A hearty mabrouk should go out to the Maktoob team in light of their acquisition by internet pioneers Yahoo. As my colleague <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090825/BUSINESS/708259994/1138">Tom Gara mentions in his online story for The National</a>: <br/><br/> Indeed, the local and international press have been following today's announcement with gusto. "Maktoob" even made Twitter's top trending topics today. Anyways, it's always nice to see some positive technology news hit the Middle East, especially a high-profile acquisition in the middle of the worst recession since the 1930's. A preview of the new , while the and a selection of what the web is saying about Maktoob is after the jump. From renowned technology blog : From social media-centric blog : From our friends at : <a href="http://paidcontent.org/article/419-yahoo-may-be-acquiring-arab-portal-maktoob-after-all/">Paid Content chimes in with their thoughts</a>, adding that sources told the blog that the deal was worth between US$75 million to $80 million: <br/> Keith Nilsson, Yahoo's senior vice president for emerging markets,<a href="http://ycorpblog.com/2009/08/25/yahoo-will-soon-speak-arabic/"> writes on the official Yahoo blog</a>: And finally, <a href="http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=404902">the official press release from Yahoo can be found here</a>. A selection is below: <br/>