Today Yahoo! Maktoob Research, in collaboration with InterMedia Survey Institute in Washington DC, announces the results of its latest poll among 937 respondents from Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Saudi Arabia.
The poll explores the Arab World’s views on the outcomes of the recent Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship, which took place at t...
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...
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 ...
iKbis, Jordan based video and photo sharing site is going ahead with a plans to differentiate it self from its main competitor Google's Youtube as executives of the leading telecom and ISP companies said during a conference lats year that youtube represent around 40% of Internet traffic in the region.
iKbis will be launching a number of special...
As7ab which means Friends in Arabic is one of first Arabic social networks owned now by Yahoo! Maktoob, the social network was launched around 2 years ago by Maktoob, since then it has been adding features gradually.
The new features As7ab has added is alerting users of people who work at the same company or study at the same school.
I...
D1g.com the Amman, Jordan based startup that is best known for its video and photo sharing services has announced the launch of 7asnaa.com a revamped version of the woman focused forum it has acquired almost a year ago.
7asnaa which means in Arabic "pretty woman" (7 is written in Arabizi which stands for the litter "Hha" in Arabic) has now vide...
Yesterday, the second day after the biggest news in the Arab Internet world since ever -Yahoo! Acquisition of Maktoob- I had the chance to record a video Interview with Keith Nillsson Senior Vice President International Emerging Markets Yahoo and Samih Toukan Co-Founder of Maktoob, now Director of Jabbar.
The 15 minutes interview covers topic r...
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