Yahoo quarterly earnings report released today

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D95VF5GO0.htm
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10150164-93.html
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/yahoo-earnings-preview-crappy-yhoo
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2009/01/26/foolish-forecast-yahoos-last-yodel.aspx
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/2144947/
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Yahoo-Japan-says-quarterly-net/story.aspx?guid={AF607699-97EE-4B0D-AE95-6AF97FEADBE1}

Google provides free ad space for Advertising Council digital dating abuse site ThatsNotCool.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/business/media/27adco.html

Few Free Books in the Google Library

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/01/26/few-free-books-in-the-google-library/

Police Blotter: Google searches lead to murder conviction

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10150669-38.html

Google and the Great Wikipedia Feedback Loop

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/26/britannica_slaps_google/

Exalead enhances OEM search product

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2235154/exalead-enhances-oem-search

Recommind improves enterprise search

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2235083/recommind-launches-improves

Microsoft Hotmail fans experience difficulties using Google Chrome Web browser

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/27/how-many-engineers-does-it-take-to-make-hotmail-work-in-google-chrome/

Microsoft spending 70 percent of social media budget on Facebook

http://www.mediapost.com/blogs/raw/index.php?p=1003

MediaPost: Cataloging A Search Catastrophe

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=99157

Ex-Yahoo executive Cisneros hired by Time Inc. Digital

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=99120

Human-based search engine ChaCha seeks $30M, raises $11M

http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/26/human-based-search-engine-chacha-seeks-30m-raises-11m/

Google vice president Marissa Mayer to stay with search firm

http://valleywag.gawker.com/5139707/marissa-mayer-sticking-to-google-like-icing-on-a-cupcake

AdMob offers ads to Google Android users

http://mashable.com/2009/01/27/admob-ads-android/
http://www.inquisitr.com/16581/admob-launches-ad-unit-for-android-applications/

WEB / OTHER

Microsoft makes latest version of Internet Explorer 8 Web browser available for download

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7852340.stm
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,158366/article.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10149503-75.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/27/internet_exporer_8_rc/
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2235103/ie-closing-fast-formal-release
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/browsers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212902602
http://www.infoworld.com/article/09/01/27/Microsoft_repeats_IE8_lockin_warning_for_XP_users_with_SP3_1.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/26/microsofts-ie8-release-candidate-is-live/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_releases_internet_explorer8_rc1.php
http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/26/latest-release-of-internet-explorer-8-accelerates-browsing/
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1846
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/01/internet-explor.html
http://www.webmasterworld.com/html/3835067.htm

News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media digital division to lay off 5 percent of employees

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/01/26/layoffs-at-fox-interactive-media/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/26/fim-trims-about-100-jobs-mostly-at-photobucket-and-corporate/
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-fim-update-myspace-restructuring-but-no-layoffs-fim-number-reported-at-/
http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/item/64080/254/5/3
http://www.inquisitr.com/16551/fox-interactive-media-cuts-5-of-workforce/

Mozilla gives Wikimedia Foundation $100,000 grant to help open video / promotes Theora solution

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2009/01/26/in-support-of-open-video/
http://shaver.off.net/diary/2009/01/26/advancing-open-video/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/26/mozilla-gives-100000-grant-towards-an-open-video-format-for-the-web/
http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/26/mozilla-to-fund-open-source-web-video-technology-development/
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3350

Start-Up DreamBox Uses Online Games to Teach Kids Math

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/start-up-uses-online-games-to-teach-kids-math/

Bill Gates reveals 'Three Magical Elements' in first annual foundation letter

http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/26/bill-gates-philanthropy-tech-enter-cx_wt_0126philanthropy.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10149820-56.html
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jan2009/gb20090126_190592.htm
http://www.siliconvalley.com/latestheadlines/ci_11558362

ICANN mulls methods for stopping scam Web sites

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/158378/icann_ponders_ways_to_stop_scammy_web_sites.html

Controlling 95 percent of U.K. Web traffic, Telecity has seen sizable growth

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bd29b796-eaf6-11dd-bb6e-0000779fd2ac.html

Fotolia soliciting stock video clips to augment online photo collection

http://www.fotolia.com/
http://mashable.com/2009/01/26/stock-video/

Register asks: User-generated reviews - blessing or bull?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/27/user_generated_reviews/

Twitter spam abuse grows with TweetTornado

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/27/twitter_spam/

Not Showing At Netflix: The Great Online Ad Slowdown

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090127/not-showing-at-netflix-the-great-online-ad-slowdown/
http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/26/netflix-q4-cheap-dvds-are-recession-proof/

PayPal signs up for stronger authentication

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2235080/paypal-signs-stronger

Hard Decisions Loom As Content Management System Vendors Face Tough Times

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/01/hard_decisions.html

Kyte launches dashboard analytics tool for cellphone videos

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/26/the-kyte-dashboard-like-google-analytics-for-your-cell-phone-videos/

iPlotz uses Web-based tool to sketching wireframes of Web site designs

http://www.iplotz.com/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/iplotz_web_page_wireframe_tool.php

BusinessWeek asks: What Works in Online Video Advertising?

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2009/tc20090126_341533.htm

Apple iPhone users get credit card processing application from ProcessAway

http://www.centernetworks.com/credit-card-processing-iphone

Sun Muscles into Rich Web Application Market with JavaFX

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Sun-Muscles-into-RIA-Space-with-JavaFX/
(related: http://www.inquisitr.com/16503/suns-new-super-efficient-datacenter-is-finished/ )
http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=1754

MySpace executive Angela Courtin on daily consumer Web conversations

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=99126

GateHouse, New York Times Co. Settle Copyright Suit

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=98929
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090126/tc_afp/usmediajusticeinternetgatehousenytimes

Hotels.com Kicks Off Digital Out-Of-Home Campaign

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=99099
(related: Google and InterContinental Hotels Group)
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/01/with-google-sky-is-limit.html

Awareness launches “best practice” templates for social media marketing

http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/26/awareness-launches-best-practice-templates-for-social-marketing/

Online CPM Prices Take Tumble

http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=134083
http://www.inquisitr.com/16523/online-ads-down-20-start-of-a-vicious-cycle-downwards/

Facebook Implements Polling Ads

http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/digital/e3i38c60ff3da19ea86c4d16b0c40306f0a

Linus Torvalds abandons KDE for Gnome Linux

http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-264218.html