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The Jordan Times has reported that Yahoo! is now making a great progress in offering a wide range of its services in Arabic. The services include Yahoo! messenger, search engine, front page and Yahoo! mail. Yahoo! Middle East, which inaugurated its Amman office last week, will be combining the best of Yahoo! and the best of Maktoob. The office will be in charge of creating regional content, product localization and developing new products and services.
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Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Maktoob.com, the leading online community in the Arab world, with more than 16.5 million unique users.