Kindness is contagious this holiday season. Based on the belief that it doesn’t take a great deal of money or time to spread happiness, Yahoo! announced the launch of a year-end giving campaign called ‘You In?’ designed to inspire a ripple of kindness around the world.

As an extension of its year-round Yahoo! for Good Purple Acts of Kindness program, Yahoo! now encourages its global community of more than 600 million people to give back through random acts of kindness during the holiday season. Yahoo! asks people to visit kindness.yahoo.com and post online status messages there describing their good deeds, as a call for others to do the same.

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Continuing its commitment to be the center of people’s online lives, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced further integration with Facebook that unites social experiences from across the Web to provide a place for consumers to enjoy meaningful content and stay in touch with the people they care about most.

Yahoo!’s Facebook Connect integration will give consumers richer experiences on Yahoo!, including in Yahoo! Mail and on properties like Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Sports, and Yahoo! Finance. It will enable them to connect with Facebook friends on Yahoo!, view a feed of their friends’ related activity on Yahoo!, and share content – such as photos from Flickr or comments on news stories – with all of their friends on Facebook. The content that consumers share with Facebook friends will then create a loop that drives visitors back to Yahoo!.

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Yahoo! has agreed to acquire Maktoob.com, the Arab world’s largest online community.

The global internet giant said on Tuesday it has entered into a definitive agreement with Jordan-based Maktoob Group to acquire Maktoob.com for an undisclosed fee. The acquisition is scheduled to take place in Q4.

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With the heightened interest in saving money during this economic downturn, Yahoo! Inc. has launched the first website to provide daily deals, online coupons, grocery coupons, local coupons, store circulars and exclusive deals all in one place: the new Yahoo! Deals. The site also debuts social and community features as well as money-saving video content.

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Yahoo! announced the upcoming launch of its new Yahoo Mobile service, a highly-personalized mobile starting point to the Internet.

Yahoo Mobile will be available on the mobile Web, as an app developed for the Apple iPhone, and as an app developed for smartphones from Nokia, RIM, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola as well as those powered by Windows Mobile. Yahoo Mobile initially will be available today through a managed beta program, with general availability expected in Q2 2009.

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