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Mayer's Shopping Spree Brought Yahoo Ten Startups So Far

13th of May 2013 03:52 GMT

Marissa Mayer’s shopping spree has officially reached a round number. Since she joined Yahoo last summer, the company has acquired ten startups. With Yahoo’s announcement on Friday about acquiring Loki Studios, as well as MileWise and GoPollGo on Thursday, the number of startups the Internet giant bough...

Yahoo Is Looking to Get Out of Microsoft Deal, Partner with Google in Search

8th of May 2013 03:20 GMT

Yahoo has been trying to find a way to get out of its search deal with Microsoft, the Wall Street Journal has revealed, but has had little success in doing so. In fact, it's likely it won't be able to until at least 2015. This while Microsoft has extended the search revenue guarantee for another year. Th...

Yahoo to Kill Avatars, Several Other Apps and Products in Spring Cleaning

2nd of March 2013 07:41 GMT

Yahoo's Marissa Mayer has been complaining that her company is focused, or rather unfocused, on too many things and that it needs to start doubling down on the things it does well. Now, she's taking actual steps in that direction announcing in a spring cleaning post that a number of apps and products will...

The New Yahoo Homepage Is Here, Marissa Mayer's First Big Project

20th of February 2013 08:08 GMT

Yahoo is finally rolling out the revamped homepage it's been working on for the last few months. It's probably the biggest change since Marissa Mayer took over as CEO and it's certain that she put her imprint on it, she spent years designing the Google search page. One of the first things you'll ...

Google Ads Will Start Showing Up on Yahoo Sites Soon

7th of February 2013 03:42 GMT

With Marissa Mayer at the helm, perhaps it was inevitable, Yahoo has announced that it's teaming up with Google to display contextual advertising on its sites. What this means is that you'll start seeing Google AdSense and AdMob ads on Yahoo sites around the world though, crucially, not the search engine. ...