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Yahoo is plugging its Internet radio service into CBS's webcasting network in a move driven by dramatically higher fees for airing music online.Yahoo's retreat from operating a standalone service, announced Wednesday, makes it the second major Web site this year to flee the rising royalty rates by hitching its radio operations to CBS. AOL Radio, owned by Time Warner, hooked up with CBS in June. Yahoo's radio channel, called Launchcast, will combine with CBS beginning in February. The shift broadens Yahoo's retrenchment from online music. The company closed a music downloading service and transferred its music subscription service to RealNetworks' Rhapsody earlier this year. Meanwhile, billionaire investor Carl Icahn says he would oppose a potential bid for Yahoo by former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller.
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via SiliconValley.com @ 12:12 4th Dec
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NEW YORK (Agencies): Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said Friday the US software giant remained interested in acquiring Yahoo's search business and would rather do a deal "sooner than later." "I think a search deal makes great sense for Microsoft, and Yahoo," Ballmer said in an interview published in the online edition of The Wall Street Journal. "I think I've been very open about that." "I think good ideas are usually better done quickly than slowly, so it would probably be better for both us, and certainly for Yahoo, if we were to do it sooner than later," he said. "But at the end of the day, that would have be something Yahoo would be as interested in as I have expressed our interest." Asked by the newspaper whether the Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft and Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo were in talks, Ballmer replied: "Th
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via Frontier Post @ 19:31 6th Dec
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Headup Semantic Web Plugin for Firefox Now Supports Yahoo! Fire Eagle Geolocation as well as Yahoo! Search BOSS Technologies; SemantiNet Already Supports Delicious, Upcoming and Flickr to Now Provide Unmatched Yahoo! API Functionality from a Single Product
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via Directions Magazine @ 4:24 9th Dec
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quarterbuck writes "While Google is saying that personalization is the key to search, Yahoo is taking a different view of the topic. Yahoo announced plans to retain user data for no longer than 90 days and to anonymize data. Even if Yahoo is not your favorite search engine, it is a good move in the direction of online privacy if it will force others to follow suit." Reader Mike adds "Yahoo did say, however, that it will keep some data for up to six months for security and fraud reasons, as part of some 'specific and limited exceptions.'"
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via Slashdot @ 19:18 17th Dec
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jon miller kung fu aol.jpgThe Times of London reports the details of an intricate pending Microsoft-Yahoo deal, in which Microsoft would buy Yahoo's search business for $20 billion and install Jon Miller and Ross Levinsohn to run the company. The concept sounds reasonable (Microsoft buying Yahoo search), but the price sounds ridiculous (Yahoo's whole market cap right now is about $15 billion). And a key player in the drama, Ross Levinsohn, says the whole thing is a crock.
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via Silicon Alley Insider @ 8:46 30th Nov
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Today Yahoo! Inc (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced the most popular searches, themes, and trends as part of its 2008 Year in Review (yearinreview.yahoo.com), as told through the billions of searches conducted by millions of Yahoo! users around the globe every month.
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via Press Trust @ 9:15 2nd Dec
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Today Yahoo! Inc (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced the most popular searches, themes, and trends as part of its 2008 Year in Review (yearinreview.yahoo.com), as told through the billions of searches conducted by millions of Yahoo! users around the globe every month.
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via IT Business Net @ 8:27 1st Dec
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Analysis The privacy gap between Yahoo! and Google is greater than you think. It's not just that Yahoo! will anonymize user search data 6 months before Google anonymizes user search data. It's that Yahoo! anonymization is less nonsensical than Google anonymization.
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via The Register @ 22:58 17th Dec
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What did the year 2008 look like for Yahoo searchers? Check out the list of top Yahoo searches to see what events, subjects, and people were on Yahoo users minds this year.
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via About @ 4:04 15th Dec
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Following a change in its privacy policy, Yahoo can now boast having the shortest user data retention policy among its peers. The company said today it will begin anonymizing computer addresses, search records, and other user log data within 90 days, "with limited exceptions for fraud, security, and legal obligations," in which case Yahoo said it would retain system specific data for no more than six months. Prior to the change, Yahoo would retain the data for 13 months.
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via Maximum PC @ 4:35 18th Dec
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There is a line in Web advertising between search and display ads, and Yahoo (YHOO) just crossed it. Sponsored ads that appear above or beside search results are typically text-only ads. But Yahoo is testing sponsored search ads that include brand logos, images, and even interactive elements. For instance, if you search on Yahoo for “eBay,” the sponsored ad on top includes eBay’s logo.
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via Seeking Alpha @ 2:37 6th Dec
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Arun Sarin, the former chief executive of Vodafone, is among those being considered by board members at Yahoo to take the top job at the internet firm, reports the WSJ. Yahoo’s directors are moving closer to a recommendation and have authorised checking references on a few key candidates, although a decision is likely to be weeks away at the earliest, said people familiar with the matter. Yahoo announced it had begun a search for a CEO to replace Jerry Yang last month. Yang, who was severely criticised by shareholders for failing to do a deal with Microsoft, will be staying on as a top executive and board member working closely with his successor. Sarin, after a 5-year stint at Vodafone, said earlier this year he would to return to California to consider working in private equity, among other options
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via FT Alphaville @ 2:18 9th Dec
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Yahoo Go, which just launched on the Blackberry Bold, offers a slew of widgets intended to help you customize your mobile internet experience. It may be particularly appealing if a Yahoo Mail account is one of the things you monitor, you like to see your friends' Flickr updates immediately or you have customized a My Yahoo account on your desktop.
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via Psion Place @ 15:09 7th Jan
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imageYahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) investor Ivory Investment Management went public today with a plea to the board to sell the search business to Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) for what it estimates could be $15 billion upfront. MarketWatch reports that Ivory, which owns a 1.5 percent stake in Yahoo, issued an open letter to the board urging it to salvage the deal with Microsoft “and not miss another value maximization opportunity.” Ivory’s proposal sounds familiar: sell search to Microsoft and then make Microsoft Yahoo’s search partner. From the letter: “We believe a search deal with Microsoft could deliver value to Yahoo shareholders of $24-29 per share, or more than double yesterday’s closing price of $12.19.”
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via PaidContent.org @ 18:42 10th Dec
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After the messy breakup between Microsoft and Yahoo, most observers never expected the two to get back together. But after a brief rebound fling with Google that eventually went sour, it seems as if Yahoo has been driven back into the comforting arms of Microsoft—at least according to the latest rumors. Over the weekend, news leaked that Microsoft was in new talks to buy Yahoo's search business for $20 billion, but the two companies aren't ready to discuss any possible deal just yet.
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via ArsTechnica @ 16:07 1st Dec
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Qi_lu_microsoftIs Qi Lu the $44.6 billion man? You'll recall that's what Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was willing to pay for Yahoo. In the wake of that failed Yahoo takeover bid, Ballmer on Thursday sent out this memo to the troops heralding his successful talent raid of Dr. Qi Lu from Yahoo, where Lu was Executive Vice President of Engineering for the Search and Advertising Technology Group. Lu will join Microsoft on Jan. 5 and become President of the Online Services Group, replacing Kevin Johnson, who jumped ship to Juniper Networks last summer.
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via USA Today @ 23:42 5th Dec
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Privacy advocates are taking another look at Yahoo's new three-month data-retention policy, which at first appeared to be a new industry standard. Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center said Yahoo is actually just modifying log data after three months and keeping it. He said Yahoo has confused the privacy issue.
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via Top Tech News @ 10:28 30th Dec
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Privacy advocates are taking another look at Yahoo's new three-month data-retention policy, which at first appeared to be a new industry standard. Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center said Yahoo is actually just modifying log data after three months and keeping it. He said Yahoo has confused the privacy issue.
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via Mobile Tech Today @ 20:22 21st Dec
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Privacy advocates are taking another look at Yahoo's new three-month data-retention policy, which at first appeared to be a new industry standard. Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center said Yahoo is actually just modifying log data after three months and keeping it. He said Yahoo has confused the privacy issue.
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via CIO Today @ 17:30 20th Dec
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Privacy advocates are taking another look at Yahoo's new three-month data-retention policy, which at first appeared to be a new industry standard. Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center said Yahoo is actually just modifying log data after three months and keeping it. He said Yahoo has confused the privacy issue.
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via NewsFactor Network @ 2:20 19th Dec
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Privacy advocates are taking another look at Yahoo's new three-month data-retention policy, which at first appeared to be a new industry standard. Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center said Yahoo is actually just modifying log data after three months and keeping it. He said Yahoo has confused the privacy issue.
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via Data Storage Today @ 2:21 19th Dec
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Privacy advocates are taking another look at Yahoo's new three-month data-retention policy, which at first appeared to be a new industry standard. Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center said Yahoo is actually just modifying log data after three months and keeping it. He said Yahoo has confused the privacy issue.
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via Enterprise Security Today @ 21:04 18th Dec
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wants to acquire Yahoo's search assets "sooner than later" to challenge Google. If a deal is made, Microsoft and Google together would control 90 percent of the search-advertising market, but it could hurt Yahoo's strong display-advertising business. Yahoo's board appears divided on the issue.
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via CIO Today @ 10:17 9th Dec
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Google has backed down from an online advertising marriage with Yahoo amid antitrust concerns raised over the partnership of the number 1 and 2 search providers worldwide. Back in June 2008, Yahoo opted for an alliance with Google, defying cries over a monopoly on the online advertising space from Microsoft and other rivals. Yahoo's measure was first and foremost a tactic designed to keep it out of the grasp of Microsoft, which had made an unsolicited bid to acquire the Internet giant in February 2008.
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via Softpedia @ 0:23 1st Dec
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