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Can Marissa Mayer Really Have It All?

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Lisa Miller - Oct. 07 (Opinion) - Marissa Mayer, as CEO of Yahoo! is living evidence, since her move from Google earlier this year, that fertility, intellect, and ambition can co-exist and be a strong point.

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Iran chokes Internet at politically sensitive time

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:05:00 -0800

Dawn - By Afp - Feb. 13 - The strangulation of the Internet is making life very difficult for many Iranian businesses.—File photo Access to the Internet’s most-used sites and tools is being choked in Iran at a politically charged period, blocking communication channels for local

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Yahoo Sells Delicious To YouTube Founders

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

TechCrunch - By Michael Arrington - Apr. 27 (News) - Yahoo has finally found a buyer for long suffering Delicious.

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Here's What Happened to Delicious

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

ReadWriteWeb - Dec. 18 (News) - Over at Quora, Tripline founder and CEO Byron Dumbrill answers the question, "Why did Delicious fail?" Dumbrill joined Yahoo in 2006, about nine months after it acquired the bookmarking service, and his explanation corresponds with what we've been hearing for several years about its fate. Delicious was back-burnered while the company focused on Yahoo Bookmarks. It was a second class citizen, a fact that Yahoo tacitly acknowledged in its statement earlier today when it said that Delicious needs a home where "it can be resourced to the level where it can be competitive." Dumbrill talks about tha

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Facebook unveils new messaging system

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Computerworld - By Sharon Gaudin - Nov. 15 (News Report) - Swatting down recent rumors that it's launching an e-mail killer, Facebook today unveiled a new messaging system that will envelope e-mail, instant messages, Facebook messages and SMS. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched what he calls a "modern messaging system" to handle the convergence of different kinds of messages and bring them together under one social umbrella. The system, which has been in the works for about 15 months, is designed to save all messages, meaning users will have a history of their communications.

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Will Murdoch be tempted to buy Yahoo?

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Oct. 15 (Opinion) - I saw that suggestion floated ages ago, not least because of Murdoch's antipathy to Google. But the Reporter is now claiming to have a source who claims that private equity firms have pitched the idea to News Corp. It would involve News Corp rolling

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Australia attacked over internet plans

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Charles Arthur - Mar. 30 - US is also 'concerned' at plans to block flow of information and experts say state-controlled check will slow browsersAustralia came under fire today from the United States for its proposed internet filtering system, which, if implemented, would be the strictest of any democracy.A US state department official said that it had raised concerns with Australia over the plans, which are to be voted on by its parliament."We remain committed to advancing the free flow of information, which we view as vital to economic prosperity and preserving open societies globally," Michael Tran, a state department spokesman told the Associated Press."We don't discuss the details of specific diplomatic exchanges, but I can say that we have raised our concerns on this matter with Australian officials."Internet companies Google and Yahoo have already condemned the proposal as a heavy-handed measure that could restrict access to legal information.Australia's communications minister, Stephen Conroy, said the filter would block access to sites that include child pornography, sexual violence and detailed instructions in crime or drug use. The list of banned sites could be updated based on public complaints. But he declined to say what the US had told Australia.National censorship of overseas sites is becoming a trade issue. Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, told the Guardian last week :"Since services and information are our most successful exports, if regulations in China effectively prevent us from being competitive, then they are a trade barrier."Many countries – including the UK – use filtering systems to limit access to outlawed material: in the UK the independent Internet Watch Foundation lists sites internet service providers (ISPs) are asked to block. The list is secret, and frequently updated. In Germany and Canada ISPs use similar blocking systems; in Italy gambling sites are blocked.But critics say that the Australian plan, which has been proposed repeatedly over the past five years, exceeds what is necessary and strays into matters of free speech."Our primary concern is that the scope of content to be filtered is too wide," Google wrote in its submission to the Australian government, suggesting that the filter – which would be mandatory and state-controlled – would slow browsing speeds.The company said it already had its own filter to block child pornography."Some limits, like child pornography, are obvious. No Australian wants that to be available and we agree," Google said. "But moving to a mandatory ISP-level filtering regime with a scope that goes well beyond such material is heavy-handed and can raise genuine questions about restrictions on access to information."Lucinda Barlow of Google Australia told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation the proposal raised the possibility of banning politically and socially controversial material and went beyond filters used in Germany, Canada and Italy. Other critics say the filtering would put Australia in the same censorship league as China.Yahoo said the filter would block many sites with controversial content such as euthanasia discussion forums and gay and lesbian forums that discuss sexual experiences. Yet it would not block peer-to-peer file-sharing, nor prevent predators approaching children in chat programs or social networking sites.Conroy said his department would take the comments from Google and Yahoo into consideration before sending a proposal to parliament later this year.The US State Department sided with Google in its row with China over censorship when in January the search engine company complained that its systems had been hacked into in what it implied was an attack all but government-sanctioned by China. Last week Google moved its search systems to the Chinese island dependency of Hong Kong. The communist government responded by blocking searches from the mainland for forbidden topics such as the pro-democracy movement.David Vaile of the Cyberspace Law and Policy Center at the University of New South Wales said China and Australia had markedly different approaches to restricting the Internet."China's filter is explicitly about discouraging access to and discussion of certain clearly political topics," he said, while Australia's filter would focus on specifically restricted material.While some critics of Australia's filter have said it puts the nation in the same censorship league as China, Vaile pointed out that the freedom-of-speech argument used by American companies follows a legal tradition that other countries do not necessarily share.Yahoo and Google are accustomed to the protections of the First Amendment of the US constitution,which guarantees freedom of speech and elevates it to a very high legal status, Vaile said."In Australia there is no equivalent," he said. "There is no law that says you've got free speech. Having a lack of any legal protection for free speech for any effective restraint on [filters] is something that's worrying."AustraliaCensorshipInternetUnited StatesYahooGoogleUS economyTelecommunications industryPornographyCharles Arthurguardian.co.uk ? Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

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Can Yahoo Save the News?

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Larry Kramer - Aug. 30 (News Analysis) - As newspapers continue to struggle, traditional news-aggregation sites like AOL and Yahoo are planning to produce more original content. Are they the future of journalism?

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European standoff over search engine data

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

International Herald Tribune - By Kevin J. O'Brien - Oct. 05 (News Report) - Now, as the U.S. titans Google, Microsoft and Yahoo continue to retain personal data beyond the six-month time limit established this year by the European Commission, regulators say their patience is running thin.

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Google and Yahoo tread carefully in Beijing row

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By James Politi, Richard Waters - Aug. 22 (News Report) - Since the end of last year, the California First Amendment Coalition, a free speech group with ties to the US tech industry, has been pushing the Bush administration to launch a trade dispute against China on internet censorship. A petition the group has filed with the Office of the US Trade Representative argues that American internet service providers were being severely damaged by restrictions placed on internet usage by Beijing. The curbs violate several international trade agreements, CFAC says, including the protocol China signed when it joined the WTO in 2001.

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What Microsoft wants from Yahoo

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

TechUser - By Usman Latif - Jul. 09 (Opinion) - Microsoft's now retracted acquisition bid for Yahoo has been endlessly analysed in the media and myriad explanations have been offered for Microsoft's interest in Yahoo. Analysts have generally assumed the obvious that Microsoft made the bid in order to acquire Yahoo. Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, though, does not agree with this assumption. He has publicly claimed that Microsoft did not intend to acquire Yahoo. Some analysts have dismissed Jerry Yang's claim as self-serving, but this can not be so. As part of ongoing shareholder litigation, Jerry Yang may need to defend this claim in a court of law and could not have made the claim lightly. Besides, there is plenty of evidence that supports Jerry Yang's claim.

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The Oracle Collective - Yahoo Answers

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Virginia Heffernan - Jun. 29 (News Report) - In the two years since it was introduced, Yahoo Answers has become second in popularity only to Wikipedia as a reference site. Unlike search engines, it doesn't direct seekers to lists of citations, databases, entries and advertisers. Instead, the service delivers questioners to other people who simply like questions, matching inquiring minds with know-it-alls.

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Yahoo turmoil continues with loss of more executives

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Jemima Kiss, Mark Sweney - Jun. 21 (News Report) - The latest departures include the Delicious founder Joshua Schachter and Brad Garlinghouse, the search division's senior vice-president who wrote the infamous "peanut butter manifesto" that criticised the internet firm's strategy.

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At Yahoo, the Exodus Continues

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Miguel Helft - Jun. 20 (News Report) - The spate of departures leaves Yahoo's network division, which is responsible for almost all of the Yahoo portal, without its top leader and two of his four deputies. Mr. Lu is executive vice president for the search and advertising technology group. He oversaw engineering efforts for the company's search engine and search advertising technology. The departures have also affected the ranks of senior engineers and managers. Last week, Jeremy D. Zawodny, who joined the company in 1999 and helped start its developer network, said he was leaving. This week, Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, the husband-and-wife team who founded Flickr and sold it to Yahoo in 2005, also announced their departures.

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Yahoo urges rejection of proxy slate

Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Bizjournals.com - May. 23 (News Report) - Yahoo Inc. on Friday asked shareholders to reject a slate of directors that billionaire investor Carl Icahn is proposing. Sunnyvale-based Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), in a preliminary proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, ...

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Microsoft Revives Yahoo Fight Considers More Limited Deal

Mon, 19 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Robert A. Guth, Kevin J. Delaney, Matthew Karnitschnig - May. 19 (Special Report) - The move by Microsoft appears to be an attempt to stop Google from entering a search-related deal with Yahoo that's now under discussion and could be announced in coming days.

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Higher Offer by Microsoft Brings Yahoo to Table

Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Andrew Ross Sorking, Miguel Helft - May. 03 (News Report) - After a three-month standoff, Microsoft was in active merger talks with Yahoo on Friday, several people involved in the discussions said. Microsoft, which had threatened to abandon its bid or initiate an attempt to oust Yahoo's board, has increased its offer "by several dollars," one of the people said. But a deal was still far from certain. A person involved in the discussions said the chances of a friendly deal being reached were "still no better than 50-50."

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Murdoch's Role in Yahoo Fight

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Portfolio - By Jeff Bercovici - Apr. 12 (Special Report) - ...when Murdoch took control of New York magazine, muscling out founder Clay Felker in a move that drew national attention. Felker, who owned about 10 percent of New York's parent company, considered Murdoch a friend and ally, and appealed to him for help when his board starting leaning on him to improve profits. Recognizing opportunity, Murdoch instead went behind Felker's back and bought up more than half the company's shares. Felker, one of the magazine industry's towering figures, soon resigned.

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Major Yahoo holder boosts stake as board meets to discuss options.

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

MarketWatch - By Benjamin Pimentel - Apr. 12 (News Report) - The move [to double holdings to 10% of shares] made Capital World Yahoo's largest institutional shareholder...it will also likely give the fund an even more powerful voice in the merger battle...Capital World [is]... the second largest institutional shareholder of Microsoft, with control of about 3% of the company's shares outstanding as of Dec. 31. "That was smart," analyst David Hilal of Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co....I'm still of the belief that Microsoft is going to buy Yahoo and they're going to raise their bid. And I'm assuming they're making the same bet over there [at Capital World]."

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Gaming the 'net

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Post - By Peter Lauria, Zachery Kouwe - Apr. 11 (News Analysis) - Battle lines are being drawn over control of the Internet, with Microsoft on one side, Google on the other and Yahoo!, Time Warner's AOL, and News Corp. racing to align with one or the other.

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News Corp., AOL Pursue Yahoo Deals

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Matthew Karnitschnig, Kevin J. Delaney, Merissa Marr - Apr. 10 (News Report) - Yahoo Inc. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL are closing in on a deal to combine their Internet operations, a move aimed at thwarting Microsoft Corp.'s effort to acquire Yahoo, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday.

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Yahoo's New Video Effort Symbolic of Its Troubles

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

GigaOM - By Chris Albrecht - Feb. 16 (Opinion) - In addition to a redesign, new features to the video section include a 16Ã--9 player, larger file size limit for uploads, enhanced sharing options and in-depth profiles. The new look is clean and easy to navigate, and uploading videos is a snap. Yet it feels like a silo, devoid of a unified connection with the rest of the company. There is no real integration with the other divisions that could have made this so much more.

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How Will Publishers Fare Under Microhoo?

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

ReadWriteWeb - By Rajeev Goel - Feb. 14 (Opinion) - ... the Microsoft-Yahoo! acquisition process is likely to be bad for publishers. The lack of focus and investment that Microsoft and Yahoo! will have on the medium and long tail market will result in a slower pace of innovation and poorer monetization opportunities for publishers. In the long term, there is potential upside for publishers but the acquisition process, integration, and renewed product development will take a long time to sort out. The time frame involved reminds me of the old economics adage: "In the long run, we are all dead." How long might we wait until Microsoft and Yahoo! deliver?

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Yahoo's Rejection Pressures Microsoft To Mull a New Bid

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Robert A. Guth, Kevin J. Delaney, Matthew Karnitschnig - Feb. 11 (News Report) - The decision to reject the offer, reported Saturday, signals that Yahoo's board is digging in for what could be a long battle. The directors have been considering various other scenarios to avoid selling to Microsoft, including outsourcing its search advertising to Google Inc. to boost revenue and provide greater latitude to try to remain independent, say people familiar with the matter.

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Darwinian tech world makes lagging Yahoo ripe for harvesting

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

San Jose Mercury News - By John Boudreau, Mike Antonucci - Feb. 04 (News Analysis) - After just 14 years in which it helped launch the Internet age, Yahoo has hit "middle age" and faces the fate of many other iconic Silicon Valley companies, becoming takeover bait.

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