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In June 2005, the UAE-based private equity house Abraaj Capital purchased 40% of the company shares in a $5 million deal. [4] The rationale for such an acquisition (according to Abraaj's website [citation needed]) was that Maktoob has a large user base (claimed to be more than 4 million) and, according to marketing literature, "a dominant online payment option cashU and a strong brand name.
In June 2001, after the bursting of the dot-com bubble, Yahoo! acquired LAUNCH Media, which was facing financial difficulty, for $12 million. [1] [2] [3] In addition to a website with music news and videos, it provided an Internet radio service that allowed users to create personalized Internet radio stations by rating songs selected by a recommender system.
Regular-season games rarely last longer than three hours since the introduction of quicker faceoffs, and every double-header game is seen in its entirety. Since 2021–22, for Western Canada games, Harnarayan Singh, Louie DeBrusk, and Scott Oake are the lead broadcast team, while from 2016-2022, David Amber took over MacLean as host. Like the ...
She is a five-time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events. In 1976, at the age of 14, Comăneci was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic Games. [5] At the same Games (1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal), she received six more
Waldenbooks was an American shopping mall-based bookstore chain operated by the Walden Book Company, Inc., and from 1995 was a subsidiary of Borders Group.The chain also ran a video game and software chain under the name Waldensoftware, as well as a children's educational toy chain under Walden Kids.
The Wii Shop Channel is a discontinued digital distribution service for the Wii video game console. The service allowed users to purchase and play additional software for the Wii (called Channels), including exclusive games (branded WiiWare), and games from prior generations of video games (marketed with the Virtual Console brand). [2]
[108] [109] [66] [110] As part of a wider array of games postponed due to players being placed under COVID-19 protocol due to positive tests, the NHL postponed almost all games hosted by Canadian teams (and in some cases, moved games to the home arena of their American opponent) for a period, specifically citing attendance restrictions as ...
Yahoo! announced the acquisition on October 8, 1997, [10] close to the time that Yahoo! Mail was launched. [11] Yahoo! chose acquisition rather than internal platform development, because, as Healy said, "Hotmail was growing at thousands and thousands users per week. We did an analysis.