Archive for the ‘yahoo’ Category

Yahoo’s Build Your Own Search Service

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Yahoo opens up their search technology for entrepreneurs to take on Google. Why start from scratch? I wonder if this is the sort of thing Microsoft might consider unprofitable when they purchase the company - and kill this innovative platform.Read the full story

Does Ballmer Need To Go?

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Pickens notes a TechCrunch analysis wondering - after Windows Vista and the failed Yahoo bid - whether Steve Ballmer's days at Microsoft are numbered.Read the full story

Microsoft abandons Yahoo bid

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

"After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo! do not make sense for us, and it is in the best interests of Microsoft stockholders, employees and other stakeholders to withdraw our proposal," Ballmer said in the letter.Read the full story

Flickr Flicks at Video

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

What's the big deal? Flickr, which is owned by Yahoo, is hardly about to slay the Goliath that is Google's YouTube. But while this may not sound like an online revolution, it does significantly enhance the Flickr experience for its 42 million monthly visitors. Kakul Srivastava, the company's director of ...

Microsoft Said to Be Talking With News Corporation About Joint Yahoo Bid

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is in talks with Microsoft about joining in its contested bid for Yahoo, according to people involved in the discussions. The combination, which would join Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN and News Corporation's MySpace, would create a behemoth that would upend the Internet landscape.Read the full story

Yahoo Plans to Let Users Help Mold New Feature

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

The Buzz service borrows heavily from other so-called social news aggregators, like Digg and Reddit, as it asks users to “vote” on items they like. Items with the most votes, or buzz, will earn prominent placement. But the Buzz service is different in some important ways. Rather than turn Buzz ...

Yahoo to Support OpenID Single Sign-On

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

People with a Yahoo user name and password will be able to use that ID information to access non-Yahoo Web sites that support the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework, reducing the amount of different log-in information people need to create, remember and enter online.Read the full story