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Main Category: Publishing / JournalismCity : Dubai
Country : United Arab Emirates
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Yahoo! Maktoob aims to double users in two years
Sunday, 22 November 2009
Sunday, 22 November 2009
The newly merged company is eyeing 80 million Arab users by the end of 2011.
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Yahoo! announces Maktoob acquisition
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
UPDATE 2: Internet search giant's first major step into Mideast region, first new product will be Arabic email.
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Community leader
Saturday, 21 February 2009
Saturday, 21 February 2009
Ahmed Nassef, Group Vice President and General Manager, Maktoob.com.
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Gamers dominate MEA online payment system
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
MMO games enjoy loyal Middle Eastern following.
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Yemeni newspaper back on stands
Saturday, 3 May 2008
Saturday, 3 May 2008
Independent weekly allowed to resume publication as court reverses closure order handed down by gov't.
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Yemen bans Maktoob to quell dissent
Saturday, 29 March 2008
Saturday, 29 March 2008
Access to Maktoobblog.com, which hosts more than 2,000 Yemeni blogs, has been barred.
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Votes go live for the Best Arab Athlete Awards 2007
Wednesday, 9 January 2008
Wednesday, 9 January 2008
Sport4ever.com has launched its annual online voting campaign for the fourth edition of The Best Arab Athlete Awards.
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Logging on
Tuesday, 8 January 2008
Tuesday, 8 January 2008
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.
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Business as usual
Tuesday, 1 January 2008
Tuesday, 1 January 2008
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.
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Abraaj sells stake in Maktoob.com
Sunday, 30 December 2007
Sunday, 30 December 2007
Dubai private equity firm says in statement internal rate of return from sale is more than 75%.
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African adventures head head
Thursday, 22 November 2007
Thursday, 22 November 2007
Samih Toukan, CEO of Maktoob Group, reveals his ideal holiday destinations.
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New Arab networking site under formation
Wednesday, 11 July 2007
Wednesday, 11 July 2007
Maktoob.com and faye3.com have teamed up to develop an Arab social networking site, according to a local newspaper report.
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Maktoob in news deal
Monday, 23 April 2007
Monday, 23 April 2007
The maktoob.com owner has signed a content agreement that allows it access to Arabic IT News Portal content.
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Maktoob acquires two dot-coms
Monday, 12 March 2007
Monday, 12 March 2007
Acquisitions increase Maktoob's user base in Saudi Arabia.
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Maktoob to take over Uaesm.com
Saturday, 23 December 2006
Saturday, 23 December 2006
Maktoob Group, which owns the world’s largest online Arab community
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Going after Google
Saturday, 16 December 2006
Saturday, 16 December 2006
The Arab world has finally got its own search engine in Araby.com from the internet pioneers Maktoob Group. CEO Samih Toukan reveals the Jordan-based firm has big plans in store — and Google in its sights
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Publishers must embrace digital age
Sunday, 3 December 2006
Sunday, 3 December 2006
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.
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Searching Arabia
Thursday, 30 November 2006
Thursday, 30 November 2006
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.
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Dual-language online auction launched
Sunday, 26 November 2000
Sunday, 26 November 2000
Maktoob.com has expanded its Web services by adding an online auction to its site with the view to attracting both individual and business customers.
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Maktoob opens Middle East online auction site
Monday, 13 November 2000
Monday, 13 November 2000
MazadMaktoob will allow businesses and individuals to sell over the Internet at prices dictated purely by customer demand.
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Maktoob goes mobile
Monday, 28 August 2000
Monday, 28 August 2000
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.
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Maktoob improves its free e-mail service
Wednesday, 26 July 2000
Wednesday, 26 July 2000
Auto Scan feature will check incoming and outgoing e-mail for viruses and alert original sender of problems.
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