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Microsoft and Yahoo have been engaged in a strange relationship for years now, but it is finally getting close to becoming official. The two Internet giants reached an agreement last summer, in which Yahoo practically handed over its search engine to Microsoft, but they haven't been able to actually sign it unt... |
19 November 2009
04:42 GMT |
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The search landscape is still evolving even if at its usual slow pace. Not too much has changed in October, Google still clearly dominates and has actually picked up a little market share in the last month, but the other two players are bit more dynamic. Yahoo took quite a significant dive, dropping almost 1 percent... |
18 November 2009
10:03 GMT |
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Yahoo has just released the final version of its new instant messenger client Yahoo Messenger 10.0.0.1102. The latest version comes after a beta period of more than two months. The Yahoo dev team has been working on getting it to release quality and the final build comes with a lot of bug fixes and stability-related ... |
13 November 2009
03:05 GMT |
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The economy is still in a dire state and companies are firing people left and right but there are signs of recovery in some areas particularly in online advertising. After years and years of sustained growth, online advertising revenue actually declined in the first half of this year. But in the third quarter, the ma... |
12 November 2009
11:46 GMT |
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Yahoo has been rather quiet lately, but things are moving forward and the developers are still focusing on making good on Yahoo's latest strategy to center the experience around a few core services. The customizable My Yahoo homepage is an important component of that and Yahoo has been working on it to get load... |
12 November 2009
09:50 GMT |
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Google music has been getting a lot of attention lately thanks to its brand-new music search features. So much so that Yahoo felt the need to underline that it had had somewhat similar features for a while now. In fact, its offering may actually be better than Google's, it certainly looks better, but that didn&#... |
6 November 2009
06:10 GMT |
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Yahoo isn't giving up on search just yet and, in fact, it's looking to compete with its main rivals in the real-time search space. Both Google and Bing have announced deals with Twitter to include data from the microblogging service inside the search results. Yahoo, though, is taking another route by partne... |
4 November 2009
05:33 GMT |
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Password and account management is one of the biggest hassles to people using any sort of online service. Nobody likes to keep track of dozens of passwords, but, on the other hand, using one password across several sites opens up the door to all kinds of troubles. This problem isn't exactly new, but, despite sev... |
4 November 2009
04:54 GMT |
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Yahoo has been sending mixed messages and seems to be lagging at the corporate level, but, from a technology point of view, it's a very nimble and surprisingly open company. It's involved in several high-profile open source projects, most notably Hadoop, and now it's opening up one of its most trusted ... |
3 November 2009
07:25 GMT |
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Yahoo isn't exactly thriving these days but, just because it doesn't get as much attention as Facebook or Twitter or even Google for that matter, it doesn't mean that it's going anywhere. In fact, Yahoo is still one of the biggest online companies and its services are used by a large percentage of... |
29 October 2009
10:03 GMT |
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Nobody expected the Yahoo Microsoft deal to go that smoothly and it's already seeing the first delays. When the deal was initially announced on July 29 the two parties said that a finalized agreement would be signed by October 27 but that date has come and passed and the two companies are now saying they need mo... |
29 October 2009
05:35 GMT |
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Not wanting to let Google get all of the limelight, Yahoo is boasting some of its music services as well. On the one hand it’s touting the music search features it's had for over a year now, which are similar to Google's new service, on the other it's launching a FoxyTunes plugin for Yahoo Messen... |
29 October 2009
04:59 GMT |
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Yahoo isn't a search company. At least that's the tune it’s playing lately as it outsourced its search capabilities to Microsoft in a landmark deal. Not everyone is convinced that Yahoo got the best deal but content is the new strategy and Yahoo is sticking with it. But it may not be out of the search... |
28 October 2009
05:50 GMT |
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Yahoo is still far from recovery and, despite a very important deal with Microsoft, it's beginning to look that it wasn't enough to sway the general opinion about the company's future. And that deal itself is looking worse and worse as time goes by, with many believing that Yahoo could have gotten ... |
24 October 2009
06:26 GMT |
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In the first half of this year Microsoft killed off Live Search and built the Bing search decision engine in its place. While only time will tell whether Bing is truly the anti-Google, the move is proving a success, at least on some markets. According to statistics made available by the Redmond company, the number of... |
21 October 2009
08:57 GMT |
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Yahoo has reported its third quarter financial results, posting numbers that were slightly above expectations but still mostly down from last year. Revenue was at $1.575 billion, down 12 percent from last year's $1.786 billion, but net income was more than three times bigger thanks to a deep cost-cutting campaig... |
21 October 2009
03:28 GMT |
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With CEO Carol Bartz at the Yahoo helm, Microsoft has finally managed to find an ally against Google on the search and online advertising markets. Announced earlier this year, the new anti-Google marriage is a victory for CEO Steve Ballmer who, at one time, even sought to buy the Internet giant to get closer to the M... |
20 October 2009
05:26 GMT |
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The proposed Microsoft – Yahoo deal made waves last summer but it still has to get the approval of the regulatory bodies before moving forward and a deal involving the number two and the number three search engines in the market is likely to fall under a lot of scrutiny. But as it awaits approval, it's get... |
20 October 2009
04:06 GMT |
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The first changes resulting from the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal signed earlier this summer are already being felt and one of Yahoo's more controversial features has been dropped and will be completely gone at the end of this year. Paid Inclusions allowed web sites to pay a fee to be included in the Yahoo search... |
16 October 2009
06:44 GMT |
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It seems that every autumn, Flickr continues to pass over yet another landmark in image hosting. While in November 2007, it reached the 2 billion photo mark and in the month of November 2008 it reached the next milestone, 3 billion, the company got ahead of itself with one month and reached the 4 billion mark a few d... |
14 October 2009
09:47 GMT |
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Yahoo has been trimming down services and products for a while now and shows no signs of stopping anytime soon. Few though have such a history and significance behind them as GeoCities, the free website hosting service that Yahoo acquired ten years ago for $3.65 billion and which will close down completely on October... |
8 October 2009
07:19 GMT |
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With the pending search deal between Yahoo and Microsoft many have been wondering what exactly are Yahoo's plans for its search business. With the company's own CEO now claiming that Yahoo not only isn't a search company but it has never actually been one, the worries seemed justified. Yahoo knows this... |
7 October 2009
09:58 GMT |
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In an unsurprising move, Yahoo decided to kill off support for the Xooping Gmail plugin. Yahoo acquired Xoopit, maker of a rather popular Gmail plugin, which allows users to view image attachments and other media from different emails grouped together, back in July. Yahoo Mail has had a version of the plugin availabl... |
3 October 2009
05:27 GMT |
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Yahoo is a big company with a lot of interests and products, so many that it's been closing down many of them for the past year or so. But with the latest focus on a more unified vision and better integration between products Yahoo has been heading more towards becoming a media company. And with the recent sale ... |
2 October 2009
09:30 GMT |
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Yahoo-owned social bookmarking site Delicious has announced a plethora of new features and improvements anticipating some of the trends like the “real-time” web. The new version brings more than just the usual set of fixes and tweaks and ads much improved search filters and graphs, a mobile version of the... |
1 October 2009
10:58 GMT |
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Yahoo doesn't look like a fast moving tech company at the forefront of innovation but from a developers' point of view it's actually one of the most interesting and open large tech companies out there. And, among rumors that it wants to ditch the enterprise apps suite, the company has formally launched... |
1 October 2009
07:01 GMT |
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Despite Yahoo being all caught up in a grand advertising campaign to solidify its brand and core properties, at the end of the day, it all gets down to the actual products so it's nice to see someone is actually working at Yahoo. As Yahoo Messenger 10 is getting closer to launch, a new beta version, Messenger 10... |
30 September 2009
03:28 GMT |
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The Chinese Internet giant Alibaba has finally made an acquisition after several months of speculation and hints in this direction. The group announced that its online commerce arm Alibaba.com had purchased HiChina, an Internet infrastructure services provider with a large user base in the country. The company will b... |
29 September 2009
07:04 GMT |
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Yahoo just revealed its massive marketing campaign last week, which will span across several countries and into the next year. It has a budget of over $100 and will have a presence in every medium, TV, radio, print outdoor and obviously online. Today the campaign is officially launched and we're 'treated�... |
29 September 2009
06:35 GMT |
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Yahoo's campaign to focus its branding and strengthen the relations between its core services may be already backfiring. Popular photo sharing site Flickr has been owned by Yahoo for more than four years now but for the most part it managed to keep as separate as possible. Judging from the reaction most Flickr u... |
25 September 2009
08:56 GMT |
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Hot on the trails of the new homepage, Yahoo has just launched a new search results page to bring it up to date design-wise and also prepare for the Bing merger. But the changes aren't just cosmetic; Yahoo actually upgraded the search experience with some interesting features and design choices. The new search p... |
23 September 2009
05:29 GMT |
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Yahoo officially announced its new advertising campaign set to begin next week. Rumored for a couple of weeks, the company finally confirmed it yesterday during Advertising Week in New York. The focus of the campaign is “you” with the tag line “It's Y!ou” and no, that's not a typo. A... |
23 September 2009
04:37 GMT |
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Bing has been launched for less than four months now and Microsoft is already planning Bing 2.0. But until then the “1.0” version seems to be doing just fine. Whether it's because of the new features and overall improved search experience or the $100 million ad money Microsoft poured into an all-out ... |
22 September 2009
09:27 GMT |
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As Yahoo reshapes itself as a media company, creating original content, it also focuses more on its core businesses and has been shedding some of the less than essential properties. Many have been outright closed down, some have been sold and others still have a price tag on them. Separate reports indicate that Yahoo... |
22 September 2009
03:01 GMT |
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Standardized login protocols are finally becoming a real option and are finally beginning to do what they were designed to: make life easier for users. Two formats are currently battling it out, each with its own advantages, an open standard, as the name itself implies, OpenID, and a proprietary one, Facebook Connect... |
21 September 2009
07:10 GMT |
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More details about Yahoo's huge marketing campaign to be launched soon are beginning to leak out. The campaign, which is expected to be officially announced this week, will have a budged of around $100 million, in line with Microsoft's spending with the Bing campaign, and will reinforce the idea that Yahoo ... |
21 September 2009
04:06 GMT |
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After crying and fighting in the press like little babies, Google and eBay called it a truce and quietly put in place a partnership over the paid advertising space on eBay's website. Previously, this advertising space was filled with ads coming from Yahoo!'s Right Media Exchange, but since August 26th these... |
18 September 2009
07:59 GMT |
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Microsoft’s search/decision engine is outpacing rivals and future partners when it comes down to growth rate in the United States, according to statistics provided by Internet metrics company Nielsen. It appears that the Redmond company’s overhauled search engine feeding off the death of Live Search is in... |
17 September 2009
05:34 GMT |
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Despite brave talk as recent as last week, Yahoo has sold its entire 1.14-percent stake in Alibaba.com, the Chinese business e-commerce platform, for about $150 million. However, Yahoo will retain its 39-percent share of the site's parent company, the unlisted Alibaba Group, which also handles Yahoo China. There... |
14 September 2009
09:24 GMT |
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Yahoo has been talking about overhauling its services and image for several months now, ever since Carol Bartz took over as CEO, yet, besides an endless string of closures and a new homepage design, it hasn't had much to back up the talks. But, now, the company will apparently start a big advertising effort, ram... |
14 September 2009
05:42 GMT |
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Yahoo seems to have little luck getting the few people still using the ancient Yahoo Messenger 6 and 7 to upgrade. In early June, the Internet-based company announced that support for Messenger versions 6 through 7.5 would be dropped in August with users asked to move to the latest Messenger 9. The three months appar... |
12 September 2009
03:42 GMT |
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Yahoo is still pretty much under the scope, as it tries to reinvent itself as an original-content company and focuses more on its homepage and core services, which Search apparently isn't. The company's outspoken CEO, Carol Bartz, addressed some of the general issues and plans at Yahoo and also some that ha... |
11 September 2009
11:16 GMT |
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Yahoo has been taking a different approach from Google lately, when it comes to its Mail service. While Google has an army of engineers and does all of its development in house, with Gmail now boasting a big number of Labs features bringing all sorts of functionality, Yahoo has opened up to outside app developers and... |
11 September 2009
04:33 GMT |
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OpenID, the single sign-on login system that is seeing increased support from several large companies and organizations, has scored another great victory, at least when it comes to public recognition, by having the US government support both OpenID and InfoCards on a number of official sites in a pilot program. Ten p... |
9 September 2009
09:04 GMT |
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All major players in the search engine market may soon be forced to pay royalties to Israeli company Netex Corporation after it managed to secure a patent in the US for a technology used by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft in their search engines. The company now plans to enter the US market and its 28-year-old CEO Aviv R... |
8 September 2009
12:07 GMT |
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AOL is continuing its reshaping in anticipation of the spin-off from media giant Time Warner with a new hire at the top level. Brad Garlinghouse, a former senior vice president at Yahoo, will join AOL as the head of the Internet and Mobile Communications. The division includes some of AOL's most valued and '... |
8 September 2009
04:06 GMT |
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Looking to get a taste of all the nuances that Microsoft’s Bing has to offer? You could be surprised to find out that you might need taste buds in order to experience all that Bing has to offer. Especially when it comes down to the all-natural taste of Bing, which Microsoft managed to capture in a can. As you c... |
7 September 2009
08:37 GMT |
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The long-awaited Microsoft deal has most Yahoo shareholders less than pleased. Many believe that it could have been on much better terms and were expecting an up-front payment of up to several billions. And now they have even more reason to be displeased, after it was revealed that the Internet giant's new CEO, ... |
7 September 2009
04:55 GMT |
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After being tested in four local markets, Yahoo slowly rolled out its new service, Yahoo Neighbors. Currently available only for ten big city markets, the service is expected by all Internet experts to quickly build a huge online community thanks to its usefulness and great idea behind it. It is available in: Dallas,... |
5 September 2009
04:49 GMT |
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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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