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TwitterYahoo has pull the plug on Geocities, a free web hosting company that was among the first to build online communities, with more than 3.5 million websites hosted on its service in the late 1990s. But GeoCities fell out of favor in recent years, as a generation of social network sites such as Facebook, Blogger, [...]
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Video: Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz Explains search deal with Microsoft
Posted by scamboy on August 2nd, 2009
Here’s a video on Yahoo’s CEO Carol Bartz explaining about the new deal with Microsoft. Video after the jump!
Yahoo & Microsoft Search Deal
Posted by scamboy on July 30th, 2009
After 18 months of on/off offers, withdrawals, contacts and discussions, Microsoft and Yahoo have announced a ten-year agreement that will create a new number two in the Internet search market behind Google. The deal strengthens Yahoo (for the present) and gives Microsoft a better position to gain a healthy share of the advertising revenues. The [...]
Jerry Yang’s Era at Yahoo Ends with a Loss
Posted by scamboy on January 28th, 2009
Will Carol A. Bartz sell Yahoo’s search business to Microsoft? Analysts asked the question time and again after Ms. Bartz delivered Yahoo’s financial results to Wall Street for the first time since becoming chief executive earlier this month. Time and again, Ms. Bartz said she had not yet made up her mind. If anything, Ms. [...]
Yahoo picks Carol Bartz as new CEO
Posted by scamboy on January 14th, 2009
It didn’t take long for Carol Bartz, Yahoo Inc.’s new chief executive, to demonstrate that her style will differ dramatically from that of her predecessor — Jerry Yang, the genial, soft-spoken co-founder of the struggling Internet company. Less than an hour after Yahoo announced her hiring late Tuesday, Bartz was vowing to ensure the company [...]
Yahoo’s e-mail to become more “social”
Posted by scamboy on December 16th, 2008
Yahoo Inc. has finally started to roll out new features designed to make its e-mail service more like the popular online hangouts Facebook and MySpace, following through on a promise made nearly a year ago. With the additions announced Monday, Yahoo’s roughly 275 million e-mail users will have the option of setting up their accounts [...]
Yahoo! to cut 10% jobs
Posted by scamboy on October 23rd, 2008
Yahoo was hurting long before the financial crisis got everyone worried about a global recession. Now its pain has become more acute. Yahoo said Tuesday that it would lay off at least 10 percent of its 15,000 workers as it tries to bring down its expenses. It said reduced marketing budgets had taken a bite [...]
