Search experts Yahoo have hit the headlines this week, following a series of rumours surrounding news of an alleged takeover bid being in the pipeline. (more…)

Yahoo! has managed to boost their association with football even further by convincing some of the biggest names in world football to provide content for them during the upcoming World Cup. (more…)

Yahoo! is set to launch new features that will push the integration of Yahoo.com and Yahoo! Mail with Facebook, the main aim behind the new features will be to encourage users to post actions taken on Yahoo! sites and other associated services – such as photography favourite Flickr – onto their Facebook wall. (more…)

Nokia and Yahoo! announced on Monday a strategic alliance around e-mail, mapping and instant messaging services. (more…)

After adding significant numbers to its news staff in the last few months, Yahoo! News is now looking to further solidify its dominance as number one location for online news, in a massive signal of intent Yahoo! have acquired freelance news website Associated Content. (more…)

New figures released by ComScore have revealed that Yahoo! and Bing have had a good month of April as both companies have gained some ground on Google in the search engine war. (more…)

Yahoo! have scored a major coup in their battle with Google and Microsoft by landing an exclusive deal with the Premier League to feature highlights of the games online in a deal that will run for customary 3 year period until 2013. (more…)

Apple has revealed that their profits gave almost doubled after huge sales of the iPhone in the last year. (more…)

The injection of social networking services into their own products seems to be a common theme amongst the internet’s big players. The integration of these kinds of services has become more and more common this year as ‘the big three’ (Yahoo, Microsoft and Google) all look to reach out to the burgeoning social networking community. (more…)

Apple rivals Yahoo have this week released two brand new Apps for the iPhone. No prizes for guessing that they are both search related applications that will of course compete with similar offerings from Google and Microsoft. (more…)

It would appear that Microsoft’s relentless marketing of its Bing search engine is beginning to pay off at the expense of Yahoo. The last couple of months have seen Microsoft release a number of advertisements in the UK as well as a lucrative sponsorship deal with The Simpsons on Channel 4 in the hope of increasing the number of users flocking to Bing. (more…)

Everyone enjoys a good top 10 list, there is just something about them that inspires interest. Yahoo, habitual list makers have released an interesting list of the top 10 news searches made online in the last 15 years. (more…)

After you have purchased your shopping at Sainsbury’s and the cashier habitually asks you “do you have a Nectar card”?. Have you ever found yourself wondering what the actual point of them is? Or whether or not the so called ‘benefits’ are worth the hassle of filling out a form or shuffling around your bag/wallet looking for the card? (more…)

A deal struck by two online superpowers, Microsoft and Yahoo has been cleared by European Union and US regulators. First announced in July 2009, clearance by regulators will see Microsoft allowed to buy Yahoo’s internet search and search advertisement business. This move comes as Microsoft attempt to increase their share in the Google dominated online search engine market. (more…)