'Yahoo' News

Yahoo! has been trying hard to reestablish themselves in the market in spite of tough competition and a global recession. To achieve this goal, they are making a number of changes in various aspects of their business. Read the rest of this entry »

Brandz Top 100, a list of the world’s 100 most valuable brands, has recently been compiled for 2009 by Millward Brown a leading research company, which is a subsidiary of the WPP group. Read the rest of this entry »

Growth in mobile Internet access and the number of users perform search operations on their mobile phones has prompted dotMobi and Gomez Inc. to create the world’s first Mobile Web Benchmark Series, to rank the leading mobile sites with regards to their efficiency for customer operations. Read the rest of this entry »

Yahoo! recently overhauled the Yahoo! Image Search Preview page, with the intention of making it more interesting and user friendly for their clients. The result is a more modern feature that looks like a “Web 2.0” image gallery. Read the rest of this entry »

Google introduced a new system called ‘Portable Contacts’, last month, to make it possible for third party websites to access a user’s friends list without requiring them to disclose their password. Read the rest of this entry »

It has long been felt that people go downstream to Twitter from sites such as Google and Facebook. However, a recent post from analytics firm Hitwise, shows that the reverse is also true. Read the rest of this entry »

Yahoo! does seem to be back in the headlines, and not just because of Microsoft’s continued flirtations. In order to attract more users to their search service, Yahoo! has recently started adding fancy Facebook links via SearchMonkey on the search results. Read the rest of this entry »

Following closely on the heels of Rich Ads, last week, Yahoo! has launched three new products that will further help their online advertisers to better reach their target audience and get better value for the money they spend on advertising. Read the rest of this entry »

According to the latest qSearch analysis of the major U.S. search engines carried out by comScore, search continues to grow and little has changed in terms of market share of the top 5 search providers. Read the rest of this entry »

Google was the object of ridicule among many SEO professionals last week, when the search giant penalised its own subsidiary for buying links. Read the rest of this entry »

When Web TV was first introduced in the 1990s, the TV set was connected to a keyboard and a set top box. Back then, it did not succeed quite as well as expected. But now it seems to be making a comeback in a modified form, with the keyboard and set top box built into the TV itself; And it’s now called Connected TV. Read the rest of this entry »

It looks as though there is no end in sight for the Microsoft-Yahoo! acquisition deal. Read the rest of this entry »

Only last week we had reported that Yahoo! had said that they would store user data for a period of 13 months. In quite a sudden about-turn they have now decided to delete the personal data from their data bases in 3 months. After 3 months, all the user log data as well as data from page views, page clicks and ad views and clicks will be deleted. Read the rest of this entry »

That the year has been bad for Yahoo in more ways than one has been quite obvious. However, few could have predicted such a dismal ending. Read the rest of this entry »

Last year Yahoo! had said that although Kelkoo was profitable, they were looking out for strategic options for the Paris-based comparative shopping site, including a possible sale. They finally found a buyer for the site and announced the sale on 21 November. Read the rest of this entry »

After successfully bringing his company’s stock price down from almost $30 to $11, putting off a bid from Microsoft that would have added tremendous shareholder value and laying off thousands of employees, Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang has finally handed in his resignation today. Read the rest of this entry »

In June this year, Google and Yahoo! had announced a paid search deal, which had raised a lot of eyebrows and objections. The deal has now been officially called off due to opposition from government anti-trust officials. Read the rest of this entry »

Finally, the Yahoo! Team has something to smile about. According to the results of the latest survey conducted by Nielsen Online’s Video Census, Yahoo’s market share of web video has increased substantially, in the month of September 2008. Their viewership has increased by a whopping 56%, and was around 264 million video streams for that month, compared to 169 million in the month of August. Read the rest of this entry »

Gloomy forecasts and plummeting bottom lines have led to the once giant of online advertising and search to announce 1,500 more job cuts this year, bringing the total to 2,500 employee lay-offs. Read the rest of this entry »

For almost a year now, Yahoo! has been talking about their new ‘Yahoo! Open Strategy‘. They have finally begun to roll out user profiles, which form the backbone of the social part of their open strategy. Read the rest of this entry »