Yahoo seems to be having trouble keeping its Asian partners happy. After South Korean and Japanese partners announced plans to ditch the Internet giant last month, Alibaba now says it may reconsider its partnership as well.
In a conversation with DailyFinance, Google co-founder Sergey Brin summarizes the future of the Internet behemoth in very simple terms: More searches more potential revenue = happy investors.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has sued tech titans like Google, Apple, eBay and Facebook for patent infringement, alleging they were utilizing technologies developed by a lab that he had invested in.
In just one and a half years, Foursquare has taken social networking to a new level by offering geo-location services that allow users to notify their friends about where they are shopping, eating or drinking. And it hasn't gone unnoticed. CEO Dennis Crowley shares his thoughts on the recent launch of geo-location application Facebook Places.
Carol Bartz has been running Yahoo for 18 months, and some investors are getting impatient. Revenue growth has been poor as Yahoo has been outpaced by the likes of Google and Facebook. If things don't improve soon, Bartz could be forced out.
On a conference call to discuss IAC's second-quarter earnings, Barry Diller, the web company's chairman, at times sounded like he was taking personal responsibility for the failure to turn Ask.com into a viable alternative to Google.
Yahoo's domestic page views were under reported by comScore to the tune of some 1 billion views and the total minutes spent on its site gained an extra 850 million, according to a statement Yahoo released Tuesday.
Yahoo Japan is hooking up with Google to handle its search and paid-search advertising, carrying off a partnership that eluded U.S.-based Yahoo, and delivering a blow to Microsoft's efforts to increase the reach of its Bing search engine.
Internet search pioneer Yahoo reported revenues of $1.6 billion, up 2% over a year ago, but just below analyst expectations. Net income reached 15 cents a share, beating estimates.
Second-quarter earnings reports start coming in this week when Alcoa releases its latest results on Monday. This week's other anticipated quarterly reports include those from industry bellwethers Intel, Google and JPMorgan Chase.
Yahoo's board gave the go-ahead for massive stock repurchases over the next three years. It's yet another attempt by CEO Carol Bartz to appease investors and get the stock, which has largely remained stagnant in the low- to mid-teens, going again.
Pakistan plans to monitor Google and its YouTube site, as well as Yahoo, Amazon, and Microsoft's MSN, Hotmail and Bing for anti-Islamic content, saying it will block links to certain content on those sites if it deems it necessary.
Beginning July 1, the coffee company is joining -- somewhat belatedly -- other chains that offer free WiFi service. The nationwide partnership with Yahoo will soon after expand to provide free access to many paid websites and services.
Google unveiled Caffeine Tuesday evening, aiming to give its Web indexing and link delivery system a jolt of speed in finding new pages as well as delivering the most current version of existing pages.
BP has purchased search terms on Yahoo, Google, Bing and YouTube, grabbing the top spot on the page for the phrase "oil spill" and related terms. Like it or not, this represents a new phase of corporate crisis communications.
Yahoo is launching new Facebook privacy settings, as part of its integration plans with the social media giant and a retooling of the way its users link their Yahoo accounts with social media websites.
Yahoo has bought a location-based social-networking service, and it's not Foursquare. It's an Indonesian version called Koprol, and it could be another signal that Yahoo sees mobile services for emerging markets as its next big thing.
The low-cost content arms race entered a new era Tuesday when Yahoo (YHOO) bought Associated Content, a 5-year-old publisher of how-to and reference stories written by freelancers. Advertising Age reports the sale price as more than $100 million.
Yahoo reported its first quarter results Tuesday, which soundly beat Wall Street's earnings estimates but fell short of analysts' expectations on revenues.
Microsoft criticized Google for failing to adequately respond to a recent European Commission investigation into its market share and practices. In a blog post, Microsoft's deputy general counsel wrote that Google is trying to place the blame on Microsoft, rather than take responsibility for its own actions.
Billionaire Ron Burkle is still fighting B&N's rejection of his bid to increase his holdings late last year, complaining in a letter to the board that it is trying to protect the financial interests of chairman Leonard Riggio and CEO Steve Riggio.
Antitrust regulators in the U.S. and Europe have approved Microsoft's search advertising partnership with Yahoo, giving the two companies a much needed boost in their quest to chip away at market leader Google. The regulatory victories are a major boost for Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, who made the search partnership a key component in her still-young tenure leading the one-time Internet pioneer.
Google has acquired Aardvark, a search startup founded by former Googlers, for a reported $50 million. Aardvark is a social-search engine that allows users to ask questions of their friends and friends' networks, and receive quick responses.
Web giant Google unveiled a new social-networking product called Google Buzz, but initial reactions to this souped-up version of its Gmail service were not positive. Some wonder whether Google's new offering may be too little, too late to stem the explosive growth of Facebook and Twitter.
Yahoo has put the sale of its small-business unit on hold after finding a shortage of interest, DailyFinance has learned. As part of its drive to shed non-core properties, Yahoo had started looking to sell the unit, which provides Internet services to small-business clients, last summer.
What progress has new CEO Carol Bartz made in turning around struggling Web pioneer Yahoo? Analysts predict another declining quarter, but if Yahoo's revenue shrinkage is less than expected, Bartz can count it as a win.
