For a change, Yahoo’s search business is grabbing some headlines this evening with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Search Pad, a tool it initially introduced in February, and is now slated to go live tomorrow. Search Pad lets Yahoo searchers take and save notes as they visit various websites (It automatically asks…

Not your typical targets for a music copyright infringement lawsuit: The big companies that run paid online music subscription services. But MCS Music America, which says it administers almost 45,000 tracks, is suing Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), and RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), basically saying that they left some seemingly…

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO)—which reportedly hired two outside firms recently to lead a major rebranding effort—has apparently decided to take some of that work in-house. The company said Tuesday it had hired branding veteran Penny Baldwin to fill the new position of senior vice president of brand management. Kara Swisher of…

Rumors about this had been circulating for a while now, since Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) never knew what to do with it from the start: it is killing the third-party publisher services from Maven Networks, the online video tech service that it bought early last year for about $160 million ($143…

In the midst of a weak economy that has cut into the market for job listings, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) HotJobs is turning to a variation of the pay-per-click advertising model. HotJobs will now allow recruiters to pay based on how many people actually apply to the jobs they list, instead…

At the company’s annual meeting Thursday, CEO Carol Bartz began her presentation by saying that one reason she had been intrigued to join Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) earlier this year was because, “It had more than lost its speed—speed of decisions, ability to attract new people to the site.” Bartz outlined…

In a Q & A with readers on Yahoo’s corporate blog last month, new Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz was asked what the “one thing’ was that she would like consumers to instantly associate with the Yahoo brand. She took 187 words to say that Yahoo “means a lot…

While a number of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Newspaper Consortium members have praised the company for helping boost ad revenues and audience reach, Hearst Newspapers is telling Forbes  that it’s concerned that Yahoo’s latest display ad product could actually be competition. This week, Yahoo introduced My Display Ads, a self-serve ad…

The list of former Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) employees who have recently decamped to Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is now up to 10. Yongdong Wang, the former Yahoo vice president of international search, and Knut Risvik, a former Yahoo chief architect, are the latest to join Microsoft, according to Seattle-area tech site…

The steady flow of executives leaving Sunnyvale for Redmond may have started up once again. Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) said Monday that it had hired Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) executive Kevin Timmons (pictured) to head up its data center services organization. Timmons was the vice president of operations at Yahoo, where he…

There’s been some surprising good news about display-ad spending this past month—and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is betting that more is on the way. AdAge’s Michael Learmonth has the details about Yahoo’s latest bid to turn its display business around. On Monday, the company will release My Display Ads, a self-serve…

Yahoo will incur a change of between $22 million and $27 million for the 700-person workforce reduction that it announced two months ago, according to an SEC filing late Friday. The layoffs accounted for about 5 percent of its workforce. In Q2, it will take a total pre-tax cash charges…

For websites still joining ad alliances like the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Newspaper Consortium and quadrantONE, the appeal is in the targeting and ad assistance—not the job listings. For the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium, HotJobs was initially a main selling point, but with unemployment currently at 9.1 percent, job ads aren’t so…

The new consensus on Wall Street about a possible Yahoo-Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) deal: Not so likely. In a report Tuesday, Collins Stewart analyst Sandeep Aggarwal puts the odds of a deal at 50 percent, down from 80 percent. He says that the likelihood of a deal has gone down in…

The possible sale of Yahoo’s HotJobs would be a huge blow for members of the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Newspaper Consortium, as the alliance is the only source of help-wanted-ad revenue for nearly 200 papers. But that’s apparently not deterring papers from joining. The newspaper alliance announced five new members—Freedom Communications’…

So far, the introduction of third-party apps to Yahoo properties has been talked about mostly as a way for the portal to keep users on its own sites for longer. But in a report today, Citigroup Analyst Mark Mahaney raises the possibility that third-party apps could provide a new—and significant—revenue…

In a report today, Citigroup Analyst Mark Mahaney presents Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) as a “turnaround story”—and his thesis is premised on the idea that in a “fluid” competitive landscape, flat market share is actually something to brag about for a big internet portal. Mahaney notes that Yahoo’s share of total…

For all the coverage of Yahoo’s new CFO, there’s been little discussion of his track record at his last company—semiconductor firm Altera Corp. It can basically be summarized in three words: continuous cost cutting. And that could mean more restructuring on the way for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) employees. At a…

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has once again gone outside the company and the internet sector to find a top executive—naming Altera Corp. CFO Timothy Morse to be its new chief financial officer. The announcement concludes a lengthy search to replace departing CFO Blake Jorgensen. Prior to joining the semiconductor firm Altera,…