Yahoo’s Top iPhone App Engineer Has Resigned
The Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) engineer who led the development of the Flickr, Fantasy Sports, Yahoo Finance and other apps on the iPhone and iPad,… Read more »
‘Powered By Bing’ Shows Up On Yahoo Search Pages — In Size 8 Font
Microsoft’s Bing search engine isn’t getting much branding play on the “powered by Bing” Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) search result pages, which are m… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08.18.10
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» Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) may be looking to buy CafeMom for $100 million. [AllThingsD]
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Microsoft Hires Former AOL CTO Cahall To Oversee MSN
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is shuffling the top management of its MSN portal, six months after rolling out a major redesign of the site. The com… Read more »
Yahoo Japan Buys Location-Based Mobile Ad Company Cirius
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Japan has purchased Cirius Technologies, the Japanese mobile ad technology company behind the AdLocal mobile ad network,… Read more »
Yahoo’s Premier League Video Highlights Go Live
For such a potentially beneficial addition, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) certainly isn’t shouting about its new English Premier League video highlight… Read more »
Yahoo Decides Not To Replace Sales Chief Bradford
Six months after sales chief Joanne Bradford left for Demand Media, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is finally filling the void left by her departure –… Read more »
Yahoo: Pageviews Weren’t As Low As ComScore Said
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) acknowledges that its pageviews are dropping– but not as much as comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) has said they are. In a press rel… Read more »
Updated: Yahoo Japan Chooses Google For Search
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In a hit to both Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and major shareholder Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Yahoo Japan says it will use Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to power… Read more »
Analysts Troubled By Weak Yahoo Sales
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The market is very unimpressed with Yahoo’s worse-than-expected results. The company’s stock is down nearly 8 percent, and in a series of re… Read more »
Yahoo Explains Its Sales Shortfall
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz acknowledged during the company’s conference call that neither the company’s search ad business or its di… Read more »
Yahoo Sales Miss Estimates
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) posted a 19 percent jump in display ad sales for the quarter, but that once again wasn’t enough to offset declining searc… Read more »
Gannett CEO Dubow: iPad App Will Remain Free, Ad Supported Through Q3
With advertiser interest in Gannett’s USA Today iPad app still running high, CEO Craig Dubow said that the app will remain free and ad suppo… Read more »
Gannett And Yahoo Strike Local Ad Partnership
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Gannett’s 81 community newspapers can hope to get a boost from a new local ad sales partnership with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). The deal also inclu… Read more »
Gannett Profits Rise As Revs Dip; Digital Revenues Rise
As it has for the last four quarters, Gannett’s profits rose thanks mostly to revenues from its local TV stations and continued cost cutting… Read more »
Barclays: A ‘Solid’ Q2 For Earnings, Display; Beyond That, Worries Linger
Earnings season is almost upon us and Q2 results are likely to be stronger than expected, says Barclays internet analyst Doug Anmuth in a re… Read more »
Yahoo Hands Off Real Estate Listings To Zillow
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is turning to online real estate marketplace Zillow to power real estate listings and handle some of the ad sales on its… Read more »
Yahoo Hires Ex-Microsoft Exec Shaughnessy As SVP Of Product Management
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In what has to be seen as somewhat of a coup for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), considering the list of high-profile executives that have left recently… Read more »
Quick Hits: Holiday Round-up
» MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) is looking to restructure its search ad partnership with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) by including Microsoft (NSDQ:… Read more »
Yahoo Starts With Three Apps For Android — Finally
It’s been about a year since Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) said it was making a big smartphone push by focusing on making applications for the various… Read more »
Yahoo To Spend Up To $3 Billion More On Share Buybacks
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At Yahoo’s annual meeting last week, CEO Carol Bartz acknowledged that “at 14, 15, 16,” the company’s share price was “low.” The company’s b… Read more »
Yahoo Tries To Set The Standards With Online Style Guide
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), which has spent much of the last year focusing on its media properties, will have a printed style guide to go along with… Read more »
Key Yahoo Search Executive Leaves
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) VP of search consumer products Larry Cornett, who was central to the company’s message that it remained dedicated to the… Read more »
The Quotable Bartz: Yahoo Annual Meeting Edition
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz got the typical — “your China policy needs reworking” — and not so typical — “you should go into polit… Read more »
Yahoo’s Winning The World Cup Contest In U.S.
Over a third of visitors to the leading World Cup-related sites in the U.S. are going to Yahoo’s site, according to Hitwise, which monitors… Read more »
Bleacher Report Taps Ex-Yahoo/Fox Sports Exec Brian Grey As CEO
Former Fox Sports Interactive exec Brian Grey has left venture firm Polaris Venture Partners to take on the CEO post at sports content site… Read more »
Yahoo Says Its TV Widgets Are Now Distributed On Quarter Of New Sony TVs
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is still fighting away at the connected TV market. The company says its TV Widgets — which let people interact with inte… Read more »
Yahoo Brings Very Big Ads To Its Log-In Page
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is bringing ads to its log-in page — which is among the most visited pages on its site but has historically been ad-free… Read more »
Starbucks’ WiFi Goes Free; Yahoo Content Partnership Opens Paid Sites
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Six months after McDonald’s attempted to woo Starbucks’ customers with the promise of free WiFi at its local franchises, the coffee bar chai… Read more »
The Yahoo-Demand Media Rivalry Surfaces In A Slogan
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The Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) – Demand Media rivalry is now apparently showing itself in a slogan. We reported yesterday that Yahoo had filed to tr… Read more »
Media General Extends Yahoo Display Sales From Newspapers To TV Sites
Media General (NYSE: MEG) has often credited its membership in the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Newspaper Consortium for helping to boost its online a… Read more »
Yahoo Calls Dibs On ‘Science, Art, And Scale’ Slogan
Watch out if you want to use a phrase like “Science + Art + Scale.” Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has filed to trademark the term, which was first used… Read more »
Former Yahoo Personals Chief Knocks The Match.com Deal
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Yahoo’s strategy of outsourcing a string of its businesses — including Personals — has some former employees rankled. Here’s an excerpt of… Read more »
Yahoo Pulls Beckham From Sidelines For World Cup Campaign
Poor David Beckham. Injured out of this World Cup, England’s icon is relegated back to his more frequent role nowadays of selling his image… Read more »
Yahoo Cuts Jobs In Its Search Group
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz said last fall that the company — which has had three major rounds of layoffs since 2008 — was “done” w… Read more »
What Yahoo Needs To Do With Associated Content
Matt Heist is CEO of High Gear Media, a vertical publishing company that focuses on automotive content from professional writers and enthusi… Read more »
@ CM Summit: Yahoo Wants Newspapers To Take Advantage Of Associated Content
When Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) execs appear at conferences, the main takeaway they strive to get across is the company’s commitment to local. In he… Read more »
Analyst: An Alibaba Group Bid For Yahoo Could Make Sense
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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has said publicly it wants to buy back its shares that Yahoo owns — but what if it did so by buying… Read more »
Yahoo Promotes Stata To CTO
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has made a second executive appointment to fill the seat left vacant by Ari Balogh, who quit in April. The company has pr… Read more »
Ex-Yahoo Bill Wise Named CEO Of MediaBank
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Former Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) exec Bill Wise is getting ready to take charge at advertising analytics company Mediabank, MediaMemo reports and p… Read more »
