Quantcast
750×100
Read WebProNews
With Friends!

Yahoo Articles

Yahoo Chief Product Officer Quits Yahoo Chief Product Officer Quits

Although Yahoo Inc. has not made an official announcement on the matter, it has been reported that Blake Irving, chief product officer for the company, has quit. His resignation is said to have been planned ahead of Yahoo’s layoff announcement …

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson: Letter To His Employees Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson: Letter To His Employees

You’ve got it, Yahoo! officially confirmed their “real changes” and huge restructuring and downsizing of the internet giant today. Now, Scott Thompson CEO of Yahoo has issued a letter to his employees regarding the changes at Yahoo, obtained by the …

New Publishing Feature for Yahoo! Stores New Publishing Feature for Yahoo! Stores

In the summer of 2011, Yahoo! released an incremental publishing feature on certain Yahoo! pilot stores. It has been announced that this same publishing feature will be applied to all Yahoo! Merchant Solutions and Yahoo! Store accounts, in phases beginning …

Yahoo Axes Their Workforce Today! [Updated] Yahoo Axes Their Workforce Today! [Updated]

Business Insider confirms that today is the day for Yahoo employees to find out if they will have a future at the company. Rumors have been circulating in Silicone Valley for months and for the past couple of weeks CEO …

Facebook to Countersue Yahoo With Their Own Patents Facebook to Countersue Yahoo With Their Own Patents
· 1

Facebook is not only defending itself against the patent infringement lawsuit filed by Yahoo last month, they are taking the offensive with their own suit. In a lawsuit filed today, Facebook accuses Yahoo of violating ten of their patents including …

Yahoo Offers Four Options For Following The 2012 MLB Season Yahoo Offers Four Options For Following The 2012 MLB Season
· 2

Baseball season is right around the corner, and with it comes several great new ways to keep up with what your favorite team is doing this year. In February, as Spring Training was getting underway, MLB announced the 2012 edition …

Yahoo/Bing’s Q1 2012 Financial Reports Yahoo/Bing’s Q1 2012 Financial Reports

It’s been three years since Bing started powering all searches through Yahoo! and the fruits of that partnership are beginning to ripen with success. While the two have yet to really rake away much of Google’s claim of the search …

Zillow and Yahoo! Form Advertising Partnership Zillow and Yahoo! Form Advertising Partnership

Looking for the largest real estate network on the web? Yahoo and Zillow have just announced an advertising partnership that makes them larger than their top two competitors combined. Their services brings together real estate agents and prospective home buyers …

Yahoo’s New Web Shows Geared Towards Women Yahoo’s New Web Shows Geared Towards Women

Yahoo! today launched the second season of its women’s slate of original programming on Yahoo! Screen. The second season includes three new shows: “Style Studio with Rebecca Minkoff” coming May 2012, “The Yo Show on Yahoo!,” featuring entertainment news reporter …

Yahoo!’s Mojito Going Open Source Yahoo!’s Mojito Going Open Source

Open source is the lifeblood of the development community. It keeps innovation flowing and developers on top of their game. Google and Microsoft are both pushing heavily into the open source realm. Yahoo! today announced they’re throwing their hat in …

Do Not Track Supported By Yahoo Web Analytics Do Not Track Supported By Yahoo Web Analytics

Last week, Yahoo announced that it would be implementing a Do Not Track mechanism across its global network by early summertime. The company has also now made a special point of saying that Yahoo Web Analytics will support this as …

Yahoo Layoffs and Restructuring About To Begin Yahoo Layoffs and Restructuring About To Begin

According to multiple sources, Yahoo is getting ready for a big restructuring initiative and the first part of those changes will be laying off a significant portion of their workforce. Yahoo currently employs over 13,000 people, but plans to slowly …

Microsoft adCenter About To Have 10,000 Less Cities To Target Microsoft adCenter About To Have 10,000 Less Cities To Target

Microsoft announced some new location targeting changes that it’s getting ready to implement in adCenter, which provides the ads on not only Bing, but Yahoo in an increasing number of countries. The changes are only coming to the U.S. and …

Yahoo To Launch Do Not Track Feature By Early Summer Yahoo To Launch Do Not Track Feature By Early Summer

Following the FTC’s final report on online consumer privacy earlier this week, which included support for companies to provide a Do Not Track feature so as to allow consumers to tell companies that they don’t want their browsing activity tracked, …

What The U.S. Search Market’s Been Up To Since 2008 [Infographic] What The U.S. Search Market’s Been Up To Since 2008 [Infographic]

On the Web, search is king. Even though a new Google Consumer Survey found that only 1 in 5 Americans knows what SEO is, just about everybody in the Web content industry not only knows about search engine optimization, but …

Yahoo Meme Going Offline on May 25th Yahoo Meme Going Offline on May 25th
· 1

Yahoo Inc. has announced today that it will take Yahoo Meme offline on May 25th, due do a lack of familiarity and user adoption. Yahoo Meme, a Twitter-like service, was launched in 2009 in a Portuguese-language version, and its English-language …

Will The “Next Web” Belong To Yahoo? Will The “Next Web” Belong To Yahoo?

Yahoo Chief Product Officer, Blake Irving, spoke about “the next web” (not the technology blog) at the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit last week. Yahoo has posted a “concise version” of his opening remarks from he event, in which he talks …

Fandango Grabs 22% of Hunger Games Ticket Sales Fandango Grabs 22% of Hunger Games Ticket Sales

Fandango, the online ticket selling service, accounted for 22% of the $155 million opening weekend gross of The Hunger Games. Out of all the tickets the company sold over the weekend, 90% were for the post-apocalyptic action movie. Fandango, who …

Yahoo! Names New Board Members: Proxy Battle! Yahoo! Names New Board Members: Proxy Battle!

Large shareholder have been unhappy with Yahoo! since it failed to close a deal with Microsoft back in 2008. The deal would have joined Yahoo! and Microsoft and, as many believe, made the brand much more valuable. Yahoo! is currently …

Yahoo Hopes to Combat Activist Shareholder Third Point Yahoo Hopes to Combat Activist Shareholder Third Point

The leadership at Yahoo thinks it can ward off a challenge from activist shareholder Daniel Loeb of Third Point, by aggressively courting three new board members to replace the five that are leaving. The internet giant has already filled two …

Mitel Hits Facebook with Another Patent Lawsuit Mitel Hits Facebook with Another Patent Lawsuit

Mitel Networks, a Canadian communications company, has sued Facebook for patent infringement. This comes soon after Yahoo! Inc. filed its own patent lawsuit against the social networking giant. Mitel’s suit concerns Facebook’s infringement upon its proactive features for telephony, and …