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Wuzzuf’s Ameer Sherif joins Khwarizmi Ventures as partner

Khwarizmi Ventures, Saudi-based venture capital firm, announced today that Ameer Sherif has joined its team as Partner. Ameer Sherif is the Co-founder and Chairman of BasharSoft, the tech company behind Egyptian online employment platforms: Wuzzuf...

by WAYA Staff - Jun 16, 2022

Money

B Healthcare Investments acquired 51% stake in the Egyptian IVF Center for EGP 126m

B Healthcare Investments, B Investments’ subsidiary, acquired 51% stake in The Egyptian IVF Center as its first investment in the...

by WAYA Staff - Jun 29, 2022

Tech

Google to pay for enhanced Wikipedia services

Google is the first company to pay the Wikimedia Foundation, the charity that oversees the online encyclopedia, for ramped-up Wikipedia...

by WAYA Staff - Jun 29, 2022

Markets

PaySky, Egypt’s FinTech platform, launches Yalla super app and card in UAE

PaySky, Egyptian FinTech platform, expands to UAE after launching Yalla Card and Super App in partnership with Visa. The superapp...

by WAYA Staff - Jun 29, 2022

Tech

HTC launches new Metaverse phone, complete with crypto and NFT Wallet

HTC has launched its first “Viverse” phone, the HTC Desire 22 Pro, which comes preloaded with apps that let you...

by WAYA Staff - Jun 29, 2022

Tech

Gulf News has launched an NFT marketplace

Gulf News has launched its very own NFT collection, created and published for the first time in a virtual or...

by WAYA Staff - Jun 29, 2022

Tech

Egypt’s Central Bank plans to introduce Apple and Samsung Pay in Egypt

During the annual conference of the Banking Institute, Ehab Nasr, Assistant Sub Governor of the Central Bank for Electronic Payment...

by WAYA Staff - Jun 29, 2022

Tech

Snapchat is paying Black Creators $10,000 a month to create more content

Snapchat launched its first accelerator program for emerging Black creators, which promises to pay 25 selected applicants a sum of...

by WAYA Staff - Jun 29, 2022

Tech

Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Down by 25% Since Early June

Bitcoin energy estimates, which are based on a “profitability threshold” that uses “different types of mining equipment as the starting...

by WAYA Staff - Jun 29, 2022

Money

MNT-Halan’s Tasaheel closes a $150m securitized bond issuance

MNT-Halan’s microfinance subsidiary, Tasaheel, has securitized $150 million in the first issuance of a $600m program with Commercial International Bank...

by WAYA Staff - Jun 28, 2022

Tech

Siemens, Al Attal and Sigma to build Egypt’s first artificially intelligent compound in the New Capital

Siemens Egypt, Al-Attal Holding and Sigma signed an agreement to build Egypt’s first residential complex operating on artificial intelligence, IOT and...

by WAYA Staff - Jun 28, 2022

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Wuzzuf’s Ameer Sherif joins Khwarizmi Ventures as partner

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