Yahoo! Maktoob has announced the launch of a new Arabic football app for iPhone, providing football fans in the Middle East with a highly engaging and easy way to stay connected to their favorite teams, scores and daily sports news. The new Yahoo! Maktoob Football app for iPhone is a full-featured Arabic app, which was built with sharing in mind ...


Yahoo Maktoob announced on Maktoob blogs that they will be putting and end to the platform on 31/3/2013.
Maktoob blogs was launched years before Yahoo acquired maktoob in 2009. It used wordpress MU as a platform offering free blogging.
It seems Maktoob blogs did not gain much traction so that is why they are shutting it down....
Yahoo! Maktoob and P&G have teamed up to launch “Taallaqi”, a new dedicated site offering Arab women the latest advice on haircare and beauty. Through a series of tailored videos and articles, “Taallaqi” provides useful tips for the everyday woman that is looking for practical advice on hair and beauty care, as well as expert opinion on...
Yahoo! Maktoob is debuting today a new Arabic Web drama series titled “Fasateen”, produced by International Digital Emmy Award-winner Batoota Films and shown exclusively on Yahoo! Maktoob. The show marks Yahoo! Maktoob’s first foray into original scripted programming, and follows the life of three Lebanese women as they navigate through life...
Yahoo! Maktoob has launching a dedicated Ramadan destination on the English Yahoo! Maktoob, which comes to complement its Arabic Ramadan offering, and is targeted towards English speaking Muslims and non-Muslims who might want to learn more about this time of year.
The dedicated destination (http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/ramadan/) is for anyo...
Yahoo! Maktoob, and a real estate property portal propertyfinder.ae, announced today the launch of a new co-branded real estate destination. The destination will be part of the Yahoo! Maktoob network and accessed through its homepage, making propertyfinder.ae the exclusive real estate partner of Yahoo! Maktoob.
Available in both Arabic and Engli...
We covered Yamil since our first days about 4 years ago, the service allows users to type in Latin characters to get their equivalent Arabic terms.
Yamli was founded by Lebanese entrepreneur Habib Haddad from the US and was aiming to sell to Google, but instead Google developed its own service ta3reeb.
Habib Haddad last year went to joi...
Facebook is going away from its traditional zero cost marketing efforts to boost membership to its social network and counter its upcoming rival Google+. Historically Facebook relayed on viral marketing to push current members to invite their friends.
But recently several Facebook ads has been popping in the Arab world at Google's AdWords on ...
Around 2 years ago Yahoo acquired maktoob the largest Arab portal for around 200 million USD. And people started speculating when an Arabic version of Yahoo Mail will go live.
Few days ago Yahoo! Maktoob announced launching the Arabic version of the already popular Yahoo! Mail. this is a very important step for Yahoo in the Arab world. As some...
Yahoo! Maktoob and the Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) have announced that the 2011 People’s Choice Award will be hosted on Yahoo! Maktoob, reaching the sites’ 55 million users in the Middle East and North Africa. The People’s Choice is the category in the AIB’s international media excellence awards which is open to onlin... 


