[General] Yahoo! to buy Maktoob.com

[bashar abdullah]

LOL... while searching the subject...

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He is using captions at least :)

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Burhan Khalid <burhan.khalid at gmail.com>wrote:

> They aren't buying all of it...
>
> Maktoob.com, including Maktoob Research, will be a wholly-owned subsidiary
> of Yahoo! once the acquisition is completed later this year and will be
> co-branded going forward. A joint microsite can be accessed through the URL:
> maktoob.yahoo.com <http://maktoob.yahoo.com/en/index.php>
>
> Maktoob Group’s other entities - Souq.com, CashU.com, Araby.com and
> Tahady.com - will be part of a new company called Jabbar Internet Group that
> will have a focus on e-commerce and be managed by Maktoob founder Samih
> Toukan.
>
> Also, the first services to come out of the partnership will be -- what I
> am assuming are Arabized versions of Messenger and Mail in 2010.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Bashar Abdullah <
> bashar.abdullah at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Maktoob is best Arabic portal, but first thing yahoo should do is
>> replace their kalimat ad service. Site is so full of annoying ads, adcsite
>> us damn slow, full if bugs, and heck, no clickfraud
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 26, 2009, at 8:39 AM, Burhan Khalid <burhan.khalid at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>   *Yahoo! will acquire regional online media brand Maktoob.com<http://maktoob.com/>in a deal that’s believed to be worth $100m.
>>
>> *At a press conference to announce the agreement, Keith Nilsson, VP of
>> emerging markets at Yahoo!, stated that the company was attracted to Maktoob
>> because of its strong management team, global brand name and sales force in
>> the region.
>>
>> <http://www.itp.net/news/565866-yahoo-enters-arab-market-with-maktoobcom-acquisition>
>> http://www.itp.net/news/565866-yahoo-enters-arab-market-with-maktoobcom-acquisition
>>
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