Mobify

Mohamad Hammoud — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 20:55:40 +0000

Mobify is a mobile technology platform that adapts a website to all type of mobile devices including tablets. The current spread of mobile devices with various sizes is representing a big challenge for web designers trying to adapt their website into mobiles. Mobify was co-founded in 2007 by Igor Faletski, John Boxall and Peter McLachlan [...]

3 Important Truths For First-Time Founders

Young Entrepreneur Council — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 12:17:12 +0000

Building a company of 50 virtual employees across nine different countries has been a huge challenge. From day one, my team and I decided that Staff.com was going to be chiefly a virtual company. We believed that this model was the future of work, and building our company any other way would counter our work...

Facebook Transforms its Oldest Feature, Poke, to a Sexting App

Mohamad Hammoud — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:04:38 +0000

When Facebook was launched, it was differentiated with the “Poke” feature. With time, Poke started to fade as more advanced features started rolling like wall, commenting system, like, and others. Facebook discontinued many features but it insisted on keeping the poking feature despite its rare use. Facebook found a way to float one of its [...]