October 2011
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Yahoo explores options for Japan business →
From FT.com
Yahoo is moving closer to shedding its stake in Yahoo Japan as it waits for US tax authorities to give guidance on a structure through which the embattled internet company could cash in on its holding.
Yahoo’s 35 per cent stake in the Japanese business, which has a total market value of about $19bn and net cash of $2bn, is seen by people familiar with the matter as an asset the...
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Yahoo! Search Trends: Halloween 2011 →
From YsearchBlog.com
With “Halloween costume idea” searches up 351% this monthon Yahoo!, everyone from grandma to the family dog are getting prepared to trick-or-treat this Halloween. From Pam Am Stewardesses to Charlie Sheen, Halloween searches range from traditional to pop culture driven, and one thing that is certain is #winning the Halloween race means finding a costume that hits home with...
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Yang May Make Play To Take Yahoo Private →
Not sure what private equities could really bring to Yahoo! though
From FoxBusiness.com
Yahoo! (YHOO: 15.84, 0.37, 2.39%) co-founder Jerry Yang is reportedly interested in teaming up with private-equity firms to take the struggling Internet giant private.
The report comes as a flurry of potential suitors examine making a play for Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo!, which is re-examining its...
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Microsoft considers bidding for Yahoo →
A new saga has started :) :
Microsoft joins a host of other companies looking at Yahoo, which has a market value of about $20 billion and is readying financial pitch books for potential buyers, they said.
Those companies include buyout shops Providence Equity Partners, Hellman & Friedman and Silver Lake Partners, as well as Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and Russian technology...
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OK Let's get this blog...
…back to business
May 2011
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30 new apps on Y! Connected TV →
From Yodel Anectodal :
Today, we’re introducing more than 30 new TV apps available across the Yahoo! Connected TV platform, bringing the total to more than 120 available TV apps. Connected TV apps range in purpose from fun to functional, including social networking, streaming music, casual games, personalized financial quotes, locally relevant news, weather and sports, and more than 75,000...
April 2011
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YouTube Founders Buy Delicious From Yahoo →
From the NYT :
Fans of Delicious, an online bookmarking service, raised a ruckus after word leaked four months ago that its owner, Yahoo, might shutter it as part of a streamlining plan.
To deflect criticism, Yahoo quickly reassured users that it was trying to find Delicious a new home rather than kill it.
On Wednesday, Yahoo said that it had succeeded in finding a buyer — a team led by...
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"Improve" Yahoo! Mail, at what cost ? →
What is the “Improve Yahoo! Mail” Research Project? The “Improve Yahoo! Mail” Research Project will review and analyze a small percentage of user emails, IMs (instant messages), and other communications content to help Yahoo! plan new features and products, create better advertising experiences, and better understand our users’ needs and desires.
The new Yahoo Mail app, called...
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Yahoo to Spin Out Hadoop Engineering Group for $1... →
From Read Write Cloud :
Yahoo has invested considerable resources into Apache Hadoop over the past several years. And now it is considering spinning out the engineering group responsible for the data analysis software into a separate company that it believes has the potential to be a $1 billion business.
Hadoop is the open source distributed data technology that is now used by Web...
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Social TV : Yahoo! Acquires IntoNow →
From Y! Finance :
Yahoo! the premier digital media company, today announced the acquisition of IntoNow. Launched in January 2011, IntoNow has built a platform and companion TV application based on real time indexing of television that deepens the connections between audiences, television content and advertisers. IntoNow has indexed more than five years of US based television programming,...
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Yahoo! Joins Linux Foundation →
From The Linux Foundation :
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that Yahoo! is its newest member.
Founded in 1994, Yahoo! is a major enterprise Linux user and premier digital media company that today attracts more than half a billion consumers a month in more than 30 languages. Yahoo! uses the Linux operating...
March 2011
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Yahoo News Head Moves to Disney.com →
From AllThingsD:
Yesterday, BoomTown reported that Mark Walker, the head of the powerful Yahoo News site, was leaving the Internet giant for another company.
That company, sources said, will be Disney, where Walker will be leading a major overhaul of its flagship Disney.com site.
The property, which has largely been a promotional and aggregation play for Disney’s many family-oriented...
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Yahoo to acquire Flixster/Rotten Tomatoes ? →
From AllThingsD :
Flixster–the popular social movie site whose brands include the Rotten Tomatoes premium reviews site, as well as BuddyTV–is in early acquisition talks with several suitors, including Yahoo, said sources close to the situation
November 2010
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Yahoo! to Participate at UBS Annual Global Media... →
WHAT: Carol Bartz, Yahoo! CEO, will participate in a question and answer session at the UBS Annual Global Media and Communications Conference.
WHEN: The session is scheduled to begin at 12:30pm PT / 3:30pm ET on Tuesday, December 7, 2010.
HOW: A live webcast of the session will be available on the Investor Relations website at
http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/events.cfm?CalendarID=5
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Union Square Ventures Funds Delicious Founder... →
From AllThingsD :
Joshua Schachter, who built social bookmarking site Delicious and sold it to Yahoo, has raised money for his next venture, which he’s calling…Tasty Labs. Get it?
Other than telling the world that Tasty Labs will put “the useful back into social software,” Schachter and his co-founders are being coy about what Tasty is up to. But they did announce today that they’ve taken an...
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Sync Yahoo calendar with Evolution in Ubuntu →
From OMGUbuntu :
Yahoo calendar uses the CalDAV protocol which is supported out of the box in Evolution. Thus setting it up is a cinch.
Open Evolution and go to New > Calendar
Select ‘CalDAV’ as calendar type.
Give the calendar a name – this can be anything you like
In the URL section enter https://caldav.calendar.yahoo.com
Username is your Yahoo! account username (including...
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Yahoo Experiments With New UI, Content For Local →
From SearchEngineland :
Overall the new site is less cluttered and more attractive visually. However it is also “missing” some features that are present today.
The first thing you notice about the new Local UI is that it’s essentially a list, likely inspired by Twitter and/or Facebook’s news feeds. Another significant change is the absence of a map on the Local home page or internal pages....
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A Flickr Founder’s Gaming Start-Up to Release... →
From NYT.com :
Stewart Butterfield helped found Flickr, the popular photo site later acquired by Yahoo, as a backup. Originally, he had set out to build an online video game, but then detoured when he failed to find investors.
Now, six years later, Mr. Butterfield, made wealthy by the sale of Flickr, is back to video games. Tiny Speck, his start-up, is testing its first game, Glitch, with more...
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WatchA nice hack by sy1bzbn demoing the deep integration of Yahoo! Calendar into Yahoo! Mail Neo beta. The userscript should be avalaible soon. Learn more here.
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Yahoo's Mobile Apps Get Game in SF →
From ClickZ :
Games are the most popular type of mobile app, and to promote its own mail and other apps, Yahoo is putting a twist on mobile games. The company is set to launch a series of interactive outdoor touch-screen games placed in San Francisco bus shelters, and will egg on competition among Bay Area neighborhoods to score a free concert featuring OK Go.
The goal of the Yahoo Bus Stop...
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Watch“Twice as fast”. That’s how Yahoo! described the new Yahoo! Mail beta. “New application architecture”. That’s another promise they made.
Well.
Obviously things are not going this way and the Xoopit application, called My Photos, has been down for…ever !
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Yahoo.com : the tablet version
A tip has told us that Yahoo! has published the tablet version of its homepage. The site is located at yahoo.com/tablet. The layout has been optimized for touch devices but if you’re checking it on a traditional laptop all links will lead you to the normal version of each website.
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WatchA video for Yahoo! News Facebook Fans
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CEO of Yahoo! acquired Xoopit talks about email...
Bijan Marashi, CEO of Yahoo! acquired Xoopit, explains why you should not start an email startup
20 Reasons Why Not To Do an Email Startup
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Facebook, Yahoo And AOL Join Petition For Libel... →
From itproportal :
Facebook, Yahoo, AOL UK, Mumsnet and the Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) have written an open letter to David Cameron calling for “urgent reform” of UK libel laws to better protect free speech online.
In the letter, part of the Libel Reform Campaign, the group appeals for the prime minister to update the current UK legislation, describing it as having a...
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WatchWeekly Yahoo! Search Trends – November 19, 2010
Yahoo Integrates 75,000 GetJar Apps into Mobile... →
From MarketingVox
Yahoo is starting to test integration of its mobile search queries with the 75,000 plus apps offered by Get Jar. This move follows Google’s incorporation of iTunes into its mobile search in June, effectively inserting itself into the conversation between the customer and iTunes that Apple had previously claimed as its own. Neither play should come as any surprise to...
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The state of YHOO - Going up →
From Benzinga :
SmarTrend identified an Uptrend for Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) on September 24, 2010 at $14.38. In approximately 2 months, Yahoo! has returned 18.6% as of today’s recent price of $17.05.
In the past 52 weeks, shares of Yahoo! have traded between a low of $12.94 and a high of $19.12 and are now at $17.05, which is 32% above that low price.
Yahoo! is currently above its 50-day...
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Soon an App Store for Yahoo! Connected TV →
From YCTVBlog.com :
Since launching in 2008, Yahoo! ® has built one of the largest global Internet-connected TV platforms, bringing the best of the Web to the TVs of millions of consumers across 135 countries. Last year at CES, we opened up the Yahoo! Connected TV platform to app developers. Today, we are announcing the expansion of the Connected TV Widget Developer Program providing developers...
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Yahoo! Koprol Hits 1 Million Users! →
From the Yodel:
To celebrate being the 1 millionth member to join our Indonesian location-based social networking site Yahoo! Koprol, one lucky member received a gift of Rp 1,000,000. Didit, a junior high school student in Depok, West Java, also known as @diditdomba on Koprol received a gift of Rp 1,000,000 from the Yahoo! Koprol team.
Yahoo! Koprol focuses on the intersection of community and...
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LinkedIn CEO: Yahoo Isn't Over →
LinkedIn CEO backed up Yahoo! again.
From Mashable:
Jeff Weiner, the CEO of LinkedIn and a former executive vice president of Yahoo, says that Yahoo isn’t over and that the digital media company of the future has yet to emerge.
During a conversation with Federated Media CEO John Battelle on stage at San Francisco’s Web 2.0 Summit Wednesday, Weiner was asked his opinion of Yahoo and whether it...
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Yahoo to phase out classic email in 2011 →
Ouch! I bet more than one user wil be upset about that. The current beta better be a killer product in the end!
From Gmanews.tv :
Yahoo Philippines officially unveiled this week a more streamlined version of its popular web email service, updating the classic interface which has remained essentially unchanged for 13 years.
Last November 15, Yahoo Philippines launched Yahoo! Mail Beta, which...
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Yahoo, can you please shut down this spam bot ?
Every single day I receive spam which obviously comes from an Asian spambot. oh sure those messages are correctly filtered out of my inbox. yet this is nonetheless really annoying to manually delete those when checking for false positives.
So please Yahoo! can you just have this spam bot shut down ??
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Yahoo Developing Content Optimization Service →
From PC World :
Yahoo is developing technology to help publishers personalize their websites, in much the same way that it helps them to populate their sites with ads, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said on Tuesday.
“We’re looking at helping people manage their content,” Bartz said at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, during a keynote appearance in which she was interviewed on...
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Introducing Yahoo! Messenger 11 Beta! | Yahoo!... →
From the Y! Messenger blog:
DO MORE THAN JUST IM – PLAY SOCIAL GAMES WITH FRIENDS Instant messaging is great but it takes more than just IM to stay in touch with the people who matter most to you. The new Yahoo! Messenger Beta offers more ways than ever before to connect (and have fun!) with friends and family. Not only can you instant message, text, and make voice and video calls, you can now...
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Yahoo! Introduces Clues →
From the Yahoo! Search blog :
Yahoo! Clues is a new beta service that gives you a unique “behind the scenes” look into popular trends across the millions of people who use Yahoo! to search each day.
With Yahoo! Clues, you can discover and compare trending information for search terms of interest to you, or explore popular trending search terms on Yahoo!
You can see search volume charts,...
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Yahoo! Search gets more localized
From a not yet published article on the Y! Search blog !
New and Improved Sketch-a-Search: New to the desktop and iPad, and improved for the iPhone, these first-of-their kind apps will allow you to zero in on where to eat by drawing on an area map and filtering restaurants by cuisine, ambiance, and ratings. The latest iPhone and desktop versions will even show you reviews of...
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No, Facebook Mail clearly is no killer to anything
Though the hype will want you to believe that Facebook Messages will kill your inbox provider, it clearly won’t. DumbCrunch published no less than twelve stories about the subject in just three days to drain your poor brain but good thing their readers were smart enough to get tired of the subject.
Don’t get fool, Face Messages is no more than a badly implemented Google Wave and...
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Carol Bartz to talk at Web 2.0 Summit today →
Carol Bartz is scheduled to talk at the Web 2.0 Summit today at 2pm PT.
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Ex-Yahoos To Launch New $10 Million Angel Fund →
From AllThingsD
A new $10 million micro-venture fund, led by former Yahoo top engineering exec Ash Patel–called Morado Ventures and funded by a group largely made up of ex-Yahoos–is about to launch, according to sources close to the situation.
Expected limited partners in Morado, which means “purple” in Spanish, include former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, former COO Dan Rosensweig and former...
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