Tag: Yahoo
Posted by
Duane 1 month 6 days ago
Yahoo and AOL are close on finalizing a deal that would combine parts of both companies. The deal would bridge Timer Warner's Internet operations with Yahoo by folding the AOL unit into Yahoo. In return, Time Warner would make a cash investment of about 20% of the combined entity, valuing AOL at about $10 billion.
The possible Yahoo-AOL tie-up is part of a threefold plan by Yahoo to present shareholders with an alternative to Microsoft's unsolicited offer. Yahoo would also propose repurchasing billions of dollars of its own shares and is...
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Posted by
Kevom 1 month 21 days ago
Yahoo said on Tuesday that it supports OpenSocial; a protocol to develop applications for social networks and will help create a joint foundation to keep it alive.
Google launched its OpenSocial network in November to lure developers already creating popular Web applications on social networks like Facebook.
Yahoo, Google and News Corp-owned MySpace said on Tuesday they will create the OpenSocial Foundation to maintain a neutral, community-governed forum for developing applications. It will be set up as a non-profit entity, with assets...
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Yahoo will soon be allowing third parties to enhance the Yahoo Search experience. The new platform, codenamed “SearchMonkey” and officially called Open Search Platform, will consist of a set of APIs that allow third parties to modify search results on Yahoo by adding images, structured data and additional deep links.
The altered results can contain far more information than the current link and a bit of text from the website. For example, Yelp, one of the launch partners, will include a photo, review information and the address and...
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Susan L. Decker, Yahoo’s new president, is putting her stamp on the company in a reorganization of its management ranks that creates a new division responsible for generating the bulk of the company’s revenue.
As the company’s problems mounted, Yahoo shares lost nearly half their value, from a high of more than $43 in January 2006. On Wednesday, shares dipped below a 52-week low of $22.44 before recovering slightly to close at $22.55, up 3 cents.
The latest in a string of internal shake-ups will bring together Yahoo’s sales...
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Yahoo has acquired college sports site Rivals, the terms aren’t being released but the amount is close to the $100; FIM paid $60 million for competitor Scout.com in September 2005.
Rivals.com runs a subscription model that sees 185,000 subscribers pay $9.95 a month for access.
There has been some kind of rumors that MySpace website is worth 12 billon dollars.That’s a not bad return on Fox’s initial investment of $580 million in the site. Recently Yahoo and Fox updated that yahoo is interested in buying MySpace for 25% of the stock in the combined entity.
I wouldn’t be surprised it this deal goes through: Yahoo’s chief dealmaker until recently, Toby Coppel, was appointed the head of Yahoo Europe last month, and Bebo is the strongest in UK, even though it is based in San Francisco. Telegraph reports, though in a very speculative way ("according to Silicon Valley gossip"), that Yahoo is in talks to acquire Bebo and the price may go up to $1 billion. Bebo has seen its fair share of rumors (and suitors) in the last year BT and Viacom among them.
Posted by
Kevom 1 year 1 month ago
Everyone that has a Yahoo mail account will be offered unlimited email storage starting May 2007, rolling out to all users over a couple of months.
Now that Yahoo is launching unlimited space, the primary focus of competition will revolve around usability.
Yahoo has decided to bring in an outsider to head-up its secretive internal incubator division.
Here’s what Ismail had to say on his blog:
Well, after a long hiatus from blogging, I have news. I have officially joined Yahoo!. We’ve been in talks for a while and it all came together recently.
At Yahoo, I’ll be running the Brickhouse, the program spearheaded and created by Caterina Fake, inside Bradley Horowitz’s Advanced Development Division (ADD). The Brickhouse is all about launching ground-breaking new product opportunities -...
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Read/WriteWeb got a sneak peak at the beta, it will at first be a private, with a limited number of users being offered a beta account at http://cm.my.yahoo.com/...upgrade
Yahoo's plan is to gather feedback from those early users and then make the My Yahoo! beta more broadly available - with additional features - over the coming months.
New Features:
- pre-built personalized page for each user, based on data Yahoo has already gleaned from their usage of Yahoo properties - the design of the page is closely aligned with yahoo.com;
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