Updated: Confirmed by many users in Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Morocco. more below. Yahoo.com is offering redirect to this like (http://nxd.search.yahoo.com/404handler?src=topdomain&fr=404_topdomain&url=xa.yahoo.com/)
It seems that Yahoo.com is under DNS hijack, at least here in Jordan and Saudi Arabia:
We are not sure...
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 ...
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...
Yahoo! Middle East has today announced the official opening of its new offices in Dubai, UAE and Amman, Jordan. Rich Riley, who joined 1999 when Yahoo! acquired the start up company he co-founded and serve as the Senior Vice President & Managing Director, Yahoo! in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) has travelled to the region in or...
When mergers or acquisitions happen companies tend to close down unsuccessful products or those that overlap with each other. The other effect is downsizing the acquired companies' staff in which Yahoo fired around 60 employees of Maktoob recently.
For Yahoo the mother company in USA, acquiring or launching sites and services and then shutt...
Yahoo! Middle East recently announced the appointment of Anas Abbar as Head of Product and Product Marketing Management for the organisation responsible for Yahoo! global and regional products in the region. This was announced while I was on ArabNet conference and Anas sets next to me.
Anas Abbar played a major role in enabling technologies ...
ArabCrunch Broke at the global level that Yahoo Acquired Maktoob, today it was announced that the deal was completed on Thursday noon.
Yahoo's acquisition of Jordan based Maktoob is the first major investment by a US tech company in the Arab region.
As we said before this is a game changer to the startups and the tech scene in the region, a...
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Yahoo's acquired Maktoob has launched its first application for the iPhone called "Maktoob Dictionary."
Maktoob Dictionary is a text translation app from English to Arabic and vice versa, it has around 160,000 Arabic and English words and phrases and enables you to bookmark words.
The app also c...
Jeeran is an interesting Arab internet company because its story resembles the stories you hear about in Silicon Valley (USA): A Tech startup that starts from the founders' garage or dorm and then makes it big (example: HP, Yahoo and Google to name a few.)
Jeeran was founded in 2000 by then two Jordanian students and entrepreneurs Omar Kouds...
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