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Well economy slowdown means you get a new CEO and everybody else gets fired! Well not as bad but bad enough as far as Yahoo is concerned. In a press release Yahoo has stated that its Board of Directors has initiated a search for a new Chief Executive Officer. Jerry Yang, co-Founder of Yahoo!, has [...]

Satish Dharmaraj the Co-founder and CEO of Zimbra the open source messaging and collaboration services which was sold to yahoo for 350 million $ has invested an undisclosed sum in dimdim.com the open source webex competitor which was earlier funded for 5 M $ by Nexus India Capital in 2007 and then in July 2008 [...]

So it was just recently that Goose Fish Media Ventures (owned by Sidharth Rao - Founder of Webchutney) had announced the launch of two vertical ad networks in GoSinbad and Divanation. But now it seems they realized that having one network which focuses on verticals would be far easier scale.

So they have merged the two [...]

Perhaps the success of Orkut in India (compared to its performance elsewhere) or the growing Indian mobile Internet market, whatever be the reason, Yahoo has started what’s currently called SpotM - an India specific, web and mobile powered social network.

We have had a lot of stories doing rounds about Yahoo Buzz since its launch in early 2008. And now with buzz opening its gate to all sets of publishers, it has started creating some buzz of its own. The traffic that it sends to those who crack it to the Yahoo homepage is dizzying and well documented by now. However, as a regular publisher and Indian at that, I have some doubts about the benefit Yahoo Buzz can provide me.

The big news today is that Intel and Yahoo have partnered to launch a new interactive TV channel. I went WoW after reading the news. I have always believed that TV, as a consumer device has a lot more potential. Whenever I hear companies (or people) doing some innovative stuff for TV, I am hopeful [...]

Fire Eagle is a technology from Yahoo that lets you update your info about your location through your mobile or web, and share that information with many other web/mobile apps. For example, you can update the information about your whereabouts on Fire Eagle, and your friends can view it. May be, you can catch up [...]

Google is, undoubtedly, the ‘Giant’ of the World Wide Web. What originally began as a research project back in 1996 by two Ph.D. students has now grown into a full-grown enterprise. Who’d have imagined that a research project in the Stanford University would actually go on to become on of the Internet’s most essential products?

For months, Time Warner has been exploring options for the two sides of America OnLine (AOL), including whether to sell or combine the businesses in a partnership with other companies. However, the discussions have been held back by uncertainty about how revenue and liabilities would be split between the two sides, which complicated putting a value to the businesses.

The new design of the social bookmarking site del.icio.us surely looks more delicious. Moreover they have changed their domain address from del.icio.us to delicious.com.

 
Yahoo has once again rejected a new offer by Microsoft to acquire Yahoo’s search business. Previously Yahoo shareholder Icahn and MS CEO, Steve Ballmer had been discussing about various possible transactions. During the transaction Steve Ballmer had made it clear that if a new board were elected, he would be interested in discussing a major [...]

Let’s face it. No matter how hard Yahoo! tries, it is not surpassing Google anytime soon when it comes to search. Even though Yahoo still holds the number two position, just ahead of Microsoft, it is still years away from what Google has established itself as.
 
Now, in an effort to try and boost its search-ad [...]

The US Department of Justice plans to launch a formal antitrust investigation on the Yahoo-Google advertising deal, which was signed last month. According to the deal, Google will have its advertising displayed on search queries on Yahoo’s sites, which would earn Yahoo upto $800 million a year for four years.

OK, all the SEO advices apart, I have always maintained that the best looking websites that I have ever seen were all Flash websites. Flash is a tricky tool, if used well, it can create wonders for your website, but if not handled properly, it can completely ruin the experience. Many of the so-called experts in web have, at times, offered their opinions on how a particular website is doomed just because it used Flash. Time for all of them to eat the humble pie.

Have you tried to create a new email id on Yahoo recently? How often have you gotten frustrated while getting yourself registered on a popular web portal just because every username that input, already seems to exist in the database? Well, in its process to combat similar issues, Yahoo has introduced the Ymail.com email domain and reintroduced RocketMail.com.