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Yahoo may join Google instead of Microsoft

A source familiar with Yahoo Incorporated's strategy suggested that the company may consider a business alliance with Google Incorporated, as an alternative to Microsoft’s $44.6 billion takeover proposal. Yahoo management is considering revisiting talks it held with Google several months ago on an alliance as an alternative to Microsoft's bid, that source said. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt called Yahoo's chief executive Jerry Yang to offer his company's help in any effort to thwart Microsoft's bid. Details of what conclusions the two men came to have yet to surface.

At $31 a share, Yahoo believes the bid undervalues the company, two sources said. In other words, it is quite possible that Yahoo's efforts to find an alternative bidder could simply be a measure to pressure Microsoft to boost its bid. At the end of the day though, there is still no information of an alternative bid being placed, be it from Google, News Corporation or yet another company. I'll try to stay on top of things as more information becomes available.

 
Farshad @ 05:43 | 4 February 2008 | Source | Printable version | Email this to a friend

Yahoo Bids Adieu to Plus Service

Saying it wanted to focus on businesses "core to its future growth," Yahoo alerted subscribers of its Yahoo Plus service earlier this week that it will be discontinued April 23. The add-on provided extra storage, premium video, commercial free Internet radio, security features, and a broadband portal for a $5.95 USD monthly fee or $47.40 USD yearly. Yahoo claimed that a majority of its users saw such a service was not "essential," likely meaning it failed to generate enough interest among Yahoo users.

The company said it would issue a refund to yearly subscribers, but not to those on a monthly plan. Yahoo stopped billing those customers March 20. All features would revert back to those given to users of the free service. Customers wishing to retain some of the benefits would have to subscribe to them on a per-service basis, the company said.

 
Mohsen @ 15:01 | 24 March 2006 | Source | Printable version | Email this to a friend

Yahoo Buys Up Konfabulator

Yahoo Inc. has acquired Konfabulator, the software maker who created widgets -- mini applications which monitor weather, sports, news and more -- for the Macintosh in 2003. Yahoo confirmed the purchase was finalized late last week for an undisclosed price. A Yahoo spokesman confirmed to The Mac Observer early Monday it will continue to develop widgets for the Mac platform.

Yahoo told the Associated Press it plans to expand the range and reach of widgets by creating a number of tools that will allow customers to access Yahoo content via customized widgets, without requiring a browser to see it. In addition, Yahoo plans to give away the Konfabulator software that creates widgets. Konfabulator had been charging US$20 for the software. Anyone who bought version 2.0 of the software since mid-May will be given refunds, said Konfabulator CEO Arlo Rose.

 
Amir @ 00:15 | 26 July 2005 | Source | Printable version | Email this to a friend

Yahoo catches up with Google Mail

Yahoo, the famous internet portal and service provider, in a move designed to fight back its rival mail service Google Mail, has recently announced that their account storage limit will be raised to 1GB.

The company will also provide Symantec virus-checking technology for its mail services.

The changes will be effective mid-April, says Brad Garlinghouse, VP of communications products.

 
Amir @ 00:23 | 25 March 2005 | Source | Printable version | Email this to a friend

Yahoo celebrates 10th anniversary

PEOPLE AROUND the world are getting emails from Yahoo to celebrate its 10th anniversary on the 2nd of March.

And what Yahoo dubs loyal users are being offered a special deal for that day only.

The special treat can be found at this address.

But, of course, you might forget, so Yahoo is also offering to make it your homepage.

How generous! Happy birthday Yahoo. Believe it or not that means that our own online career - and the price of pixels gets cheaper by the minute - is even older.

Time. It's merciless.
 
Farshad @ 01:50 | 1 March 2005 | Source | Printable version | Email this to a friend

Yahoo Launch Y!Q, Contextual Search Option

Search engine Yahoo has launched a new tool for users searching online called Y!Q. Similar to existing "related links" options, the tool offers users pages of a similar context to the one the user is viewing. The service is already in operation on Yahoo! News, with examples of stories on George Bush linking to sites on the American president.

Yahoo is offering the service for Internet Explorer users (download) and Firefox users (download), letting them do contextual searches without going to Yahoo. Yahoo is also offering code to allow webmasters to embed Y!Q in their pages.

Yahoo's new tool is another option for searchers who are becoming startlingly similar to gleeful children receive far too many gifts at Christmas. Yahoo's most recent financial report noted that ad revenues from searches were proving more profitable and important. It, like the other search companies, wants more users and wants them keep on coming back; the problem is a complex one.

It’s difficult to have a system that gains strong user loyalty on search engines; the most successful so far has been Google's simple and effective search results. Google still maintains its 60% market share and is by far the largest of a growing pack. Google today moved their local search tool to the front page of the site; although still only in beta form, the tool has proved successful and effective at return accurate results. As if to do one better, Amazon's version of local search on A9.com adds pictures of shop fronts and streets. Expect more presents from the search companies soon.

View : Test out Y!Q
 
Amir @ 21:35 | 3 February 2005 | Source | Printable version | Email this to a friend

Yahoo Local Search Goes Mobile

Yahoo this week rolled out a new feature in its local search service that lets users send results from their PCs to mobile phones, the company says.

At Yahoo Local, which is a directory of business listings, users can search for restaurants in Denver, Colorado, or for dentists in Philadelphia.

Now, they can send Yahoo Local results as a text message to their mobile phones directly from their PCs by clicking on a new "send to phone" button that accompanies every listing.

The service is available only in the U.S. to subscribers of mobile services provided by the recently merged Cingular Wireless/AT&T Wireless, Verizon Communications, T-Mobile USA, and Sprint and Nextel Communications, which are in the process of merging.

Phones have to support SMS (Short Message Service).

On the Go

Yahoo will not charge for the service, but the carriers may apply fees on their end for receiving the text messages. In October of last year, Yahoo introduced a service for querying its search engine, including Yahoo Local, from mobile devices.

 
Amir @ 01:22 | 31 January 2005 | Source | Printable version | Email this to a friend

Huge Rise in Yahoo! Profits

Search giant Yahoo! has recorded a massive rise in profits over the past year. The company has announced a total profit of £1.2bn, a rise of 80% on the previous 12 months. Revenues also rose by 120%, from £864m to £1.9bn.

The company put the increase down to a boom in the online advertising market - companies spent as much advertising with the search firm for the three months up to Christmas 2004 as in the whole of 2002. The company's chief executive, Terry Semel, said: "This was also the year in which we witnessed the beginning of a tipping point in advertising in which marketers address the continued shift in consumers' changing media habits by investing more of their marketing dollars online."

Subscription income for the company also rose. It spent £401m on acqusitions last year - among them Overture, the advertising firm, and online music service MusicMatch. It's expected to continue looking for further acquisitions over the next 12 months.

Download : Full figures (PDF)
 
Amir @ 18:32 | 19 January 2005 | Source | Printable version | Email this to a friend

Yahoo! Joins Desktop Search Market

Yahoo! has become the latest search giant to jump into the desktop search market. It has this morning unveiled its new program which it hopes will allow it compete in the growing war for scanning files on users' home PCs. The release of Yahoo! Desktop Search comes after Google and MSN unveiled similar products.

The new program, currently in beta, has many of the same features as its rivals. However, it's claimed the Yahoo! program searches more than 200 file types and is the most comprehensive of all those released so far. As well as files, it indexes e-mails in Outlook and Outlook Express and it also promises to offer web searches - through its own search engine, of course.

Desktop search seems to be the latest tool the major engines are using in a bid to expand their influence. MSN is also currently running a beta of its new web search tool alongside its desktop search, offered through a browser toolbar. Yahoo's offering appears more like a traditional Windows app - Google's uses the same style as its online search results when it searches through your computer.

This is BETA software!, please use caution when installing it on your system

View : Yahoo! Desktop Search
 
Amir @ 07:19 | 13 January 2005 | Printable version | Email this to a friend

Yahoo! Unveils Year's Top Sites

A site looking at Britain's ugliest cars; the homepage of comedian Bill Bailey; and the home of the Badger song which spent most of 2004 driving everyone crazy have been voted among the best of the last year.

Yahoo! has unveiled its finds of the year, with a typically odd mix chosen. Bailey, the comedian whose site launches to a frankly bizarre French-style fanfare of music, reportedly beat off competition including Keira Knightley for the celebrity prize. Weebls stuff, meanwhile, is described as "a feast of oddball entertainment". The Badger song, the judging panel decided, was a life-changing moment. And uglycars.co.uk won the "weird and wonderful" prize for its depiction of "the most hideous cars that have ever had the nerve to tread the tarmac".

There's also a more serious side, with sites including Timebank - which encourages visitors to give some of their time to supporting worthy causes - Your Amazing Brain, offering all sorts of educational activities, and Derelict London, described as "a strangely beautiful gallery of the obscure and unseen places in the great capital".

The sites were chosen by a panel including Gary Broughton from FHM.com, Jonathan Goddard of the Metro newspaper, Bobby Macaulay from the Unst Bus Shelter community website which won last year, Salim Mitha of Yahoo!, and Tricia Phillips from the Daily Mirror. Voting is now open for the people's choice award to choose the best of the 10 sites listed.

View : Yahoo! sites of the year 2004
 
Farshad @ 01:41 | 9 January 2005 | Source | Printable version | Email this to a friend



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