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…)

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…)

Struggling search engine Yahoo is once again in the news for all the wrong reasons after a suspect staff entertainment decision. The number two search engine has been accused of sexism by many commentators after arranging for a ‘performance’ from girls dressed in miniskirts and bras to take place at an internet engineers’ brainstorming meeting called Yahoo Hack Day. (more…)

Yahoo CEO, Carol Bartz has angrily asked the media to stop talking about the £47.5 billion dollar Microsoft buyout rejected by her predecessor late last year. The head of the number two search engine is apparently tired of hearing about the deal, stating… (more…)

Yesterday Yahoo confirmed that it will be trimming 5 percent of its workforce (675 jobs) in their third round of significant job cuts in 14 months. The company got rid of 1,000 jobs in January of 2008 and then a further 1,500 in October of the same year. The cuts however, will not be companywide. Yahoo will focus its streamlining policy on the hapless Yahoo product managers and engineers.

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Yahoo and Google have received criticism from some of the more patriotic US blogs and elements of the press for neglecting to upload a special logo for president’s day yesterday. The yearly American holiday, which falls near the time of George Washington’s birthday and honours all US presidents, was greeted by the two search engines with absolutely no fanfare.
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