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Yahoo peps Search, Mail and Messenger

Posted under Yahoo by admin on Wednesday 26 August 2009 at 10:39 am
Yahoo peps Search, Mail and Messenger

Yahoo peps Search, Mail and Messenger

Yahoo has added slew of new features and updates to its three core offerings – Mail, Search and Messenger. (more…)


Tech giants unite against Google

Posted under COMPANIES, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo by admin on Saturday 22 August 2009 at 10:51 am
 Tech giants unite against Google

Tech giants unite against Google

Three technology heavyweights are joining a coalition to fight Google’s attempt to create what could be the world’s largest virtual library. (more…)


Gmail Nudges Past AOL Email In The U.S. To Take No. 3 Spot.

Posted under Gmail, Google, Microsoft, Technology Reports, Yahoo by admin on Sunday 16 August 2009 at 9:40 am
Gmail

Gmail

Good thing Gmail is out of beta. It is now the third largest Web mail service in the U.S. In July, Gmail nudged past AOL Email with 37 million unique visitors compared to 36.4 million for AOL, according to comScore estimates. (Gmail is the orange line in the chart below). That puts Gmail within sight of the No. 2 player, Windows Live Hotmail, which has 47 million unique visitors. After that there is a wide gulf separating Yahoo Mail and its 106 million monthly unique visitors. (more…)


New Yahoo Homepage Spotted In The Wild

Posted under Yahoo by admin on Thursday 25 June 2009 at 4:18 pm

New Yahoo Homepage

With all the chatter about Yahoo’s impending roll-out of a completely overhauled brand – see Techmeme for more – this particular tip that landed in our inbox last night definitely caught our attention. (more…)


Did Bing Just Leapfrog Yahoo Search?

Posted under Google, Internet News, Microsoft, Yahoo by admin on Saturday 6 June 2009 at 10:20 am

statcounter-bing

Data from monitoring service StatCounter suggests that Bing, Microsoft’s new search decision engine, has overtaken Yahoo Search as the number two search service in the U.S. and worldwide in large part thanks to stealing market share from leader Google. (more…)


Bing balloons into public view

Posted under Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, featured by admin on Tuesday 2 June 2009 at 10:09 am

bing

Microsoft’s Bing search engine has started to become publicly available, allowing the world to decide whether the company’s latest effort has the goods to take on Google. (more…)


Carol Bartz Still Looking For Wow, Drops F-Word During First Quarter Earnings Call

Posted under COMPANIES, Google, Yahoo, featured by admin on Wednesday 22 April 2009 at 9:21 am

Carol Bartz "CEO Yahoo"

After spending a lot of time speaking with Yahoo employees, partners, and customers, new CEO Carol Bartz has come to realize the importance of giving consumers a “Wow experience,” she told investors in the first quarter conference call. But they have yet to experience that from owning the stock. Yahoo reported a 13 percent decline in revenues for the first quarter of 2009 to $1.6 billion, while net income dropped 78 percent to $118 million. (more…)


Yahoo to lay off 675 after profit slides 78%

Posted under COMPANIES, Yahoo by admin on Wednesday 22 April 2009 at 9:12 am

Yahoo Building

Yahoo Inc. confirmed Tuesday that it will cut 675 jobs, 5 percent of its workforce, as its online advertising business continued to erode in the first quarter amid economic gloom. (more…)


Yahoo, Microsoft reportedly talking partnership

Posted under COMPANIES, Microsoft, Yahoo by admin on Saturday 11 April 2009 at 5:21 am

Yahoo & Microsoft reportedly talking partnership

The on-again, off-again talks between Yahoo! Inc and Microsoft Corp. about an online advertising deal are reportedly back on.

The discussions restarted a few weeks ago, and included a meeting between new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the technology blog AllThingsD said Friday. (more…)


Yahoo’s Newspaper Consortium Keeps Growing

Posted under COMPANIES, Internet News, Yahoo by admin on Tuesday 10 March 2009 at 6:14 am

Yahoo

Even as Google is cancelling its experiment with newspaper advertising, Yahoo is expanding its newspaper consortium. Today, Yahoo is announcing that it is adding two new members: The Boston Globe and the St. Petersburg Times. That brings the consortium up to 38 media companies, representing 793 total newspapers, up from 635 newspaper partners a year ago, and 176 at launch in November, 2006 (more…)


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