What happened to maktoob?
In 2009, Maktoob was sold to Yahoo! for $164 million. In January 2011, email users were migrated from the @maktoob.com domain to the @yahoo.com domain. In January 2015, Yahoo! let go half of its staff in Dubai, and it announced in December 2015 the closure of its office in Dubai, its last office in the MENA region.
How much did Yahoo pay for maktoob?
Yahoo paid $75 to $80 million for Maktoob, according to PaidContent editor Rafat Ali, and will create a new division named Yahoo Middle East. Yahoo claims to have 20 million users in the Arab world already, but Maktoob claims its own audience of 16 million.
Who owns Maktoob?
Samih Toukan. In the year 2000, Samih founded and became the CEO of Maktoob.com, the world's first Arabic email and largest Arab online community with over 16 million users.