December 2009
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Just get rid of that Yahoo! Toolbar
“Add a note” and “Add a folder” simply don’t work in the Yahoo! toolbar. It points to Yahoo! Calendar. Another irritating lack of details. You guys would be better off building something like the Yahoo SBC browser on Adobe AIR or any other cross platform launcher
A bit of Zimbra in your iPhone →
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Yahoo! Bookmarks to shut down in 2010
Well yeh that’s a prevision I’m making and to be fair it’s not a very difficult one. Everybody seems to be angry at Yahoo! shutting down MyBlogLog but well, I’m not so sure why. The widget was horrible and hideous. The service certainly was more flexible than Yahoo Profile but Yahoo! could clearly not continue using both. At least they took off the peanut butter quite...
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Yahoo! closed Yahoo! Glue
First launched in India then in the USA a year later, Yahoo! Glue was a new kind of multimedia search engine returning several kinds of results from different sources in one page.
It seems the site has recently been closed, glue.yahoo.com now redirects to Yahoo.com. Yahoo recently upgraded their search engine interface enabling the user to actually filter search results by type. This new method...
WatchCreating parties for Yahoo!
Yahoo! to shut down MyBlogLog
RWR reports that Yahoo! will shut down MyBlogLog. Well of course they will, this is yet another service that has a growing brother right inside the network : Yahoo! Profile. I asked about this situation to various Yahoos few months ago but none of them implied that such a move was likely to happen. Well I guess was personally waiting for that move and I honestly believe this is be a smart...
Nielsen : Yahoo! tops mobile usage
CNN
Google (NSDQ:GOOG) Search was the top Website accessed over mobile phones in the U.S. between January and September of this year, according to a report from ratings company Nielsen. But Yahoo (NSDQ:YHOO) was the number-one brand accessed by mobile users during that same timeframe, the report said, with Google’s brands coming in second.
Yahoo Mail was the second-most accessed site after...
“TMZ is branching out into sport, with the gossip blog come TV show having...”
– TMZSports Coming Soon, May Have Yahoo Link
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Yahoo! Mail – The Year in Review →
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Yahoo! Plans Week-Long Hibernation
Fox Business
Yahoo! is reportedly planning its first ever company-wide shutdown next week as the tech giant looks to trim its costs.
The Sunnyvale-Calif. company is shutting down from Dec. 25 through Jan. 1, except for “essential functions” such as customer support.
“Closing down during a traditionally slow week allows employees to recharge, and the company to reduce operating...
Yahoo! Answers hits 200 million visitors,... →
On average, that’s:
350,000 new visitors a day
243 new visitors a minute
Yahoo! France goes striking, goes Google.
… Well at least French are up to their reputation…
Yahoo French workers are going on strike because the company has decided to close one of the biggest european R&D center in the city of Grenoble. The French team has opened a website on Blogger and published a video on youTube while encouraging web users to participate via Google Friend Connect.
Despite multiplying its profit by...
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Yahoo 'identifying' engineers going to Microsoft →
Yahoo Inc. said Wednesday that the online giant is in the process of “identifying” the 400 engineers that will be moved to Microsoft Corp. as part of the companies’ planned search and advertising partnership.
AOL Spinoff Done. Free from Time Warner →
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong got right to it today after the Internet giant spun off from its parent company, Time Warner (TWX) today. In what were very short remarks to the press on a conference call, Armstrong went into a very short history of AOL (AOL), which is an astonishing 25 years old this year.
» Wishing the best to those guys at Aol.
Yahoo! Ad Interest Manager →
Ad Interest Manager is a central place where Yahoo! visitors can see a concise summary of their online activity and make easy, constructive choices about their exposure to interest-based advertising. Ad Interest Manager is also a continuation of our ongoing commitment to helping consumers get the information they want while protecting their privacy at the same time.
Yahoo's How-To Guide For Big Brother Leaks →
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Yahoo! Extends Facebook Integration →
Continuing its commitment to be the center of people’s online lives, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) today announced further integration with Facebook that unites social experiences from across the Web to provide a place for consumers to enjoy meaningful content and stay in touch with the people they care about most.
“With this integration, we are opening the door for two of the...
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Yahoo!, fix the damn Mail Search Engine
If you CTRL click on the GO buttons next to the Yahoo! Mail built-in search engine, you will get a pop up windows explaining the current shortcuts one may use to refine a query. Not only is this highly inconvenient, it seems to be broken.
Many people in the Mail Group have been complaining about the search engine not indexing properly old messages. Yahoo! seems to have resolved the issue for non...
Yahoo! Year in Review 2009 →
It’s that time of the year again. Yahoo! has published the most popular query on its search engine. No information seems to have been shared whether those are queries made in the USA or worldwide.