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 ...
This is the first time a fully supported Yahoo! search engine has been available in Arabic and is currently in its first phase on Maktoob.com . And this is the first integration step between Maktoob and Yahoo after the acquisition!
Yahoo Arabic search is run on Yahoo!'s own search engine not Microsoft's bing. Yahoo Arabic search compet...
According to Opera's State of the Mobile Web report, In Southeast Asia among mobile-Web users, Google is at the top of the rankings for numerous countries, with the very significant exception of Indonesia where Google is only at #6 and Yahoo! is at #2. The vast majority of Opera Mini users in Southeast Asia are in Indonesia.
On the other hand, F...
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Souq.com is like eBay (online auction website) for the Arab world and one of Jabbar group of companies which used to be called Maktoob Group before Yahoo's acquisition of Maktoob which my sources say was 200 million USD.
Souq.com just launched yesterday its Egyptian version in both Arabic and English, tapping into more than 9 ...
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...
After many days of hard work, after over a year of full time dedication to help startups and techies like you, today AC reached a major milestone: ArabCrunch.NET First Online Social Platform in the Arab World focused on Startups & The Technology Industry. With this announcement, the social platform, was what you the passionate startup and tec...
Google makes most of its money via Adwords, but not much on Mobile ads, AdMob that was founded by Syrian Entrepreneur Omar Hamoui, was the king.
This a one of the biggest success for Arab entrepreneurs with an excite at $750 Millions AdMob total funding was around $47 millions.
To know more about the deal read our friends post at TechCru...
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