Yahoo has agreed to buy Maktoob.com, an Arabian portal combining news, business and sports information with mail and chat services.
The deal will allow Yahoo to expand into a new region and to serve a linguistic market that it does not currently reach: Maktoob will give Yahoo the capability to develop Arabic versions of the Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger communication services, it said Tuesday.
Maktoob began life in 2000 as a Web-based e-mail service, and in May claimed around 16.6 million unique monthly visitors. The company is based in Jordan, with offices in Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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The deal will allow Yahoo to expand into a new region and to serve a linguistic market that it does not currently reach: Maktoob will give Yahoo the capability to develop Arabic versions of the Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger communication services, it said Tuesday.
Maktoob began life in 2000 as a Web-based e-mail service, and in May claimed around 16.6 million unique monthly visitors. The company is based in Jordan, with offices in Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
More: http://pcworld.com/article/170765/