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Yahoo is saying goodbye to its web-based Yahoo Messenger client, dubbed Web Messenger. The tool enabled users to log in and chat with their friends without downloading the desktop version.
It was a useful tool, and rather powerful, but it has now been made obsolete by the built-in Yahoo Messenger client in Yahoo M... |
1 October 2011
06:13 GMT |
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The revamped Delicious, at least the first version of it, is here. After getting bought from Yahoo by AVOS, a startup created by two YouTube cofounders, the site has been rebuilt from the ground up. It will still feel familiar and many of the old concepts are still there, but the interface and the infrastructure hav... |
27 September 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Yahoo is announcing that the switch to Microsoft Bing-powered organic search results has been completed in most of the places Yahoo Search is available. All of the European markets have been transitioned as well as the Asian ones, with the sole exception of South Korea.
Yahoo started a big push to transition all o... |
20 September 2011
06:01 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced a revamped search results page, with a few design tweaks and improvements, aiming for a cleaner page and simpler navigation. The new design is being rolled out to all users.
The redesign covers the main search page, but also dedicated verticals such as Sports or News. The Image Search has been ... |
16 September 2011
09:20 GMT |
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Search engines should improve their advertisement techniques as it seems that malware spreading websites might appear to users who were looking to download things like Skype, Firefox or Adobe Player. The GFI Labs blog revealed their discovery after noticing that something was fishy after the websites behind the link... |
16 September 2011
07:57 GMT |
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Yahoo is still in turmoil after ousting CEO Carol Bartz. The company has been in trouble for years, but the move opened up the question of its future once again. While the board is putting together a list of options, it has tried to downplay the possibility of a sale.
The board is looking at other alternatives to ... |
15 September 2011
06:21 GMT |
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As has been the case for quite a while now, the search market is rather stable, in terms of market share and Google, while not gaining anything for the past year or more isn't loosing much share either.All the while, the search market is growing overall, so Google, along with everyone else, is seeing more search... |
14 September 2011
11:55 GMT |
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Delicious, a venerable service by web standards, has had a rough time staying relevant for the past few years. Being stuck under Yahoo ownership didn't help.
For a long time, it looked like yet another web 2.0 site that didn't fulfill its promise, like many of the other hot sites of the moment. When Yaho... |
12 September 2011
06:41 GMT |
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The latest Yahoo drama is still unfolding. After unceremoniously firing CEO Carol Bartz, the company is desperately looking for a direction and a strategy.What it's not looking for is a new CEO, apparently, since the company wants to determine what is the best path to go forward and will only then choose a CEO t... |
12 September 2011
05:30 GMT |
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Yahoo has been having quite a week. After firing CEO Carol Bartz, the company is examining its options and has hired consultants to come up with a path forward. Perfect timing for the perennial AOL acquisition/merger rumor to pop up again.
Right on cue, the possibility of an AOL/Yahoo merger is being discussed aga... |
10 September 2011
05:33 GMT |
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Microsoft has shown great patience with its online services, especially the search engine, and has continued to pour money into it in the hope that it will one day be worth it.That day is not here yet, but it may be just a bit closer. Bing-powered search has managed to gain 4 percent points in the past year, accordin... |
9 September 2011
12:01 GMT |
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Yahoo has been struggling for years to turn things around and start seeing some solid growth and revenue once again. Previous CEOs tried, and failed, to turn the tides and now the latest, Carol Bartz, has been ousted after the board got tired of waiting for things to start looking up.Bartz was brought in to revitaliz... |
7 September 2011
12:12 GMT |
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Perhaps an inevitable move, Carol Bartz is out as Yahoo CEO after almost three years of trying, and failing, to turn around the fortunes of the troubled company. Stagnant revenue and profits have been plaguing Yahoo for the past few years and the string of restructuring and layoffs didn't manage to change things... |
7 September 2011
05:01 GMT |
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Hulu, the popular TV and movie streaming site, is up for sale and several big companies have been interested, including web giants Google, Amazon and Yahoo. But as the initial talks led to the first bids, many dropped out, leaving only four serious contenders.
Now, one more company is out of the race, DirectTV, th... |
5 September 2011
05:32 GMT |
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A new Yahoo Mail was introduced not a long time ago. After spending several months in beta, Yahoo started rolling it out to all users, though it was still mostly opt in. Even so, it has now managed to get 100 million users to switch to the new design.
"We’ve reached two major milestones with over 500,000 fa... |
24 August 2011
09:13 GMT |
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Flickr is expanding the use of its 'subscribe' API, which enables developers to get feeds with Flickr photos based on criteria they choose, by making it real-time and adding a much wider set of photos developers can pull.
"Initially you could only subscribe to photos from your contacts and favorites from... |
22 August 2011
09:20 GMT |
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Depending on what numbers you trust, how you're counting, the market and the period of time you're looking at, Facebook is already the most popular site on the web. On average though, in the US at least, it's still behind the big three, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
It's growing though, accordin... |
22 August 2011
05:40 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced that it has transitioned to Bing in several more countries. The company has been switching over to the Microsoft search engine in quite a few places recently. The most recent are several European countries and several in the Middle East and North Africa."We are excited to announce that the Yahoo! ... |
20 August 2011
06:53 GMT |
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Japanese Android fans who are into social networking will be able to purchase a unique smartphone starting next month, the “Yahoo Phone.”While this might be surprising for some, it appears that Yahoo is one of the most popular websites in the country, which somewhat explains why someone would want to manu... |
18 August 2011
08:04 GMT |
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Microsoft has started integrating traffic data from Yahoo into the webmaster tools for its own search / decision engine as of August 12, 2011, revealed Duane Forrester, Senior Product Manager with Bing’s Webmaster Program. But even though the process was kicked off last week, customers leveraging Bing Webmaste... |
17 August 2011
05:52 GMT |
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Yahoo has unveiled a new design for its image search section. The new site comes with several big changes, borrowing a few cues from Google's new Image Search but also introducing a few original features.The first thing you'll notice is the new tile layout. Yahoo Image Search now displays only the image res... |
11 August 2011
05:09 GMT |
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The latest search market data for the US has showed up, unsurprisingly not much has changed from the previous month, Google lost a bit more market share while Yahoo gained a small amount, but overall things aren't moving very fast.The latest numbers from comScore, which aren't public yet, indicate that ther... |
10 August 2011
07:58 GMT |
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Yahoo has been trying to revamp itself and turn its fortunes around for several years now. No matter what it does though, it seems that each quarter is worse than the previous and the much awaited turn-around is still not happening.Yahoo's latest quarterly financial report had some (few) encouraging numbers, but... |
8 August 2011
06:01 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced WebPlayer, an interesting new tool which enables websites to add a video and audio player for files from a variety of sources. The Yahoo WebPlayer can play videos from YouTube, MP3s from anywhere online and so on, on your own site in a dedicated popup and all it needs is a link to the source. "Ya... |
5 August 2011
05:40 GMT |
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Yahoo has now completed the switch over to Bing, to power its search engine, in 17 countries. The migration, which started a year ago, is still ongoing and the bulk of the countries where it has been completed only came recently.In fact, after the initial roll out in the US, in August 2010, Yahoo took its sweet time ... |
4 August 2011
11:08 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced that it is transitioning its search engine to Bing in several more countries, this time in key European markets. Yahoo has been switching over to Bing in more and more countries, after it started with the US and Canada a year ago.
"We are now ready to transition Yahoo! organic search results (t... |
2 August 2011
06:21 GMT |
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Yahoo continues to push its brand new Mail and is trying to entice those that haven't switched yet with more customization options, specifically, more themes to enable users to make Yahoo Mail their own.
"We’ve been listening to your feedback since the initial launch of Yahoo! Mail a few months back. On... |
1 August 2011
09:15 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced that it has transitioned more of its local search properties over to Bing, switching from its own search engine technology to Microsoft's. This is another step in a big agreement between Yahoo and Microsoft for Bing to power Yahoo Search.The two companies have reached a deal a couple of years... |
23 July 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Another bleak quarter for Yahoo, which has revealed its financial report for the Q2 2011. Revenue is slightly down from the previous year and, while net income was on par with expectations, the rest of the numbers were below estimates.
Yahoo blames the underperforming search agreement with Microsoft for the slump... |
20 July 2011
05:51 GMT |
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Bing is slowly creeping up in the search market in the US, but it's not really taking from Google and the progress is slow. But there is progress, that's the important part. Bing hit an all-time high in the US in June, with 14.4 percent of the market, up from 14.1 percent in May.
"Google Sites led the U.... |
14 July 2011
09:21 GMT |
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A couple of weeks ago, Yahoo's intentions of buying Hulu were revealed. The unsolicited bid from Yahoo prompted Hulu's owners to start thinking about a sale. Now, the company is in talks with several companies, including Google and Microsoft, as well as Yahoo, of course.
The LA Times revealed that the c... |
2 July 2011
05:02 GMT |
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People may not be taking Yahoo too seriously when it comes to search, but even without an actual search engine, it still has a lot of people using it and a lot of data flowing through its pipes.
Now, you can check out some of that data and the trends, just in case you wanted to see what someone not using Google w... |
1 July 2011
08:17 GMT |
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Yahoo has made it official, its plans to launch a separate company to handle and monetize its investment in Hadoop have been announced. Yahoo, with funding from Benchmark Capital, is launching Hortonworks, an independent company which will focus on selling Hadoop-based solutions to the enterprise environment."Today Y... |
29 June 2011
06:41 GMT |
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After almost a year in the oven, Yahoo Messenger 11 is ready to be served. The final, stable version of the popular instant messaging client has been released and is available for download to everyone.Yahoo Messenger 11 brings a lot of new features, many of which having to do with expanding the social capabilities of... |
29 June 2011
04:21 GMT |
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Unwanted email is a growing problem. Most big email providers do a fairly good job at keeping out the spam, but there is still a lot of junk email hitting our inboxes every day, from forums, newsletters and all sorts of sites we may have used once, but can't even remember when and why.Most serious websites offer... |
28 June 2011
11:41 GMT |
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There have been rumors of Yahoo launching a commercial operation around Apache Hadoop and now we have more details, a name and a likely release date.Yahoo's joint-venture will be named Horton Works and will focus on creating a Hadoop-based product ready for enterprise adoption. Yahoo is expected to reveal the ne... |
28 June 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Hulu hasn't had the easiest of times, but it has managed to keep itself afloat and attract quite a large audience, even though its financial side may not be looking so great. Hulu is a joint venture owned by the big TV broadcasters in the US along with venture capital investors, but the latest rumor is that the ... |
22 June 2011
08:01 GMT |
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Google has become the first company to get one billion unique visitors in one month. In May, Google sites amassed over one billion visitors based on comScore estimates. Google continues to be the largest internet company, when it comes to unique visitors, enjoying a solid lead even though competitors are close.Accord... |
22 June 2011
05:11 GMT |
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Yahoo may not be powering its own searches anymore, but it's still in the web search game and today it's debuting an interesting new search category, apps. Along with the regular search categories like Images, News and so on, there is now Apps. This section enables you to search for and discover new applica... |
16 June 2011
10:11 GMT |
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Yahoo has unveiled YSlow for Mobile, a version of its website performance tool designed for mobile devices and browsers. The new tool works very much like the desktop version, it runs a series of tests and evaluates performance of any site, giving you a score as well as pointers on how to improve your performance. It... |
16 June 2011
08:51 GMT |
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It may not get much recognition, but Yahoo Mail is still one of the most popular webmail clients, used by hundreds of millions of people. It recently got a major revamp and Yahoo is now following up on the launch, boasting about the fact that 50 million people already use the latest version of Yahoo Mail, about three... |
15 June 2011
06:17 GMT |
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More than a year ago, Yahoo announced that it will be integrating Facebook into many of its products. It kept to its promise and has integrated Facebook features, such as likes, friends' lists and even chat into the products it made sense, from the homepage to the new Yahoo Mail.Yahoo Messenger also benefited fr... |
6 June 2011
05:21 GMT |
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Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have joined hands and created schema.org a new website which describes a new, standard structured data markup for websites. This microdata would be appended to a number of item types and provide additional info valuable to the search engines.All three search engines have been providing ind... |
3 June 2011
05:52 GMT |
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Online advertising continues to grow, after starting to pick up again last year. The first quarter proved quite lucrative, at least in the US, as online ad sales hit $7.3 billion, the biggest quarter on record. Google also managed to overtake Yahoo to become the largest display ad provider in the US in the first quar... |
27 May 2011
08:40 GMT |
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The revamped Yahoo Mail, which has been in beta so far, is being rolled out to everyone. It's a major update, packed full of new features and improvements. Just as interesting as the new app itself is what Yahoo has done behind the scenes, to ensure that the new Yahoo Mail is faster than ever before."Six months ... |
24 May 2011
10:01 GMT |
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The revamped Yahoo Mail, that's been in testing for the past few months, is shedding its Beta tag and is being rolled out to everyone in the coming weeks. The new Yahoo Mail app is significantly faster than its predecessor and brings quite a few new features and enhancements."The latest version of Yahoo! Mail is... |
24 May 2011
04:50 GMT |
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The Yahoo Mail team is working hard on the latest revamp to the venerable webmail service. Yahoo Mail Beta, as it is dubbed, is still a work in progress, but provides a much cleaner interface, some smart tweaks, and a simplified workflow. One of the ways Yahoo is working on improving the latter is with the revamped C... |
19 May 2011
05:50 GMT |
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There is a sign of easing tensions between Yahoo and Alibaba, even if it's a rather faint one. The bad blood between the two companies, which are inescapably linked since Yahoo owns about 40 percent of the Alibaba Group, escalated last week with the announcement that the Alipay unit was transferred from Alibaba&... |
16 May 2011
08:00 GMT |
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Delicious' fate is now finally known, the service which Yahoo has been trying to sell for the past months has been scooped up by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen and will become part of their new company Avos which is labeled as a "new internet company.""Today, we’re pleased to announce that Del... |
28 April 2011
04:10 GMT |
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Yahoo is undergoing a transformation of sorts. It's focusing exclusively on content and has shut down or spun off anything that is not directly related to this core focus. It even outsourced its search engine, but there's one deeply technological project that has not only survived, but thrived in this rathe... |
27 April 2011
06:15 GMT |
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