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...
A US diplomatic cable sent from US embassy in Amman and published on Wikileaks this week discussed Jordan’s IT sector status and plans after Yahoo acquisition of Jordanian portal Maktoob.
The cables dates in 10/15/2009 said that Yahoo maktoob acquisition has generated excitement in the country about Jordan's future as a regional IT hub. The Em...
Folks at Yahoo are raising the white banner and surrendering their social networking site in the Arab world "As7ab".
In an email sent to Yahoo Maktoob’s Arabic social network Asa7b members, Yahoo is saying that they will shut down the service as of 18/9/2011 and deleting everything, the email urges members to download their voice and video...
As with every year at the time of Ramadan Yahoo! Maktoob has created the a Ramadan site, designed as a one stop destination that provides access to a host of rich spiritual, lifestyle, and entertainment content. The dedicated site (maktoob.ramadan.yahoo.com) brings together content relevant and not relevant to Ramadan, pulled from multiple lea...
During her visit to the region Yahoo's CEO Carl Bartz shared How Yahoo sees huge opportunity in the Arab region. in a press releases sent to us, Yahoos says that Maktoob homepage is the fifth most popular home page on Yahoo with around 50 million unique users compared 30 million unique users when Yahoo acquired Maktoob for around 200 million US...
Yahoo Maktoob is spending ad dollars on advertisements being displayed on Taxi cars in Cairo Egypt. Seems the Arabic branch of Yahoo wants to push more into mainstream Egyptians.
The ad asks Egyptians to make Yahoo Maktoob their default home page to access Yahoo mail Facebook and so-forth.
Yahoo has recently redirected its homepage in th...
Yahoo Maktoob just launched its new service Video on Demand, a site that syndicates Videos from major Arabic satellite channels in the Arab region.
Videos on the sites includes clips from Arabic channels such as Aljazeera Arabic Alaan, Rotan and Alrisala and seems more channels to be added. Yahoo Maktoob has recently announced striking a de...
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...
After Yahoo acquired Maktoob last year, many of Maktoob group companies were merged under one independent brand called Jabbar. Somehow similar precedence happened with Orascom Telecom's LinkDotNet 150 million USD buyout to Mobinil, but at a larger scale.
Orascom Telecom which is one of the largest tech and telecom groups in the Arab world, ha...
On March Google Launched an innovative new Google Labs Arabic tool called Tashkeel, a tool that adds the missing diacritics to Arabic text.
We mentioned on AC at that time some of the differences between Arabic and English languages as Diacritics
"describe how arabic text is pronounced, they are called in Arabic Tashkeel for example in Arabi...
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