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Archive for the 'Yahoo!' Category

Google aims at display ad market

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Google aims at display ad marketAfter declining search ad revenue growth and problems with gaining a foothold in radio and television advertising, Google is focusing on the Web’s elusive display ad marketplace.

Microsoft brags that Bing is superior to Google with TV ads

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Microsoft brags that Bing is superior to Google with TV adsMicrosoft is dead serious about its new Bing search engine. Microsoft even bought out a company just to use its technology to build up Bing. The company is showing the world that it means business with a series of ads that targets the pitfalls of all search engines with the promise of a “cure.” However, is Microsoft promising something Bing can’t deliver?

News of Microsoft Bing overtaking Yahoo greatly exaggerated

Monday, June 8th, 2009

News of Microsoft Bing overtaking Yahoo greatly exaggeratedRecently, news spread all over the Internet indicating that Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, overtook Yahoo as the number two search engine after Google. However, according to several research firms, the earlier reports indicating Bing’s victory may have been premature.

Yahoo adds new widgets to their services in an attempt to keep users

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

Yahoo adds new widgets to their services in an attempt to keep users

Yahoo is attempting to make Yahoo Mail your source for getting as much done as possible, but can it bring back the users it has lost to rival Google Mail?

Microsoft Bing redefines search - again

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Microsoft Bing redefines search - againMicrosoft has once again redesigned their Web search engine, adding a few bells and whistles to try to make up ground on Google and Yahoo, who are miles ahead of Microsoft’s latest attempts.

Microsoft steps up its search engine with Kumo to compete with Google

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

Microsoft steps up its search engine with Kumo to compete with GoogleMicrosoft made headlines late last year when it snatched up just about every domain name variant with “Kumo” in it. Kumo is Microsoft’s weapon against super search engine Google. After dropping off the radar for a few months, recent reports indicate that the software giant may be gearing up to release its new search engine for public testing.

Yahoo guts Flickr in latest layoff

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Yahoo guts Flickr in latest layoff After posting lackluster earnings for the first quarter, Yahoo is laying off 600 employees and shuttering its Columbus office. The surprise is that Flickr was hit especially hard by these cuts, losing a number of its few remaining engineers.

Yahoo putting Geocities out of its misery

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Yahoo putting Geocities out of its misery Geocities was one of the first sites to offer you a simple Web page and the tools to edit the text and images to your heart’s content. Now it’s time to put this old dog out of its misery, much the same fate as Google Page Creator and AOL Hometown.

Open source search tool finds new data mining role

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Open source search tool finds new data mining roleAn open source tool designed to power search engines could be reborn as a commercial product for major online databases. New firm Cloudera plans to use the Hadoop system as the basis of its professional service packages.

Are Yahoo and Carol Bartz meshing?

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

Carol Bartz has been on the job as Yahoo CEO for about 45 days and has already made a number of changes near the top. How well will those high-level moves translate into transforming the company as a whole?

Yahoo spent $79 million to thwart Microsoft

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing by Yahoo, the company spent a staggering $79 million dollars last year fighting off the takeover bid by Microsoft.

Bartz in, Decker out at Yahoo

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Bartz in, Decker out at Yahoo Yahoo announced the hiring of CEO Carol Bartz, formerly of Autodesk, in hopes that she can rebuild the floundering online advertiser. Yahoo CFO, Sue Decker, was long thought to be a frontrunner for the spot and has tendered her resignation.

Is Yahoo playing games with your Inbox?

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Is Yahoo playing games with your Inbox? Yahoo is looking for more ways to keep you interacting with friends through email by adding new features to your email Inbox. Last month social networking features started popping up in users’ email, and this month Yahoo started adding casual games.

Microsoft-backed investors to help dismantle Yahoo?

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Microsoft-backed investors to help dismantle Yahoo In a move that could gut Yahoo’s Search Engine business, investors are currently preparing a takeover bid for the embattled Web advertiser. To add insult to injury, financing for the bid is being provided largely by jilted suitor Microsoft.

Microsoft to lay off 15,000?

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

News in the world economy has been dismal for months, and the technology sector has fared no better than than national averages. Now another industry giant, Microsoft,  may be showing signs of weakness.

Yahoo drastically cuts data retention

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Yahoo drastically cuts data retention Yahoo is slashing the period during which it retains personal data about user searches. It’s also widening the range of data that it anonymizes after this period.

Yahoo bribes 1,500 "half" employees with conditional severance

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Yahoo bribes 1,500 "half" employees with conditional severance Yahoo has endured a downward spiral for quite a while now and it’s a combination of vacant leadership and a poor economy. Slimming down to survive is the company’s focus right now, and Yahoo has invented a creative severance package that requires recipients to stay in touch in case the people taking over old roles have questions.

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