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Yahoo and ABC News Team Up To Share Content

Yahoo and ABC News Team Up To Share Content

Yahoo and ABC News on Monday announced a new plan that will allow the two media company’s to share stories and web videos from across their networks. Under the new partnership Yahoo and ABC News will reach more than 100 […]

Yahoo Gives Flickr an Instagram-Like Update Amid Internal Turmoil

Yahoo Gives Flickr an Instagram-Like Update Amid Internal Turmoil

By all accounts, Yahoo is not having all that great of a quarter so far. CEO Carol Bartz’s high-profile departure was a bit of an embarrassment for the company- Bartz was pretty candid when it came down the the cowardly […]

Yahoo’s Jerry Yang Sends Out Memo, Hints At Sale

Yahoo’s Jerry Yang Sends Out Memo, Hints At Sale

Yahoo co-founder and former company CEO Jerry Yang recently sent out a memo to the company’s board of directors which examines various offers to buy the company. According to Silicon Alley Insider the memo was also meant to assure Yahoo […]

Yahoo! To Launch ‘Livestand’ Digital Newsstand Product In The Fall

Yahoo! To Launch ‘Livestand’ Digital Newsstand Product In The Fall

Yahoo! will launched their personalized digital newstand product in the fall according to reports. Livestand will come equipped with a variety of titles including big box titles such as Forbes and smaller specialty titles in a variety of niches. Livestand is being built using […]

Interested Parties In Yahoo Purchase Coming Forward Once Again

Interested Parties In Yahoo Purchase Coming Forward Once Again

Yahoo is limping like a wounded animal at the moment and the vultures are swooping overhead, preparing to buy out the company as soon as that option is made available. According to the NYT: Several buyout shops and strategic investors, […]

Yahoo Set To Launch Barrage Of New Offerings Following Bartz Firing

Yahoo Set To Launch Barrage Of New Offerings Following Bartz Firing

Yahoo’s board of directors will attempt to take focus off their firing of CEO Carol Bartz by releasing a slew of new products over the coming months, a move meant to turn the company around while removing themselves from a […]

Yahoo May Sell Right Media

Yahoo May Sell Right Media

Yahoo is rumored to be considering selling Right Media, the ad marketplace it acquired for $680 million in 2007. According to a report at Business Insider, the sale may occur as “[It] doesn’t seem Yahoo wants to be a tech […]

Major Yahoo Shareholder Demands New Board Of Directors

Major Yahoo Shareholder Demands New Board Of Directors

Just days after Carol Bartz left Yahoo one of the company’s largest shareholders Daniel Loeb is demanded that the company overhaul it’s board because the directors have made “serious misjudgments” which have “destroyed value” for shareholders. Loeb is the CEO […]

Carol Bartz Resigns From Yahoo Board, May Lose $10 Million Exit Payout

Carol Bartz Resigns From Yahoo Board, May Lose $10 Million Exit Payout

Following her acrimonious departure as Yahoo CEO last week, Carol Bartz has resigned from the Yahoo board. According to a statement from the company, Bartz stepped down as a director on September 9, shortly after slamming the board in Forbes, […]

The Aol – Yahoo merger rumor, or how two really inept executives dance the two-step to oblivion

The Aol – Yahoo merger rumor, or how two really inept executives dance the two-step to oblivion

You want what has to be the biggest laugh of the week? Apparently there is a rumor floating around the tech blogosphere that talks are underway that one inept company, aka Aol, is going to acquire another inept company, aka […]

Bartz on Yahoo’s Board: They ‘F—ed Me Over’

Bartz on Yahoo’s Board: They ‘F—ed Me Over’

Recently dismissed Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz didn’t pull any punches or give her recent boot from the ailing search engine the corporate gloss-over in her first interview following the much-discussed firing. In a notably frank assessment absent of the typical […]

Why buying Hulu would be nothing but a mug’s game

Why buying Hulu would be nothing but a mug’s game

As my colleague James Johnson here at Medacity has written about a few times here, Hulu is apparently up for sale to any company dumb enough to fork over the money, and lots of it, only to quite possibly end […]

Yahoo continues its slide into irrelevancy as board gives Carol Bartz the boot

Yahoo continues its slide into irrelevancy as board gives Carol Bartz the boot

There is no getting around the fact that Carol Bartz’s tenure as the CEO of Yahoo was nothing short of tumultuous, but according to Kara Swisher at All Things D that time has come to an end as the Yahoo […]

Yahoo Announces Web-Only Lifestyle Show Hosted By Myleene Klass

Yahoo Announces Web-Only Lifestyle Show Hosted By Myleene Klass

Yahoo on Thursday announced a new web-only Lifestyle show called “Bumps, Babies and Beyond” hosted by Myleene Klass. If you’re unfamiliar with the former popstars work, she wrote the book “My Bump and Me” which the series is based off. […]