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Yahoo!
hideYahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American public corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, (in Silicon Valley), that provides Internet services worldwide. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine (Yahoo! Search), Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, advertising, online mapping (Yahoo! Maps), office productivity, video sharing (Yahoo! Video), and social media websites and services.
Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995.
On January 13, 2009, Yahoo! appointed Carol Bartz, former executive chairperson of Autodesk, as its new chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors.
According to Web traffic analysis companies (including Compete.com, comScore, Alexa Internet, Netcraft, and Nielsen Ratings), the domain yahoo.com attracted at least 1.575 billion visitors annually by 2008. The global network of Yahoo! websites receives 3.4 billion page views per day on average as of October 2007[update]. It is the second most visited website in the U.S., and in the world.
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Would a Google purchase of Yelp draw regulatory interest?
Dec 21, 2009 |
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Google Inc.'s reported plans to acquire local-listings service Yelp may face difficulties, with regulators attuned to the Mountain View, Calif.-based company's established dominance of the Internet-search and advertising ...
Microsoft, Yahoo take next step in search alliance
Dec 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have signed off on their plan to team up against Google Inc. in the lucrative Internet search market.
Google, Yahoo zero in on Internet 'freedom' bill
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Google Inc. and other Internet companies have zeroed in on a resilient effort by a Republican lawmaker to pass legislation that could restrict their ability to take a nuanced approach to operating in "repressive" foreign ...
P2P comes to the aid of audiovisual search (w/ Video)
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Nov 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Current methods of searching audiovisual content can be a hit-and-miss affair. Manually tagging online media content is time consuming, and costly. But new 'query by example' methods, built on peer-to-peer ...
Yahoo!, Microsoft extend talks on Web search agreement
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Yahoo! and Microsoft have extended the deadline to finalize an agreement on their Internet search and advertising partnership, Yahoo! said Wednesday.
Yahoo! shuts down GeoCities
Oct 26, 2009 |
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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.
Google co-founder Brin prefers Yahoo! without Bing
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has expressed amazement at resistance to the Internet giant's efforts to digitize the world's books and lamented a deal to have Microsoft handle online search at Yahoo!
Yahoo profits rise in 3Q, will revenue follow?
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. has pumped up its profits by laying off workers and weeding out unpopular Internet services.
Google refines search results to counter Microsoft
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc. is giving Web surfers a few more ways to refine their search results, signaling its resolve to ward off rival Microsoft Corp.'s aggressive campaign to lure traffic.
Microsoft's Bing increases US search share
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Microsoft's new search engine Bing posted a slight increase in its share of the US search market in August, the third month in a row of modest gains, according to online tracking firm comScore.
Microsoft swaps pictures for text in some searches
Sep 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is testing a way to display some search results as galleries of moveable images instead of text links, part of its ongoing attempt to differentiate its Bing search engine from Google.
Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo! oppose Google book settlement
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo! joined an alliance Wednesday opposing the legal settlement which would allow Internet giant Google to digitize and sell millions of books.
Will antitrust probe keep Microsoft, Yahoo apart?
Aug 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. hope that by joining forces, they can tilt the balance of power in Internet search away from Google Inc. First, however, Yahoo and Microsoft have to convince regulators ...
Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon to fight Google book deal
Aug 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The fight against a legal settlement that would give Google Inc. the digital rights to millions of copyrighted books is starting to resemble a heavyweight brawl in the library.
Bing rings up search gains, dinging Google, Yahoo
Aug 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp.'s souped-up Internet search engine gained a little more ground on industry leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. in July, according to data released late Monday.
