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A chat with Yahoo s David Filo: related news

A chat with Yahoo's David Filo

David Filo, Chief Yahoo, Co-founder, right, listens to Andrei Broder, Fellow and VP, computational advertising, at Yahoo! in Santa Clara on Tuesday, July 15, 2008. (Nhat V. Meyer/Mercury News)

Yahoo! Announces New Privacy Choice

Yahoo! Inc. announced that it will offer users the ability to opt-out of customized advertising on Yahoo.com. This new option expands Yahoo!'s existing opt-out program for customized advertising served by Yahoo! on third party networks. Yahoo! announced the new opt-out capability as part of its response to a Congressional inquiry about customization sent to 33 companies from the House Energy and Commerce Committee. This new opt-out capability is expected to be available for consumers by the end of August. Users will be able to access the opt-out in the Yahoo! privacy center, which is linked on the home page and nearly every page on the Yahoo! network.

YAHOO SPURNS JOINT MICROSOFT-ICAHN BID TO REVAMP FIRM, ACQUIRE SEARCH BUSINESS

TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Yahoo Inc. said late on Saturday that it rejected a restructuring proposal from Microsoft Corp. and the investor Carl Icahn, and the Sunnyvale, Calif., Internet-services giant called on Microsoft to bid for the whole company. Yahoo said the Microsoft-Icahn plan, which it said would turn Yahoo's search business over to the Redmond, Wash., software giant and the rest over to the New York investor, was presented as a take-it-or-leave it proposition. "This odd and opportunistic alliance of Microsoft and Carl Icahn has anything but the interests of Yahoo's stockholders in mind," Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock said in a statement. Yahoo said that while it rejected the restructuring, it offered two alternatives: "It repeated its offer to sell the entire company to Microsoft for at least" $33 a share, and it "offered to nego

Yahoo Blocks Venerable Email List Over False Positives

RomulusNR writes "Yahoo has stopped delivering This Is True, Randy Cassingham's 14-year-old mailing list, because too many Yahoo readers have mistakenly or carelessly flagged it as spam. Yahoo readers make up over 10% of True's readership, slashing the ad revenue that keeps it going. And Yahoo doesn't negotiate with spammers. As Randy describes it: 'The yahoos... ask to be put on True's distribution, then confirm that request, and... then click the "This is Spam" button when they don't recognize the mailing or simply don't want it anymore. Yes, those yahoos have screwed thousands upon thousands of others who really do want my newsletter. Too bad: Yahoo is listening to the yahoos instead: they're blocking it. To them, we're "spammers" and no protestations from "spammers" count.

Yahoo Rejects Another Bid From Microsoft, Icahn

Last night Yahoo rejected another offer for its search business from Microsoft and investor Carl Icahn. The proposal also included conditions that would have required the replacement of Yahoo's top management and board of directors. This is not the first time Icahn has pushed for such a measure. Quoting: "Yahoo said in rejecting the offer it told Microsoft it was willing to sell the entire company for at least $33 a share and its board believed such a deal could be negotiated and executed before its annual shareholders meeting on August 1. Yahoo said it also informed the software giant it remained willing to negotiate an 'improved search only transaction.' Microsoft, however, rejected both offers, Yahoo stated."

Yahoo! Opens Up Search Technology Infras...

Yahoo! has introduced a new open Web services platform, Yahoo! Search BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service), which gives third parties access to Yahoo! Search Technology, including the ability to re-rank and control the presentation of Web search results, the company announced. Yahoo! Search BOSS, available now as an API in beta, enables developers and companies to build world-class custom search experiences and disrupt the search industry, the company said.

Yahoo Opens Search Technology

Yahoo has opened its search technology to third-party developers with Yahoo Search BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service). Yahoo expects BOSS to drive innovation and disrupt the search industry as companies build custom search experiences. Yahoo will look for ways to build revenue for itself and its BOSS partners.

Yahoo Rejects 'Erratic' Microsoft Search Bid

Yahoo's management on Saturday rejected an offer from Microsoft and investor Carl Icahn to buy Yahoo's Internet search ad business. The offer was initiated on Friday and Yahoo was given just 24 hours to make a decision, according to a press release issued by Yahoo.

Yahoo Rejects 'Erratic' Microsoft Search Bid

Yahoo's management on Saturday rejected an offer from Microsoft and investor Carl Icahn to buy Yahoo's Internet search ad business. The offer was initiated on Friday and Yahoo was given just 24 hours to make a decision, according to a press release issued by Yahoo.

Yahoo! announces New Privacy Choice for Consumers

Yahoo! announced that it will offer users greater choice in how they manage their privacy online by enabling them to opt-out of customized advertising on Yahoo.com. This new option expands Yahoo!'s existing opt-out program for customized advertising served by Yahoo! on third party networks.

Yahoo Rejects Microsoft-Icahn Search Proposal

Yahoo rejected another offer for acquisition of its search business. This time it was a joint proposal from Microsoft Corporation and investor Carl Icahn to acquire Yahoo’s search business in return for cash, a partial stock buyout and revenue guarantees. There was also an addition requirement for the complete replacement of the Yahoo board and executive management team. Yahoo was urged to respond within 24 hours and it was made clear that negotiations were not acceptable.

Yahoo turns down Microsoft/Icahn search bid

Yahoo late Saturday revealed that it has rejected a purportedly aggressive joint bid proposed by Microsoft and investor Carl Icahn. The deal would have seen both the Windows developer and Icahn buy Yahoo's search business and significantly restructure Yahoo to potentially improve its remaining businesses, including the replacement of the board of directors with Icahn's own slate and remove the "top management team" at the company, which most observers believe would include Yahoo chief Jerry Yang as well as others known to have opposed any of Microsoft's earlier offers for takeovers and partial buyouts.

Yahoo! Announces New Privacy Choice for Consumers

Today Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) announced that it will offer users greater choice in how they manage their privacy online by enabling them to opt-out of customized advertising on Yahoo.com. This new option expands Yahoo!’s existing opt-out program for customized advertising served by Yahoo! on third party networks.

Yahoo! Announces New Privacy Choice for Consumers

Today Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) announced that it will offer users greater choice in how they manage their privacy online by enabling them to opt-out of customized advertising on Yahoo.com. This new option expands Yahoo!'s existing opt-out program for customized advertising served by Yahoo! on third party networks.

Yahoo! Rejects Microsoft/Icahn Search and Restructuring Proposal

SUNNYVALE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, confirmed today that it has rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corporation and Carl Icahn for a complex restructuring of Yahoo! that would include the acquisition of Yahoo!'s search business by Microsoft. The proposal was made on Friday evening and Yahoo! was given less than 24 hours to accept the proposal, the fundamental .....

Yahoo! Announces New Privacy Choice for Consumers

SUNNYVALE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Today Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) announced that it will offer users greater choice in how they manage their privacy online by enabling them to opt-out of customized advertising on Yahoo.com. This new option expands Yahoo!'s existing opt-out program for customized advertising served by Yahoo! on third party networks.

Yahoo! Announces New Privacy Choice for Consumers

SUNNYVALE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Today Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) announced that it will offer users greater choice in how they manage their privacy online by enabling them to opt-out of customized advertising on Yahoo.com. This new option expands Yahoo!'s existing opt-out program for customized advertising served by Yahoo! on third party networks.

Yahoo Offers Compensation For Unplayable Music

DrEnter writes "According to this article, Yahoo will offer some compensation after they turn off their DRM servers and Yahoo Music customers' will no longer be able to access their music. The company said Wednesday it is offering coupons on request for people to buy songs again through Yahoo's new partner, RealNetworks Inc.'s Rhapsody. Those songs will be in the MP3 format, free of copy protection. Refunds are available for users who "have serious problems with this arrangement," Yahoo said. Nice to see them step-up and do something, especially without trading one DRM scheme for another."

Yahoo's Build Your Own Search Service

ruphus13 and other readers alerted us to Yahoo's BOSS, Build your Own Search Service. It gives access to Yahoo's entire databases for Web, image, and news search with no cap on queries per day and no restrictions on mixing Yahoo's search results with others or re-sorting them, and without Yahoo branding visible. From their blog announcement: "As anyone who follows the search industry knows, the barriers to successfully building a high quality, web-scale search engine are incredibly high. Doing so requires hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in engineering, sciences and core infrastructure — from crawling and indexing technology to relevancy and machine learning algorithms, to stuff as mundane as data centers, servers and power. Because competing successfully in web search requires an investment of this scale, new players have

Yahoo-Google deal comes under fire from Microsoft

A proposed online search advertising deal between Yahoo and Google came under fire at a US senate hearing as Microsoft claimed that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang had himself admitted that the agreement would hurt competition. Speaking before the senate's judiciary committee, Microsoft's general counsel Brad Smith recounted a June 8 meeting at the San Jose airport involving Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and other company executives during which Yang allegedly said a Google-Yahoo deal would be anti-competitive.

MS, Yahoo! and Google

The ladies and (especially) gentlemen of Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google trooped into the US Congress to inform US politicians about how good and how bad and how anti-competitive the Yahoo!-Google advert deal is; Yahoo! got things off with a joke by their lawyer Michael Callahan that was pretty funny but disrespectful: ''With all due respect to Google, we have every expectation of fighting them and winning;'' Brad Smith, Microsoft solicitor, explained to the congresspeople that if search is the key to the Internet, as ''many'' believe, then ''this deal will put Google in a position to own that gateway and the information that flows through it''; so it's probably fair to say that when Microsoft takes over Yahoo!, this deal will follow the dodo and other extinct species.

Google-Yahoo deal may up Yahoo`s pay-per-click ad rates, search firm says

Yahoos proposed search advertising partnership with Google could raise the average price of a pay-per-click ad on Yahoo by 22%, says search marketing firm SearchIgnite. But the impact on a given retailer will depend on the kind of search terms it buys.

Yahoo Inc. has rejected Microsoftâ?"s latest attempt to buy its online search operations in a â?take or leave itâ? proposal that Yahoo said would have dismantled its Internet franchise.

SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. has rejected Microsoft’s latest attempt to buy its online search operations in a “take or leave it” proposal that Yahoo said would have dismantled its Internet franchise.

UPDATE: Microsoft: Yahoo CEO Boasted Of Yahoo-Google Deal

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- A Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) official testified Tuesday that Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) boasted Microsoft wouldn't be strong enough to compete with a combined Google Inc. (GOOG) and Yahoo in the online advertising market.

Microsoft said on Monday that it might renew talks to buy Yahoo's search technology or the entire company only after the Yahoo board and its Chief Executive Jerry Yang were ousted.

Microsoft said in a statement that a buyout of Yahoo would depend on whether billionaire financier Carl Icahn succeeds in ousting the Yahoo board and Yang.


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