So it has begun. In the coming hours, lights will be switched off at an estimated 7,000 websites across the Internet as the web protests SOPA, an oppressive act that threatens to disfigure the Internet as we ...
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It's been a long drawn out melodrama but word is that it's official - Jerry Yang has called it quits by resigning from Yahoo's Board of Directors and any other positions that he held within the company. ...
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Yahoo continues on the decline and this time it's showing when it comes to search. New search numbers from comScore show that Microsoft's search engine Bing is now in second place for the U.S. search market. Google, ...
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Tom Hanks' long-awaited and oft-delayed sci-fi animated series Electric City will debut on Yahoo in four minute segments.
When all is said and done approximately twenty episodes of the show will debut online and each will premiere in ...
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According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo is on the hunt for new board candidates to replace "possible outgoing directors".
Citing sources "familiar with the matter", WSJ says that Yahoo hired a third-party executive search ...
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Over the last several years, Yahoo has had a bit of a rough patch. The problem according to many industry experts was the lack of leadership and vision. While that may be the case, Yahoo announced the ...
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As a person who basically routes their entire life through the internet- professional, personal, lifestyle- one of the things that gets me agitated about the whole SOPA brouhaha is how little the average web user is concerned ...
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The Yahoo Comedy Channel will soon hit the internet and to kick things off, Yahoo has enlisted the help of Bill Maher. A special Bill Maher stand-up special will air live, and free, on Yahoo on February ...
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Yahoo hasn't exactly had the most stellar performance over the past several years, but the company's recently started making a go at setting things straight - like the firing former CEO Carol Bartz back in September, for ...
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Over the past several years, Yahoo has been struggling to remain relevant after Google walked right over the company, handily taking the top spot for everyone's search engine needs. Couple that with a now vacant CEO position, ...
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When it comes to the online world and music you got to admit the music industry trade groups like RIAA and ASCAP are tenacious, stupid but tenacious.
Recently ASCAP has been trying to convince the courts that streaming ...
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Yahoo News and ABC will be partnering up to bring more stories to more people. Yahoo! will get ABC's global news coverage and ABC will get Yahoo's online audience in a deal that is said to be ...
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Jack Ma, CEO of Chinese Internet company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. says he's very interested at the prospect of acquiring internet company Yahoo, Inc.
When speaking at Standford University on Friday Alibaba's CEO told the audience that buying ...
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Major League Baseball (MLB) and Yahoo! announced the debut of MLB.com Full Count, a new online video offering that would allow fans to follow live MLB action throughout the remainder of the regular season.
Starting next year, MLB.com ...
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How do you search? If you are like the majority of people in the United States, you probably use Google. Yep, Google is still the number one search engine by a large margin, but new data released ...
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Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has been fired and like a bad relationship between two high school kids she was told of the break-up over the phone by Yahoo's Chairman of the Board Roy Bostock.
According to Bartz:
"I am ...
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An unnamed company is said to be after Hulu for an acquisition and according to the Company Town blog by LA Times that company is none other than Yahoo.
According to reports the offer wasn't solicited by Hulu however ...
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I'll admit it- I have a strong prejudice against certain email address domains and even occasionally try to convert people still using undesirable domains.
I don't know what this says about me (I'm sure it's not entirely positive), ...
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Here's a bunch of students missing their bus somewhere in San Francisco because Yahoo! installed a damn touch-screen videogame in their bus shelter. While giant video displays in bus shelters have been around for a few years ...
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ComScore today updated their Facebook and Yahoo measurements, revealing that Facebook has overtaken Yahoo to become the most trafficked site worldwide.
Facebook managed to bring in 648 million unique visitors to the site, while Yahoo fell 18 million ...
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Fans of social bookmarking site Delicious can breathe a sigh of relief today with news that owner Yahoo intends to sell the site rather than shut it down.
News of the impending decline of Delicious broke last week ...
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Yahoo has continued its integration of content producer Associated Content (AC) with a name change to the Yahoo Contributor Network.
The change of name will also see further integration of Associated Content's algorithm based content production into ...
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