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Yahoo! Maktoob aims to double users in two years

Yahoo! Maktoob aims to double users in two years

Technology
Newly merged company eyeing 40 million Arab users by end of 2011.

  1. Yahoo! Arabic services available by early-2010 - report

Tougher checks proposed for foreign teachers
Education
Rigorous checks needed to help protect pupils, education experts recommend.

Gulf Air denies safety risk after Saudia near miss
Travel & Hospitality
Collision avoided after planes come within 800 vertical feet of each other.

Saudi confirms four pilgrims die of swine flu
Healthcare
Three elderly pilgrims and one 17-year-old die, in kingdom to perform hajj.


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The Roubini Vs Rogers debate
Which is the bigger threat - inflation or deflation? William Pesek attempts to find answers to the critical debate.

William Pesek  

Where have all the optimists gone?
Damian Reilly's on the lookout for someone, anyone, who will tell him everything is going to turn out fine in 2010.

Damian Reilly


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Power play

Nicholas Carter, head of Abu Dhabi‘s Regulation & Supervision Bureau, talks costs, competition and climate change.

Battered, but still fabulous

Harvey Nichols CEO Joseph Wan explains to Arabian Business how an economic "earthquake" forever changed the retail game.


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Corporate speak

Peter Kenyon presided over Man U & Chelsea's most halcyon glory days in recent memory, but never won fans' affection. Why not?

Venezuelans tweet in traffic

Venezuela has the penetration of smartphones that one can we see in countries like the US and Canada.


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  1. The Roubini Vs Rogers debate 02
    22 Nov ' 09 at 06:30
    What's not to understand.It's 1930s Hoover-Roosevelt liquidation.Are you really naive enough to believe that Andrew Mellon's...   More  »
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    21 Nov ' 09 at 22:46
    Raj, actually they withdraw their bid, 5 weeks before 09/09/09, and have been sold out to Bakemart...just a month ago...   More  »
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    21 Nov ' 09 at 21:55
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