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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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Yahoo's track record with social networks is nothing to brag about and it's not getting any better. Not even a year old, the Indian social networking venture Yahoo SpotM gets the axe after never exiting the private beta period. SpotM was Yahoo's shot at getting in the growing Indian market, where socia... |
2 September 2009
11:08 GMT |
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Yahoo has had a spotty history when it comes to the social networking type of services. Let's be honest, it has a very bad history, actually, having closed many of its ventures in the sector, something that continues even today. Still, it's not giving up and it's building up steam and support for the l... |
2 September 2009
05:46 GMT |
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The Yahoo-Microsoft deal is far from being closed and its effects are long reaching. Still, while it represented a milestone and the culmination of several years of talks between the two giants, when the deal was finally struck its terms were less than impressive for most shareholders, with Yahoo stock price dropping... |
31 August 2009
10:39 GMT |
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Yahoo has filed a complaint against Spanish blogger David Blanco Ramos for the bad faith registration of the Yahoo.tel domain name. The domain was registered during the launch of the .tel domain name, Yahoo being the first major company trying to acquire its domain back from third-party registrations.Other major comp... |
31 August 2009
04:32 GMT |
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Despite having been launched more than a year ago, Yahoo!'s BrowserPlus add-on hasn't gained much traction. Still, the project has gradually evolved and has been eventually open-sourced and now, in an effort to extend its reach, Yahoo! is bundling it with Messenger 10 Beta and will also do so in the final v... |
29 August 2009
07:39 GMT |
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With the new Yahoo Messenger 10 Beta out, users were curious to try it, especially the new video-chat feature. Still, some users encountered problems when trying to use the new feature, so Yahoo put together a small guide to answer some of the most common complaints and issues. If you have the latest beta version, ... |
28 August 2009
11:29 GMT |
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Rounding up the set of updated products, Yahoo has just launched, perhaps surprisingly, an improved search experience with a bunch of new features and design tweaks to show that, not only Yahoo Search isn't dead, it's actually getting some serious development focus. Still, some of the changes were most like... |
25 August 2009
12:08 GMT |
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Yahoo is launching a full-scale attack with big updates to some of its core businesses. Yahoo Messenger saw the release of the latest major version, in beta, and Yahoo Mail gets an overhaul as well with some design changes and, of course, some social features. The most recent changes are the culmination of a longer l... |
25 August 2009
10:13 GMT |
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A greyhat hacker has discovered a critical SQL injection vulnerability in Yahoo! Local Neighbors discussion board website. The flaw can be used to read information about administrative and user accounts or upload a shell on the server.Neighbors is a Yahoo! Local feature launched at the end of 2007 with the purpose of... |
25 August 2009
09:07 GMT |
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Yahoo is making a big move in the Arab world with the announcement of a deal to acquire Maktoob.com, the biggest online community in the region, with over 16.5 million users. The deal has been rumored for months and has just been confirmed by both parties. The financial details of the transaction weren't disclos... |
25 August 2009
06:22 GMT |
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Yahoo's popular instant messenger client, aptly named Yahoo Messenger, is getting ready for a major update. With the turmoil surrounding the company's search business and the shift in focus towards content and more social features, the new Yahoo Messenger 10 Beta is in line with the Internet giant's ne... |
25 August 2009
04:47 GMT |
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The recent days have seen a great increase in rumors of a Bing and Wolfram Alpha collaboration. TechCrunch, ZDNet, Cnet and Search Engine Land have reported that a possible licensing deal has been reached between the two search engines. Nobody wants to see a monopoly in any kind of activity domain, and for sure users... |
24 August 2009
10:37 GMT |
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The Federal appeals court in New York issued a ruling on August 21, 2009 regarding an appeal filed by several music recoding companies against a previous ruling that gave Yahoo LAUNCHcast the right to play online music without paying licensing fees. The court classified LAUNCHcast as “not an interactive service... |
24 August 2009
06:35 GMT |
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FoxyTunes, the music-focused add-on for Firefox, has been adding a great number of features since it was acquired by Yahoo in early 2008. What started out as a way of controlling your media player inside the browser has grown into a full-blown music search and discovery service. The latest version adds another dimens... |
21 August 2009
10:02 GMT |
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With MySpace struggling financially and dragging down parent company News Corp's earnings in the second quarter, it's no surprise that the social network is trying to shake up things in its advertising unit. Jeff Berman, MySpace's head of ad sales for the past three years and a half, is now leaving to ... |
21 August 2009
06:02 GMT |
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One of Google's most controversial projects, Google Books, is facing increased opposition and some major players and competitors like Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon are banding together to stop the approval of a settlement deal that allows the search giant to provide and sell copyrighted books that are out of print... |
21 August 2009
05:21 GMT |
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Now that Yahoo Search's faith is sealed, it looks like everyone has something good to say about it. Despite not being able to gain any market share for years, Yahoo Search had some really good things going for it. One of them is the BOSS API, which allows third parties to build custom search engines using a very... |
19 August 2009
10:01 GMT |
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Google enjoys a solid lead in the search market with a roughly 60-percent share. While no one doubts that Google offers one of the best experiences and the best products, many wonder if that alone justifies the big gap between its followers Yahoo Search and Microsoft's Bing or if it's just the force of habi... |
18 August 2009
11:07 GMT |
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Yahoo masterminds have concocted a great idea to stop spam and help charity organizations around the Globe. The Internet giant is pondering introducing a digital version of the classical mail stamp for its emailing system. The virtual stamp will cost approximately one cent and will be sold in packs of 500 for 5$. Af... |
18 August 2009
08:57 GMT |
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Twitter is the hot web property at the moment and everyone wants a piece of the action even if they may not have anything to do with the microblogging platform. While a feature like Twitter updates showing up in Yahoo Messenger makes some sense and could be useful, the new “Know Your Mojo” website the com... |
15 August 2009
05:43 GMT |
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Yahoo has been adding social features to its instant messenger client for a while and has recently added the possibility to share your activity on other sites with your IM friends automatically. But some of the capabilities of the feature still aren't known by many users so Yahoo decided show them how to share t... |
14 August 2009
10:48 GMT |
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While the economic downturn is still affecting most businesses and individuals there is at least one market that has flourished as online coupon sites have seen a dramatic rise in traffic and revenue in line with everyone's need to save up money. So Yahoo couldn't have picked a better time to launch a compl... |
11 August 2009
10:53 GMT |
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Yahoo continues to lose key people, with Doug Cutting, one of the company's best search engineers and the creator of Hadoop, the increasingly popular open-source grid computing framework, deciding to leave it and join cloud tech startup Cloudera. At the new company he will continue to work mainly on Hadoop while... |
11 August 2009
09:55 GMT |
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Yahoo has a clear goal ahead of it, at least that's what it keeps saying, focusing on content, its homepage and better integration of its services. Moving towards content creation seems like a smart move – AOL has been doing it quite successfully – and one of Yahoo's hottest properties in this a... |
11 August 2009
05:43 GMT |
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New details on the Microsoft-Yahoo deal have surfaced after a regulatory SEC filing, and among them there is the fact that Yahoo may receive an up-front payment of $150 million, much lower than the expected $1 to $2 billion, to cover unforeseen expenses during the transition and that Microsoft will hire at least 400 ... |
5 August 2009
06:02 GMT |
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It looks like Yahoo! has proven to everyone that it really listens to its clients. The company has broadened the number of video-sharing websites that is now supported in its instant messaging client – Yahoo! Messenger. There are now 14 video-sharing providers supported with the latest version. Messenger 9.0 w... |
5 August 2009
05:55 GMT |
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Flickr is one of the best and biggest photo hosting and sharing sites out there but, while its die-hard users love it, there are some areas where it could do better, most notably its search, which leaves much to be desired. Thankfully the developers have heard the complaints and Flickr now sports a brand-new and much... |
5 August 2009
04:50 GMT |
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There's a new-found love for real time on the Internet and in social media in particular. It may be a necessity or it may be an “everybody else is doing it” move but more and more services and sites are integrating real-time features, some useful some gimmicky. Yahoo's social bookmarking site De... |
5 August 2009
02:35 GMT |
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This may not exactly be the swan song of Yahoo Search but it's pretty close, as the search team has announced a new local search feature that trumps both Google and Microsoft's implementations. The feature greatly enhances functionality and brings information from different sources together. With the big fo... |
31 July 2009
09:29 GMT |
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Microsoft and Yahoo may have finally reached an agreement, with Bing powering Yahoo Search for the next 10 years, but the deal raises a lot of questions about some of Yahoo's products and technologies based on or related to search. The biggest concerns are about SearchMonkey, its structured data offering for dev... |
30 July 2009
05:49 GMT |
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Redmond-based Microsoft and Yahoo announced on Wednesday an agreement according to which Microsoft’s Bing search technology would power Yahoo's search and advertising for the following 10 years. While the deal involves the mobile sites as well, it seems that this part is not exclusive, and Yahoo is enabled... |
30 July 2009
04:32 GMT |
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It's official, the two Internet giants have come to an agreement. After years of talks Microsoft and Yahoo managed to reach an understanding under which Bing will become the sole search provider for Yahoo. Most of the details previously speculated have been confirmed and the deal will most likely shape the Inter... |
29 July 2009
08:34 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced that it has partnered with Yahoo in order to create a stronger no. 2 on the search engine market to go against Google. Through the marriage, after over a year and a half of off-again on-again speculation and failed negotiations, Microsoft and Yahoo have combined their search engine and online ... |
29 July 2009
08:33 GMT |
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After years of talks it looks like a Microsoft-Yahoo deal may be on its final stretch, with several reports claiming an announcement could come in as soon as tomorrow. The papers haven't apparently been signed yet but there aren't many things that could change the course now. The deal is smaller than some o... |
29 July 2009
02:48 GMT |
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Yahoo just launched a redesigned homepage last week with a sleeker and slightly less crowded design. With the greater emphasis on the core services and a better harmonization between different services the focus on the homepage is understandable. One of the best new features of the homepage is the favorites section, ... |
28 July 2009
10:34 GMT |
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Yahoo may be on the brink of selling its Search business or at least “renting” it to Microsoft but this hasn't stopped development, with new features still coming in. And, if you're planning a vacation this summer or you’re just stuck at home, this one is for you. Yahoo Image Search has ro... |
27 July 2009
04:18 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced today that it has acquired social email startup Xoopit, this way confirming earlier reports in this regard. The announcement came from Bryan Lamkin, senior vice president of Yahoo Applications, and was also confirmed in a blog post on Xoopit's homepage. There were no comments on the price of ... |
23 July 2009
03:25 GMT |
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Yahoo's financial results for the second quarter came in earlier and while they were slightly above experts' expectations the Internet giant saw a big dip in revenue, declining 13 percent. However, CEO Carol Bartz was satisfied with the results, considering that they couldn't have been much better in t... |
22 July 2009
08:59 GMT |
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Yahoo will apparently announce one of its first acquisitions for a while now, having paid a reportedly $20 million for the social email startup Xoopit. The announcement is expected to come in tomorrow according to All Things Digital's Kara Swisher, citing sources close to the deal. Yahoo has been looking at the ... |
22 July 2009
05:39 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2009 showing a 13 percent drop in revenue year over year; however, though it raked in $1.57 billion, it still managed to beat analyst expectations. The company has been going through some turmoil lately, with executive restructuring and the closure o... |
22 July 2009
04:03 GMT |
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The fact that Yahoo is working on a new homepage design hasn't been news for almost a year now, as it was announced and previewed in September 2008. Since then a few users have been getting the revamped page as part of the testing phase before it was ready to roll out for the masses. And now, finally, the day ha... |
21 July 2009
03:11 GMT |
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Rumors are flying again with an “imminent” deal between Yahoo and Microsoft after several months of relative calm. The talks between the two companies are believed to be close to finalizing, with top Microsoft executives flying to Yahoo's headquarters in Silicon Valley and a deal announcement coming ... |
17 July 2009
04:31 GMT |
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Yahoo Query Language is an SQL-like language for manipulating data and databases aimed at web applications. The aim is to provide a fast and light language for the increasingly resource hungry online apps. And now YQL is taking another important step by adding several commands for writing data, some of the most commo... |
10 July 2009
10:31 GMT |
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Google is finally adding a feature to its Image Search that many users wanted and one that the competition (Yahoo Image Search) has been boasting for a few months now, the possibility to refine your search with a Creative Commons filter. In the advanced search section there are now several options for open licensed i... |
10 July 2009
04:53 GMT |
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Another lawsuit was dismissed today, after MLB manager Tony La Russa dropped the suit against Twitter, as Yahoo has settled with the National Football League's (NFL) players union. Yahoo filed a suit last month claiming it shouldn't have to pay to use the player names and other data in its fantasy football ... |
8 July 2009
04:48 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced the launch of a new note-taking feature for its search engine. Dubbed Search Pad, it will roll out today and its aim is to provide users with a simple tool to remember and organize their searches so they can go back to them at a later date. The feature was first announced in February but it won�... |
7 July 2009
02:48 GMT |
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Google Chrome may be faster in some cases and offer a more streamlined interface, but its developers know it has no real chance of gaining any traction without an add-on system. Add-on support, or extensions, as Chrome calls them, has been built-in for a while, but it isn't turned on by default, as it still is v... |
3 July 2009
09:02 GMT |
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Yahoo continues its executive restructuring and has hired Penny Baldwin, an ad agency veteran, to manage the brand marketing strategies under the official title of senior vice president of global integrated marketing and brand management. He will be reporting to the also recently appointed Chief Marketing Officer (CM... |
1 July 2009
05:09 GMT |
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Yahoo will reportedly shut down online video platform Maven Networks, the startup it acquired at the beginning of 2008 for $160 million. Though details are sketchy at the moment Yahoo will apparently continue to use the technologies in-house to power other properties according to a statement made after the initial st... |
30 June 2009
06:53 GMT |
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