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ZDNet apologises to Yahoo for Iran post

ZDNet apologises to Yahoo for Iran post

Yesterday, “Yahoo gave Iranian authorities the names and emails of some 200,000 Iranian Yahoo users, says a post on the Iranian Students Solidarity blog,” we said in a post, quoting ZDNet’s Richard Koman. “My sources indicate the (...)

12 oct. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Yahoo! Remains Enigmatic On Its Projects With Microsoft

Yahoo! Remains Enigmatic On Its Projects With Microsoft

Yahoo!’s CFO Carol Bartz indicated that a rapprochement with Microsoft was not a priority, but also gave clues on what such a decision could bring to Yahoo!. Last year Yahoo! refused Microsoft’s $47.5 billion offer. Then-CEO Jerry Yang, also (...)

4 Jun. 2009 | | NYFP

Yahoo Consortium moves into second phase

Yahoo Consortium moves into second phase

A major effort is underway by Yahoo and members of the newspaper consortium to promote the value of the behavioral targeting (BT) software that Yahoo is providing newspaper partners. Early results apparently show increased click-through rates and some (...)

5 mar. 2009 | | Terry Heaton

Should Yahoo buy the New York Times ? Puh-leeze

Should Yahoo buy the New York Times ? Puh-leeze

As everyone waits to find out how new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz plans to resuscitate the struggling Internet giant, in the meantime, the stress of watching Yahoo bungle one thing after another - such as coming within inches of a merger with Microsoft, only to (...)

28 jan. 2009 | | Mathew Ingram

Jerry finally steps aside at Yahoo

Why did it take so long ? That’s the only question that remains unanswered when it comes to Jerry Yang and his erstwhile leadership of the company he co-founded, at least as far as I’m concerned. It didn’t really make any sense for him (...)

18 nov. 2008 | | Mathew Ingram

Yahoo ! Open Strategy launch

On Tuesday Yahoo ! launched its Open Strategy, exposing Yahoo ! account data and social connections to third-party developers. Yahoo ! Open Strategy is the third pillar of faith announced by CEO Jerry Yang last year during the company’s rebirth. Y (...)

31 oct. 2008 | | Niall Kennedy

Yahoo : Deadwood or deck chairs ?

Yahoo : Deadwood or deck chairs ?

The trickle of Yahoo executive departures has turned into an all-out flood, it seems, with at least two more senior VP types headed for the escape pods, and another - Brad “Peanut Butter” Garlinghouse - widely expected to join the exodus. But (...)

20 jui. 2008 | | Mathew Ingram

How Did Yahoo Lose its Way ?

The rapid and alarming decline of the Yahoo Empire is sad and troubling. It’s troubling to see Yahoo go from being a vibrant and dynamic company into an entity that lacks a vision of what its wants to be and who it wants to serve. From acquisitions (...)

20 jui. 2008 | 1 comment | Mark Evans

Iraq First Lady Narrowly Escapes death ; Baghdad Equivocates on Role of Iran

Iraq Iran

A roadside bomb almost killed Iraq’s first lady on Sunday in Baghdad, striking her car and wounding three of her bodyguards. Bush is asking for another $70 bn. for next year, most of it for the Iraq War. Will the next president have the courage to (...)

5 mai. 2008 | | Juan Cole

Yahoo plans to reinvent itself

Are Yahoo’s plans reinvent itself to become yet another so-called social network-type thingie too little and too late ? That’s what eWeek is wondering. It’s, “refusing to wilt under Microsoft’s hungry gaze,” unveiling a (...)

25 avr. 2008 | | Jon Newton

Yahoo Wants its Groove Back

Yahoo is a fascinating story these days. On one hand, it’s the subject of a hostile takeover bid from Microsoft that may or may not happen depending on which way the wind is blowing, each company’s most recent financial performance (Yahoo - (...)

25 avr. 2008 | | Mark Evans

China uses Yahoo in Tibet riots

Pictures of another 20 Tibetans have show up online. Only this time they weren’t of men killed by Chinese forces when demonstrators protested an order to raise the Chinese flag over monasteries in the Ngaba TAP (Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture). (...)

21 mar. 2008 | | Jon Newton

Yahoo must help jailed dissidents ? families

Yahoo must help jailed dissidents ? families

It’s taken a very long time, but Yahoo has finally been forced to do something for two Chinese cyber dissidents thrown into jail for 10 years after Yahoo supplied information about them to the Chinese police. Yahoo has continually denied (...)

14 nov. 2007 | 1 comment | Jon Newton

Yahoo in new China dissident lawsuit

Chinese journalist Shi Tao, jailed for 10 years for sending an email to a US pro-democracy group, has joined Yu Ling, wife of Wang Xiaoning, another imprisoned cyber dissident, in suing Yahoo for its part "facilitating the arrest, imprisonment, and (...)

31 mai. 2007 | | Jon Newton

Yahoo ? boat-misser extraordinaire

Yahoo ? boat-misser extraordinaire

Eric Savitz at Barron’s Online has an item about Yahoo and Facebook, in which he quotes Needham analyst Mark May as saying that Yahoo may have missed yet another boat by not acquiring the social-networking site - in much the same way it had the (...)

5 avr. 2007 | 1 comment | Mathew Ingram

Google method to undermine competitors

Google method to undermine competitors

A few years ago, two major electronic mail players shared the world market: Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail. Recently Gmail announced the opening to general public making it possible to sign up without the selective system of invitations. Let us look back at the (...)

15 Feb. 2007 | | Alexandre VERNO

Yahoo gets some ink on its hands too

As expected, Yahoo has announced a wide-ranging deal with a group of seven newspaper chains (totalling 176 newspapers, according to the New York Times story) to join forces not just on help-wanted classifieds — that part of the deal that has gotten (...)

20 nov. 2006 | | Mathew Ingram

Yahoo, eBay, team up

Meet YaheBay. How’s that ? "Two Internet bellwethers team up in a ’best of breed’ partnership," is the way the Motley fool describes a deal between Yahoo and eBay who, it says, have announced a, "strategic alliance that will showcase (...)

26 mai. 2006 | 6 comments | Jon Newton

Yahoo ! unveils video sharing site, Finance redesign at analyst day

Yahoo ! presented its business strategy to analysts yesterday and gave the world a sneak peek at what’s to come. A new advertising system is code complete and currently undergoing some testing and, if all goes well, will be rolled out later this (...)

22 mai. 2006 | | Niall Kennedy

2005 The Year of the Digital Citizen

Mobile Phone Image of People Undergrond during the London Bombings

How blogs, camera phones, podcasting and videos are changing how we view the world and our relationship with mainstream news. Was 2005 the Year of Digital Citzen?

7 Jan. 2006 | | Annie Mole

Yahoo ! Mail RSS

The next version of Yahoo ! Mail includes a feed aggregator as a sidebar option. The front-end is based on Oddpost’s blog aggregation technology and the front-end code even includes Oddpost copyright statements and comments. The back-end is the same (...)

30 nov. 2005 | | Niall Kennedy

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