Yahoo proved this week that it is very easy to go from patent defense to patent troll. In today’s lawsuit happy climate it is common practice for companies to stockpile patents to be used in defense of their work. With …

In perhaps one of the greatest examples of a need for a sarcasm font, Mark Cuban rants in his blog about the ridiculousness of the U.S. Patent system. To put it mildly, Cuban is fed up. He rails a system …

On Tuesday, March 13th, I learned about a new update to Yahoo Messenger. As an avid user of this messaging system, I was excited to test it out and to see what changes they have unveiled, because it has been …

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake rocked northeastern Japan today, causing the Japanese Meteorological Agency to issue a tsunami warning. It struck about 170 miles off the east coast. A spokesman for Tohoku Electric Power, which operates two nuclear power plants in …

At Gigaom.com, Om Malik is preparing to get the inside scoop on the Yahoo v. Facebook suit. According to Malik, Facebook is getting ready to fight Yahoo back, citing “sources close to Facebook.” While the response isn’t fully formulated, the …

After numerous threats, Yahoo! has sued Facebook for infringing on 10 of its patents, in what many are calling a bald-faced attempt to jockey more shares of the company’s IPO into their own pockets. The patents in question are broad …

Yahoo! has done as promised by filing suit today in California Federal Court against the social media giant. Facebook recently stated in its IPO filing that Yahoo! had threatened suit if they did not come to terms on a licensing …

It’s always been an uphill battle for Bing, trying to gain search market share, but it doesn’t help when search giant Google’s market share grows too. And for as much fuss that has been made in the media about Google’s …

Yahoo! debuts some original comedy web shows today featuring some famous comedians and some up-and-comers in the web comedy world. The new shows include “First Dates With Toby Harris” featuring Seth Morris (Funny or Die); “Sketchy” (Electus/Principato-Young Entertainment), and “7 …

Yahoo has launched a new site called Yahoo Small Business Advisor with tools and information for entrepreneurs. It includes tips from celebrity entrepreneurs, such as chef Ming Tsai. The site was launched in beta late last year, but it’s apparently …

At the beginning of the year we reported that Scott Thompson, former president of PayPal, had been chosen by Yahoo to replace former CEO Carol Bartz. Now that he’s had time to settle in, it looks like Thompson is getting …

Yahoo turned 17 today. According to Barry Schwartz, the cupcakes pictured below are being given out at Yahoo today (Jennifer Davies posted the image to Flickr): Here’s some Twitter celebration: @YahooForGoodYahoo! For GoodHappy 17th Birthday Yahoo! @YahooInc 1 hour ago …

Yahoo’s had a rough go of it so far in 2012 and the company could certainly stand to take a more active role instead of reacting to how the tech world changes around them. So what better way to get …

I’m really skeptical of marketing stunts pulled by companies because they usually end being pretty lackluster. Yahoo! on the other hand has created something wholly unique and fun that I can totally get behind. Yahoo! announced on their mail blog …

Facebook mobile has been a huge success for the company and it has even brought the riches to mobile app developers who are on Facebook. James Pearce took to the Facebook developers blog to give some tips on how developers …

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, Hulu and Digitas are partnering on “Digital Content NewFronts“. During a two-week period from April 19th to May 2nd, each partner will host an independent event in NYC to connect brands with content. The events are …

As you may know, Microsoft and Yahoo have a “search alliance” which sees Microsoft powering Yahoo’s organic search results, as well as migrating Yahoo Search Marketing to Microsoft’s adCenter. The organic transition has already happened worldwide, and the ad platform …

Microsoft and Yahoo have begun the migration of Yahoo Search Marketing accounts in the UK, Ireland and France to Microsoft adCenter. This is, of course, part of the “Search Alliance” between the two companies, with Microsoft powering Yahoo Search, both …

Last year, Google, Bing and Yahoo teamed up to announced schema.org, an initiative to supporta a common set of schemas for structured data markup on web pages. Schema.org got some rich snippet markup for music a couple months later, which …

On Thursday night, Bill Maher will take the stage for his new comedy special, CrazyStupidPolitics: Live From Silicon Valley. The show will take place at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, but you can watch it live, and …

Yahoo! filed to be removed from a mass lawsuit against various social networking sites reportedly accused of hosting offensive religious content. The lawsuit in question has stood, despite Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal recently denying that the Indian government supports …