The launch of facebook locations has taken lots of buzz, the service allows users to check in using their touch phones into different location, know where their friends are and get information about places and discover new ones. Facebook places competes head to head with startups such as NY based Foursquare, texas based Gowalla and Face2face...


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There is no doubt at least to me that for any person wedding and getting married is one of the greatest blessing’s in life. Yebab help brides in United Arab Emirates (UAE) find various suppliers and services needed for the wedding, from caterers to dressmakers, artists, photographers and traditional musicians.
Yebab is now ent...
We wrote 2 times before about the floods in Pakistan that killed an estimated 1,600 people, made 4 millions homeless and affected about 20 million human-beings.
Yahoo! has joined the effort and added a link to its logo on its website to Pakistan Floods how to help Page on yahoo that offers a guide in how to help a long with a list of ...
After Nokia's launch of mobile Ramadan 2010 specific applications, Yahoo Maktoob announced today launching a new Ramadan website, the micro site includes three main sections "spiritualities", "ramadan and People" and "entertainment." The Muslims month of Ramadan is expected to start this week.
The new site will introduce a number of featur...
Yahoo! announced today that it will start running its customer base operation for 9 languages via IBM service delivery center in Cairo, Egypt.
These languages are: Arabic Spanish, German, French, Italian, Turkish, Polish, Romanian, and Russian.
After Yahoo’s acquisition of Maktoob late last year there was fear many employees would be laid ...
We reported last month that Yahoo is shutting down around 27 sites, since then the NASDAQ listed company has been doing a number of cleanups and introducing further integration between Maktoob sites and Yahoo services and Yahoo's corporate look and feel.
The 27 sites that Yahoo Maktoob will shutdown were all in Arabic, but today while hit...
Yahoo made several steps today starting with de-emphasizing the Maktoob brand, giving the homepage of Maktoob a Yahoo look and feel and releasing single sign-in via Yahoo ID to Maktoob sites.
As there are only 25 days remains for the first world cup 2010 to take place in South Africa, Yahoo Maktoob team launched a new Arabic microsite for ...
Sine it acquired Maktoob, Yahoo announced in many occasions its plans to integrate its websites and services with those of Maktoob , in this front the last post today was about Yahoo Maktoob's website redesign and logo remake.
But further digging unveiled more information: When I tried login into Maktoob Mail I saw Yahoo announcing that now us...
UPDATE: Ahmed Nassef, VP and managing director of Yahoo! Middle East told ArabCrunch that there will be No dropping of brand name 'Maktoob'," hence the naming of the brand Yahoo! Maktoob. The new brand will be the integration of both."
Following Yahoo's announcement of shuting down around 26 Maktoob websites, Yahoo! Middle East has today ma...
What appears to be the biggest exit in the Internet industry for this year, Dice Holdings, Inc.,a NYSE Listed specialized career websites for select professional communities has acquired United Arab Emirates (UAE) based Energy job sites WorldwideWorker.
In a press release Dice Holdings announced on May 10th that the purchase price consists ... 





