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Remember that feeling the last time you flew, how the plane climbed sharply at first at takeoff, then leveled off briefly at cloud-level, before climbing steeply again to your cruising altitude?
That’s the feeling you get in the latest financial report from Middle East-based social networking and gaming company Yalla Group Ltd. (YALA.US), which seems to be entering a “leveling out” phase as it fuels up for what it hopes will be an upcoming climb to its cruising altitude. The company spent much of last year planting the seeds to resume its early breakneck growth that slowed last year.