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			<title>Yahoo! Maktoob aims to double users in two years</title>
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			<title>Yahoo! announces Maktoob acquisition</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[UPDATE 2: Internet search giant's first major step into Mideast region, first new product will be Arabic email.]]></description>
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			<title>Community leader</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ahmed Nassef, Group Vice President and General Manager, Maktoob.com.]]></description>
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			<title>Gamers dominate MEA online payment system</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[MMO games enjoy loyal Middle Eastern following.     ]]></description>
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			<title>Yemeni newspaper back on stands</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Independent weekly allowed to resume publication as court reverses closure order handed down by gov't.]]></description>
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			<title>Yemen bans Maktoob to quell dissent</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Access to Maktoobblog.com, which hosts more than 2,000 Yemeni blogs, has been barred.]]></description>
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			<title>Votes go live for the Best Arab Athlete Awards 2007</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Sport4ever.com has launched its annual online voting campaign for the fourth edition of The Best Arab Athlete Awards.]]></description>
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			<title>Logging on</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Arabic-specific websites are becoming evermore relevant as increasing numbers of people come online in the Middle  East. Laura Collacott talks to Samih Toukan, CEO of the Maktoob Group, to find out more about regional developments in the online sector.]]></description>
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			<title>Business as usual</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Welcome to 2008! As the extended holiday season winds down and companies go back to ‘business as usual' so the magazine returns to a more regular format.]]></description>
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			<title>Abraaj sells stake in Maktoob.com</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dubai private equity firm says in statement internal rate of return from sale is more than 75%.]]></description>
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			<title>African adventures head head</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Samih Toukan, CEO of Maktoob Group, reveals his ideal holiday destinations.  ]]></description>
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			<title>New Arab networking site under formation</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Acquisitions increase Maktoob's user base in Saudi   Arabia.]]></description>
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			<title>Maktoob to take over Uaesm.com</title>
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			<title>Going after Google</title>
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			<title>Publishers must embrace digital age</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Newspapers must stop thinking of themselves as merely print media, and embrace new ways of delivering their content, according to both print and online experts.]]></description>
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			<title>Searching Arabia</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The first fully Arabic internet search engine has been launched by Maktoob. CEO Samih Toukan tells Melissa Hancock why he is sure it will be a success.]]></description>
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			<title>Arab search will succeed</title>
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			<title>Maktoob claims search engine is global Arabic first</title>
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			<title>Dual-language online auction launched</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[MazadMaktoob will allow businesses and individuals to sell over the Internet at prices dictated purely by customer demand.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Maktoob.com has launched the first Arabic WAP email service in the Middle East. Members can send and receive mesage using a WAP enabled mobile phone.]]></description>
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