DubaiTechStartups

This is a summary of the challenges presented by Sponsors @HackAMena #Hack4impact event. Pi-Slice Pi Slice is a Crowd Lending Platform, it connects different Micro finance Institutions. These institutions list entrepreneurs approved for funding. This kind of a platform is the first of its kind in the middle-east. Lending starts at 20$, the platform aggregate the money in order to approved entrepreneurs. Tenure is one year. The Challenge: MEA market is mostly Cash on Delivery

I am not sure if you face similar problems, mobile headphones are cumbersome to use, store and I keep losing them. Ok cables are cumbersome. Bluetooth headphones are great but Charging them is still cumbersome, who wants another charger and cable?! Physical Storage of all kind of headphones is improving but not seamless yet I still see lots of people using cable headphones, and that will probably be the case longterm… But I have a question, how many people use Mobiles with Ke

Even though some banks are still catching up with mobile banking to-date, most of banks in Dubai and the rest of the middle-east are barely offering the services that they give already in a branch - not really innovating in this space - they simply add new features to apply for loans, to consume more products, etc... Worldwide, web-based personal finance management services like Mint.com, Yodlee, Buxster and others have been very successful. Why? Because they tackle a need fo

There are more than 54 Million websites running on Wix - a simple iOS, Android or HTML5 app to enable users to post simple Blog Updates would definitely have a good market for a start! I guess a research must be done on the APIs available for that purpose... Let us know what you think - and if any of you hackers finds a work-around it would be an easy business opportunity tackled... Happy Coding! #Ideas #DubaiTechStartups

A great introductory Video post for our "Ideas" Page - This talk at TEDGlobal 2010 by author Matt Ridley shows how, throughout history, the engine of human progress has been the meeting and mating of ideas to make new ideas. It's not important how clever individuals are, he says; what really matters is how smart the collective brain is. #Ideas #DubaiTechStartups