(News) Yahoo recently expanded the list of products that can't be advertised on its search engine, but it appears the company could be more stringent in enforcing its ad rejection policies.
(News) It's a good thing Yahoo Taiwan bought Wretch.cc last year: the Web site, which offers free blogs, picture and video posting and other applications to users, just swiped the top Internet ranking on the island away from its owner's portal.
(News) Yahoo is establishing a lab in Bangalore, India, where the company already has research and development (R&D) operations. While the current R&D done by Yahoo in India is focused on new products and engineering, the focus of the new lab will be on long-term research, a spokeswoman for the company said Tuesday.
(News) Yahoo and at least one subsidiary face their second major lawsuit by Chinese dissidents claiming the company aided Chinese authorities by handing over e-mails and other electronic communications that ended up landing one plaintiff in jail.
(News) Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang cited the growing online advertising market and his company's position to take advantage of that growth as reasons for shareholders to reject Microsoft's acquisition bid, he said in a letter to shareholders Wednesday.
(News) People with a Yahoo user name and password will be able to use that ID information to access non-Yahoo Web sites that support the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework, reducing the amount of different log-in information people need to create, remember and enter online.
(News) Users of Yahoo Search may soon be able to do a structured search around select terms, rather than navigate through a large number of search results.
(News) Jailed Chinese dissidents have settled a lawsuit they filed earlier this year against Yahoo Inc. in which they alleged the Internet company should be held accountable for their imprisonment and torture.
(News) Yahoo aided the Chinese government in the arrest of a journalist, then its general counsel deliberately or negligently mislead the U.S. Congress about the company's role during 2006 testimony, a senior lawmaker charged Tuesday.
(News) Yahoo, disconcertingly unable to develop a popular social networking site, will try to accentuate the social networking capabilities of Yahoo Messenger when it releases on Tuesday a beta upgrade of this widely used instant messaging service.
(News) Yahoo Inc. held Open Hack Day October 5 and 6 in Bangalore, India, in a bid to build an ecosystem of external developers familiar with the company's technologies.
(News) The latest version of Yahoo Inc.'s search engine senses when people are trying to find the right keywords and offers suggestions, an improvement the company says reduces "search fatigue."
(News) Yahoo Inc. has agreed to buy Zimbra Inc., a privately held company whose Web hosted collaboration and messaging suite is considered a successful example of the software-as-a-service model (SAAS).
(News) As if Yahoo Inc. didn't have enough trouble already in social networking, a company employee tipped a New York Times reporter by mistake about a new, unannounced service called Yahoo Mash.
(News) Yahoo Inc. has shaken up its top management ranks once again, as the struggling Internet giant continues tweaking its organizational structure to boost advertising sales, its main source of revenue.
(News) A U.S. congressional committee plans to investigate whether or not Yahoo Inc. lied during testimony over its role in a human rights case in China that sent journalist Shi Tao to jail for 10 years.
(News) Yahoo Inc. suffered availability problems on Friday that affected its [home page] as well as other of its Web sites and services for a sustained period of time.
(News) News Corp. recently discussed swapping its MySpace social-networking site in exchange for a large stake in Yahoo Inc., according to published reports.
(News) Yahoo Inc. is seeking to reassure carriers that it isn't trying to cut them out of the loop with its mobile content services, even as it rolls out new mobile services for customers.
(News) Yahoo Japan Corp. replaced a Sony Corp.-affiliated music download service with Apple Inc.'s iTunes Music Store on Thursday as the default music store on Yahoo Music Japan.
(News) Yahoo Inc. is making APIs (application programming interfaces) available for external developers so that they can build tools and applications for its new Panama search advertising platform.
(News) Yahoo Inc. introduced Wednesday evening a new browser-based version of its Messenger instant messaging service, so that users can access their accounts without needing the PC application on the machine they're using.
(News) The wife of an imprisoned Chinese dissident has sued Yahoo Inc. for divulging information about her husband's Internet activity, which allegedly led to his arrest and torture.
(News) Yahoo Inc. must leverage its multiple Web sites and services to gain a stronger position in social networking, a company executive said Wednesday.
(News) Yahoo Inc.'s new search marketing system continues to gain momentum with an announcement that Viacom Inc. plans to use the system on all of its 33 Web sites.
(News) Yahoo Inc. is quietly testing a search engine which users can customize by adding, removing and rearranging components, suggesting that the company may plan to make it easier for users to tailor search sites to reflect their interests.
(News) Yahoo Inc. is opening up its Web mail platform to external developers, so that they can create plug-ins, utilities and applications for the popular Yahoo Mail service.
(News) Yahoo Inc.'s Hong Kong subsidiary did not violate the territory's Personal Data Ordinance when it turned over e-mail records that allegedly led to the arrest and detention of journalist Shi Tao in China, the Hong Kong government arm charged with protecting personal data said Wednesday.
(News) Flickr, the lauded photo management and sharing site, recently celebrated its third anniversary and IDG News Service had an opportunity to chat with co-founder and general manager Stewart Butterfield about Flickr's growth in size and quality, its status as a Yahoo Inc. company, near and long-term plans, as well as peanut butter.
(News) Yahoo Inc. has started testing a social-network component for Yahoo Answers, a search engine in which people post questions and answers that has become a highly popular service for the Sunnyvale, California, company.
(News) Yahoo Inc.'s My Yahoo service, which lets users aggregate content and services on a single Web page, will soon get a significant upgrade, the company's chief executive officer said Tuesday.
(News) Yahoo Inc. is schmoozing mobile phone operators at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona in the hopes of enlisting partners for its new mobile search services.
