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AOL Chooses Yahoo!’s Right Media Exchange For AOL Ad Inventory Control

AOL Chooses Yahoo!’s Right Media Exchange For AOL Ad Inventory Control

Yahoo!’s Right Media Exchange has been selected as the program of choice for serving AOL ad inventory. The announcement follows the company’s Q4 2011 partnership with Yahoo. According to Yahoo: The inventory AOL makes available under the display advertising agreement […]

Steady Decline At Yahoo As Profits Sink Further

Steady Decline At Yahoo As Profits Sink Further

With Yahoo co-founder and ex-CEO Jerry Yang no longer with the company after 16 years and CEO Scott Thompson trying desperately to create better results Yahoo on Monday announced a 13 percent decline in revenue. The company’s Q4 2011 fiscal […]

Jerry Yang Resigns From Yahoo After 16 Years

Jerry Yang Resigns From Yahoo After 16 Years

Yahoo has announced that co-founder Jerry Yang has resigned from its Board of Directors and all other positions with the company, effective as of today. Although not coming as a huge surprise after the recent appointment of Scott Thompson as […]

Bing Surpasses Yahoo As No. 2 Search Engine

Bing Surpasses Yahoo As No. 2 Search Engine

It was a long time coming but Microsoft search engine Bing has surpassed Yahoo search to become the internet’s second most trafficked search property. When combined with other Microsoft owned properties users visited the site 2.75 billion times in December, […]

Yahoo Bringing ExclusiveTom Hanks Sci-Fi Series To Tablets, Internet Connected TVs

Yahoo Bringing ExclusiveTom Hanks Sci-Fi Series To Tablets, Internet Connected TVs

Yahoo is preparing to bring their first original scripted piece of programming to web and online devices and that programming will be none other than the Tom Hanks produced animates sci-fi series Electric City. Feature 90-minutes of animated fiction the […]

Yahoo Looks To Potential Netflix Acquisition, But Is It The Right Move

Yahoo Looks To Potential Netflix Acquisition, But Is It The Right Move

Rumors began circulating on Thursday that Yahoo! Inc., could make a grab for movie and TV streaming service Netflix, a buyout that would concede a good chunk of the online video and TV streaming space to the company. The rumor […]

Funny Or Die Teams Up With Yahoo News To Develop Satirical GOP Debate

Funny Or Die Teams Up With Yahoo News To Develop Satirical GOP Debate

With the 2012 election cycle currently witnessing the battle of the GOP all-stars (if you want to call them that), the team at Funny Or Die has decided to bring their brand of satirical humor to the masses with the […]

Yahoo Looks To Acquire Weather Channel, WebMD

Yahoo Looks To Acquire Weather Channel, WebMD

While the board of directors at Yahoo may be considering an outright sale of the company that hasn’t stopped acquisition rumors from surfacing in which the company could spend billions of dollars to acquire the Weather Channel and WebMD Health […]

Yahoo Has A New CEO, Hires Paypal President Scott Thompson

Yahoo Has A New CEO, Hires Paypal President Scott Thompson

The long wait to fill the shoes of fired Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is over and her successor is Paypal President Scott Thompson. Thompson will begin in his new role on Monday where he will enter the company during a […]

Yahoo Two-Step Authentication Finally A Reality

Yahoo Two-Step Authentication Finally A Reality

In an attempt to sully the attempts of email hackers Yahoo on Tuesday finally rolled out two-step authentication for better password control. Under the company’s new methodology if a device is not recognized as a typical login option the platform […]

Singapore Press Holdings Files Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Yahoo

Singapore Press Holdings Files Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Yahoo

Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) on Wednesday filed a copyright infringement against Yahoo! claiming that the company plagiarized the company’s various publications. SPH, owners of the Singapore Straits Times and various other publications filed their suit to fight a counterclaim filed […]

Yahoo Extends Facebook Stories Sharing, Hopes To Engage Longer With Readers

Yahoo Extends Facebook Stories Sharing, Hopes To Engage Longer With Readers

Yahoo on Wednesday announced the expansion of their Yahoo stories sharing feature via the Facebook social network. Originally launched for the company’s news section the sharing feature will now be included in 26 parts of Yahoo’s site including entertainment news section […]

Yahoo Raises Lobbying Expenses By 15 Percent In Q3 2011

Yahoo Raises Lobbying Expenses By 15 Percent In Q3 2011

Internet search and content firm Yahoo Inc. spent $620,000 in the third quarter of 2011 as they attempted to fight off U.S. lawmakers and regulators, an increase of 15% over the same time last year when they spent $540,000. Spent […]

Bill Maher to Launch Yahoo Comedy Channel With Stand-Up Special

Bill Maher to Launch Yahoo Comedy Channel With Stand-Up Special

Bill Maher, whose Real Time With Bill Maher on HBO has been doing well for nearly a decade with politically-based content and humor, is going to be heralding the launch of a new comedy channel on Yahoo with a February […]