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Yahoo is undergoing some major transformations, as it intends to shift towards more editorial content and away from search. Having sold its search business to Microsoft, Yahoo says it will focus on some core properties like its homepage. In an interesting move, though, the company is in the process of splitting sever... |
4 September 2009
06:56 GMT |
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Hell hath no fury like an Instant Messenger user scorn, a famous line from William Congreve could be adapted to suit present reality. Among a slew of successful features being added to Yahoo!’s Messenger with the various versions, there are a number of infamous ones that have taken the blunt of the wrath. Usually, it... |
24 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Yahoo! is like a drifting ship whose crew does everything just like it used to do, perhaps things will return to normal. Shaken to its foundations by the series of events that have marked the past two months, like the Microsoft bid, the departing of young talent, the cleansing within its ranks and the lawsuits that h... |
24 March 2008
05:16 GMT |
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If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, every morning as of last week must have stung your ear with something that seemed off somehow, but you couldn't quite figure out what it was. How about Yahoo! ads on the radio, that doesn't really sound right for an Internet company, or at least it leaves listen... |
21 March 2008
04:06 GMT |
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Never ever, in the history of Internet videos, has a user-generated video hosting site been avoided by those who wanted to share their triple X rated clips with the world. The rules are already classic and have been around ever since man climbed down from trees and discovered the power of marketing: the first to come... |
20 March 2008
16:41 GMT |
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Thwarting Microsoft's hostile bid to take over his company has become Jerry Yang's mission, as his actions in the past two months show. After running from possible alternative to viable mergers and back, the Yahoo! CEO was faced with a new wave of threats, turning up the knob for pressure on his shoulders. ... |
19 March 2008
13:06 GMT |
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The Yahoo! Mail Blog, offering peaks into what the team is working on and giving out advice on resolving issues, has given us a heads-up (or better said has pulled our sleeve) on the new features introduced. Judging by the amount of feedback they've received and from what people have been telling me related to t... |
19 March 2008
05:39 GMT |
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Sometimes it's just too tiresome to update your Instant Messenger client whenever a new version is rolled out. Either the new options don't look so appealing or your connection really isn't that grand, the fact of the matter remains that enough IM users still have old (and I mean really old) versions i... |
19 March 2008
04:08 GMT |
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The seemingly never-ending story of the bid over Yahoo! that Microsoft so generously made has seen another chapter come to a close, and by the looks of it, it's among the last chapters in the book. After exploring different alternatives that would benefit shareholders more than the MS alternative, which Jerry Ya... |
11 March 2008
15:06 GMT |
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Remember the troubled Yahoo!, the company that is struggling to avoid being taken over by Micro 'The Bad Guy' Soft? Yeah, you know the one, it's been holding the headlines of the front pages for quite a while now, a month and almost a half, ever since the infamous bid was made, with scandals about laws... |
11 March 2008
07:06 GMT |
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Welcome to the Taiwan fight for the most popular site, a fight to the death, or until one of the contenders gives in. In the red corner, we have all time champion Yahoo!, weighing as much as the Internet itself, infrastructure included, that won the last seven match-ups against anyone bold enough to challenge its sup... |
10 March 2008
17:26 GMT |
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The Microsoft MIX conference in Las Vegas ending today has welcomed among others the Yahoo! Messenger for Vista team, that will hold a couple of presentations and, just like last year, talk about the integration of Yahoo! Mess with Windows Vista. The difference is that unlike last year, when the IM service had the cl... |
7 March 2008
19:26 GMT |
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The life-long battle between Yahoo! and Google is being fought at every level possible, starting with the search engine, advertising platform, email services, and going to the maps they both offer to their users. At the moment, as with most of the other options and services, Google is the Maps leader, but unlike in o... |
7 March 2008
15:21 GMT |
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Yahoo! UK and Overture, its sister company, were sued by Victor Wilson, the owner of a London catering business, for displaying advertising for some other companies when words that he had registered as trade marks for his company were introduced in the search box. 'Mr Spicy' was what the whole fuss was all ... |
7 March 2008
09:33 GMT |
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Having had its moderately hostile takeover plan thwarted by the latest announcement about the postponing of the date for board nominalizations, Steve Ballmer reacted, and did so quickly. What's raising some $3.1 billion overnight? Almost nothing, if you're in a high ranking position at Microsoft, apparently... |
7 March 2008
03:00 GMT |
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Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to You, Happy Birthday, dear Yahoo, Happy Birthday to you! The grand event went widely unnoticed, and if it weren't for Valleywag's Owen Thomas, I would have missed it too. It's a surprise Yahoo! said nothing about it, but with the problems they have right now it&#... |
5 March 2008
16:26 GMT |
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Yahoo!'s problems have grown to be a lot bigger than simply fending off the lawsuits from shareholders that want to see the money in their bank accounts. Not being to find an alternative to Microsoft's bid however hard they try is very worrying for the Sunnyvale based company's board. Several talks hav... |
5 March 2008
10:46 GMT |
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In the past weeks, Yahoo! Mail has experienced some SMTP issues that had messages being delivered late, starting from minutes and up to days. It was a big problem that nobody was aware of unless they specifically checked with the intended receiver. A bigger mess couldn't be possible, especially with messages tha... |
5 March 2008
03:48 GMT |
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If you remember the very publicized lawsuit of last November, when Yahoo! was pointed fingers at for handing access to email, email records and user identification information over to the Chinese authorities, this might feel like a deja-vu altogether. The first lawsuit was settled out of court with the plaintiffs, th... |
4 March 2008
06:42 GMT |
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The metaphor of rats leaving a sinking ship does not cover the quality of the people that have put Yahoo! behind, but it is very good for explaining the mass exodus from the Sunnyvale-based company. Joining the long and stunning list is Tim Cadogan, Senior Vice President of Search, Listings and Display Marketplaces.A... |
3 March 2008
05:08 GMT |
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Socializing via instant messenger services has come to grow on us and become an ever increasing part of our online lives. Worrying for some, not worth looking into for others, chatting is a damned good pass-time activity. And, like any other product that has come to be successful, it is constantly being worked upon f... |
27 February 2008
15:26 GMT |
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Yahoo! Buzz was launched on Monday with a lot of buzz. Being leaked information about on repeated occasions, everybody had their hopes high about the Yahoo! branded Digg clone. It turns out that negative publicity isn't all that constructive. I remember reading at some point in college a quote saying that bad pu... |
27 February 2008
14:26 GMT |
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Internet giant Yahoo! has announced that it will open its search to 3rd parties to build and present the next generation of search results. I can't quite remember who said it first, but I distinctly remember it to be mentioned as one of the few means of keeping up with Google. Out-Googling Google I believe was t... |
26 February 2008
14:41 GMT |
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Just the other day I had to send a very important personal message to apologize for something I had done and after taking my time (about an hour) to make it sound really humble and actually confer the feeling of how sorry I was, I clicked my mouse on the "Send" button and, conscience lighter, I went about my other bu... |
25 February 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Out of the many Yahoo! Messenger minor updates, if they can even be called that, the Avatar Town looked to be one of the coolest. You were given the option to go shopping for your favorite type of apparel and buy it for free. I couldn't have said that it is a giveaway because it is a store after all and not a Sa... |
25 February 2008
04:37 GMT |
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There'd be no reason for the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, if Yahoo! wasn't afraid that it will soon be outmaneuvered by the Redmond software giant. The golden parachute plan revolves around the particular eventuality of a change-in-control severance, and it has two standing points.Emp... |
20 February 2008
15:36 GMT |
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The subtitle is the mark of a long and excruciating pain that I went through when seeing that almost every week or so there was a blog from the Yahoo! Instant Messenger team that said nothing. Nothing of interest, actually: old features presented, the emoticons’ story (wasn’t exciting at all, a list of people whom th... |
20 February 2008
15:06 GMT |
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After Monday Bill Gates said that Yahoo! wasn't a must have for his company, yesterday The New York Times reported citing anonymous sources that Microsoft is quietly preparing to K.O. the Sunnyvale-based company in a proxy fight, to be authorized later this week. After attempting the polite approach (almost poli... |
20 February 2008
12:06 GMT |
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It's getting really old to talk over and over again about the hot seat that Yahoo! is in right now and the problems that CEO Jerry Yang has with keeping his board together. The thing is that they keep piling up and there's no way to go over or around them to get the accurate image of what is really going on... |
20 February 2008
03:38 GMT |
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In what is probably going to be one of the biggest faux pas in the history of search engines everywhere, should it be demonstrated that it was not forced upon it, Yahoo! has decided to ban, or, in milder words, filter the site out of its search results. Querying for the popular BitTorrent tracking site will no longer... |
19 February 2008
14:16 GMT |
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Yahoo! or no Yahoo!, Microsoft is planning to go knee-deep in web search. That should really worry the high-ranking executives at the Sunnyvale-based company, or maybe that was the whole point. MS Chairman and biggest shareholder, Bill Gates, said yesterday in a telephone interview for Reuters that acquiring Yahoo! w... |
19 February 2008
06:31 GMT |
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Joy to the world, or to none at all./ Yang is going to get emasculated/ And every power that he once had/ Is going to be removed/ Is going to be removed/ And all he'll be left with the board is a simple dude. Excuse the poor choice of words and rhymes, but that's all I could come up with when, in awe, I rea... |
18 February 2008
06:46 GMT |
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Jeff Bonforte, Yahoo!'s Vice President of social search, has left the building on Friday, but his vacation will have been short-lived. Today, he is set to accept the job of CEO at Xobni, a startup with an aim to make Outlook e-mail smarter, as Erick Schonfeld of Tech Crunch reports.Jeff's time with the Sunn... |
18 February 2008
04:09 GMT |
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What is Yahoo! thinking? One of the products it has worked best on was launched without any fanfare and mediums were kept mostly in the dark surrounding the event. Yang needed the attention to show the shareholders that he was head of a strong and organized company, not one that couldn't dwell on its best featur... |
15 February 2008
07:41 GMT |
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It's still under complete hush-hush, so any details are not yet available, but talks have been reported to have been held between Internet giant with clay feet Yahoo! and Media Empire News Corp. The two companies had nothing to comment on the supposed conjoining but a person familiar with the situation, quoted b... |
14 February 2008
12:36 GMT |
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Don't think that after making a point by turning down Microsoft's unsolicited bid, Yahoo! is going to turn up a few aces from its sleeve. That's not going to happen any time soon and, furthermore, it is still playing the same seldom-winning card of taking over companies and then waiting to see which on... |
14 February 2008
07:06 GMT |
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Yahoo's between the chisel and the hammer right now, with members of the board not agreeing on what to do next, Microsoft breathing heavily down its neck, good people being laid off because of the salary they have and, as of late, because its shareholders have started to voice out about their take on the whole s... |
13 February 2008
14:31 GMT |
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Yesterday, rumors of Yahoos being contacted by recruiting companies surfaced, after two weeks of secrecy. Apparently, there's a strong craving for Jerry Yang's employees that feeds off of Microsoft taking over and the layoffs that started happening yesterday. Not such a good time for Yahoo, despite the conf... |
13 February 2008
06:56 GMT |
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Yahoo! has started spring-cleaning today, but it looks to be the maid of nightmares. It's throwing away most of the expensive but all the money worth china, as well as the stuff from Pottery Barn that's been shattered to pieces. The basic guideline I've managed to get from their strategy is that people... |
13 February 2008
03:56 GMT |
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Yang has always had a rather informal approach to communication with his employees. That might be because Yahoo! is his baby and he can't just stiffen up and give up on so many years of his work and life, as Microsoft would have him do. As a parent, you want to see your young be well on their own and not simple ... |
12 February 2008
17:31 GMT |
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Today, Yahoo was set to begin the layoffs that have been rumored and announced on repeated occasions. That alone should have been reason enough for many of the Yahoos to discretely test the recruitment pool just in case. Microsoft's unsolicited bid to take over Yahoo! must have had the effect of an iron claw cho... |
12 February 2008
14:11 GMT |
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Rejecting Microsoft’s unsolicited bid has put Yahoo! in the best spot it could be in, and at the same time, in a very sticky situation. By having the power to refuse Software giant MS, it showed its stockholders that it is a company that has a future ahead, well crayoned, and that the demeaning offer that the Redmond... |
11 February 2008
13:41 GMT |
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Yahoo! turned down Microsoft and is heading to a world of pain, should their shares value start dropping again. The past week, the Sunnyvale-based company and the team of advisers from Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers, that it hired for consultancy, have been trying hard to find an alternative that would set the shi... |
11 February 2008
06:56 GMT |
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What was supposed to be a strong bid to take over the one company that would've given Microsoft the means to take Google head on, turned into an ironic penitence for the Redmond-based company. Not only did Yahoo! tell MS to take a walk around the block to think the deal over again, but its shareholders punished ... |
11 February 2008
06:06 GMT |
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What seemed to be a done deal, with grief over Yahoo!'s passing as a free and independent company, now has turned into a circus. The offer of $31 per share in combined cash and own shares that Microsoft laid on the table is now almost worthless, because Yahoo!'s stock has risen so much that owners would be ... |
8 February 2008
06:43 GMT |
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The soap opera that studs Microsoft and Google have had a part in, for winning fair maiden Yahoo!'s heart, is shooting its final episodes today. Decision time, no matter how difficult coming to this was. The Sunnyvale-based company is said to have a special and final board meeting on the matter today, and I woul... |
8 February 2008
06:41 GMT |
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It's actually a wonder people not in the loop have heard of it. The beta launch was announced just briefly, in a post on Yahoo!'s Technology Development Group's head, Bradley Horowitz's blog that had… three words: 'Live is live,' he said, and nothing more. For those waiting for it, the n... |
8 February 2008
04:08 GMT |
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Amid great turmoil, Yahoo! is looking back to where it did manage to impose its presence on the market and is trying to feed off of that in order to keep going. It's the corporate version of people looking back at what they have accomplished and deciding that if they were able to do that, they could overcome the... |
7 February 2008
08:22 GMT |
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Working at Yahoo! right now can't be all that exciting, or if it is, it's not in a good way. All the pressure of not being able to do anything about the current situation, declining income, value and all, must be getting to the employees, so Jerry Yang decided to fill them in with what's going on.The e... |
7 February 2008
06:56 GMT |
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Yahoo! and RealNetworks Inc. have signed a deal that will have older customers of the Sunnyvale-based company switch to the latter's Rhapsody music service. This comes on the heels of Yahoo! announcing that they would be discontinuing their online music subscription service.A bold move as that might turn to be, ... |
4 February 2008
04:52 GMT |
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