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Feb. 26, 2008 at 11:40am by Greg Sterling
Despite Takeover Turmoil, Yahoo Not Rolling Over & Playing Dead
A curious thing is happening: Yahoo seems to be executing in the midst of the chaos of uncertainty surrounding its future. Speaking at an IAB event yesterday, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said the Microsoft takeover bid has been "a galvanizing event for everyone at Yahoo."...
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Sep. 14, 2007 at 1:50pm by Greg Sterling
Yahoo Buys BuzzTracker News Site
Yahoo is buying news aggregator BuzzTracker (Kara Swisher reports for $5 million). Yahoo sees the acquisition improving and expanding its news coverage in a number of ways. BuzzTracker founder Alan Warms becomes GM of Yahoo News....
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May. 28, 2007 at 8:39am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Testing Linking To Non-Yahoo Properties On Home Page
Yahoo Experiments With Non-Yahoo Links On Home Page from Techcrunch reports that Yahoo is testing linking to non-Yahoo properties directly from their home page. Typically, the only non-Yahoo links from their home page are the advertisements. On May 24th, Yahoo linked to this Crunchgear article directly in the "Featured" news...
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Apr. 26, 2007 at 2:23pm by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo News Moves Images & Video News Results To Top
Greg Jarboe reports Yahoo has added images and videos to the top of some of the Yahoo News search results. For example a search on apple options returns both image news results and video news results at the top of the news search page....
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Apr. 6, 2007 at 11:40am by Chris Sherman
A "New Deal" For Online News & Search Engines?
Investment pundits have been scratching their heads this week over billionaire investor Sam Zell's $8.2-billion purchase of Tribune Corp., publisher of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, and owner of other old-media properties. Newspapers have been bleeding cash and losing both money and eyeballs to online news, job and...
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Apr. 1, 2007 at 1:58pm by Danny Sullivan
Yahoo Underground: Fringe News Featured
The Yahoo Blog has announced the launch of Yahoo Underground, a new site backed by Yahoo News that's meant to look at fringe cultures. April Fool's joke? Could be, given how the post stresses "Beginning today, April 1...." Then again, the main feature about last year's World Science Fiction convention?...
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Feb. 22, 2007 at 8:58am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo To Launch Singing News Show Named "Odd News Underground"
Yahoo news to tilt to a lilt from Reuters reports that Yahoo is going to be launching a news show by the end of this quarter named "Odd News Underground." The spin to this news show is that the anchor will be singing the news that "will leave you tapping...
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Dec. 1, 2006 at 6:45pm by Danny Sullivan
Frontline Special On News To Include Search Engines
Next month, PBS's Frontline will have a special on the current state of news reporting. Both Google and Yahoo will be taking part in the extensive series. From the show description: FRONTLINE interviews TV executives from ABC to The Daily Show, current and former TV anchors -- including Charles Gibson,...
