http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Yahoo! on Monday closed GeoCities, a free Web hosting service that it purchased for over three billion dollars at the height of the dot-com boom. http://www.physorg.com/news175798207.html Technology Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:52:04 EST news175798207 (AP) -- Activist investor Carl Icahn has decided his work is done at Yahoo Inc. after muscling his way on to the slumping Internet company's board nearly 15 months ago. http://www.physorg.com/news175584428.html Technology Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:00:02 EST news175584428 (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. director Maggie Wilderotter plans to step down from the slumping Internet company's board at the end of this year. The resignation will leave Yahoo with 11 directors. http://www.physorg.com/news173123390.html Technology Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:00:01 EST news173123390 (AP) -- Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. is scheduled to report its second-quarter results after the stock market closes Tuesday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period. http://www.physorg.com/news167303560.html Technology Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:13:48 EST news167303560 Yahoo Inc. shares rose 4 percent Friday amid speculation it will team up with Microsoft Corp. in an online search advertising partnership aimed at mounting a more serious challenge to Google Inc. http://www.physorg.com/news167070770.html Technology Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:33:40 EST news167070770 (AP) -- Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz echoed the turnaround promises of her predecessors as she presided over the first shareholder meeting since her hiring, yet she left little doubt the slumping Internet company's new boss isn't the same as the old bosses. http://www.physorg.com/news165170772.html Technology Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:46:40 EST news165170772 (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. limited co-founder Jerry Yang's 2008 compensation package to his customary $1 salary during his final year as chief executive, a tumultuous reign that unraveled after he rebuffed Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion bid to buy the Internet company. http://www.physorg.com/news160312282.html Technology Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:11:49 EST news160312282 Bob Pease is a genuine Silicon Valley rock star who I never would have heard of had he not lost his job, or left his job. It's not entirely clear which. http://www.physorg.com/news159702678.html Technology Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:51:53 EST news159702678 Microsoft and Yahoo! have held "early discussions" about possible Internet search and advertising partnerships, a leading Silicon Valley technology website reported on Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news158592970.html Technology Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:36:40 EST news158592970 (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is still signaling an interest in a deal to buy part of Yahoo Inc. http://www.physorg.com/news156682317.html Technology Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:52:28 EST news156682317 Soon after he was named chief executive of Yahoo, Jerry Yang turned to Steve Jobs for advice. http://www.physorg.com/news152773916.html Technology Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:12:28 EST news152773916 Many products have numbers attached: megapixels for cameras, wattage ratings for stereos, cotton counts for sheets. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research shows that consumers are heavily influenced by quantitative specifications, even meaningless ones. http://www.physorg.com/news148563866.html Other Sciences Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:44:26 EST news148563866 (PhysOrg.com) -- A Florida State University researcher who uses high-powered computers to map the workings of proteins has uncovered a mechanism that gives scientists a better understanding of how evolution occurs at the molecular level. http://www.physorg.com/news140261168.html Biology Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:26:08 EST news140261168 More than a quarter of a million women have been sold as wives and baby-makers in South East Asia, but they are getting a raw deal in health care and social inclusion. http://www.physorg.com/news135508058.html Medicine & Health Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:07:38 EST news135508058 In a first for Australia, carbon dioxide (CO2) has been captured from power station flue gases in a post-combustion-capture (PCC) pilot plant at Loy Yang Power Station in Victoria`s Latrobe Valley. http://www.physorg.com/news134830563.html Technology Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:56:03 EST news134830563