by editor at Monday, November 09, 2009 in Microsoft,Yahoo
Tags: premium advertising, Yahoo-Microsoft deal
Yahoo-Microsoft Deal
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The latest partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft is about growing beyond the US. The deal may go quite beyond the US keeping the worldwide significance of the partnership about to be kept growing and developing for more important projects to be undertaken in the joint venture.
The Yahoo and Microsoft tie-up is all about expressing some of the most interesting negotiation stages with the US exploration. The possibilities are endless with the new countries being about to raise some of the most important raised subjects regarding the new steps of they are taking in business.
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by editor at Saturday, November 07, 2009 in Music,Videos,Yahoo
Tags: Explore Music Albums, Explore Music Songs, music video search, Yahoo search, Yahoo Video search
Explore Music Albums and Songs
Photo by Yahoo! Search Blog
There have been many ways of exploring music through Yahoo search. This is really incredible to work with through video watching and entertainment related information gathering.
This can also bring up some of the most interesting results to your music related queries as well. This is great for any music lover who would just want to go deep into finding greater information on music. This explains a lot about the intent and explorative part of the musical scenario. This is going to be one of the favorites of all artists concerned.
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by admin at Thursday, January 22, 2009 in Yahoo
Tags: anti-spam team, pcs parts, Yahoo
Yahoo is sparing no effort to curtail spam on its Mail and now the company is signing a deal with Abaca to screen out the spam. The company will also use Return Path technology that will allow the companies to find out why and when their legal e-mails are blocked.
The details about this move can be seen on the Yahoo Mail blog that were posted on Tuesday.
Mark Risher, Yahoo’s anti-spam boss, says in this connection: “We have equipped ourselves with the latest anti-spam technology and by utilizing it we would definitely turn up heat on the spammers.”
Yahoo anti-spam team has also been using supercomputers that were consisted of thousands of individual PCs parts of their open source project Hadoop to detect the spammers. The Internet pioneer has also been teaming up with different top universities for research on this issue and trying to find some more effective ways to block the bad guys quite quickly.
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by admin at Monday, January 19, 2009 in Tech News,Yahoo
Tags: Internet pioneer, microsoft’s ceo, newspaper, software, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo’s ceo
The New York Times reports that Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, met Yahoo boss Roy Bostock this week in New York City.
An anonymous source, which was briefed about this meeting, has been cited by the newspaper, but no other details have been given about the conversation.
Carol Bartz appointment as Yahoo’s chief executive increased speculation that Yahoo may be getting agreed on buyout offer from Microsoft and about the possibility that search engine business of the Internet pioneer may be acquired by the software maker.
The news emerged after report of informal talks between Ballmer and Bartz after her selection by Yahoo board.
Jerry Yang, Yahoo’s stepped down head, declined a buyout deal with Microsoft and it became the cause of arising anger in many investors of Yahoo.
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by admin at Tuesday, December 02, 2008 in Yahoo
Tags: AOL, CEO, fabricated, market, Microsoft, WSJ, Yahoo stocks
The story issued in today’s edition of Wall Street Journal in regards to yet another Yahoo takeover attempt was incorrect. And unlike the story released by The Times over this weekend, which was almost similarly fabricated (with both publications News Corp.-owned), this one had direct effects on the market.
The story released today has Jonathan Miller, former CEO of AOL, out to pitch private equity fund for raising $28 – $30 billion in an attempt to acquire Yahoo.
Miller, in association with his partner at Velocity Interactive Group, Ross Levinsohn, was also holding the center stage in the weekend story released by The Times.
Sources reveal that while Levinsohn & Miller have been maintaining regular contacts with Microsoft & Yahoo shareholders and executives for months in regards to the future of Yahoo, they haven’t yet made any discussions with private equity funds for raising capital in order to take over the organization.
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by admin at Friday, September 26, 2008 in Yahoo
Tags: APT, newspapers, Online, Technology, Yahoo
Today is a welcome good news day for stressed Yahoo boss Jerry Wang, as he is going to launch the new APT advertising platform of the search engine.
This web-based system has been developed to make the process of buying, selling, displaying online ads simple. It has also got two of Silicon Valley newspapers on board including San Jose Mercury News and San Francisco Chronicle.
There is no word about Yahoo’s controversial advertising deal with Google in which Google ads will appear beside Yahoo!’ s search results with the help of new technology unveiled by the Mad Men star Jon Hamm. Click here to read more »
by admin at Tuesday, August 05, 2008 in Yahoo
Tags: Microsoft, Yahoo
At Yahoo’s annual meeting in California, Chief executive Jerry Yang succeeded to win the support of 85% investors.
However, some investors criticized the firm on not to agreeing a $47.5bn buyout offer from Microsoft.
During the meeting, a shareholder Eric Jackson of Ironfire Capital asked Chairman Roy Bostock to step down from the post.
“Bostock must do an honorable thing and resign from the board,” stated Eric Jackson, an investor from Ironfire Capital.
Eric also accused that Bostock overplaying his hand with Microsoft.
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by admin at Monday, July 28, 2008 in Yahoo
Tags: Microsoft Corp, Yahoo’s 2Q
Despite of 20 percent down in company’s stock price during his 13-month reign, Yahoo’s CEO is still optimistic as his message to his frustrated shareholders suggests that things aren’t bad as they have been depicted.
“We are doing just fine in a tough environment and tough economy” Yang stated in an interview with The Associated Press. “We are hopeful for a lot of good things ahead.”
However, if Yahoo’s 2Q results are examined, they don’t provide any reason for enthusiasm.
But still these results aren’t as alarming as many investors were expecting after Yahoo’s months long sparring with Microsoft Corp.
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by admin at Friday, June 27, 2008 in Google,Yahoo
Tags: Yahoo Google partnership
Google has been defended as a more desirable partner than Microsoft Corp. by the Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc.
Yahoo again confirmed about its planned advertising joint venture with Google and it targeted those reports that were narrating about a new deal with Microsoft. The report was based on information from anonymous sources and it emerged even Yahoo’s repetitive rejection of the Microsoft buyout bid that followed a war of words for almost five months.
In this Yahoo’s letter the best option has been declared to work with Google but the chances of the new deal with Microsoft have not been completely ruled out.
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by admin at Saturday, June 21, 2008 in Yahoo
Tags: Web News, Yahoo Inc
SAN FRANCISCO- There is a rapid thinning in Yahoo Inc.’s management after putting off a shareholder’s defiance intimidating to terminate in the firing of CEO Jerry Yang.
According to some reports that published by ALLthings, Techcrunch and The New York Times on Thursday, told that three more execs have decided to department. However, the reports were anonymously based with know-how of the goers.
The new migrants are: Qi Lu who was Yahoo search and advertising technology’s executive vice president, a senior vice president Brad Garlinghouse who involved in communications tools and Vish Makhijani who supervised Yahoo’s search.
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