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Yahoo Bonds Web Searches With Glue Pages India Test
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:44 pm on May 8, 2008 (utc 0)
A new Internet search engine format from Sunnyvale, California-based Web pioneer Yahoo that combines text, images and video information on a single results page has been launched in a test form for Yahoo users in India.
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Yahoo Search Partnership With McAfee Aims To Stop Visits To High-Risk Web Sites
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:35 pm on May 6, 2008 (utc 0)
Yahoo has begun analyzing Web sites listed on its search engine to remove blatantly dangerous sites and warn users before they click on those that might contain spyware, computer viruses or are associated with spam e-mail, in a partnership with security firm McAfee.
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Yahoo Calls On Startup Jajah For Its Messenger VoIP Features
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:17 pm on April 29, 2008 (utc 0)
Yahoo will outsource the Internet telephone portion of its instant messaging system, functions also known as voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), to Mountain View, California-based startup Jajah beginning later this year, the company announced Tuesday.
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Yahoo Touts Open Strategy Plan Unifying Web Services
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:45 pm on April 25, 2008 (utc 0)
Embattled Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo has begun a major plan to unify its myriad online services and create a new more social network-like environment for both developers and consumers, the Web pioneer announced Thursday at the Web 2.0 Expo conference in San Francisco.
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Yahoo Earnings Rise Yet Fail To Alter Microsoft Bid
Lane_R_Ellis, 3:30 pm on April 22, 2008 (utc 0)
Sunnyvale, California-based Internet pioneer Yahoo on Tuesday announced first quarter earnings that topped analyst expectations but fell short of the type of explosive growth that some felt could cause Microsoft to increase its $44 billion bid for the firm.
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Yahoo Updates Web Search Crawler, Slurp 3.0
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:53 pm on April 15, 2008 (utc 0)
Yahoo has updated its automated Web search engine crawler, called Slurp, with a new version that will be released in phases over the next several weeks, the search engine and online media company announced Monday.
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Yahoo Adds Hungary's IndexTools To Web Analytics Offerings
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:34 pm on April 9, 2008 (utc 0)
Yahoo has acquired the assets of Budapest, Hungary-based Web traffic measurement company Tensa Kft, also known as IndexTools, to boost its Web analytics offerings for online marketers.
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Yahoo Shows Plans For New AMP Web Advertising System
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:06 pm on April 7, 2008 (utc 0)
Yahoo, the top worldwide Web destination and the second-most-used Internet search engine, has revealed information about a future online advertising system called AMP, that it hopes will help make it easier for advertisers, publishers and partners to sell various types of Internet advertisements throughout the Web.
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Yahoo Expands Mobile Phone Software, Adds Voice Search
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:30 pm on April 3, 2008 (utc 0)
Yahoo, the second-most-used Internet search engine, has expanded its OneSearch software with voice and text recognition features to make Web searching easier and more useful for mobile phone users.
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Yahoo Takes a New "Shine" To Women With Specialty Site
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:06 pm on Mar. 31, 2008 (utc 0)
Sunnyvale, California-based Web pioneer Yahoo has launched a new specialty Web site for women between ages 25 and 54 focusing on their everyday lives, the company announced Monday.
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Yahoo Seeks Higher Microsoft Bid With Strong Growth Forecast
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:03 pm on Mar. 18, 2008 (utc 0)
Yahoo, six weeks into a standoff with Microsoft for control of the Web media firm, has said it is on pace to make its earnings estimate for 2008 and predicted that by 2010 its revenue, after advertising commissions, will reach about $8.8 billion, more than 70 percent higher than 2007 figures.
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Yahoo Maps Adds To Local Business Coverage
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:07 pm on Mar. 7, 2008 (utc 0)
Yahoo has made it easier to find local businesses using its free online mapping service, adding 300 new cities encompassing 12,000 neighborhoods to its most detailed maps, packaged in a new, easier to use format which has added more information about points of interest and expanded global coverage.
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Yahoo Announces Open Search Platform
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:45 pm on Feb. 26, 2008 (utc 0)
Web pioneer Yahoo has announced a service that will allow Web site owners to create customized entries within Yahoo's search engine results, detailing its Open Search Platform Tuesday at a technology conference.
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Microsoft's Yahoo Bid Enters Second Week in Flux
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:26 pm on Feb. 8, 2008 (utc 0)
As Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Internet pioneer Yahoo enters its second week, a U.S. House panel has postponed a hearing on the mater while Microsoft awaits a decision from Yahoo's board that could come as early as Friday.
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Microsoft's Yahoo Bid Draws Ire of Google and Fed
Lane_R_Ellis, 12:46 am on Feb. 5, 2008 (utc 0)
Microsoft's Friday offer to purchase Internet company Yahoo for $44.6 billion has drawn the ire of both Web search giant Google, which says the proposed deal raises "troubling questions," as well as the United States House Judiciary Committee which has scheduled a February 8 hearing on the matter.
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Yahoo, Facing "Headwinds," Trims 1,000 Jobs Amidst Declining Profits
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:09 pm on Jan. 30, 2008 (utc 0)
Yahoo will cut 1,000 jobs by mid-February amidst sharply dropping profits in a move co-founder and chief executive Jerry Yang says is "not tinkering around the edges," the company announced Tuesday.
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Yahoo Facing Major Round of Layoffs
Lane_R_Ellis, 12:07 am on Jan. 23, 2008 (utc 0)
Yahoo expects to announce later this month a plan to lay off what may be hundreds of employees as part of a major reorganization effort to increase profitability and boost sagging stock prices, sources familiar with the matter said Monday.
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Yahoo Backs OpenID Single Sign-on System
Lane_R_Ellis, 12:37 am on Jan. 18, 2008 (utc 0)
Yahoo has agreed to adopt the OpenID open source Web identification system that will allow the use of a single sign-on for numerous Web sites, with a public test version becoming available at the end of January 2008.
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Yahoo Increases Search Presence in Israel with Walla
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:24 pm on Jan. 15, 2008 (utc 0)
Yahoo will partner with the second most popular Israeli portal Walla Communications Limited to provide Yahoo's search technology and databases using the Walla Search name, under a strategic cooperation agreement signed Monday.
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Yahoo Outlines Mobile and Desktop Plans at CES
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:54 pm on Jan. 7, 2008 (utc 0)
Sunnyvale, California-based Internet portal and search engine company Yahoo outlined both its mobile "ecosystem" and desktop plans Monday at an address delivered by company co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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Yahoo Stock Down 7% in 2007, Google's Up 54%
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:56 pm on Dec. 28, 2007 (utc 0)
Yahoo ended November as the Web's most popular overall destination according to research released today from comScore Networks, edging out Google's 131.5 million visitors with a figure of 136.1 million, while trailing well behind the search leader in its share of search engine traffic, garnering a 22.4 percent share to Google's 58.6 percent.
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Yahoo's Mobile Search Deal With America Movil its Biggest Yet
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:09 pm on Dec. 20, 2007 (utc 0)
Yahoo has formed a partnership with Latin America's leading mobile phone company America Movil that will make Yahoo's oneSearch mobile search service the default for 143 million wireless subscribers in 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries, in what is the largest of the 21 mobile phone search agreements it has announced to date this year.
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Yahoo Outage Shuts Down Cyber Monday Checkouts
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:36 pm on Nov. 27, 2007 (utc 0)
Sunnyvale, California-based Internet company Yahoo suffered widespread service outages within its Merchant Solutions online shopping checkout system used by about 45,000 small businesses, on what is for many Web merchants the busiest sales day of the year, yesterday's Cyber Monday, as it is known in some circles.
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Yahoo Group Adds 17 Papers, Now 550 Strong
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:53 pm on Nov. 19, 2007 (utc 0)
New York Times Company Papers to Offer Yahoo Ads, HotJobs and Local Content Syndication. Sunnyvale, California-based Internet company Yahoo has announced the addition of seventeen newspapers to its consortium of online publishing partners, increasing the group's total number of newspapers to 550, including 140 weekly papers and about 415 dailies.
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Yahoo Mobile Search Additions Bring Asia-Pacific Coverage to 40 Percent
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:07 pm on Nov. 13, 2007 (utc 0)
Nine New Asian-Pacific Partnerships Announced for Yahoo Mobile Services. Sunnyvale, California-based Internet company Yahoo has announced partnerships with nine additional cell phone operators to provide mobile Web search services in the Asia-Pacific region, bringing the number of its global distribution partners to 20.
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Yahoo's Mobile Goes Global with Telefonica Deal
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:24 am on Oct. 2, 2007 (utc 0)
Sunnyvale, California-based Internet company Yahoo has announced the signing of a significant global agreement with Madrid-based Telefonica S.A., the Spanish telecommunications group that is one of the largest mobile service providers in the world.
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Yahoo’s Flicker Now Multilingual
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:57 am on June 12, 2007 (utc 0)
In Berlin today Internet search engine site Yahoo! announced that its Flickr photo sharing community is now available in seven languages besides English, including French, German, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Chinese. The Sunnyvale, California-based company purchased Flickr in March of 2004 from its original developer Ludicorp, and since then has seen the photo sharing service grow to be one of the webs largest, now receiving 24 million worldwide visitors each month, according to a press release distributed today.
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